PORTFOLIO Francesca Esposito
Francesca Esposito March 18th 1991 | Italy Via Montebianco 20, La Spezia +39 347 6297558 | francesca.esposito.07@gmail.com vimeo.com/180750423
Daydreamer, stubborn, a bit shy, but mostly a perfect listener, organized, responsable and open-minded. Sometimes I may seem too dreamy and too much into my perfect imaginary world to get the job done but don’t let this trick you: my determination, creativity and interpersonal skills actually make me an excellent team player and very adaptable for every kind of situation.
SKILLS PROFESSIONAL Autocad 2D/3D Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Premiere SketchUp Microsoft Office ARTISTIC Freehand drawing Technical drawing Modeling TECHNICAL Architecture design Graphic design Product design PERSONAL Teamwork Organization Problemsolving Coordination Creativity
INTERESTS Travelling Video making Graphics Movies Reading Scenography Illustration Photography
LANGUAGES Italian: Native English: Professional working proficiency
LINK LINKEDIN linkedin.com/in/francesca-esposito
REFERENCE NEOSTUDIO | Architetti Associati Riccardo Miselli, Eleonora Burlando
Phone: +39 010 5702692 Email: neostudio.aa@gmail.com
EDUCATION COMPETITIONS/AWARDS 2005 - 2010
High School diploma in scientific studies Liceo Scientifico A. Pacinotti, La Spezia, Italy 2010 - 2016
Five-years master degree in architecture University of Genoa, Italy 110/110 cum Laude, right of publication. Jan. 2017
Professional practice exam
May 2012 Primo Torneo di Architettura Officina06 Winner
Nov. 2012 Secondo Torneo di Architettura Officina06 Special Mention
June 2015 Europan 13_Norway Europan Europe Partecipation
WORKSHOP June 2013 GIC_Lab2013 - Spettacolo Spettacolare
Architecture Design Laboratory
June 2014 “Un nuovo Waterfront per Genova”
Architecture Design Laboratory
WORK EXPERIENCE May 2013 - Mar. 2016 Part-time student assistant
University of Genoa | Architecture department
Sep. - Nov. 2016 Post-graduate internship
NEOSTUDIO | Architetti Associati Genoa, Italy
Aug. 2016 Young Talent Architecture Award EU Mies Award Shortlisted
Nov. 2016 OpenTaranto Invitalia Third place
PUBLICATIONS 2013
Genova A/R - Una città laboratorio per la residenza collettiva Riccardo Miselli
2016
A city of opportunities_Individual profile www.world-architects.com/en/egim
More about me TRIPS
Oct. 2014 | May 2016 Venice | Architecture Biennale (IT)
Apr. 2010 Santorini, Athens, Corinth, Mykonos, Ephesus, Patmos (GR | TR)
Feb. 2015 Budapest (HU)
Dec. 2011 | Apr. 2012 Paris, Mairselles, Nice, Montpellier (FR)
Mar. 2015 Barcelona (ES)
Apr. 2014
London (UK)
Jan. 2017 Porto (PT)
Projects 7
A city of opportunities
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Module Up
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Miriorama
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Square, gradient & landscape
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Design Lab Center
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A hole in the whole
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Siamodicoccio
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A CITY OF OPPORTUNITIES ACADEMIC: Master thesis, 2016
STUDIO:
Carmen Andriani, Riccardo Miselli, Eleonora Burlando
LOCATION: Genoa, Italy
PROGRAM: Residence, Public facilities
TEAM:
Violetta Gambino, Francesca Icardi, Marina Mori
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Masterplan (left); Section (right)
The city of opportunities is a work started in October 2015 with the aim of embracing the many aspects that the architecture offers. The first phase was dedicated to sociological research, so as to identify the statistics and key data on incoming flows and the Italian welcoming system. What emerged was studied and elaborated in order to obtain the fundamental guide for the design of an urban system, that has, as its main objective, the integration of asylum seekers. Three buildings, similar to common features such as the state of abandonment and relationship with physical limits, act as poles of the system activators. Together they work on an axis, as a kind of backbone, which is part of the Genoese context, linking the city from north to south. They are the main characters of a regeneration process on different scales: the combined action of the three structures, with the inclusion of new services dedicated to the reception and to the city itself, causes
the redevelopment of areas currently labelled as “difficult� such as the port and Lagaccio district. At the same time each building is considered as an active body, so it is treated as a whole as well as in particular. From the study of the system of self-planning spaces, flat shares, up to the design of some elements of furniture. While Palazzo Rosso, being the fulcrum of the entire system, is reserved just for public facilities, such as offices for Refugees, a clinic and a square, the former Gavoglio barrack and Silos Hennebique include even an area dedicated to the housing, with single units thought in the first case for couple and family, and in the other hand for temporary users like freelancer, single dad, students, Refugees. In both cases, inside, the houses have no partitions to divide the spaces, but a piece of furniture that also functions as a screen between private and semi-private.
