Portfolio 2023

Architectural Design Studio 1

1st year bachelor

2nd semenster (2017)

Milano Lambrate, Italy

Architectural Design Studio 3

3rd year bachelor

1st semenster (2019)

Torino Lingotto, Italy

Master’s thesis

2nd year master (May 2023) Lima, Peru

Torre Velasca, Milan, Italy

Revolution is.. creating a new space in relationship with the exterior into the Velasca Tower, one of the most known symbols of the city of Milan, challenging the current meaning of the hotel typology and its monotonous features. The skyscraper is suffering today from an internal crisis, due to the continuous changing of society and, because of that, the project aims to realize a new hotel inside the building, addressed to a new

type of young and informal business man, replacing the traditional hallway with playful and ironic spaces. In addition, the spaces are realized as external ones, in order to let the customers feel the sensation of living the urban life and every single element of the furniture represents the typical milanese lifestyle. Consequently, the hotel rooms are set as islands in the external street, where the private and the public get in contact.

MELTINGPHOTEL

year

3rd bachelor (2019)

course professors

Interior Design Studio

Colaci, Davide Fabio

Salvadeo, Pierluigi

groupmates

Biafore, Radmila

Miolo, Ilaria

Miotto, Marika

Tardini, Bianca

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A. relationship hotel rooms - lobby 1:10

B. relationship conference room - open space 1:10

Revolution is.. giving to a very poor neighbourhood the tools to set the foundations to a possible future wellness. Starting from practical problems, such as the high flood risk and the lack of water, the project aims to give dignity back to the poorest disctrict in Maputo, Maxaquene, first creating a network of drainage system, spread all over the area together with phytodepuration. Some elements are realized in the intersection of

several canals and become the main characters of a circular system. These architectural spaces are elevated in order to establish themselves as landmarks of this area, that, currently, is even hidden by a wall of shame from the city center. The project wants to change the mentality of designing new spaces and buildings in Mozambique, starting from trivial solutions, in order to promote a new process of costant development.

Maputo, Mozambique

MAXAQUENE!

year

1st Master(2020)

course professors

Urban Design Studio

Del Bianco, Corinna

Pastore, Maria Chiara

groupmates

Aretino, Giulia

Attinà, Luca

Biafore, Radmila

New drainage system, masterplan

Public fountain (1:100)

Public market bridge (1:500)

Revolution is.. creating a new idea of architecture in order to face some of the main emergencies of nowadays, like as the overpopulation one. Starting from the possibilities offered by prefabrication, it is possible to create modul units, which can compose clusters. Those clusters, characterzied by the values of speed, affordability, adaptability and sustainability, can then cover, hypotethically, the entire planet.

However, these pixels are able to adapt to the different environments in which they are placed. The extreme point of arrival of this theoric research is the pixelization of the entire surface of the planet Earth, where the pixels are not anymore only the urban ones, but also the natural ones, such as water, grass or energy pixels. A software is created for the users to customize their own pixels, in each part of the world.

PIXEL PLANET

year course professors

2nd Master, Erasmus (2021) MSc1 Design Studio

Winy Maas

Javier Arpa Fernandez

Adrien Ravon

Lex te Loo

Final Video as summary of the project at this link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1L9hxqgntrHj97aglHIg7_RLdtsMhZyiX

Some pages of the app created

Some pages of the app created

Some pages of the app created

Some pages of the app created

The challenge implemented within the MIAW workshop “Inventing schools” is to completely rethink the notion of schools, trying to think about the school of tomorrow, active, capable of changing with the times, and focused primarily on the figure of children. The project involves the construction of a kindergarten, an elementary school and a secondary school, recognizing, however, the different needs related to the va-

rious age groups. Therefore, thought was given to the creation of a raised plaza, which could connect different activities on two levels and allow for year-round outdoor living, as well as innovative methods of learning, and the importance of training manual skills. The complex seeks to open itself up to neighborhood residents so that it becomes an active nucleus that can be used at events and happenings.

MIAW 2022

year

2nd Master (2022)

course professors

Miaw Workshop “Inventing schools”

Elsa Prochazka

groupmates

Aretino, Giulia

Biafore, Radmila

Erkul, Nefin

Hirani, Manali

Trasversal section

Perspective section

Revolution is.. creating in a metropolitan city, as Milan, a new self-sufficient and sustainable landmark. Realized thinking about the green future of the city, the project consists of a horizontal skyscraper that takes the advantage of elevating itself in order to create a permeable open space at the ground level. Here, the basis of the volumes are used as shops where the products realized in the area - thanks to the greenhouse, the urban gar-

dens and the green roof - can be sold, encouraging an healthy lifestyle and a zero kilometre shopping. All the facades are studied from a bioclimatic point of view and each arm of the volume corresponds to different functions: residences, offices and a restaurant, in order to let this place be liveable through the whole day. This system is part of a larger redevelopment of the area of Lambrate located within the Zone 3 administrative division.

