Luca Melis architecture portfolio
2013 - 2020
Luca Melis Via Putzu 1, 09047 Selargius, CA, Italy Currently based in Milan +39 340 537 3120 luca94melis@gmail.com Sex: Male Born: 29/04/1994 Nationality: Italian
About My name is Luca Melis, I’m from Sardinia, Italy, and I recently concluded a one year experience in NOAHH Architects, where I started as Intern and I continued as Junior Architect. During this time, I followed residential, cultural and educational projects. Some of the projects were developed in BIM environment. This allowed me to improve the skills that I started to develop during the University years. After my Bachelor Degree achieved in Cagliari, I decided to join Politecnico di Milano to continue my formation, taking part in the Master Course of Building Architecture, where the design part is strongly related to the technological one. During this time, I also had a short internship in Degli Esposti Architetti. Next to architecture, an important role in my life is represented by photography, cinema and books.
Work Experience and Formation Aug 2020 - Dec 2020 Jan 2020 - July 2020 Jun 2018 - Jul 2018 Oct 2017 - Dec 2019 Aug 2017 - Sept 2017 Oct 2013 - Nov 2016 Jul 2016 May 2015 Sept 2008 - Oct 2013
- Junior Architect, NOAHH, Amsterdam - Internship, NOAHH, Amsterdam - Internship, Degli Esposti Architetti, Milano - Master Course in Building Architecture, Politecnico di Milano - ILS Scientific School, Alghero, DADU - Science of Architecture, Cagliari (Teshis about coastal architecture) - Workshop MSL 2016, Monastir (Design and Construction of a Reversible structure) - Workshop Ladiri, Nurachi (Construction of a small building in raw bricks) - Scientific High School, Selargius Software skills Technical drawing, freehand or with cad support Autocad 2D Rhinoceros + Grasshopper + Vray Photoshop Camera Raw Indesign SketchUp Revit Office BIM sofwares: Tekla, Synchro, Ladybug, Velux Archicad Twinmotion
Moermanskkade 111 1013 BC Amsterdam The Netherlands office@noahh.nl www.noahh.nl +31 (0) 20 3090250 Ir. Patrick Fransen Ir. Loes Thijssen
Recommendation Letter for Luca Melis
To whom it may concern, I am writing to offer my recommendation for Luca Melis. I am founder of the NOAHH | Network Oriented Architecture based in Amsterdam. NOAHH is a dynamic architectural firm with about 30 employees working in the fields of education, culture, transformation and urban design/housing. Our focus is on innovative learning concepts and public buildings. Luca joined NOAHH from January till December 2020. He started as intern and we decided - based on his enthusiastic and involved way of working -to offer him a temporary junior architect position. We know Luca as an intelligent young architect with a good sense for aesthetics and with a very social attitude. Luca worked with dedication on several projects; participating in the design and in visualizing the projects: - Villa Oosterwold – Almere NL- final design - Urban plan Debbautshoek -Zelzate BE – competition - Montessori School – Delft NL – competition - Drenthe College – Emmen NL – feasibility study - Social Housing de Meker – Middelburg NL – preliminary and final design - Schulzentrum - Schenefeld DE – preliminary design - St Annadal, transformation Prosecutors Office – Maastricht NL – competition - Talent Sport Centre – Breda NL - competition Luca is a serious and hard worker and also a good team player. It was great to have him for a year in our team, I hope to stay in close contact with him in future and wish him all the best in his future career. If there is any reason to contact us, please do so: office@noahh.nl or +31 629036454 Yours Sincerely, Ir. Patrick Fransen Principal at NOAHH, Network Oriented Architecture December 18, 2020
IBAN NL 69ABNA 0507562003
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KvK 61101109
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BTW NL 854206309B01
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ISO 9001:2015 certified
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Transformation of Public Prosecutor’s Office Maastricht, Netherlands
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Villa Oosterwold Almere, Netherlands
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Social housing De Meker Middelburg, Netherlands
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Debbautshoek housing plan Zelzate, Belgium
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Community and infrastructure center Imizamo Yethu, Cape Town, South Africa
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Train station Sesto San Giovanni, Lombardy, Italy
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Multipurpose building Fagnano Olona, Lombardy, Italy
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Wine and food promotion center Las Plassas Castle, Sardinia, Italy Photography selection
5 people team Website: noahh.nl/portfolio_page/courtmaastricht/
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Transformation of Public Prosecutor’s Office Maastricht, Netherlands Competition The former Sint Annadal regional hospital in Maastricht - the current headquarters of the Limburg District Court – will be transformed from a building designed for one specific user into a building that hosts two different users: the Limburg District Court and the Public Prosecutor’s Office, who each have their own identity and their own workplace culture. The existing structure is the ‘host’ and backbone of the building. The basis is formed by leaving as many existing elements intact as possible, and reusing them. With as few interventions as possible, we aim for maximum gain. We view our design additions - the ‘guests’ as a type of furniture. Visitors are received in a light, green, transparent entrance area, instead of walking directly into the narrow security checkpoint. A welcome, comfortable atmosphere is prevalent throughout the building.
