Viola Allen Portfolio by allen.viola

VIOLA ALLEN

TOOLS

ArchiCad Microstation Autocad Revit 3ds Max V-Ray Sketchup

ABOUT

Well-rounded part II Architect with 9 years of work experience in the UK and Italy and creative multidisciplinary background that range from graphic design, interior designer and architecture with expertise in sustainability.

Inspired by aestheticism, functionality, simplicity and cleanliness.

Core competencies are architecture RIBA stages 0-6 for residential and passive housing; RIBA stages 0-4 school and educational projects under EU regulation; interior and product design for high-end residential projects in Italy and UK. In addition, graphic designer for private companies and interior decorator for residential and commercial.

Good team player with good communication and time-management skills.

Capable of taking on high degrees of responsibility, with a level-headed approach to problem-solving, reliable and precise.

EXPERIENCE

WoldonArchitects London_UK April 2022 - present

DarrenGroup London_UK August 2021 - December 2021

StudioAllenArchitettura Bergamo_IT September 2014 - August 2021

MusicAcademy Bergamo_IT September 2012 - December 2020

FreelanceArtist Italy and UK January 2015 - January 2022

FreelanceMusician Italy and France January 2010

PartIIArchitecturalAssistant

Architectural Assistant for Listed country home refurbishment; Extensions; Healthcare. Producing Planning Application, Feasibility studies, Design Access statement. Project management, graphics.

InteriorDesigner

Leading Interior designer for commercial projects. Producing drawings and graphics, 3D models, presentations, material resources and choices.

SustainableArchitectandDesigner

Project Architect for residential, civic, buisness projects. Producing drawings at different scales and tender packages for contractors. Creating instructions and specifations for manufacturers.

ViolinTeacher

Music, music theory and violin teacher to children from 4 to 15 years old. Organizer of annual essays and concerts, preparation management for orchestral music.

IllustratorandWallDecorator

Artistic projects developed for private Houses and Public spaces.

ViolinConcertperformer

Experience of multiple Opera.

MasterofArts-MARendering _ BraveArt Academy

BArch _ Milan Politecnico University

LandscapeArchitecture _ Genoa University

ViolinGraduation _ London Trinity College

Violin _ Cremona C. Monteverdi Conservatory

TheoreticalMusicDegree_ Bergamo Conservatory

ArtHighschoolDiploma _ Simone Weil Treviglio

Artlantis Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe draw Adobe Procreate Office Free Hand Sketching Corona

Marvelous Designer Lighting

EDUCATION

2010

2013 2009 2018 2014 - 2017 2005 2004 - 2009

2022

LANGUAGES Italian (native) English (ﬂuent) SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECT INTERIOR DESIGNER ILLUSTRATOR CONTACT London based +44 7879938825 allen.viola@gmail.com Linkedin Portfolio www.allenarchitettura.com www.violaallen.com INTERESTS Painter Free hand and Digital Illustrator Violinist Sport

SONNING HOUSE

TYPE: Listed Building Extension - Renovation

SITE : Sonning, Reading, UK YEAR : 2022

SIZE : 2277 m² TEAM : Woldon Architects

CLIENT : Private

ROLE : Cad package; concept; interior design; context studies; technical drawings; specifications; 3D visuals; graphics; demolitions programme; project menagement.

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GUNNERSBURY LANE

TYPE: Architectural Methodist Chapel refurbishmentMedical space conversion

SITE : London, UK YEAR : 2022

SIZE : 236 sqm TEAM : Woldon Architects

CLIENT : Private

ROLE : Cad drawing package; concept; interior design; studies; Brochures; Pre-Application Report; graphics; illustrations and sketches.

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interior illustration

Proposed

TRACTOR BARN

TYPE: New Building

SITE : East Devon, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB),UK YEAR : 2022 SIZE : 2277 m²

TEAM : Woldon Architects

CLIENT : Private ROLE : Cad drawings; concept design; context studies; Brochures; specifications; studies: graphics.

BEIJING SIJIQING JUSHAN CREATIVE PARK

TYPE: Commercial

SITE : Beijing , China YEAR : 2021

TEAM : Darren Group, Uk CLIENT : Private

ROLE : Interior Design project for five buildings, including the detailed 3D model for the main Lobby, Reception areas, typical restrooms and lifts: Cad drawings; concept design; studies; Materials, Brochure; specifications; 3D studies; rendering; graphics.

G60 SCIENCE AND INNOVATION VALLEY SHANDONG HIGH SPEED | YANGTZE RIVER DELTA

TYPE: Commercial - Hospitality

SITE : Beijing , China

YEAR : 2021

TEAM : Darren Group, Uk CLIENT : Private

ROLE : Sunken plaza’s (Interactive Plaza, Performance Plaza, Leisure Plaza) design, including technical details; materials choices, colour palette; rendering; graphics

TYPE: Masterplan

SITE : Shangai, China YEAR : 2021

TEAM : Darren Group, Uk CLIENT : Private SIZE : 290.000 sqm

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ROLE : Conceptual planning; masterplan design; studies; hand-sketches; 3D studies; graphics.

