Academic Resume 2019

During this Design Unit (3rd year of
Bachelor) the goal was to think about a
polyfunctional space on a river shore
nearby Florence. The requirements were
that had to be: ecosustainable, thought
with a self-construction method and
polyfunctional, as said previously.
The result was a structure completely
built in recycled pallets forming a volume
that interrupted the longitudinal axis of
the riversides, creating a multi-level
opening towards the inland, offering
various typology of structures within
itself. We can find here a bike-repair
workhop (the project in fact lies on an
existing bycicle lane), services and an
acquatic theater. The visual effect is of a
continuous volume but completely
permeable, thanks to the openings of the
pallets.
View from above
Birdview of the project
Sections and initial concept of the project

Night view of the project and roof plan

The Bachelor thesis project was about
the design of a building in an historic
context (Modica, Sicily) that worked both
as a chocolate museum and a covered
food market. The concept started from
the relationship between the notion of
concave/convex, strongly present in the
baroque sicilian architecture, and visual
cones.
Considering that the tutor of this thesis
was a structures Professor we focused
on the structural part of the project. The
result was a concrete artifact that
resembled the Pier Luigi Nervi’s airplane
hangars in a certain way. The building
resolves itself in a covered space, that
has a market function, and in a first floor
part that includes a museum designed
as a sensory path, and a terrace standing
in front of the sicilian panorama.
Above view in the urban context
Front night view
Concept and first floor plan

Left elevation and section
Day view of the covered plaza
Thematic room related to the smell sense

This project has been introduced in a
contest of ideas in collaboration with 2
colleagues of the PoliMi. The request
was to redesign of a plaza crossed by
tram lines in center to Rome, using as
only material the concrete. The concept
proposed a centripetal inversion
approach toward the area of our project,
to do this we started from a monolite of
concrete, moulded on the forms of the
site, that it is broken up cut by the flows
of the side streets. The varying section
cuts, dependent from the function
attributed to them, have been filled by a
"medication" of green spaces and
different paths, with different points of
stand and interest. The whole project has
been developed keeping in mind of the
principles of the Design for All, offering
therefore the maximum flexibility and
usability from all the typologies of users;
this has been possible thanks to the
designed ramp, which creates a
sensorial path that brings to the plan -4
and allows everybody to access the
underground exposition area.
Plans and different speed paths
Phisical model in his context
FAST
Volumes scheme and concept
CUTTING LINES
MEDIUM
SPIRAL DIGGING
SLOW
INCLUSIVE DESIGN

BAR | INTERNET POINT TRAM STOP ACCESSIBILITY FOR ALL
CONFERENCE
EXPOSITION SPACE
OFFICES
INFO POINT
TICKET
OFFICE
CLOAK ROOM
Functional scheme

The Design Unit 1 foresaw to operate in
an area of the Turinese context: Street
Plava to Mirafiori. The approach to be
used has been that to select an
architecture from a list of names chosen
by the Professor of the course and "to
operate as the study would operate in the
area." Our group chose Ensamble Studio.
Departing from this we have imagined
the pre-existing buildings of Street Plava
as artifacts to dismantle and
re-assemble, according to the design
necessities: "Re-ensambling Street
Plava" was the final title of the project
and the philosophy that we followed up
to the end.
The operation to dismantle parts of
building and to reassemble them on
others has mostly allowed us of
re-densify a part of project area and to
leave another part to the natural
environment, increasing the green
spaces avaiable to the inhabitants of the
area.On a design level we decided to
leave the ground floor free so that the
complex of buildings was completely
permeable and favoured the pedestrian
mobility in it. Despite the external form
has been unchanged (blocks of
prefabricated cls), inside the spaces
have been reconsidered to give more
dynamism to a predominantly residential
zoneresidential with new activities and
poles of aggregation.The approach didn't
concern only the design part: the graphic
part has also been taken care of as if the
studio had produced the drawings and
schemes, therefore a research of the
bibliography of projects of the Spanish
study was fundamental and has given a
strong input to the work of the group.
Urban / Landscape
1_Working on the existing
Fragmented spaces
Voids and hugeness
Space dispersion
4_Clean break
2_Ensambling
3_Project
Strong connections
Porosity
High density
5_Connection bridges
2 axes
Bringing back the nature
Design decisions made at urban level
Masterplan
Building elements
Working on the existing..
3 blocks
3 different heights
several functions
Disassembly / Assembly
densification
Assembly methods of the different parts of new construction

Intersectional behaviour between existing and new building parts, with different materials
Axonometry of the studied project part
Central view of the designed complex

Concept and total distribution system
1st floor plan of the block and courtyard scheme
To live means to also feel at home even
when you don't have a house. The fluidity
of the social bonds mirrors itself in the
necessity to reconsider the social
gathering places. It is for such motive
that also a temporary residence can be
an occasion to experiment the sense of
belonging in the contemporary times.
The project finds its departing point in a
gesture, in a vision that tries to engrave a
new path inside the De Sonnaz
ex-military block. The image that forms
the background of the project iter it's the
dragon, that acts as a sort of magnetic
field for ideas: it gathers them and it
distributes them articulating spaces,
colors, volumes and dimensions where
to live, of a possibility of living that
overcomes the usefullness to land on the
thresholds of new. What is new it is the
concept of the block, thanks to the
declination of the distributive elements in
different possible meanings: staircases,
ramps, elevators, slides, nets.
The extreme version of such concept is
translated in random movements that
produce different levels of privacy from
the architectural level, and on urban level
a trail of flakes that drives the user
toward the city infrastructures and
center.
Why wiRed? The flow of connections
produced by the action on the block
produces a series of movements in
which each prepares the conditions for
that following. This connection of spaces
departs in the only point of access, the
iconic element of entrance that ties city
and the block.
View from the main entrance

Longitudinal section of the block
View of one of the internal distribution systems
Privacy levels scheme

Split axonometry of the block