PORTFOLIO
2018 - 2024
Diego Ghilardi
Diego Ghilardi
Date of birth
11/05/1998
Place of birth
Alzano Lombardo (BG)
Telephone Number
+39 3408478440
Address
Via Passeggio 23, Selvino (BG)
E-mail
diego.ghilardi@mail.polimi.it
Scientific High School Diploma | Liceo Edoardo Amaldi
Alzano Lombardo, Italy, 2012 - 2017
Bachelor Degree, “Progettazione dell’Architettura“ | Politecnico di Milano Milano, Italy, 2018 - 2021
Master Degree, “ Architecture - Built Environment - Interiors” | Politecnico di Milano Milano, Italy, 2021 - 2024
Education Languages
Italian Native English Level B2, Toeic score 870/990, 24/06/2021
Work Experience
Warehouseman I Evolplay S.r.l.
Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019
Workshop | Politecnico di Milano
Terra Migaki Design Student Competition 2020
Curricular Internship | Consalez - Rossi Architetti Associati July 2020 - September 2020
Extra-Curricular Internship | Architetto Francesco Fontana May 2021 - July 2021
Curricular Internship | Superspatial March 2023 - May 2023
Architectural Consultant | Evolplay S.r.l. October 2023 - March 2024
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Other Experience
Kaira Looro - Architecture Competition 2022
Theme: Children’s House in Baghere, Senegal
Erasmus at Lund Universitet | Lund, Sweden August 2022 - January 2023
“Laboratorio del Costruire“ | Workshop in collaboration with Fondazione Renzo Piano January 2023 - June 2023
Digital Skills
Personal Skills
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Autocad Rhino Illustrator Photoshop Indesign Teamwork Leadership Interpersonal competence Adaptive capacity Sketchup Vray Lumion Twinmotion Simplify3D Creative thought 3D modelling Photography Modelmaking
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Table of Contents
Beaubourg 4.0 - Laboratorio del Costruire, a.y. 2022-2023
Professor: Renzo Piano
Ostello di Milano - Architectural Design Studio, a.y. 2021-2022
Professor: Cino Zucchi
Ignotum - Interior Architecture Design Studio, a.y. 2020-2021
Professors: Arnaldi A., Bassanelli M.
Battistero Ipogeo - Final Design Studio, a.y. 2020-2021
Professors: Cardani L., Banfi F., Acito M.
“Paradigma Spazio“ - Bachelor Thesis, a.y. 2020-2021
Supervisor: Arnaldo Arnaldi
“Borderless Antarctica“ - Master Thesis, a.y. 2023-2024
Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto
Co-Supervisor: UNLES, non-profit agency for change
Rumlig - Human Enviromental Frame, a.y. 2022-2023
Professor: Thorbjörn L.
Block in Motion - Dwelling and Space, a.y. 2022-2023
Professors: Tagil T., Jesus M.
House for children - Kaira Looro | Architecture Competition, January - June 2022
Organiser: Kaira Looro
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22. Bachelor
26. Master
28. Erasmus
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Master Project
Bachelor Project
Thesis Research
Thesis Research
Experience
Competition
Beaubourg 4.0
Laboratorio del Costruire a.y. 2022-2023
Group
Andrea Dechamps, Andrea Di Tommaso, Alberto Filippini
Site
Paris, France
Brief
The project, developed during the “Laboratorio del Costruire” course taught by Professor Renzo Piano at the School of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, during the a.y. 2022/2023, presents an application case that combines the themes of urban resilience and climate change: the application of microalgae to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The contribution proposes a reflection regarding the use of green technologies on the built heritage for the purpose of upgrading buildings that are inherently inadequate to contemporary environmental challenges.
The initiative reflects on the use of microalgae for CO2 biofixation, a strategy that aims to find a balance between the carbon dioxide produced by the existing building and that absorbed by this technology. The proposal consists of the application of 2,500 tubular-shaped bioreactors arranged vertically on the outer boundary of the façade, in which about 500,000 liters of algal solution are contained, corresponding to the environmental impact of about 500 trees in an urban environment. Confornting the use of this installation with the equivalent, as CO2 absorption, of trees to be planted, the land consumption is almost 100 times less, having in addition, a CO2 absorption between three and four times higher.
