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ONE STEP AT A TIME

IILLUSTRATED INVENTORY OF SEVERAL YEARS OF WORK AND THOUGHTS ABOUT ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

MARTINA CARUSO

Italian | currently in Barcelona, Spain

+39 3406047277 (IT) | +34 676931726 (ES) martina.carusohm@gmail.com

Professional licence. Building and Environmental Engineer

Detail-oriented and passionate professional. I use creativity and cutting-edge technology to turn complexity into functional designs.

EXPERTISE

Architecture. Concept defining. Executive design. Computational design. Advanced 3D modeling. 2D technical drawings. Graphics. Product design. Digital Fabrication. 3D printing, CNC, lasercut. Engineering and structural background.

EDUCATION

Master in Advanced Architecture

IaaC | Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia | Barcelona, Spain

Jun 2024

BIM Course

Revit Architecture + Revit BIM families

GoPillar Academy | Autodesk certified course

Jan 2022

Master of Science in Building Engineering and Architecture

110/110 cum laude | University of Calabria | Cosenza, Italy

Apr 2020

EXPERIENCE

Architect | Urbanitree | Barcelona, Spain

Jul 2024 - present

Design development for public competitions and private comissions. Technical drawings for licensing and construction processes. 3D modeling and graphic contents.

Architect and product designer | Medaarch | Cava de’ Tirreni, Italy

Oct 2020 - Oct 2023

Concept defining and design development for public competitions and private comissions, from the early stage to the executive drawings. Communication and coordination with external suppliers. Member of the tender department, responsible for the design and development of proposals. Product design. Computational design and digital fabrication with laser cut and 3D printing (both PLA and clay). Advanced 3D modeling. 2D drawings. Rendering. Graphic contents.

Teaching assistant | University of Calabria | Cosenza, Italy

Aug 2020 - Nov 2020

Tutoring activity with focus on residential tipologies studies. Technological Architecture II course, MSc in Building Engineering and Architecture.

Internship trainee | REN ITO Arq. | Porto, Portugal

May 2019 - Aug 2019

Support in the design process for public competitions and private commissions. 3D modeling. 2D drawings. Graphic contents.

SOFTWARES

3D Rhinoceros

Grassshopper

CAD/BIM Revit

AutoCAD

RENDERING Keyshot Lumion Enscape

GRAPHICS

InDesign

DATA Microsoft Office

PROGRAMMING Arduino

EXHIBITIONS

with Mediterrenea, 3d printed forniture collection by Medaarch

ICFF 2024

New York City, USA

Salone del Mobile 2023

Milano Design week | Milan, Italy

EDIT Napoli 2021 - 22

International Design fair | Naples, Italy

Fuori Salone 2021 Milano Design week | Milan, Italy

Maker Faire Rome 2021

International Design fair | Rome, Italy

COMPETITIONS

Selected awarded design competitions with leading role

2021 | Waterfront | Cattolica, Italy | 1st prize

2022 | Museum | Flumeri, Italy | 1st prize

2022 | Primary school | Melito Irpino, Italy | 1st prize

LANGUAGES

Italian | Native

English | Fluent

Spanish | Professional

01. TERRA FRESCA | Robotic 3D-printed self sufficient student housing

02. THE KNOT | Computational design of a pavillion in Barcelona

03. ASSEMBLED | Computational study of iterative assemblages processes

01. HYPERWALL | Primary school

02. BRIX | Museum

03. ARCADIA | Park

04. DUNE | Waterfront

05. FAB | Master Thesis Project | Fab Lab and coworking 01. AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM | 3D-printed stool

TE RRA FRESCA

SPECIAL MENTION AWARDED PROJECT OF A ROBOTIC-3D PRINTED SELF SUFFICIENT BUILDING

IaaC | Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia | Barcelona, Spain | 2024 Master in Advanced Architecture | Faculty: Edouard Cabay, Daniel Ibanez

Project Team

Martina Caruso Lucas Ring

Sebastiyanraj Arockiam Michaelraj

Role and tasks in the project development

Prototyping and digital fabrication: CNC, laser cut and 3d printers

Arduino and data analysis | Graphic contents

Software used

CRAZY STUFF withCLAY

THE MATERIAL PROTOYPING | THERMAL MASS ANALYSIS

Analysis of the capacity of 3D-printed raw clay elements to store heat and humidity from a steam flow. Comparative evaluation of different shapes and patterns, different distances from the steam and different exposure times. // Data collection, analysis and visualization through thermochromic paint, Arduino and Grasshopper. Design and fabrication process through Rhinoceros and Grasshoper.

