Portfolio

WORK PORTFOLIO

2020 - 2023

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BACKGROUND

HIGHER EDUCATION

2022 - 2023

SKILLS

2020 - 2022

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Toulouse

Erasmus programme

Politecnico di Milano

Architectural design

Autocad

ArchiCAD

Rhinoceros

Twinmotion

Artlantis

Sketch-up

QGIS

Illustrator

InDesign

Photoshop

LANGUAGE

English

Tagalog

Italian

French

COMPETITION WORKS

La cerise

Project Promotor: TerraViva Competition

Site Location: Toulouse, France

Type: Co-working space design

Collaborator: Katharina Haas, Rahel Fitzthum

The chosen site is currently a café, with a large number of clients during weekend and has its own coffee shop - less busy - where they sell their coffee products, hold their workshop, and work as their office. The main idea is to merge this two spaces, preserving their current functions, and designing new space for coworking.

The main idea is to merge the existing functions by creating a breakthrough to create a unified space for all uses. By putting the café bar as the centered element it created connectivity and freed more space to the café which gave an opportunity to have a second mezzanine for the coworking that is accessed from the existing one.

The shop area kept all its functions and added new space for coworking. The plan is extended to a current garage and transformed for the workers’ permanent office and storage this allows the transformation of the current office into a flexible working space.

Seperated café room for bigger groups

Façade sketch

Movable tables

Nigeria: Home After Crisis

Project Promotor: International Organization for Migration

Site Location: Adamawa, Nigeria

Type: Residential

Collaborator: Rahel Fitzthum

There are many architectures that belong to our daily life. Nevertheless, there are few places that we are willing to call home.”

Home is the place of memories, affections and identity. People’s life is an act of connection and estrangement from the place called “home.” Any evolution, emancipation or nomadism requires a place to depart and to return to. Only by going right to the heart of the emotional and anthropological meaning of home, it is possible to picture the tragedy of losing it or have a glimpse of the condition of people who are affected by humanitarian crises like conflict or disasters.

The goal is to design a low-cost, incremental, modular and upgradable housing solution for populations disrupted by violence in rural areas of North-East Nigeria.

In one of the key contexts of the contemporary housing emergency, young designers are called upon to design a place that can alleviate suffering and offer a welcoming environment where they can feel safe and start their lives over. A place they can call “home”. This competition has significant social impacts and aims to consolidate the role of architecture as a discipline fostering rights and social equity, meeting fundamental human needs not just in terms of efficiency but also ensuring quality ideas and aesthetic ambition. Indeed, humans, in all conditions and contexts, deserve dignity and beauty.

- cit YAC

For the climate concept of the project, we have provided various devices to meet the diverse climatic conditions. A roof overhang of 1.20m, which results from our construction grid, protects mud walls and interior spaces from incoming rain and provides generous shade. Raising the floor slab by 50cm results in a shaded space under the building, which provides a supply of cool air by means of floor vents. Openings in the ceiling lead to the exhaust of warm air. The air circulation is supported by perforated walls and lamellar sunshades. By means of greenery in and around the properties, the houses can be additionally protected from sandy winds, if necessary.

Metal

Standard house type plan

1. Covered outdoor space

2. Living / Dining area

3. Rain water storage

4. Shower / Washing room

5. Covered outdoor kitchen

6. Storage / Single bedroom

7. Double bedrooms

8. Composit toilet

9. Home lot

The standard house plot showcases flexibility through time, thanks to its design where the living and the night area seperated which makes it easier for expansion through years.

Rain storage

The rain storage allows the dwellers to use the rain water, thanks to its natural purifier (Sand, Gravel, Charcoal,Sand Gravel). The rain water and the clean water have a well an over flow system for the water

The composite toilet produces natural fertilizer which can be used for agriculture. Thanks to this natural composing process and ventilation chimney, it can be located in a permanent location.

rocket stove saves fuel, wood and speeds up the cooking time.

Expansion plan

Small family plot

Multigeneration family plot

Polygamous family plot

Extended family plot

Composite toilet Rocket stove

The

East Façade

South Façade

West Façade

North Façade

It can be noticed here that the bedroom have a gap on the left which helps with the natural ventilation. It can be seen as well that the corridor has openings for the air circulation and lighting.

This section passes through the corridor of the night area, the rooms and until the water storage system. The roof system is as well noticeable that it changes for its slope. In the corridor, it can be noticed that the roof is in flat metal sheet and the openings in the corridor serves for the air circulation while in the bedroom area the ceiling is curved which helps for the air circulation.

This section showcases the living area and the kitchen which is in the ground level. The idea is to have a seperation between the living area and the services which provides the hygiene of both spaces.

ACADEMIC WORKS

Médiathèque

Site Location: Rabastens, France

Type: Public building

Collaborator: Rahel Fitzthum

As far as the programme is concerned, solving a functional organisation problem is not the architect’s prerogative; a simple computer programme would be capable of providing the best solution from this point of view. Functional organisation is a necessary but not sufficient condition.

It only takes into account the machine, not the living being. So you need to rewrite this programme. In a way, transcend it to include it in your design process as a foundation to find the spirit, to find what the thing entrusted to you wants to be.

This shift in point of view is essential.

The aim of this project is to design a media library that serves as a centre for social exchange of the community, where people have pleasure to spend time learning or discovering new things.