Project module axonometry and view
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Plan, section and elevation of a module of the project
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of the
Pompidou
Elevation
Centre
Ostello di Milano
Architectural Design Studio a.y. 2021-2022
Group
Ginevra Beretta
Site
Milano, Italy
Brief
The complex in question is located in Milan, precisely in Via Conchetta and is represented by the main building, the hostel, and by a public space given to the community. The social component in this project is very strong, in fact the building is thought in a very open way to welcome guest from all over the world, but maintaining a strong relationship with the neighbourhood. The project is composed by four floors and one big and inclusive public space that is open to the residential part of the district.
The ground floor is the most social and open area of the building, this floor in fact is the one open to the city, we can ideally divide this floor in three parts using the entrance of the two stairs, whose are one of the characterization of the building. We have the cafeteria/restaurant, that open up for socializing, in the centre there is the reception, the area made to welcome all the guests and in the last part there’s all the spaces for recreation and socialization. The upper floors are the residential rooms divided from the biggest, used for the groups with shared services, to the most private with personal services. The total number of rooms are 28 for 160 guests. Project axonometry
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Floor plan
of the project A2 A1 PROJECT AREAS GENERATIVE AXES The identification of these foundamental axes helped to shape the form of the project that, in the end, will increase these directions URBAN SPACE All the reasoning took to the creation of a dynamic urban area where the people that live near and the guest of the hostel can exploit all the advantage of the project PRESERVED OBJECTS The site visit helped us to understand the area and its connotation, in particular the big graffiti wall in the A2 zone and the internal walls in the A1 zone, that we identfy as a place of aggregation that we want to revalorize VOLUMES The complete project is composed of a bike park, little kiosk at the service of the community and the Hostel, place for everyone that want to enjoy the city
Planivolumetric,
and development
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section of the project
and main
Ignotum
Interior Architecture Design Studio a.y. 2020-2021
Group
Alberto Filippini, Luca Francioli
Site
Molina di Malo (VI), Italy
Brief
The project born as a reinterpretation of the ruins of a old Palladian villa in which remains only ten columns in Molina di Malo, a small village in Vicenza. The idea is to take over the court and his underground space, delimitate to the nearest building and the columns, to built a big art museum that gives to the visitors a strong sense of disorientation, like he is entering in an alternative world that has a unique link the upper columns whose are the element that shape the space below.
The project is configured as a enormous room divided in five naves and numerous separators that follows, when they are sectioned, the smooth profile of the columns like they are melting all over the room, creating also visual discontinuity that, along with the use of raw materials, cause a sense of loss. The separators host works of arts that transform this place as a art museum to fed the need of knowledge and culture that distinguishes us as a human beings.
Project plans and constructive scheme
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15 Perspective section
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and concrete model
Project view
Battistero Ipogeo
Final Design Studio a.y. 2020-2021
Group
Alberto Filippini, Edoardo Dincao
Site
Urbino, Italy
Brief
The project born as a completion of a great history value pre-existence, the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino, with the aim of respecting the course of the time and adding, inside the “Pasquino court”, a religious building with the specific function of a baptistery.
The nearest presence to the Duomo di Urbino has permitted to imagine a little meditative space, independent but strictly connected to the principal church of the city.
The choice was to create an hypogean room that follows the Christian history going back to the fulcrum space of the religiosity, more precisely the underground spaces, the only ones where once you could perform the religious function. The building is hide in the ground so, the people that have to visit it, need to enter to truly understand the place. The only visible part are two oversized beam that form together a cross, these are the only structural parts of the building. This project tries to solve, with his simplicity, the great need of spirituality that every human beings, believer or not, experiment in his life
Planivolimetric and settlement scheme
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19 Perspective section and project plans
Axonometry, elevation and section
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Paradigma Spazio
Bachelor Thesis
a.y. 2020-2021
Subtitle:
Storia di vita extraterrestre
Supervisor Arnaldo Arnaldi
Brief
This thesis, born thanks to a personal passion about space, is a research about old and new way to live in extraterrestrial environment , all of that principally declined on a point of view focused on the interior design. Everything is chronologically developed from the past to the future, with at the end, some opinion from expert of the space architecture field like, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, MIT professors and ex astronaut and Daniel Inocente, senior designer at SOM.