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Main countries of origin from 1975 to 2015
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Palazzo Rosso
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Palazzo Rosso, plan In the previous page: Palazzo Rosso, view
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Palazzo Rosso, section
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Silos Hennebique
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Hennebique, section In the previous page: Hennebique, view
Hennebique, apartment, axonometric view and plans In the follwing pages: Gavoglio Barrack view, of park (left) and houses (right)
Gavoglio Barrack
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Gavoglio Barrack, section In the follwing pages: Gavoglio Barrack, apartments, axonometric view
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The furniture
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MODULE UP ACADEMIC:
Architecture design laboratory, 2015 5th year of master
STUDIO:
Manuel Gavarro Gausa, Gian Michele Gancia
LOCATION: Llobregat, Spain
PROGRAM: Resort
TEAM:
Violetta Gambino Francesca Icardi, Viola Remezzano
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Winter
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Covered market
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The resort was built around a simple truth: recognize our impact on nature and what nature has on us. Therefore it was born a project where the emphasis is on the landscape, in which man learns not only to recognize the value but above all, to use it properly. The resort is divided into different areas, some semipublic and other dedicated only to housing. In the first, you can enjoy the activities that the holiday village offers: a relax zone, with different kinds of swimming pools; a food court and an area dedicated to sports. A covered market is situated at the entrance of the area, in which the local products
grown in the fields before, can be sold or eaten by the guests of the structure. The apartments are of three different kind. The first one is designed to be a luxury accomodation on ground level. Each of them has a private swimming pool and can host up to six people. The second one, conceived to host many families, is rapresented by small apartments located three meters from the ground and conncted by a wooden platform. The houses placed six meters from the ground, the stilt houses, rapresent the last type of the apartments, totally surroundend by the nature.
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Luxury apartment, axonometric view and plan Right: standard apartment
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Stilt house, view
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MIRIORAMA COMPETITION:
Europan 13_Norway, 2015
LOCATION: Orsta, Norway
PROGRAM: Urban, Building
TEAM:
Riccardo Miselli, Eleonora Burlando Violetta Gambino Daniele Galuppi Francesca Icardi Federico Martini Marina Mori Jacopo Melli Viola Remezzano Matteo Roberto
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Masterplan
The aim of the project is to design a flexible system of structures and urban objects that changes Ørsta’s vision and that transforms the town according to the new industrial and economical growth. The idea has its start from the definition of a vibrant town centre, where people play the leading role in the urban orchestra. Furthermore the project is thought to be easily repeatable in other towns that show same issues. The concept is based of one simple action: tracing a border. It tidies up the town structure and once again it organizes the elements surrounding. In Ørsta, the border becomes a building whose main function is to contain car lots. In an other town, the border could already exist (it can be a natural boundary as mountains) or can be designed in order to solve those problem that are afflicting the town itself. The structure works as a limits for the new waterfront area, which has been freed
from car traffic and parkings. The whole new “square” becomes a pedestrian zone. The aim of this design is to return this space to the citizens in order to define a liveable “square”. The squared pattern organizes the area and measures the lot. The chess-board drawing helps to define the lot and it allows moves in every direction. An abacus has been drawn to define the different uses of each square. Their functions are divided, depending on the time frame they are provided for: permanent shape, temporary uses and future purpose. The area is also thought to follow a seasonal use. Moreover, green areas are provided in proximity of the axes crossing the structure in order to recall the green belt on the outside. In the same way, the pattern spreads on the outside of the limit, completing the new urba scenarios.
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The Wall, axonometryc views Left: View
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Left: Promenade Up: Uses of the square over the year Down: Abacus
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SQUARE, GRADIENT & LANDSCAPE ACADEMIC:
Architecture design laboratory, 2014 4th year of Master
STUDIO: Paolo Brescia
LOCATION: Genoa, Italy
PROGRAM: Urban, Building
TEAM:
Daniele Galuppi, Francesca Icardi, Jacopo Melli, Viola Remezzano, Matteo Roberto
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View In the following pages: Masterplan and view
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The project is intended as the instrument to deal with the issue of the urban voids. It also seeks to recover the area of the former Genoa International Trade Fair, by analogy with the experiments and plans of this kind being produced nationally and internationally, so translating this issue into a concrete project of outstanding quality. Its objective is therefore to redevelop the former Trade Fair site through urban reclamation operations. The urban void of the former Genoa Trade Fair is one of the most fragile parts of the city. The aim of the project was to create spaces capable of generating places that could offer opportunities for people to come together, share values, and celebrate the rituals of what is significantly called
“urbanity�. In developing the project, it was crucial to design public spaces and public uses that will enrich the context, giving it new meanings and sources of interest and attraction. It requires vibrant places, open and permeable, lived in and attuned to the city. They should markedly broaden the range of activities, with spaces always accessible, which offer facilities for gathering, exchanging ideas, and holding exhibitions, while promoting development and making improvements to the facilities for leisure, sport and culture. So, in the three buildings developed on the site, there were be placed public facilities such as an hotel, commercial spaces, parking lots, in order to make the area more connected to the city.