WINTER CONFIGURATION | PRIVATE SPACES | THICK AND LINEAR WALLS TO MAXIMISE HEAT

SUMMER CONFIGURATION | COMMON SPACES | THIN AND CURVED WALLS TO MINIMISE HEAT

IMAGINE CLAY WALLS FOLLOWING THE SEASONS

TerraFresca is a student housing project for 200 students. It challenges traditional residential spaces, aiming for climate sustainability and a new way of living. The project uses large-scale 3D printing and the thermal inertia of raw 3D-printed clay.

Robots reconfigure spaces seasonally, destroying and rebuilding all the partitions: intimate, preasyto-heat areas in winter; spacious, ventilated and shared areas in summer. TerraFresca lets students shape their spaces, creating sustainable architecture with robotic systems and printable materials, setting a new standard for environmentally responsible, innovative living solutions.

Computational tools have been used to analyse the site, the climatic behaviour of the walls, according to their thickness, shapes, locations and seasons.

ACCUMULATION

Grounded on the site geometry

CONCEPT

Inviting the inside out, bridging private and public

From symmetry and rigidity to fluidity and transparency

GENERATIVE DESIGN | FORM FINDING

Standard Bezier no twist | minimal overlap between surfaces

Different floor geometry selected different arches selected

Reversed Bezier twisted surface high overlap between surfaces | knot

Different arches selected low overlap between surfaces | wraps around

High inclination in - x, y direction

Third surface added | more enclosed volume

THE KN T

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN OF A PAVILLION IN PLAÇA

JAUME I, BARCELONA

IaaC | Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia | Barcelona, Spain | 2024

Master in Advanced Architecture | Faculty | Rodrigo Aguirre

Project Team

Martina Caruso

Soundouss Aboussekhra

Role and tasks

Creative concept

Computational design

Graphic contents

Software used

Grasshopper

Rhinoceros

Keyshot

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

ASSEMBLED

Master in Advanced Architecture | Faculty | Andrea Graziano

Project Team

Martina Caruso

José Orlando Gonzaléz Gonzaléz

Role and tasks in the project development

Computational strategy | Machine learning | Design and coordination | 3D modeling | Graphic contents

Software used

Grasshopper | Rhinoceros | Adobe Illustrator

The whole assemblage iteration process starts with a base modular component, made of voxels, elemental parametric items, 3.6x3.6 m big. The base component shown is made of 5 voxels, for a total footprint of 64.8 m2.

2. CATALOGUE OF AGGREGATIVE PERMUTATIONS

The component is assigned with handles, that determine the way it aggregates with another component, throughout the iterative assemblage process. Each handle is defined by a cartesian oriented plane, applied to a face. In the case study, the data set has been built using a set of 3 handles location with 3 different rotations, per component; this way the data set of 18 possible assemblages for each component is built.

3. ASSEMBLAGE

For each set of three handles (with location and rotation fixed) the iterative process has been ran using Anemone plug-in in Grasshopper. The way the components aggregate can be controlled setting up aggregation rules like main directions, number of shared faces, selfshadowing patterns and whatever can be coded.

4. PROTOARCHITECTURE

The first milestone of the process is the protoarchitecture deriving from the assemblage. Each voxel can be replaced with construction elements.

EVALUATION CRITERIAS

5. EVALUATION CRITERIAS | ANALYSIS OF THE ASSEMBLAGES THROUGH PARAMETRIC INDEXES

CONTINUITY

OF

INTERSTITIAL VOIDS CRITERIA

6. ANALYSIS OF THE INTERSTITIAL VOIDS BETWEEN THE MODULES | THE VOID-ISLANDS

I found interesting to study the interstitial empty space between the modules of the assemblages; its shape and its qualities. In order to do that, an external reference volume was set, using a convex hull. All the voxels inside the convex hull have been classified either as matter or void. The void-voxels have been grouped into void-islands (groups of void-voxels continuosly connected).

7. ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE VOID-ISLANDS

The void-islands have been classified and grouped by floor, number of connections with the assemblage and by size.

In the image, lighter colours for smaller islands, darker for bigger ones.

8. TARGET SETTING: VOIDS-ISLANDS BIGGER THAN 200 SQ MTS

Once classified, a treshold of 200 sq meters and 3 connections with the assemblage has been set, in order to choose some islands among the others. This way, the biggest and more connected islands have been selected, in order to become outdoor shared spaces for the community.

9. ARCHITECTURAL TRANSLATION OF THE ANALYSIS | BIGGER VOID-ISLANDS BECOME ACCESSIBLE COMMON AREAS

In order to prove the validity of the process, a simple architectural meaning has been given to the target chosen: for each island selected one external door towards each component has been placed. Additionally, bycicle vertical racks have been placed on the external walls, as a common service.