Abstract For Thousands years man has shaped the space around him to create a place that, not only protect him from the weather, but that reflects his way of being. Building has always mean create a three-dimensional environment in which, inside, we feel fiscally and psychologically protected, a space that allow to express ourselves at the best and face the challenge of the future.
In the last century the fast technological development put us in front the possibility to look at the sky and imagine an existence out of our planet giving us a new perspective of life, this has suddenly whetted the mind of visionary people that have understood the potentiality of what was happened thus becoming pioneers of what today is space exploration. Through many disciplines that gravitate around this new world, surely one of the most important is architecture, which is able to create a place of absolute wellness and safety it hasn’t been so important for our discipline.
The main theme that we are facing is the birth and evolution that this new settlements out of the world are having, specially focusing on the interiors, that is that space that can be modelled as we please until this place could be named home. It will be interesting analyze this new field and try to underline the big differences that in a short time came out until today with an eye on the future, which it never be so close.
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«L’esplorazione è nella nostra natura. Abbiamo iniziato come vagabondi e siamo ancora vagabondi. Siamo rimasti abbastanza a lungo sulle rive dell’oceano cosmico. Siamo finalmente pronti per salpare verso le stelle».
- Carl Sagan
“PARADIGMA
SPAZIO”
di vita extraterrestre
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PARADIGMA
SPAZIO
Storia
Thesis cover
Diego Ghilardi A.A. 2020/2021
Borderless Antarctica
Master Thesis
a.y. 2023-2024
Subtitle:
A mobile research station for a transnational community
Supervisor
Jacopo Leveratto
Co-Supervisor
UNLESS, non-profit agency for change;
Federica Sofia Zambeletti, project manager at Unless;
Francesca Benetti Genolini, researcher at Unless;
Brief
This thesis stems from my interest in architecture in extreme environments. This work is the result of extensive research in the field of Antarctic architecture, territorial preservation and its political management. The resulting project seeks to bring back, from a design perspective, all these issues.
Abstract Antarctica, in the totality of its land and sea, is internationally recognized as the world’s greatest scientific laboratory. The continent is a timeless land, one of the few places on our planet that is still, almost, devoid of the mark that man inevitably leaves after his passage, this also thanks to its inhospitable climate, which, however, has preserved the purity of this place over the centuries.
Today, thanks to the cultural and scientific progress we have achieved, we can value all this, and it is our duty to preserve these lands from mere political interests and territorial claims which would lead to an inevitable race to exploit the countless energy and material resources that the Antarctic continent has to offer, but which would irreparably destroy this territory, that is so important for the future of us all. There is therefore an urgency in this safeguard given especially by the imminent expiration of the agreements contained in the Antarctic Treaty which, if revised, would definitively shift the continent’s balance toward uncontrolled exploitation to the detriment of research and conservation.
The aim of this thesis is trying to pursue a research and a project that focus on public awareness about this topic. Through the proposal of a naval station, the aim is to propose a unique example of cooperation among nations that can demonstrate the importance of Antarctica as a fundamental research field for the safeguarding of our Planet Earth.
