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PORTFOLIO

Selected works 2016 - 2023

Martina Marone

LANGUAGES

Italian Mothertongue

English Proficient | TOEFL

Spanish A2 | Certified

Norwegian A1 | Beginner course

TECHNICAL SKILLS

AutoCAD

Revit BIM

Rhinoceros

Enscape

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Sketchup

Grasshopper

Vray

3DS Max

Spacemaker

Cinema 4D

Archicad

CERTIFICATES

BREEAM AP Advisor Professional (Design and Site) by BRE Academy | 07/2023

Rhino Level 2 Certification by McNeel Europe | 03/2021

Sustainable Building Design online study course by MIT | 08/2021

EXTRACURRICULAR

Volunteering

Member of Rotaract Club Verona Est (2014-Present);

Guest member of Rotaract Club The Hague International (2018-2020)

Recognitions

Finalist in Young Architects Competitions (YAC) |“Pinocchio’s Children Library”, 2018

Passions and sports

Art, Ceramics, Piano

Tennis, Padel, Golf, Climbing

EDUCATION

Delft, Netherlands

Sept. 2018 - July 2020

Birth Date

22.05.1996

Oslo, Norway

martinamarone96@gmail.com

+47 920 77 010 | +39 349 2283035

www.linkedin.com/in/martinamarone

Milan, Italy

Sept. 2015 - July 2018

EXPERIENCE

Oslo, Norway

March 2022 - Present

MSc in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Track Architecture | Language: English DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (TU DELFT)

BSc in Architectural Design | Language: English POLITECNICO DI MILANO

Verona, Italy

July 2021- Feb. 2022

Architect at NORDIC OFFICE OF ARCHITECTURE

Competition department: two competitions, one winning | Other departments: preliminary phases and feasibility studies

Architect at STUDIO APOSTOLI

Design of wellness and hospitality centers, and private villas | From pre-design to construction administration

Verona, Italy

May 2021- July 2021

Architecture Consultant at VIRTUAL LANDSCAPE STUDIO and GIOVANNI

CENNA ARCHITETTURA

Housing refurbishments, architecture and interior scale

Verona, Italy

March 2021- April 2021

Verona, Italy

July 2020-Dec. 2020

Architecture Consultant at POOL LANDSCAPE Design optimization of the regeneration project of the former Arsenal Franz Josef I | definitive phase

Internship: collaboration between STELLA PERETTI ARCHITETTI and STUDIO DOTT. ING. PENAZZI

Design of a villa in the mountain area of Lake Garda. Communication with the client

Verona, Italy

July 2019 - Sept. 2019

Internship at STUDIO DOTT. ING. PENAZZI

Design of a mountain villa. Initial phase of allotment, examination of the regulations, preliminary design

Milano, Italy

Oct. 2017 - Dec. 2017

Internship at S64 ARCHITETTI

Development of a design project of an interactive children library, competition phase

PROFESSIONAL WORKS

CONTENTS

ACADEMIC WORKS

MJØSA COURTS

AN EXTENSIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT THAT ACTIVATES A KEY AREA IN THE SOUTH OF NORWAY

COMPETITION WIN Nordic Office of Architecture

WHEN October 2022

WHERE Lillehammer, Norway

WHAT Urbanism, Architecture ROLE Junior Architect

KEY WORDS Urban development, urban rooms, housing, office, retail, identity of the place, waterfront

Understanding the site VS the context of Lillehammer

The site is located close to the city centre of Lillehammer. The two present opposing character both in scale and in use, but both are part of the everyday life of the citizens, as well as travellers that pass through the area.

The analysis highlights the dualism bewteen the two, leading to a goal of complementarism rather than anatagonism.

The site constraints

The site presents some determining constraints: it’s in fact a former waste land which causes the terrain to be contaminated, as well as flooding from underneath. Moreover, the proximity to the E6 highway causes noise pollution interfering with the site.

The proposal

The goal of the assignment is to create a new active neighbourhood in an area that is currently viewed as a necessary but undesireable big box shopping center. Due to the issues and constraints of the site, the main idea is to create a large podium parking, covered by a green mantle, over which spreads mostly housing organised within courtyards, as well as retail, offices and a hotel, blending in and creating a new active street in dialgoue with the main existing shopping center.