Old photo of the former hospital
Proposal for the office spaces
Historical pictures of the hospital have been taken as inspiration to design the new office spaces, excluding small rooms and preferring open spaces and natural light. The former chapel is the social heart of the building where the employees of the Limburg District Court and the Public Prosecutor’s Office are able to meet informally. It is a multifunctional space that is used throughout the day for various activities. The chapel is brought back its original state: a characteristic, commodious space. A new demountable meeting station will be placed in this space for an 8-year period of use.
Designed with NOAHH founder/principal architect Website: noahh.nl/portfolio_page/villaoosterwold/
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Villa Oosterwold Almere, Netherlands
Final design
The villa stands for a new, activity-based, way of living. The typology is based on a lifecycle approach in which the house is designed according to use - living - sleeping - working – accommodation – and care. The design creates the possibility to expand or compress the space according to the user’s wishes. The villa consists of three separate parts connected by glass intermediate parts. Each section is designed as its own pavilion with its own facility unit. ‘Living’ is the largest pavilion with a dining and living room. ‘Sleeping’ is a peaceful pavilion surrounded by lavish green on all sides. ‘Working’ is a pavilion closest to the street, and it also incorporates the accommodation facilities for guests.
Each volume has a central utility unit, that allows the space and the functions to spread around in a very dynamic and flexible way.
Working
The wooden structure and the solar panels guarantee a low carbon impact architecture.
Sleeping
Living
Designed with NOAHH founder/principal architect Website: noahh.nl/portfolio_page/demeker/
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Social housing De Meker Middelburg, Netherlands
Final design
De Meker is a new residential building with 32 apartments in the social housing sector. NOAHH has focused on the quality of the flexible spatial layout of the dwellings as well as the quality of the collective space on the ground floor. The collective space is designed as a chain of living spaces situated around an indoor storage area, with a central void at the heart of the building that visually connects all floors.
The ground floor host storage spaces for every housing unit. In addition to these, in the short sides of the building we can find some shared spaces (the blue ones) that are designed in a flexible way and that can be used to better connect the building with its immediate outside spaces. The apartments are developed through 2 typlogies. The short side ones present a central core around which the house can develop in a free way, as a unique space, or with one bedroom, or with two bedrooms. The long side apartments are designed in order to guarantee the maximum amount of light in the main rooms.
4 people team Website: noahh.nl/portfolio_page/debbautshoek/
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Debbautshoek Housing Plan Zelzate, Belgium
Competition
This proposal for a competition of 200 housing units put the focus on the sharing spaces in between the buildings and the improvement of the interactions between the people. This neighbourhood is currently a residential area with a very high percentage of paved area and private low-mainteinance courtyards. The main idea of the project is to reverse this approach, in order to create a catalyst to improve the social condition and the quality of life in the area.
Ribbon
Courtyard
Vein
Yard
The final design is the combination of different layers of intervention. After removing the existing houses, the roads are transformed into pedestrian ribbons, cleaning the area from car traffic. Some public yards are introduced to increase the relationships between the neighbours and the open air-activities. All of these elements are connected through the pedestrian veins. The small clusters of houses share also some semi-private courtyards, where share activities can take place, such as smallscale agriculture.