I.R.S. UNITY I.R.S. UNITY Water Level Water Level Water Level Water Level -5 -5 10 20 10 20 30 40 50 60 40 30 -10 -20 100 110 120 130 140 90 70 60 50 40 30 20 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 140 130 120 110 100 -20 -10 30 40 60 50 40 30 20 10 20 10 -5 -5 80 Tank Cover G Deck Platform A Platform B Platform c Upper Deck A Deck Navigation Deck B Deck C Deck D Deck E Deck F Deck Engine Deck Leisure Deck Conference Deck Accomodation Deck Laboratories Deck Tank Cover G Deck Platform A Platform B Platform C Upper Deck A Deck Navigation Deck B Deck C Deck D Deck E Deck F Deck Engine Deck Leisure Deck Conference Deck Laboratory Deck Accomodation Deck Accomodation Deck Accomodation Deck Panel 08 Borderless Antarctica I.R.S Unity Sections and Elevations 1:300 Candidate: Diego Ghilardi |993832 Politecnico di Milano | Scuola AUIC | ArchitectureBuilt EnvironmentInteriors | A.Y. 20232024 Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto | Co-Supervisors: UNLESS, Federica Sofia Zambeletti, Francesca Benetti Genolini Section and elevation of the project
26 Panel 12 Borderless Antarctica Axonometric Exploded View Candidate: Diego Ghilardi |993832 Politecnico di Milano | Scuola AUIC | ArchitectureBuilt EnvironmentInteriors | A.Y. 20232024 Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto | Co-Supervisors: UNLESS, Federica Sofia Zambeletti, Francesca Benetti Genolini -5 -5 0 10 20 10 20 30 40 50 60 40 30 Tank Cover G Deck Platform A Platform B Platform C Upper Deck A Deck Navigation Deck B Deck C Deck D Deck E Deck F Deck Engine Deck Leisure Deck Conference Deck Accomodation Deck Laboratories Deck Accomodation Deck Panel 13 Borderless Antarctica Perspective Section 1:100 Candidate: Diego Ghilardi |993832 Politecnico di Milano | Scuola AUIC ArchitectureBuilt Environment Interiors | A.Y. 20232024 Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto | Co-Supervisors: UNLESS, Federica Sofia Zambeletti, Francesca Benetti Genolini Axonometry and perspective section of the project
Antarctica BorderlessAntarctica
Borderless Antarctica
Borderless
Rumlig
Human Environmental Frame a.y. 2022-2023
Group
Mia Tjus, Maya Amei Kranner, Holley Stringham, Masako Nishizawa, Frida Bergström, Martyna Idasiak
Site
RUMLIG
_create rooms within one room based on customers‘ needs
Lund, Sweden
Brief
ROOM IN A ROOM
the simplicity of the room will not only respond to to scandinavian interior design, but furthermore support the affordance of the multiple users of the room
The theme of this course was the design of a hotel room at the Lund University Guest House. The element that made this project unique and innovative from an educational point of view was the opportunity to be able to actually realise this project, in fact through the university and the Guest House, each group was given a room and a budget of about 1100€ to be able to realise, after appropriate reviews with the client and the professors, the project.
Being able to deal with real issues such as, feasibility, budget, comparison with clients and suppliers and actual practical realisation, made this course an important part of my education.
_keep it simple but adaptable to different needs
_allow different atmospheres in one room with different colors and light
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_REST _WORK _SLEEP a cozy space for taking a break, where you can read a book or watch a movie after a long day a flexible workspace enhanced with an active colour and daylight to provide better studying experience a sleeping area with a calming ambience created by the light and textiles to give you a space for relaxation
SLEEP WORK REST VARIED LUMINAIRES FOR DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERES warm, yellow paint creates a calming, sleeping space task lamp situated within the workspace provides suitable light to read and work wall mounted floor standing luminaires enable creating warm, relaxing ambience around the sleeping area ceiling luminaire for general use creates a warm ambience in the room for after the sunset a A b B B c C SLEEP WORK REST COLOUR AS PATCHES TO CREATE SUBDIVISIONS VARIED LUMINAIRES FOR DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERES EMBRACING THE DAYLIGHT IN THE ROOM COLOUR & LIGHT broad surface of the tabletop reflects the daylight into the room white paint in a warm hue creates a base for the whole room warm, yellow paint creates a calming, sleeping space soft, green paint is used for a workspace that is an extension of the windows strip task lamp situated within the workspace provides suitable light to read and work wall mounted floor standing luminaires enable creating warm, relaxing ambience around the sleeping area ceiling luminaire for general use creates a warm ambience in the room for after the sunset coloured textiles project colourful patches that create subdivisions together with the painted ones mirror reflecting the daylight and making the room more spacious a A A a c b b b 2 b B B c C C Perspective plan and explanation of the project
Photos of the finished project
Block in Motion
Dwelling and Space
a.y. 2022-2023
Group
Nishizawa Masako, Stråle Simon
Site
Lund, Sweden
Brief
The project is a residential building with a ground floor for commercial use in Lund, Sweden. The aim was to create different housing solutions for different users to respond to the shortage of residences in this university town.
The project is developed within an urban void that has been enclosed, also creating an inner courtyard, and then worked on the two elevations, the one on the street respecting the historic centre while the inner one is freer so as to create a dynamism in the façade that could create usable outdoor spaces to increase the quality of the dwellings.