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DESIGN LAB CENTER ACADEMIC:
Architecture design laboratory, 2014 4th year of master
STUDIO: Paolo Brescia
LOCATION: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
PROGRAM: Museum
TEAM:
Francesca Icardi, Daniele Galuppi, Jacopo Melli, Viola Remezzano, Matteo Roberto
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The idea at the basis of the entire project was to create a continuous space. The priority was therefore to provide a path full of stimuli and determined by curvilinear forms, which guided the visitor sinuously between the various centers by the building itself. The entire structure is developed around four different centers, linked together via a lobby that begins to ground level up to 18 meters. Each of them features well-defined spaces and divided into several parts (bar cafe, workshop area, restaurant, meeting rooms, bookshop, art exposition). The one dedicated to the exhibitions is definetely the most important: the permanent exhibition has been set up along a ramp, while temporary, hub of all the structure, is located at the center of the circle. It is the soul of the project, a very flexible space that allows both artists to express themselves in the best possible way and the art center to express its
potential in the future thanks to its refined varieties in order to accommodate any type of artistic event. The roof of this space was also designed as a moving piece, so you can take advantage of different natural and artificial light configurations based on the requirements of the exhibitions. At landscape level, as well as in the building, the centers are enclosed by “sheets” which also redesign the artificial perimeter of the island that houses the museum. Each “sheet”, as well as making the sinuous shape of the island and bring it into line with that of the building, is designed to accompany and direct the visitor to the Design Lab Center. Two great staircases and a pier for boats, connect the visitors to the sea, and link this one with the territory and the museum itself.
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Front view
Section
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Plans
Exhibition view (up) and operation (down)
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A HOLE IN THE WHOLE ACADEMIC:
Architecture design laboratory, 2013 3rd year of Master
STUDIO: Manuel Navarro Gausa
LOCATION: Montpellier, France
PROGRAM: Residence, University
TEAM:
Lisetta Bucellato, Daniele Galuppi, Violetta Gambino, Francesca Icardi, Marina Mori
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Students residences: masterplan (up) and section (down)
On the occasion of the investigation carried out in Montpellier, we have observed that the city has a historic center surrounded by some focal points: a well-preserved Roman aqueduct, a nineteenth-century square, Place de la Comedie, and an underground river that leads to the area university. This stream is the focal point of this project almost at urban scale. It’s brought to light, becoming a connecting axis that connects the city to the most remote areas. On the banks of this route, they are formed wooden platforms that host some installations related to those who, after an analysis of the territory, appear to be the major points of cultural and artistic importance of Montpellier. The viewer is then driven to discover the beauty that the city offers as it heads to the university. The first operation, the result of the creation of the urban route of the river, has been to give greater importance to the stream that runs through the area: we imagined that it was invaded by the power of
water, even flooded. As a result of flooding the area it is reorganized following a logic that aims above all to make it a place of interest not only the university but also the tourist and cultural. In this way our “hole in the whole� is open to the public and to tourists, who have the opportunity to interact with different generations, such as university students. Inside the area, the buildings that cover more importance are those dedicated to student residences. They arise out of a sort of detached island from the territory but at the center of the scene. In the statement, the two buildings are modeled to fulfill different tasks: being home, they need to maintain privacy and for this reason, on the face of the city, the two facades are raised. Towards the inside of the area, the university campus, the buildings are lowered, leaving the view. Such speech is also repeated with respect to the openings, which make a front very permeable, and the other almost completely opaque.
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Definition of a grid
The river
The windows follow the front of the buildings
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Students residences: view (up) and diagrams (previous page)
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SIAMODICOCCIO COMPETITION: Primo Torneo di Architettura Officina06, 2012
LOCATION: Rome, Italy
PROGRAM: Urban
TEAM:
Violetta Gambino Francesca Icardi Marina Mori
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Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, masterplan
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The square examined in the competition, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, shows that the main problem is the relationship between its extent and its use mainly to parking area, ignoring the fundamental relational aspect in a heavily populated area. The intention was then to close it to traffic to make it not only a transit point but also a meeting point for the university population. The design concept is inspired by the site’s proximity to Mount Testaccio, an artificial hill formed between the Augustan period and the middle of the third century, mainly by the accumulation of fragments of amphorae. It is envisioned to take them and spread them on the square surface thereby transforming them into objects with different destinations and forms.
They are made of three different types: green areas, water tanks and seats, raised or underground spaces where you can relax outdoor. The sessions are also modeled in different shelves for added convenience. The “potsherd”, made of a material that recalls the color of clay, have been arranged in order to create broad paths to the library and the university and thicker steps towards the kiosk and commercial spaces. In this way the dialogue stands out among the buildings around the square and the central location of the kiosk. The sculpture in corten rapresenting an amphora, rethought in a modern way, closes the project area, making it a geometric object that calls for material and shape the new objects of the square.
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Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, section (up); view (down)
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