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PORTFOLIO Ana Kostić

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

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

Sub-threshold housing in San Siro

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San Siro, Milan - 2020

Design projects Oculus Illudit

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Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza - 2023

A Sideboard

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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 analyzes the regeneration of the Furlo Gorge and the Casa degli Artisti, places characterized by a complex historical stratification rooted in tradition, yet also imbued with an anarchic spirit of freedom and otherness. This spirit is embodied by the owners who manage the artist residency and have offered the opportunity to work on their property. The aim of the work is to develop a design strategy that interweaves the organisation’s current objectives, the relationship of the built environment with the landscape and new forms of living, reconfiguring the area as a community of shared experience.

Starting from historical research on both the local reality and the previous “lives” that have inhabited the plateau, the project seeks to shape a new reality that embraces contemporary needs while rethinking social dynamics in an innovative way. The concept of “situation” is the central theme guiding the design choices,

promoting an architecture that accommodates dynamic and participatory practices. A crucial part of the research involved conceiving a strategic activation and attraction plan for the area, starting at the territorial scale and leading to the creation of a functional program. This opportunity allowed us to develop an alternative approach to the idea of functional division starting from the theoretical considerations of unitary urbanism and the provocations of the avant-garde architects of the 1960s.

The proposed project aims to create a flexible and open system, fostering the coexistence between architectural preexistences and new relational spaces. The research concludes with a design proposal that integrates the experiential dimension, emphasizing the value of the landscape as an active and transformative space.

Park project - bridge over the Candigliano river and Multifunctional event space 5

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Ground floor plan music rehearsal room and study-writing space

Ground floor plan small conference room and flexible art space

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Micro-residences for artists within the park

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Grand Hotel - Villa Grimaldi

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

Sampierdarena, Genoa 2023 Villa Grimaldi, a splendid example of an Alessian villa in Genoa’s Sampierdarena district, is distinguished by the change in orientation between the ground floor, open to the raised garden, and the main floor, rotated 90 degrees.

The project involves the creation of a Grand Hotel, integrating new features while respecting the pre-existing building. Following Alessian principles of balance and symmetry, it introduces a contemporary extension that that completes the historic building with a new façade, maintaining a dialogue between solids and voids.

The new wing facing the courtyard will house rooms to the 12

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west, while the east façade facing the street will be dedicated to circulation spaces. The villa itself will accommodate lounge, bar, conference room and large suites. The garden encloses the central meeting point and connection between the villa and the new building, both above ground and in the basement, where is concealed a spa accessible from both structures. A key element is the roof, designed to restore the visual connection to the sea.

The spaces will serve both hotel guests and the local community, creating an exclusive yet welcoming atmosphere in keeping with the historic grandeur of the villa.

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Sub-threshold housing in San Siro

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Design and Costruction Studio San Siro, Milan 2020 The project is located within the public housing district of San Siro in Milan. The lot features two five-storey buildings, one of which faces directly onto the street and the other mirrors the first one inside the courtyard.

One of the objectives of the project is to improve the overall quality of the building through an internal and external renovation of the entire building, bringing it up to current standards, eliminating architectural barriers, and re-adjusting the size of the dwellings through some volumetric increases. In addition to upgrading the building’s performance, by improving its thermal performance through the application of insulation, it is also proposed to work on the open spaces that are currently unused and left in a dilapidated condition, providing 16

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Mentors: prof. Anna Caterina Delera, prof. Giovanni Muzio Team: Chiara Tronci residents with urban gardens and a new covered entrance.

As far as housing is concerned, the intention is to maintain the overall number of flats so as not to increase the housing shortage in the area, and at the same time, provide larger spaces. In order to enlarge the surface area of the dwellings, especially the sub-threshold dwellings, making them suitable for the regulations in force, and to recover the surface area subtracted by the insertion of the lift, the proposal is to operate through a series of small projecting and closed volumetric increases.

The project has been analysed at different scales to allow a complete study of the architectural solutions.