The flow strategy

The traffic solution

The pedestrian paths

The proposed layout

The second floor plan

The first floor plan

LILLE PALÉHAVEN

AN OFFICE BUILDING IN THE CORE OF OSLO THAT DIALOGUES WITH THE HISTORIC CONTEXT AND PROVIDES AN ACTIVE URBAN SPACE

COMPETITION

Nordic Office of Architecture

WHEN May 2022

WHERE Oslo, Norway

WHAT

Office and Commercial ROLE Junior Architect

KEY WORDS

Office, Plaza, Retail, Interiors, Bus for Train, Roof terrace, Existing/Historic VS New

Located in the very centre of Oslo, the proposal reimagines a high-end contemporary office building within a traditional quarter, exploring how the latter can offer modernised solutions and programmes, increasing its market value for stakeholders and elevating the surrounding urban context.

The aim of the design proposal is to activate the urban life throughout the day and in the evening. It is critical to propose a design that can easily be adapted to future market needs and users. The three lower levels are organised so that they can be connected according to tenant requirements, providing flexibility for meeting rooms, as well as restaurants, coworking spaces and retail.

The central building presents a roof terrace on the sixth floor, designed as a lush garden with multiple zones for recreation and events for tenants.

The building’s scale, proportions and materials relate to its neighbouring historical building, the Norwegian American Line. The facade is executed in light brick, with brass and anodized aluminium as a warm accent material.

The office interiors: layout possibilities for different tenants

The terrace with view to the fjord and to the Oslo Opera House

Retail at the ground floor: active spaces towards the plaza

ARS DISTRICT

A GREEN CENTERED LANDSCAPE DESIGN PROJECT OF THE FORMER ARSENALE COMPLEX IN VERONA

CURRENTLY IN CONSTRUCTION

Pool Landscape

WHEN April 2021 WHERE Verona, Italy

WHAT Landscape design ROLE

Architecture Consultant

KEY WORDS Landscape design, restoration, urban revitalization, courtyards

A VARIEGATED NEW URBAN REALM

The landscape is designed with the idea of creating one interconnected campus: paths in fact cover all the mainly green areas allowing to experience the different characters of the spaces. Moreover the whole plot was subjected to studies on which existing trees could be salvaged and which ones had to be replaced.

The main urban rooms that are crated consist of the three large couryards:

- the west courtyard provides leisure space for the students as well as potential for exhibitions

-the east courtyard becomes an open market that activates the neighbourhood, close to the main access to the area

- the central courtyard offers a densely shaded space with first and second size trees. This shaded space, paved in concrete with large vegetation islands, lends itself to the possibility of organizing exhibitions and events.

SECOND HAND ARCHITECTURE

MATERIAL REUSE FOR A SUSTAINABLE DESIGN STRATEGY

MSC THESIS PROJECT Graduation studio, TU Delft

WHEN July 2020 WHERE Brussels, Belgium

WHAT Urbanism, Architecture and Building Technology ROLE Individual Project

KEY WORDS

Bricolage, Material reuse, Second-hand construction, Reclaimed/Salvaged materials, Reusability, Circularity

Understanding and simulating an architectural design adopting second hand construction and reclaimed materials. The project consists of the transormation of a rear side of an urban block in Brussels, to a new pedestrian front.

The reason for undertaking this path

There is a limited amount of resources available in the material environment.

It is of extreme relevance to start learning now the possibilities of second-hand construction materials, the processes and limits to overcome, as well as the potentials. The value that the spolia assume is crucial within this process, related to monetary value, durability, and sustainability.

Understanding Brussels’ industrial imprint

Relationship between living and working

The belgian company Rotor as a guidance for material reuse

Rotor is a cooperative design practice that investigates material flows in the construction industry.

On a practical level Rotor handles the design and realization of architectural projects and acts as a supplier of reclaimed materials, as well as the conditioning and the sale of reclaimed construction elements.