The proposed masterplan adheres to the design principles set in the company and illustrates the potential for the site to achieve a sustainable development and create a high quality place for prospective residential and the wider community. The layout provides the following:

1. An attractive green open space incorporates trees, water features and connects with proposed green corridors.

The green space provides green amenity and an opportunity for landscape features. 2. Pedestrian access from the Highway creating the main entrance to the development and to the hotel, and establishing vital links with the site centre. This access point has the opportunity to contribute to deliver a cycle/pedestrian route in the core of the development.

3. An optimal location for the new development thet achieves the required standards and improves the ability to widen the range of activity and the commercial opportunities for the surrounding area as well. Parking space is also provided wich is essential to enhance the commercial aspect and industrial/offices. 4. Secondary amenity space within countryard space. 5. Ecological links with the adjacent orchard to the north-south and west-east.

DONGSHENG PARK, XUEYUAN ROAD SCIENCE PARK

CULTURAL CENTER IN BINJIANG DISTRICT, HANGZHOU

TYPE: Public building

YEAR : 2021

CLIENT : Private

SITE : Hangzhou, China

TEAM : Darren Group, Uk

ROLE : Conceptual planning; Dome design; studies; hand-sketches; 3D modeling; graphics, materials.

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WHITE HOUSE IN TOWN TYPE: Residential SITE : Treviglio, Bergamo, IT YEAR : 2020 SIZE : 200 sqm TEAM : Allenarchitettura CLIENT : Private ROLE : design; concept; interior design; bespoke design; technical drawings; details; material choises; 3d studies; rendering; graphics.

REGAS COMPANY

TYPE: Commercial - workplace

SITE : Treviglio, Bergamo, IT YEAR : 2019

SIZE : 2000 sqm TEAM : Allenarchitettura

CLIENT : Regas srl

ROLE : design; concept; masterplan; interior design; technical drawings; material choises; 3d studies; rendering; landscape design

almost nothing is the philosophy of

project: dematerialize, remove, simplify, lighten. Existing buildings are emptied of all internal partitions, plant constraints and most of the exposed concrete panels on the outside. The spaces thus freed are open inwards and outwards and can be constantly modified and updated with simplicity, also through participation processes that involve employees. A ﬂexible environment, full of light but also of silence and shadow where needed, which favors unexpected encounters, exchange of ideas, creativity. The intent of the project is to build an organic continuity between architecture and nature. This place, like much of the region, was once covered in forest. Today a few square meters of wood are considered a wreck to be protected. We have reached a tipping point for unsustainable land use. The awareness of the drama of the planetary environmental problem imposes the duty to restore biodiversity to a territory impoverished by the destructive activity of man where plant and animal life is increasingly residual with a dramatic death of species. We therefore think of the open space project not as a decorative park project to beautify the architecture but as a concrete injection of biodiversity capable of reviving where there is now concrete in a desirable construction of widespread ecological corridors.