Milano Lambrate, Italy

GREEN LAB

1st Bachelor (2017)

course professors

Architectural design studio 1

Tanzi, Emanuele

Zigoi, Massimiliano

Zanni Fabrizio

groupmates

Afifi Afifi, Marwan

Albonico, Carolina Andrea

Andreozzi, Riccardo

Baroni, Chiara

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1. main residential arm

2. commercial arm

3. office arm

4. greenhouse

5. city market

6. urban gardens

7. body of water

East, North and West elevations (1:500)

Exploded axonometry, residence arm

Model floor plans, residence arm (1:100)

1. Single student room

2. Common kitchen

1. Family apartment

2. Common space

3. Common laundry

4. Library

3. Skylight

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Exploded axonometry, commercial arm

Exploded axonometry, office arm

1. Toilets

2. Open kitchen

3. Bar

4. Restaurant

1. One person office

2. Toilets

Model floor plans, restaurant and office arms (1:100)

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Torino Lingotto, Italy

REVOLUTION IS... using the opportunity of building a hospital in order to realize a new centrality in a periferic area of Turin, fighting the myth of hospitals as closed places of pain. The modern and sustainable hospitalis included in a larger intervention which consists of a university, a railway station and few residential buildings, as well as some new public green spaces. Hospitals require a huge and complex design pro-

cess both from functional and spatial aspects and are strategic for the main role they play in the development of the city. Furthermore, the main focus of the project is to face mental and physical wellness of the patient the best and, because of that, the entire structure and its interiors are shaped in order to create a costant connection with the exterior, trying to give each patient the best view during their hospitalization.

Man-Sized HOSPITAL

3rd, bachelor, 2019

Architectural design studio 3

professors groupmates

Capolongo, Stefano

Ravegnani Morosini, Roberto

Colombo, Valeria

Polvani, Paola

Romboli, Alice

Ros, Michela

Masterplan (1:1000)

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1. hospital main entrance

2. sacred place

3. railway station

4. first aid underground entrance

5. university and research center

6. hospital residences

Ground floor plan (1:500)

1. Hall and reception desk

2. Rehabilitation center

3. Day surgery

4. Main street

5. Endoscopy

6. Radiotherapy

7. Gynecology

8. Blood bank

9. Dialysis unit

10. Bar and restaurant

11. Day hospital

12. Examination room

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Hospital stay, Elevation, Section and Plan (1:50)

Three floors of hospital stay, elevation (1:50)

North and South elevations (1:200)

I just finished working on my Master’s thesis project, named “Decoding Union Santa Fe. Community-driven Urban Design Tools for Vulnerable Neighbourhoods in Lima, Peru”. The project starts from an analysis of the migration phenomena that in the last century caused the emergence of informal settlements in the global south, focusing then in the context of Latin America, and, in particular, on the city of Lima.

Fieldwork was mainly based on ethnographic research and interviews with the various actors in the district, visited at least twice a week.

At the moment, I just laid out my dissertation, and I’m still collaborating with the local NGO for the construction of a building and of green spaces for the community of Union Santa Fe. The work is based on the topic of prefigurative architecture and urbanism.

MASTER’S THESIS

year

2nd

Master,

2023

professor

groupmate collaborators

Photo booklet at this link:

Buoli, Alice Cedillo, Paul

MedLife NGO all the inhabitants of Union Santa Fe district

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19at4M2FUeNNuk9j9SCEbRL5pLl4XtBsC/view?usp=drive_link

Union Santa Fe, Villa Maria del Triunfo (Lima, Peru)

View on the community

Union Santa Fe, Villa Maria del Triunfo (Lima, Peru)

View from the community center

Villa Maria del Triunfo (Lima, Peru) Community worker

Villa Maria del Triunfo (Lima, Peru)

Retaining walls construction system

Horizontal Skyscraper in Lambrate: south facade

Horizontal Skyscraper in Lambrate: common space

MODELLING EXERCISE

Horizontal Skyscraper in Lambrate: north facade and greenhouse

Utopic refugee in the Mediterrean Sea

Utopic bridge in the Mediterrean Sea Hospital view

Renovation of a farmstead in Chiaravalle

Utopic future development on Mars

Renovation of a social house in Milan

Detail of a social house

Architecture must be a revolution. It can not change the world, but it can create the prerequisites for people to be the change for themselves. Architecture is an art, but, more than all the other arts, it carries a heavier weight: everything that we create as architects has a huge impact on a certain slice of society, that will last more over its demolition. It is a human science, so it must focus on the core of its studies: the hu-

man being. It is militancy, it has the power to create new conditions for men’s way of living, both in a good and in a negative way. The aim of this portfolio is to show my personal skills, but also to show who I am and who I hope to become in the future. I want to be part of this society and, in particular, part of this revolution necessary to create a world as fit for man as possible.

(Architecture is that crazy idea that you can really change the world)

“L’architettura è quell’idea folle che si possa davvero cambiare il mondo”

Renzo Piano