Understand the deconstruction process

Request of permission to demolishing contractor to go on site

Going on site in the predemolishing phase

Inventory of what is available and what can be salvaged

Tests of extraction

Deconstruction

Sorting

Applications to the project

CREATING MY OWN STRATEGY: SOURCES OF REUSE

SITE DEMOLITIONS ONGOING DEMOLITIONS IN BRUSSELS

HARVEST MAP

“A building component that has just been dismantled is rarely ready for reuse. Most of the time, it requires a few additional operations such as cleaning, sorting, classifying, documenting...” Rotor researchers

Organization logistics and transportation to the warehouse

Research on the materials

Material conditioning and treating

Stock ready to deliver

Transportation to site

Installation

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THE URBAN STRATEGY

What to keep, what to demolish, what to trasform

The proposal: ground floor plan

new pedestrian street: from rear to new streetfront

AN INSIGHT: THE SPORTS HALL

The adoption of salvaged materials involves different layers of the building. Every choice undertaken required observant analysis, assumptions and careful study. In fact, very often, several constraits reveal the impossibility of reuse of the initially supposed materials.

Climbing gym

Skate Park

The salvaged structures from the site demolitions The facade: bricks and windows from Rue du Printemps 45

The program: reuse of materials from CityGate

PRINTEMPS-COURONNE

Climbing Gym

Entrance

Lounge space

Skate Park

Fitness room

Services Services and changing rooms

It is through the detailed sections that the meeting between the existing and the additions from reclaimed materials can be best identified.

This allowed the concretization of material reuse to another level, a more realistic one.

A stricking example regards the insulation: from the company Bouwstocks, salvaged mineral wool and hard insulation (UTherm) are adopted.

In order to guarantee the security of the performance, the calculations of the R value are estimated assuming the worst possible case, resulting into slightly thicker insulation compared to a new one.

Another example includes the technical floors, from the brad Incomex, a brand that reworks and resells exclusively raised floors.

Detail: longitudinal

Detail: transversal

longitudinal section

transversal section

New replacements

Reclaimed materials

Existing

05

NEW + TRADITIONAL HOUSING IN CHINA

THE CONTEMPORARIZATION OF TRADITIONAL LOW RISE TYPOLOGIES WITHIN CHINESE PUBLIC REALM

MSC2 COMPLEX PROJECTS Design and research studio TU Delft

WHEN Spring Quarter 2019

WHERE Shanghai, China

WHAT Urbanism and Architecture ROLE

Group Project: 2 members

KEY WORDS

Pedestrian street, residential typology, lilong, traditional city, quality living

THE RESEARCH

SHANGHAI’S

In China, streets have always been the very dominant public space and the social, economic and environmental backbone of city life. Some of these transition spaces have the potential to assume also collective public space quality.

The Waitan residential district acts as a buffer zone between Nanjing Roadthe most attractive pedestrian artery in Shanghai- and the Sozhou Creek.

UNDERSTAND THE BOUNDARIES

The area is confined within trafficated streets and the river

UNDERSTAND THE BLOCKS

The internal blocks are defined by the main arteries of the district

THE PRIVATE REALM: LIVING CONDITIONS IN THE NEW DEVELOPING CITY

The locally inhabited lilongs give the neighborhood a special character. However, studies and statistics demonstrate how this way of living doesn’t match with the modern standards.

Nowadays the inner city of Shanghai is exploding in density. This had great influence in the development of the city, in particular within the crowded residetial districts, but mostly regarding the way of living.

UNDERSTAND THE TISSUE

Although strict, the borders get blurred inside the blocks. A pattern of alleyways gives the district a special quality.

The site

What to demolish and what to keep

The fabric and the street hierarchy

URBAN SPRAWL AND THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC REALM

THE STRATEGY

Despite its very close proximity to the Nanjing pedestrian street, most of the internal alleyways of the block are the neighborhood’s main public spaces.

Thus, the direction that will be undertaken for this project will consist of the re-elaboration of the low-rise typology, adapting it to the contemporary needs both in terms of private and public space.

In order to maintain this built heritage of small alleyways, the redevelopment focuses on the connection and the creation of a hierarchy of streets.

RECAPTURE OF THE SPINE

AN ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS CREATED THROUGH THE RECOLLECTION OF THE IDENTITY OF THE PLACE

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 3 Politecnico di Milano

WHEN Fall Semester 2017 WHERE Milan, Italy

WHAT Architecture Design ROLE Group Project: 2 members

KEY WORDS

Military district, academy of arts, main spine, backbone, identity, relationship with the existing, axis

POLES OF INTEREST URBAN ROOMS

ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY PROPOSAL

The project area used to be part of the military district of Milan. Most of the buildings that belong to this urban block need to be preserved for their historcal relevance, with some modifications allowed.

