Ana_Kostic_Portfolio

PORTFOLIO Ana Kostić

anakostic.mail@gmail.com +39 3287399879 12/08/1999 (UD) Milan

Projects The new life of Furlo: design of an inhabited landscape between nature and social experimentation in search of the ineffable energy between the narrow Furlo rips

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Master’s Thesis - 2025

Grand Hotel - Villa Grimaldi

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Sampierdarena, Genoa - 2023

Oculus Illudit

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Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza - 2023

Design projects A Sideboard

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2020

A Birdhouse 2024

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The new life of Furlo

design of an inhabited landscape between nature and social experimentation in search of the ineffable energy between the narrow Furlo rips

Master’s Thesis

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April 2025

Mentors: prof. Matteo Umberto Poli, prof. Pierluigi Salvadeo Team: Valerio Rosati

The research explores the regeneration of the Furlo Gorge and the Casa degli Artisti, places where historical stratification meets an anarchic spirit of creativity and freedom. The project defines a design strategy that connects the site’s landscape, architecture, and community life, reimagining it as a shared space of experience. Rooted in historical and territorial research,

it proposes a new model of living inspired by the concept of “situation,” fostering dynamic and participatory practices.

Through a territorial activation plan and a flexible architectural system, the proposal integrates existing structures with new relational spaces, emphasizing the landscape as an active, transformative element.

Modular and reconfigurable wooden platforms

Exploded view 5

North-west elevation

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Ground floor plan flexible spaces for art and performances 6

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Park project - bridge over the Candigliano river and Multifunctional event space 7

Perspective longitudinal section 8

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Micro-residences for artists within the park

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Axonometric exploded view

Elevation - entrance and frontal view 10

Plan

Axonometry

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Maquette micro-residences - scale 1:20

Maquette big house - scale 1:50 11

Grand Hotel - Villa Grimaldi

East façade

Design Studio

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Sampierdarena, Genoa 2023

Mentors: prof. Giancarlo Floridi, prof. Andrea Garzulino Team: Agnese Angelucci, Isabella Coppola

Villa Grimaldi, an Alessian villa in Genoa’s Sampierdarena district, is defined by the 90° shift between its garden-facing ground floor and the main piano nobile. The project transforms the site into a Grand Hotel, integrating new functions while preserving the villa’s architectural harmony. A contemporary extension complements the historic structure with a new façade

that balances solids and voids. The new west wing hosts guest rooms, while the villa contains lounges, a bar, conference areas, and suites. A shared garden and subterranean spa connect old and new, and a redesigned roof restores views toward the sea.

The result is a refined hospitality space open to both guests and the local community.

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First floorplan

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South façade

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Structural plans

Elevation schemes

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Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza - 2023

Mentors: prof. Pier Federico Caliari Team: Alice Ricci, Eleonora Masperi, Giulia Migliorini, Valerio Rosati

Oculus Illudit is an exhibition project set inside the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza, exploring the interplay between perception and the representation of beauty through optical illusions in architecture. The exhibition contrasts negative illusions, which correct distortions, with positive ones that enhance perspective and guide the viewer’s gaze. A fluid layout lets visitors navigate

freely between the two. Modular parallelepiped displays feature a double shell—an outer semi-transparent layer connecting with the Basilica’s architecture and an inner opaque core hosting the installations. At the center, an interactive multimedia floor surrounded by stepped seating invites reflection on the tension between reality and perception.

Exhibition setup and museum design

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“Put yourself in the right perspective” - setup of the square

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POSITIVE

Positive optical illusions refer to the controlled use of perspective in order to create an imaginary space that does not exist, increasing the space as perceived by the human eye.

Trompe-l’œil

Ideal cities

Ideal cities

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Optical correction in sculpture

NEGATIVE

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Perspective games

Slowed perspective

Negative optical illusions refer to the use of deformations of space and form in order to correct what the human eye would perceive as wrong without them.

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GALLERIA SPADA - accelerated perspective

PARTHENON - optical correction in the greek temple 19

PANNELLI INTRODUTTIVI INTERNI Seating units with integrated information panels

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Construction detail scale 1:20 20

Logos and graphics

Box 1 - gift box invite and cards

Palette and patterns Box 2 - finger food

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Gift box for the opening event 21

A Sideboard

Maquette - scale 1:5

Axonometric exploded view

Furniture Product Design

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2020 - 2021

Mentors: prof. Michele Marelli Team: Michelle Nuccio

The project reinterprets a 1959 sideboard by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova, translating its iconic features into a contemporary furniture piece. It consists of three offset modules—two cabinets and a central chest of drawers—within a rectangular frame with 45° cut corners. Designed as a freestanding centerpiece, it

opens on both sides. The drawers feature dovetail grooves that function as both handles and decoration, while the top combines glass and fabric to emphasize the three-part composition. A metal trestle base traces the furniture’s geometry, connecting at the intersection points of the modules.

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A Birdhouse

Technical drawings

Prototype

EXARCH - Experimental Architecture

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Innsbruck - 2024

Mentors: prof. Kathrin Aste, Helvjis Savickis and Raffael Schwärzler

The project celebrates repair as a meaningful design practice that transforms defects into opportunities. In a world driven by growth and consumption, repair often seems uneconomical, yet today’s ecological and social crises call for a new material awareness. A damaged object can go beyond restoration to

be reinvented. Here, a broken 1990s watering can becomes a birdhouse: by analysing its form and material, new elements were added to channel rainwater into the tank and release it gradually into a bird bath, giving renewed life and purpose to a long-unused object.

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