GiuseppeCarusoLuciano

MelitoIrpino,Avellino,Italy|2022 ProjectTeam|MedaarchMartinaAmletoPicernoCeraso

PUBLIC COMPETITION | MUSEUM | 1ST PRIZE

Flumeri, Avellino, Italy | 2022

Project Team | Medaarch

Amleto Picerno Ceraso

Role and tasks in the project development

Design and coordination

Creative concept | 3D modeling | 2D technical drawings | Rendered elevations | Graphic schemes

Martina Caruso

Giuseppe Luciano

The new museum “La Casa del Giglio” aims to become a new cultural hub for the municipality of Flumeri. The building gently nestles into the slope of the site, unfolding in a spiral that leverages the varying levels to create squares and public spaces. Inside, the space will host both permanent and temporary exhibitions, a cafeteria, and workshops for wheat processing, a cornerstone activity of the local folklore. The facade is entirely made of bricks that rotate with changing orientation: the brick as an ancestral element of architecture, much like wheat is the origin of contemporary civilization.

03. ARCADIA

PUBLIC COMPETITION | PARK

Casagiove, Caserta, Italy | 2023

Project Team | Medaarch

Amleto Picerno Ceraso | Martina Caruso

Giuseppe Luciano | Rossana Alfieri | Tanja Zito

Role and tasks in the project development

Design and coordination

Creative concept | 3D modeling | Graphic schemes

Software used

Rhinoceros | AutoCAD | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Photoshop

Just Caserta, Park and contemporary axes prominent green

Just steps away from the Royal Palace of Caserta, the project for the Casagiove Park seeks to translate the ancient cardi decumani structure of the city into contemporary language. The two main axes converge into a node that creates a prominent area within the park, featuring green spaces, benches, and playgrounds.

04.

Cattolica, Rimini, Italy | 2021

Project Team | Medaarch Martina Caruso | Amleto Picerno Ceraso Gianpiero Picerno Ceraso | Roberta Truono

Luciano

Tanja Zito

800 meters of waterfront with an overall width of over 20 meters, designed to maintain a continuous visual effect that extends uninterrupted towards the horizon. This is achieved by replacing the current disjointed pedestrian, vehicular, and cycling platform with a unified platform with homogeneous characteristics in terms of materials and elevation. The project has three main goals: to enhance the historical and territorial elements of the urban context and landscape identity; to create social and sporting gathering opportunities throughout the year; to renaturalize the area and increase its resilience, thereby restoring a greater degree of naturalness.

FAB

MASTER THESIS PROJECT | FAB LAB AND COWORKING

Unical | University of Calabria | Cosenza, Italy | 2020

Master of Science in Building Engineering and Architecture

Faculty | Prof. Eng. Alessandro Campolongo, Eng. Valentina Guagliardi

Role and tasks in the project development

Analysis of the site | Analysis of the functional areas

Creative concept | 3D modeling | 2D drawings | Technological and structural design

Rendering | Graphic schemes

Software used

Rhinoceros | Archicad | Artlantis Studio | AutoCAD

Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Photoshop

The project for the Fab Lab arises from the desire to rehabilitate the Gergeri neighborhood of Cosenza. The new hub is positioned adjacent to the existing planetarium, drawing its main concept from it: a series of three simple volumes rotate around the preexisting building, defining the three primary functions of the system: Coworking, Fab Lab, and Meeting. The structure is entirely made of wood, featuring braced laminated wood beams and columns, and XLAM walls.

Coworking space

Wooden structural portals, rinforced with steel braces. Sections and elevetions. Technological details.

Shed roof and XLM panels. Sections and internal view. Technological details.

panels

ventilated façade

XLAM

brise - soleil

DESIGN

AN ELEPH ANT IN THE ROOM

MEDITERRANEA

3D PRINTED FURNITURE COLLECTION by Medaarch | 2022

EXPOSED IN

ICFF | New York City | 2024

Salone del Mobile | Milano Design Week | 2023

EDIT Napoli | Naples | 2021 | 2022

Maker Faire | Rome | 2021

Project Team

Amleto Picerno Ceraso

Martina Caruso

Stefano Bucci

Role and tasks in the project development

Design and coordination

Creative concept

3D modeling | Executive files for fabrication

Colour studies and production

Software used

Rhinoceros

PALERMO 02.

MEDITERRANEA

3D PRINTED FURNITURE COLLECTION by Medaarch | 2022

Project Team

Amleto Picerno Ceraso

Martina Caruso

Stefano Bucci

Role and tasks in the project development

Design and coordination

Creative concept

3D modeling | Executive files for fabrication

Colour studies and production

Software used Rhinoceros