The first approach consists of a study of the main axes of the area, related to the poles of interest. This brings to two main axes, in which the vertical one is established to be the base of the project, as a suggestion from the existing buildings.

Moreover, the geometrical composition of the block suggests the shape of some courtyards/ regular open spaces, in which the aim is to define more.

This will imply that these open spaces will become urban figures, completed with the other block, resulting in a unification between the project area and the existing one. Thus, the aim of the project is to take the spatial hints alluded by the site, and to use them as project tools, to be able to improve the space without denying the identity of the place.

Following these concepts, the disposition of the buildings is the next step, leading to a central spine, which is the core from which the whole system develops. The development of the plan has been focused on this most important part of the project. The heights and shapes of the buildings are chosen based on their relationship with the existing buildings. Moreover, there is a reasoning on the nature of the open spaces, on whether they are paved or green, and on what is their role in the whole system.

THE SPINE

The main backbone is developed over two storeys, in which the plan is bipartited between rooms, which are ateliers with mezzanines at the ground floor and classrooms at the first floor.

The distribution space, on a double height, is turned into an exhibition space that is spread all over the axis. The whole exhibition space is characterized by recesses that recall the shape of the exhisting windows, that sometimes become actual openings themselves to provide light, even if most of it is provided by a roof and a lateral ribbon window.

The treatment of the facades is a reflection of the internal situation. The main facade is divided in two portions: the first one is the defined geometrical facade that reflects the regularity of the interior, that correspond to the ateliers and the classrooms. The second portion is more disengaged due to the freedom of the space which consists of a study and lounge area, even if the dimension and position of the windows is obtained by the project and site geometry.

CONTEMPORARY LIVING

AN INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECT LOCATED NEAR THE CENTRE OF MILAN, IN WHICH THE MAIN DRIVING FORCE IS FLEXIBILITY AND SENSE OF COMMUNITY, ADAPTING TO NOWADAYS NEEDS.

BA INTERIOR DESIGN Politecnico di Milano

WHEN Spring Semester 2018

WHERE Milan, Italy

WHAT Interior Design ROLE Group Project: 4 members

KEY WORDS

Contemporary/shared living, clusters, fixed furniture, private vs public, flexibility

The goal the task was meant to face the housing issue in the interwar period, and the target was mainly represented by working-class families.

Since the last fifteen years, the condition of the neighbourhood has degenerated more and more: the social configuration has changed in time, gradually including a broader number of people living in poverty and of immigrants. The greatest issues involve now the increasing criminality, drug dealing, and especially squatting: in via Gola, upon 290 apartments, 114 are squatted.

These conditions of degradation now ask for maintainance: the neighbourhood might be sold to specialized private real estate companies in order to regenerate the area.

THE STRATEGY: DEFINITION OF THE NEW AGGREGATIONS

A1 is organized along a main longitudinal axis, which derives from the structural system of the existing building itself, based on three parallel bearing walls. The private units are all detached from each other and the space in between them is shared. The definition of such spaces is based on the use of very few elements which can be ordered hierarchically according to the level of importance:

1. Structural elements

2. Fixed furniture

3. Bathroom blocks

4. Movable partitions

A2 is organized at the end of the west wing of the building, and it is layed out on two levels: groundfloor and first floor. The intention is to create a relationship between the two levels, introducing doubleheight spaces, which became then a fifth compositional element to be added to the ones previously described in A1.

This configuration allows younger and older generations of the same family to keep on living together, providing support to the elderly members of the family while guaranteeing a good level of privacy to both elderly and adults.

The idea of creating common spaces among the dwellers of the aggregation is motivated by the attempt of promoting inter-generational coliving. Such a combination may provide advantages to both adults and elderly.

The bathrooms of the private units have been conceived as “boxes” resulting by the combination of polycarbonate walls and wood, like grès stonewares, as a wall finishing. The polycarbonate, on one side, is allowing the light to enter the bathrooms, and, thanks to the LED lights placed within the two panels, is making the space glow as a lantern in the night time. The walls covered by ceramic stonewares, on the other side,are providing privacy where it’s mostly needed, as well as helping to insulate the bathroom indoors.