3 people team Politecnico di Milano, Master’s Degree thesis project
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Community and infrastructure center Imizamo Yethu, Cape Town, South Africa Located in a super dense township in Cape Town, Imizamo Yethu, this integrated center represents a useful tool for the wellness of the area, trying to solve a series of social and cultural problems. The infrastructural part of the project, represented by the tower, collects water from rain and from fog, produce agriculture and guarantee a panoramic terrace on the top. The social part, more integrated in the landscape and submerged into the context, surrounded by the houses, provides education, alimentation and sanitation.
The community centre is the central element of a larger intervention, where the introduction of pedestrian and vehicular roads (through to the relocation of houses on top of platforms) allows to increase safety and accessibility of the area. In the crossing points of this road network, additional intervention with smaller towers are created to provide potable water, public space and gathering areas.
Agriculture
Education
Craftmanship
Playground
Public space
Electricity
Water collection
Workshop
The project aims to improve the conditions of the area through the implementation of both social and infrastructural elements. The submerged building provides flexible spaces where several activities can be run, changing its configuration and its usability according to the time of the day. The tower provides the basic framework to answer technological needs, becoming a landmark not only from a visual point of view.
3 people team Politecnico di Milano, second year project
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Train station Sesto San Giovanni, Lombardy, Italy The second semester of the first year in Politecnico di Milano was based on Complex Architectures. The site, in Sesto San Giovanni, is a train station located between the old part of the city (north) and the masterplan proposed by Renzo Piano (south). The general idea behind this project was to create a crossing system for the railways to connect these two sides of the city without any limitation. The project aims to guarantee the pedestrian and the bicycle crossing, avoiding the strong cut in the city operated by the transition of the railways.
Structural axonometry
Exploded axonometry (assembling process)
The biggest challenge of this suspended train station is represented by the structure, which basically is formed by two curved trusses on the two sides, connected in the upper part and to which the bridge is hanged. This laboratory in particular had a huge focus on the interoperability in BIM environment. Several softwares have been used during the semester to verify and improve the choices of the whole design process: Grasshopper, Tekla, Ladybug, Velux, Synchro, Solibri.
4 people team Politecnico di Milano, first year project
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Multipurpose building Fagnano Olona, Lombardy, Italy The first semester project in Politecnico di Milano was focused on the technical part of the architecture. The interested location is an area managed by a company that organise events to revitalize the area. The aim of the course was to develop a closed building to be used for different functions and with a particular focus on the technology. The result is a building with a polyhedral roof, made by triangles with different shapes and angles. The structure is made of concrete columns, wooden beams and metal joints.
Structural plan
Section
5 people team Università degli Studi di Cagliari, third year project
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Wine and food promotion center Las Plassas castle, Sardinia, Italy The Las Plassas castle is a fortress of the XI century, located in the region of Marmilla.Nowadays, the project expresses the castle new service to the land, the promotion of wine and food production. The ruins of the castle helped us understand “what, how and where” to build: where we found the most serious failings, are added boxlike shapes in white concrete that recalls the original shape of the castle; where the historical walls are found in good condition, we designed places of standstill and viewing, made by steel and wood. The promotion of the land is made by the kitchen with the tasting of the typical products and the 360° view.
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Dettaglio blocco sopra la soglia - scala 1:20
Dettaglio blocco sopra la soglia - scala 1:20
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g - cella panoramica 1. vetro 2. fermavetro acciaio brunito 3. piastra legno lamellare 4. fissaggio a vite nascosta
h - appoggio al muro storic 1. perno Di ancoraggio 2. nucleo in elastomero armato 3. piastra inferiore in acciaio 4. zanca Di ancoraggio
i - sostegno Dei volumi attr 1. profilati scatolari in acciaio 2. ancoraggio a cerniera 3. giunto centrale a croce 4. barra filettata
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Construction detail Kitchen A
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Dettaglio Della fonDazione e Del contatto con la preesistenza Della torre norD - scala 1:20
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Exploded axonometry - complete intervention
Construction detail Building over the entrance
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Photography
Stationsplein, Ector Hoogstad Architecten, Utrecht
Duomo, Milan
Bosco Verticale, Stefano Boeri, Milan
Cruise Terminal, Cagliari
MIHL, Lugo, Spain
JFSC, St Helier, Jersey
Zamora Office Building, Campo Baeza, Spain
MAXXI, Zaha Hadid, Rome