The starting point of this design is to make use of the site to build an opening between the village and the Tarn River.

Wind circulation is particularly important in the designed building. At night, cooling is provided by opening windows in the façade and roof. Above the atrium, a glass roof is oriented in such a way that circulation is targeted and the air heated during the day is drawn out.During the day, a Canadian well provides cooling. Air is drawn in from the south of the site and transported through the earth to the building. The cooled air is then distributed throughout the building by fans. The vegetation in the entrance hall also ensures constant air exchange.

Wooden panels placed in front of the windows are another method of cooling the building. They are horizontal to the south and vertical to the east and west. The glazed roof of the atrium is made up of translucent glass panels to create a luminous atmosphere while at the same time providing protection from direct sunlight. To the south and west, a recess in the façade with a covered terrace provides shade.

The roof, with its extensive vegetation, also plays a role, not only improving insulation, but also cooling the environment by retaining rainwater.

Maison de ville

Site Location: Rabastens, France

Type: Housing

Collaborator: Valeria Totaro

Rabastens is a medieval village located in the Southern France between Toulouse and Albi, known for its water heritage and its river Tarn.

The project site is located in a vacant lot between the narrow road of the rue des Abreuvoirs and the esplanade that holds the parking Quai de la Liberation which plays an important role with its village connection to the river Tarn. Due to its particular landscape linked to its water heritage, one of the main challenges on this project is its topography.

The goal is to design village houses which respects the heritage of its neighbourhood. As medieval village, the main materials used are wood and foraine brick which is typically from the region.

The link between the new site and the town is created by a path on the esplanade that gives access to the majority of the buildings facing the town centre and south, while the other buildings, located at a lower level, have their access inside the plot.

If you look at the plan of the whole area, you can see that, with the exception of the area dedicated to parking, the plot is built right up to the boundaries. This highlights the boundary of Rue des Abreuvoirs at the bottom and the open space of the esplanade at the top.

Typology I

Typology II

Floor level +0

Floor level -1

Floor level +1

Floor level +0

The initial design process is to involve the topography in the project. Thus, two house typologies were proposed. Typology I is facing the Quai de la Liberation and composed by two-bedrooms and four-bedrooms unit, while typology II highlights the plot liit in the rue des Abreuvoirs which is characterized by its lowered position. The particularity in this typology is that the bedrooms are located in the floor level -1 and the living is in the ground floor, a design resulted from its topography.

Olympic Village

Site Location: Porta Romana railway, MI, Italy

Type:

Mixed-use

Collaborator: Kamelia Bozushka, Laura Trobec

The project is located in developping area of the ex-railway of Porta Romana Milan, Italy. The goal is to design housing units for Winter Olympics 2026 which later on will be used as student housing.

The connectivity of the area, the height and shape of the surrounding buildings were taken into consideration on they can affect the design process.

As an initial design process, the service areas were placed in the core of the building and the rest where put in more communicative and open spaces around the it.

The construction is based from these two cores which ensure the main stability of the building by defying torsion and horizontal forces. On the ground and first floor are complemented by a system of pillars and a system of walls on the other floors.

Eight construction lines are repeating on all the floor levels, thus makes it easier to transfer all vertical forces to the ground. The construction system is made entirely of reinforced concrete, which allows larger spans and, consequently, smaller dimensions of columns, which in this case 30x60cm.

Natural ventilation

Warm air

Cool air

Satellite

Floor heating

Grey water reservoir

Grey water used to water green area

Structural core Services: kitchen, connectivity and storages

Green roof - floor level +2

Floor level +4; +5; +6

Heat generator - inner part

Heat saver

Heat generator - outer part

Technical scheme

Shared bedroom + kitchen

x 7.7m

Studio 6m x 3.5m

Green area - floor level +0

Elevator

Representative stairs

Stairs

Floor level +2; +3

Main materials

- glass + inside cutains

- concrete slabs

- concrete walls + equitone covering

Building characteristic

Floor level +1

Shared bedroom 6m x 7.7m 46.2sqm

Single room 6m x 3.5m 22.2sqm

Shared bedroom 6m x 7.7m 46.2sqm

Single room 6m x 3.5m

Room-type distribution

Shock element

Double plaster boards

Brick wall

ah60! Tripple glazed sliding windows

Optional bidé / space for disable

Shared room

Shared room with kitchen

Single room

Studio

Room view

Core view

School of the future

Site Location: via Massaua 5, MI, Italy

Type: Educational

Collaborator: Kamelia Bozushka, Anna Giulia Faccin

The project challenge is to design an elementary school which is themed as ‘School of the Future’. The goal is to build a learning centre where children are encouraged to and feel excited to go to everyday and place can serve its community when school hours are over. Safety is as well essential.

The site is located in a busy street of via Massaua 5, Milan, Italy, in a current elementary school.

The main goal of the design process is to create a form which outstands from its surroundings. Shared spaces and pathways from the two metro lines were as well considered for the safety and connectivity of the school area.

The organic shape of the school broke the system of its neighbourhood which gives it more character and an infinite form. Different floor levels were as well designed to have various effects on the four façades. Futhermore, it has radial structural system of pillars which make its interior more playful.

SECTION C-C C

SECTION C-C C

SECTION D-D

SECTION A-A

SECTION B-B

SECTION A-A

SECTION B-B

North-West Façade

South-East Façade

West-North Façade

East-South Façade