open spaces Environmental recovery, demolition of existing pavements, crushing of the resulting aggregates and recycling for the formation of wood planting with permaculture techniques of a portion of mesophilic plain forest portion of native plants: polulus alba, populus nigra, quercus robur, quercus cerris, sorbus domestica, ulmus minor. Undergrowth with vinca minor, fragaria vesca, luzula pilosa. start up autonomous volume resting on the roof of the existing building to reduce soil consumption. A large transparent lantern that conveys dynamism and desire for the future. The new volumes have light architecture with a high rate of renewability and recyclability, steel structure, wooden floors and north walls, south east and west walls and internal glass partitions. Freely configurable open spaces. directional activities volumes of glass on pilotis, detach themselves from the ground to allow a view of the forest that surrounds them and to reduce soil consumption. Excavations are not foreseen if not those for the construction of the plinths for the metal structure. The zero quota is in continuity with the surface of the undergrowth and is made of permeable materials. The roof is an extensive green roof. road conditions the north from via Roggia Babbiona. The path to the reaching the buildings will line the west border between trees and will allow access to all spaces of the campus. The ooring will be made of concrete using the resulting materials from the crushed demolitions for the substrate. square The new volumes overlook a space of relationship and encounter with permeable concrete flooring grinding local stones with a pattern in large squares defined by log edges. The same flooring is used for pedestrian paths in the woods. parking lots the existing redeveloped car park is sufficient to cover the minimum requirement of 1sqm 10 cubic meters. The parking area serving the new building will be on the north on via Roggia Babbiona PV 20kWp on a metal shelter covering the parking lots with an energetic but also functional, communicative and RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT mq. 200.00 configurable with glass partitions also for now unpredictable uses, new work areas, spaces on two levels 2 COURSES 50.00 m2 a module with variable size with darkened glass partitions and high acoustic performance WAREHOUSE sqm. 80.00 accessible from the outside with service vehicles and also from the service cavity 4 COFFEE sqm. 54.50 relaxing bright and open on the green space with trees to the west 5 RESTAURANT sqm. 51,00 GYM sqm. 130.00 7 CHANGING ROOMS M sqm. 23,00 8 TECHNICAL ROOM mq. 50.00 the main plant equipment accessible from the service cavity and from the outside to the south STORAGE sqm. 37.20 a room for storing trolleys and cleaning materials as well as stationery and spare parts for offices 10 DISABLED SERVICES sqm. 8.00 11 KITCHEN sqm. 20.00 equipment for heating and flattening externally prepared foods and for small productions of fast food EMPLOYEE SERVICES sqm. 24,00 ENTRANCE sqm. 79.50 open to view on the double height space for research and development work GUEST WELCOME sqm. 20.00 open space separable with the same movable walls of the offices VISITOR SERVICES sqm. 9.80 small volume dedicated as an architecture in architecture VEGETABLE TECHE sqm. 37.50, small slow growing trees illuminated by skylights, bring nature into the interior landscape of work spaces EXTERNAL TECHNICIANS sqm. 44.50 near the freely configurable entrance LIBRARY sqm. 27,00 HUMAN RESOURCES mq. 27,30 COMMERCIAL MARKETING sqm. 81.70 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER mq. 38,20 ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTING sqm. 57,80 10 MEETING ROOM 1 m2. 40.00 the meeting rooms can host meetings with a variable number of participants MEETING ROOM 2 m2. 30.00 modular furniture and partitions for easy transformability gravel drainage rainwater collection pit lter cloth water storage 20 mm protective felt acoustic performance 45 dB 32 mm low emission safety double glazing Ug <1.0 W m2.K steel profiles integrated into the ceiling and floor structured for the passage of cables, integrated with sound absorbing systems electricity distribution centralized management for ease of variation extensions, energy saving LED lighting subsequent return. central heating system with modular heat pump desiroom air renewal (UNI 10339 standard) + anti-condensation summer dehumidification floor cooled by radiant panels. + heat recovery exhaust air efficiency> 80% mass-colored fiber cement white 8 mm waterproofing 4 mm thermal conductivity 0.037 W m K thermal capacity 2100 kg K thermal diffusion 3 cmq 10 dry oating wooden oor 20 mm wood ber 20 mm separating layer mineral granulated substrate 100 mm implants steel window frame thermal break 70 mm 32 mm low emission safety ventilated cavity 250 mm lter curtain for solar control hot galvanized waterproofing corrugated stainless steel sheet tinsmiths, ashings stainless steel plinths external oor of Grè block

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BAGNATICA PRIMARY SCHOOL RENOVATION / NEW

TYPE: Educational - Public

SITE : Bagnatica, Milan, IT YEAR : 2016

SIZE : 10800 sqm

TEAM : Allenarchitettura

CLIENT : Municipality

ROLE : design collaborator; masterplan; interior design; Cad drawings; material choises; classroom logo graphics; rendering; landscape design

CASTEL CERRETO FARM

TYPE: Commercial - Public

SITE : Treviglio, Bergamo, IT YEAR : 2016 SIZE : 513 sqm TEAM : Allenarchitettura

The new headquarters, consistent with the philosophy of the Cooperative, does not consume precious land but enhances and revives what was once the stable and barn of the Pelesa Farm. A residual place of great scenic beauty to be preserved and re-naturalized, a rural enclave in an intensely urbanized area. In a 1950s barn, prefabricated wooden modules are inserted like drawers inside the regular frame of the old barn open to the south to provide the 35 hectares of the company with services such as a shop, changing rooms, products and for cold storage rooms. Vegetable and mineral materials, renewable energies, innovative and sustainable construction systems respecting the history, work, tradition and peasants and culture of these countryside.

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CLIENT : Agricolture cooperative ROLE : design; concept; interior design; strategies / studies; Cad drawings; technical drawings; material choises; graphics;

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TYPE: Residential SITE : Treviglio, Bergamo, IT YEAR : 2021 SIZE : 130 sqm TEAM : Allenarchitettura CLIENT : private ROLE : design; concept; interior design; strategies / studies; Cad drawings; material choises; graphics; 3d views ; rendering

RENEWAL

A MINIMUM MINIMAL ROOFTOP IN MALTA

TYPE: Residential SITE : Sliema, Malta YEAR : 2019 SIZE : 58 sqm TEAM : Allenarchitettura

CLIENT : private ROLE : design; concept; interior design; strategies / studies; Cad drawings; material choises; bespoke joinery: graphics.

ABOUT: Redesign of the interior spaces of a purchased apartment shell, interior design and furnishing project for a functional and independent studio apartment. We designed the kitchen and bedroom furniture, inserting a raised area with retractable drawers in which to store essential items and linen, thus contributing to the efficiency of a very small house. The use of curtains separates the sleeping area from the living area as if it were a soft and always changeable wall. The interior of the house and the terrace communicate and correspond as if it were a single space, on an island where the external environment is very important.

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