Gråbrödersgatan
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Gråbrödersg
Stora Gråbrödersgatan
Lilla
1 PREFABRICATED LIMESTONE PANEL
2 BEARING APPLICATION (INTERMIT TENT)
3 STEEL ANCHOR
4 75MM RIGID INSULATION
5 REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB
6 WINDOW FRAME
7 CEILING PLASTER BOARD
8 WINDOW
9 WOODEN FLOORING
10 BASE PLY WOOD
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House for children
CHILDREN’S HOUSE
Baghere Village
Kaira Looro - Architecture Competition
Project site
The project area is located in the south of Senegal: a western sub-Saharan African country bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Mauritania, Mali, Gambia, and Guinea. The national population is almost 17 million people, mainly concentrated in the larger urban centres and in the capital. Dakar. The southern region, in addition to the enclave of Gambia, is called Casamance, due to the presence of the river of the same name and is further divided into 3 administrative regions: Ziguinchor, Sedhiou and Kolda, with a total of approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The central region is Sedhiou, and it is here that the project will be introduced. This is one of the country’s
Group
January - June 2022
Marta Dragoni, Maria Durero, Angelica Franzoni
Site
Baghere, Senegal
Brief
The site of every competition organised by Kaira Looro is always africa, but the topic changes every year. In 2022 the topic was an House for children with feeding problems. The program for this project located in a village in Senegal was made by three indoor areas, a nursey with an office for a doctor, a playgroud for childrens and an archive for documents and medicines, moreover it has been designed a public and open area for women and childrens attending the place. We wanted to create a project with a strong concept of unity, a safe place for the women and childrens hosted.
CHILDREN’S HOUSE
Baghere Village
Project site
The project area is located in the south of Senegal: a western sub-Saharan African country bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Mauritania, Mali, Gambia, and Guinea. The national population is almost 17 million people, mainly concentrated in the larger urban centres and in the capital. Dakar. The southern region, in addition to the enclave of Gambia, is called Casamance, due to the presence of the river of the same name and is further divided into 3 administrative regions: Ziguinchor, Sedhiou and Kolda, with a total of approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The central region is Sedhiou, and it is here that the project will be introduced. This is one of the country’s less developed regions, with an average rate of urbanisation of 10%, and an average poverty rate of around 92%.
This region has a purely agricultural focus, and the rural villages have an average of 1500 inhabitants. The administrative centre of Sedhiou has approximately 22,000 inhabitants.
Concept
The project is presented as a set of cylinders inscribed in a square shape. The complex is covered by a pitched roof, below which there are different services in open and closed spaces.
The perimetric walls aims to delimitate the area to assure a safe and private space, especially for the young users who will live the area every day. The perimetric walls, marked by the presence of jealousies, present three entrances placed in three different sides of the square; these holes permit a compelling light effect, and allow people to partially see the internal spaces and their activities from the outside.
A first aim of these cylinders is to avoid corners to ensure a safe environment and at the same time to give a sense of harmony in order to be suitable for children; a second one is to create a bond with the local traditional building design.
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CHILDREN’S HOUSE
less developed regions, with an average rate of urbanisation of 10%, and an average poverty rate of around 92%. This region has a purely agricultural focus, and the rural villages have an average of 1500 inhabitants. The administrative centre of Sedhiou has approximately 22,000 inhabitants. Concept The project is presented as a set of cylinders inscribed in a square shape. The complex is covered by a pitched roof, below which there are different services in open and closed spaces. The perimetric walls aims to delimitate the area to assure a safe and private space, especially for the young users who will live the area every day. The perimetric walls, marked by the presence of jealousies, present three entrances placed in three different sides of the square; these holes permit a compelling light effect, and allow people to partially see the internal spaces and their activities from the outside. A first aim of these cylinders is to avoid corners to ensure a safe environment and at the same time to give a sense of harmony in order to be suitable for children; a second one is to create a bond with the local traditional building design. CONSTRUCTION The walls of the entire building are composed by clay bricks covered by a 5 cm layer of raw earth and straw mixture. The structural system of the roof is developed as a point system of wooden pillars and beams, reinforced by trusses, that support the corrugated metal sheet. Due to cover the view of the steel has been provided a curtain system that attaches to the wooden carpentry. Planivolimetric, Structiure scheme and renders
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THANK YOU!
diego.ghilardi@mail.polimi.it
+39 3408478440
Selvino (BG), via passeggio 23, Italy