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1. Smoothing agent (0.6 cm) 2. Polyglass PUR Pluss insulation (10 cm) 3. Hollow brick (8x25x25 cm) 4. Plaster (1 cm) 5. EPS insulation (7 cm) 6. Fixed steel sunshade frame 7. Mobile steel sunshade frame 8. Glulam (8x2.6 cm) 9. False frame 10. Fixed PVC frame 11. Mobile PVC frame 12. Insulated glass 13. Marble threshold 14. Porcelain stoneware (45x45x1 cm) 15. Solid brick (12x25x5.5 cm) 16. Reinforced concrete beam (19x19 cm)

17. Square section steel profile (25x25 cm) 18. Metal railing 19. EPS insulation (5 cm) 20. Wire cover 21. Glue (1 cm) 22. Tin (25x38x16 cm) 23. C-profile 24. Index reinforced elastomeric waterproofing membrane 25. Reinforced concrete beam (24x20 cm) 26. IPE 180 beam 27. Finishing casting 28. Secondary beam 29. Trapezoidal sheet metal 30. C-beam (18x7 cm) 31. Aquapanel (1.25 cm) 32. Flashing

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

Oculus Illudit is the project of an exhibition hosted inside the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza. The setup explores the relationship between perception and representation of beauty, addressing the theme of optical illusions in architecture. Specifically, the exhibition presents negative illusions, which correct visual distortions to restore ideal proportions, and positive illusions, which use perspective to enhance visual effects and guide the observer’s gaze.

The exhibition path is designed to be fluid, allowing visitors the freedom to begin their exploratory experience with either positive or negative optical illusions. The display elements

consist of parallelepipeds, sized based on a modular unit that organizes the entire exhibition both in plan and elevation. These structures feature a double shell: an external semi-transparent layer, which maintains a visual connection with the Basilica’s architecture, and an internal opaque shell, which houses the various installations.

At the center of the Basilica, an interactive multimedia floor installation, surrounded by stepped seating, invites visitors to reflect on the relationship between reality and perception, offering an immersive experience that stimulates the contrast between appearance and essence.

Exhibition setup and museum design

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GALLERIA SPADA - accelerated perspective

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.

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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Box 1 - gift box invite and cards

Palette and patterns Box 2 - finger food

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A Sideboard

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Furniture Product Design 2020 The project is inspired by a sideboard designed by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova in 1959, reinterpreting its distinctive features to create a new contemporary furniture piece.

The piece is composed of three modules: two doors separated by a chest of drawers, arranged in a rectangular structure with two opposite corners cut at a 45° angle.

Designed as a centerpiece for a room, the furniture is equipped with doors on both the front and back.

To add a sense of dynamism to the composition, the three modules have been offset by one-third of their width. The chest 26

Mentors: prof. Michele Marelli Team: Michelle Nuccio of drawers features dovetail grooves on the front, which not only allow access from both sides but also serve as decorative elements.

The top of the furniture is framed by a raised structure that highlights the division into three distinct sections: the chest of drawers is covered by a transparent glass sheet, allowing the contents to be seen, while the two lateral modules are covered with fabric.

Finally, the trestle, made from metal tubing, follows the lines of the furniture and is attached through legs positioned at the intersection points of the modules.

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A Birdhouse

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EXARCH - Experimental Architecture Innsbruck - 2024 The project celebrates the activity of repair as a meaningful design method that can transform defective objects into improved states.

Amidst the constant pursuit of growth and progress, capitalist modernity has generated as much consumption and waste as it has innovation. In this context, repairs are often considered economically unviable but given the current crises (ecological, economic and social) we find ourselves in a moment that demands a reconfiguration of existing materialistic attitudes. The damaged object, representing the possibility for a new kind of 28

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Mentors: prof. Kathrin Aste, Helvjis Savickis and Raffael Schwärzler design, it is not simply restored but can be reinvented. With this vision, a broken watering can from the 1990s can assume a new configuration and turn into a birdhouse. By analysing the condition and material of the object, I decided to add some elements which, through their conformation, allow rainwater to be channelled into the tank and then gradually released into the bird bath. in this way it was possible to give a new function to an object that had not been used for years.

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