PRT23_FO

XUNTA DE GALICIA

Project for the regional government administration building

CASTELL XXI

Restoration of the 16th century castle into a museum

RÍO VERDE

Project to turn the Turia riverbed into a park

LA POBLA MUSIC SCHOOL

Project for a music school and auditorium

LIGNANO CULTURAL CENTRE

Thesis project for a cultural centre on the waterfront

COLLA WINERY

Renovation of a country house into a cellar

NOLO HOUSING

Project for a residential complex

SENSORIAL VOID

Project for a meditative space

SALT DOMES

Temporary setting up of a shop

OTHER PROJECTS

2022.09_2023.08

WORK EXPERIENCE

2022.08

2021.05_2022.09

FRANCESCO ODORICO

T: +39 340 7467605

M: ODORICO.FRANCESCO@GMAIL.COM

IG: @FRANCESCO.ODORICO

1997.05.04

UDINE - ITALY

Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra slp, Sevilla (Spain), Intern

Tasks:

- 3D modeling, 2D drawing, drawing post production and editing, rendering, architectural design, construction of architectural models

Competitions:

- Parc del Turia, Valencia, Spain

- Edificio administrativo de la Xunta de Galicia, Ourense, Spain

- Castell Nou, Llinard del Valles, Spain (first prize)

- Music school and auditorium, Pobla de Farnals, Spain

- Biblioteca CEU, Sevilla, Spain

Definitive projects:

- Sportland startup builder, Gemona, Italy

- MIA Museum, Melfi, Italy

Materiadarchitettura, Udine (Italy), Architect

Tasks:

- Architectural design, 2D drawing, post production and editing

Competition:

- A. Diaz primary school, Azzano Decimo, Italy (first prize)

Atelier Zero9, Codroipo (Italy), Junior Architect

Tasks:

- Renovation of private houses and design of residential complexes, from preliminary to final design, drafting of building documents

2020.05_2020.09

Moretti Studio, Codroipo (Italy), Intern

Tasks:

- Design of private houses and residential complexes, from preliminary to final design

EDUCATION

2022.08

2019_2022

Licence to practice as an architect

Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy

Master’s Degree in Architecture

Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy

Thesis: Re-inventing the seaside town. An interpretation of Lignano Sabbiadoro’s experimental tradition

2016_2019

Bachelor’s Degree in Science of Architecture

Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Thesis: Traces in the Arrábida Park. Masterplan. The pavilion for watching/thinking

2010_2016

High School Diploma

Liceo Scientifico J.Linussio, Codroipo, Italy

WORKSHOPS

2020.07

2021.07

W.A.Ve. 2020 “Post-Covid scenarios” supervisor Satoshi Okada

Biennale Session “New Narratives for large housing developments”

EXHIBITIONS

2019.04_2019.06

Project selected for “Convivere, abitare, condividere” in Natural History Museum of Pordenone, Italy

Project selected for “Laboratorio Salemi” in Spazio Gino Valle in Venezia, Italy

Setting up and displaying graphic work for “New Narratives for large housing developments” in the French pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, Venezia, Italy

COMPETITIONS

ArkxSite

Site Mausoleum in Arrabida, Portugal

Kaira Looro

Women’s Center in Baghere, Senegal

LANGUAGE

Italian: native

English: fluent

Spanish: basic

French: basic

PROGRAMS

Archicad, Autocad, Sketchup, Revit, Rhinoceros, V-ray, Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Lumion, Enscape

SKILLS

3D modelling, 2D drawing, architectural design, rendering, post-production drawings and images, model making, team working, verbal communication, hand drawing

XUNTA DE GALICIA

The new building for the Galizia Council closes off the urban front by generating a green courtyard. In order to allow this space to be used, the intention was to guarantee permeability from the street, to create a representative façade towards it, characterised by sunshades to screen out the light, while towards the courtyard one that would open up to light and greenery with projecting terraces.

The ground and first floors house the more public functions, offices in the upper floors and parking spaces in the underground ones. The design of the interior spaces ensures flexibility of use and layout. The greenery is not only present in the terraces but also colonises the building, creating socialising spaces for workers. The construction focused on the use of prefabricated concrete elements such as Holodeck slabs, which guarantee a sustainable use of resources.

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The proposed intervention on the Castle aims to recover it by giving it new cultural and administrative functions.

The project primarily involves the removal of uninteresting additions that have occurred throughout history. The exhibition areas are placed on the attic floor, so one of the themes of the project is the lift system. The original stone structure of the historic staircase is recovered, and this involves the redefinition of the staircase above.

The patio, the true fulcrum of the design, is covered by a transparent glass roof, permitting a continuous and more versatile use of it. To connect the spaces on the top floor, we have designed a light walkway that frees up the interior space and allows an unprecedented view of the historic building.

The project for the only remaining final section of the old Turia riverbed envisages its conversion into a new public space for the city next to Desembocadura Park, resolving the isolation of the Nazaret neighbourhood. The river, in all its sections, will have to overcome its condition as a collector of rainwater and sewage to become a great civic and cultural space, capable of generating water-related activities: navigation, piers, open-air auditoriums, public swimming pools, etc., and of qualifying its banks with adequate vegetation, enhancing the diversity of natural ecosystems.

One of the key points of the project is the completion of the river, which is why we have designed a stepped volume that is a multi-purpose public square, a viewpoint over the sea, a waterfall and a landscaped ramp. Inside, all the functions for future use.

LA POBLA MUSIC SCHOOL

The Music School envisages the construction of classrooms and an auditorium. Volumetrically, the building will occupy the northern part of the lot to reserve the remaining part for a green space open to the city. The green space then also extends into the built part as the different spaces all face onto a treelined courtyard, a key element of the project. The Auditorium, which I have dealt with in more detail, concludes the urban axis of the avenue by acting as a landmark. The interior provides flexibility and versatility of use as it is equipped with retractable seats that can configure the hall for different events. On the roof there is a technical ceiling that allows the lighting and height to be adjusted, while on the walls anthracite grey acoustic panels like the seating. Outside, the building is shaded according to orientation by various sunshade elements while on the roof there is a green space that becomes an elevated plaza.

LA POBLA DE FARNALS, SPAIN

LIGNANO CULTURAL CENTRE

Lignano is a seaside town of recent development with an experimental soul, abandoned during the last years to the building speculation.

It is now fragmented and without a defined character, highlighting some critical issues in the relationship with the waterfront.

The design idea is to create a public building that hosts a cultural center and that functions as a park within the surrounding wooded space, following the vocation of the area as an urban garden.

The aim is to welcome tourists and inhabitants, so that the flexibility of the spaces, external and internal, allows free ways to use the space.

The new covered path generates new flows that lead to the spaces enclosed by glass, in which the functions of the cultural center are inserted. The bubbles created have a close relationship with the open space around. These resume the principles of the complex, allowing free flows and a use that can change over the year.

COLLA WINERY

The Tenuta Colla complex, in the Veneto countryside, is being renovated to become a winery. The buildings inside the property are three, arranged around a central courtyard.

The demolition of the attics, now in ruins, and the recovery of the structures with beams and pillars inside the buildings generates a void enclosed by thin walls and a trussed roof. The space is punctuated by the span of the existing structure. By introducing a new functional program into the interior, the universal character of the space remains present. The volumes, which house the spaces for the production of wine on the ground floor while on the upper floors those necessary for the dissemination of wine culture, dialogue with the existing elements recovered and are connected by a new system of stairs and steel balconies. Those who visit the winery can freely walk around the space, see the wine production and the Venetian countryside through the new tower.

The NoLo district in Milan is one of the most lively and interesting for young people, students, artists and designers.

The area is fragmented part of urban block, in the margin between the city and Trotter Park. The design idea is to connect the building with the park, not only from a visual point of view but also through a public path on the ground floor. The complex is developed starting from the design of the urban void represented by the courtyard and a new building curtain. The first and second floors of the new complex host for the most part coworking spaces and ateliers. In the upper floors there are apartments for mixed users.

Each apartment follows a common logic: the reduction of the servant spaces in favor of those served, the division between living and sleeping areas, the possibility of temporarily separating the interior space or open it through movable walls, the presence of areas dedicated to study or work with special furniture elements.

SENSORIAL VOID

The meditation pavilion consists of a ritual path in which all the senses are involved.

You can enter through a gap created by the roof, which shows an inner void. It is reached via a tuff staircase and once inside you are surrounded by concrete walls. In the pavilion, one is drawn in by the sharp sounds of wind chimes reacting to the wind. In front of the visitor is a wooden seat arranged along the wall, while the tufa flooring gives way to stones.

In the meditative pavilion, light brings the hollow space to life by penetrating through the holes present between the roof and the wall. This allows rain to enter the pavilion. Architecture is fragile compared to nature.

Arriving near the seat illuminated by the zenithal light, one perceives the scent of dried citrus fruits. Finally one reaches the view in front of which one can sit to contemplate the landscape and meditate. The panorama is framed and the fragment of the view stopped by the hole in the wall, as in a photograph or painting.

SALT DOMES

An abstract world where humans and animals live together, generating an atmosphere of natural sensations. The project seeks an immersive space, a neutral and monochromatic material backdrop to enhance the iridescent Salt Domes collection by William Alexandru Lupu. Rolls of rippled paper evoke the morphology of the Zagros mountains in Jashak, Iran, on the shop’s surfaces. A retail space that becomes a cavern, devoid of the usual references, a different sensorial dimension induced by the unexpected relationship between space, body and objects. The colours of the saline mountain formations are the inspiration absorbed into the collection’s garments, which are staged sometimes decontextualising and others integrating them with those in the shop. The shop window becomes a projector of the set-up, inviting people to enter, walk around the shop and touch the garments, becoming involved in a sort of parallel dimension where you can appreciate the collection.

SPORTLAND CENTER

renovation of ‘Le Manifatture’ industrial building

2023 | Gemona, Italy

multipurpose sports complex

Vazquez Consuegra studio

MIA MUSEUM

restoration of the 16th century convent into a museum

2023 | Melfi, Italy

museum

Vazquez Consuegra studio

EFA HOUSE

renovation of a single-family house

2022 | Udine, Italy

private residence

solo project

DRG HOUSE

new single-family house

2022 | Udine, Italy

private residence

solo project

A. DIAZ SCHOOL

competition for a new school

2022 | Azzano X, Italy

primary school

materiadarchitettura studio

WOMEN’S HOUSE

Kaira Looro competition

2021 | Baghere, Senegal

cultural centre

team competition

HORTUS INCLUSUS

project for a neighbourhood reusing the ruins

2020 | Salemi, Italy

residential complex

academic project

POST COVID SCENARIOS

W.A.Ve. 2020 project with Satoshi Okada

2020 | Venezia, Italy

reconversion of unused airport spaces

academic project