Alessia Chiambretto MSc Eng. Arch.
alessia.chiambretto@gmail.com +39 3381799351 WEB alcalinearchitecture.com ISSUU issuu.com/alessiachiambretto LINKEDIN arkalessiachiambretto
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Le Corbusier, 1948.
The occupation of space is the first proof of existence.
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Profile Selected projects & overviews BoxTown - design and branding Sky Rocks DeafSpace, Individuality + Integration Himmelbyen, Ørestad Syd Hatleholen Church C9-apartments Reality & Perception of green spaces “Arkitekture som møbel;Learning from Utzon” A Place to Ascend
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Professional Experience January 2018 - present
Freelancer for UpWork Architect & Graphic Designer Architecture advice and design, photo-editing, logos banners, e-books March 2017 - May 2018
Alca Line Architecture, Aalborg, DK Founding Partner, Architect, Project Manager Architecture advice and design, administration, marketing, documents April 2017
Aalborg University, Aalborg, DK Lecturer Lecture about the BoxTown project, developed by Alca Line Architetcure and Cloud City November 2016 - April 2017
name & last name address phone nr e-mail nationality date of birth
Alessia Chiambretto Via Servais 140/11, 10146 Torino +39 338 17 99 351 alessia.chiambretto@gmail.com Italian 25 May 1991
Hello! My name is Alessia, I grow up in Torino, where I fall in love for the silent yet loud refinement of this city. I start studying architecture at the Politecnico of Torino where, thanks to the extremely international environment, I discover the variety of ways space can be understood and intended. I continue my journey in Denmark: here I get in contact with its raw, simple and honest architecture, just like the climate! During these years I elaborate on themes of sustainability, construction honesty and tectonics. Pushed by the attitude of challenging myself, of learning and sharing I start a small architecture studio with a colleague, with whom I develop a project in collaboration with Cloud City. The end of the Danish adventure, and missing the sun, bring me back to Torino, ready to start new adventures! 4
JK Innovation, Aalborg, DK Architect, Project Manager Architecture advice and design, documents, relationships with interested parts August 2015 - December 2015
Ă…rstiderne Arkitekter, Copenhagen, DK Project Architect (internship) Architectural design, graphics February 2015 - May 2015
Utzon Center, Aalborg, DK Exhibition Architect (volunteering) Design and exhibition set up, selection of works to be exposed October 2010 - April 2013
Just s.r.l., Torino, IT Sales consultant Consultant, rsales manager, costumer care, marketing
January 2013 - April 2013
Torpego Architetti, Torino, IT Architect (internship) Design, survey, digitalization of paper documents
Academic education September 2014 - June 2016
MSc in Technology (Architecture) | MSc Arch. Eng. Architecture & Design, Aalborg University September 2013 - July 2014
MSc Architettura, Costruzione e CittĂ | Politecnico di Torino
attending
October 2010 - September 2013
BSc in Architecture and Urban Planning | BSc Arch. Interfaculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Torino September 2005 - July 2010
High School Diploma, scientific education Liceo Scientifico Carlo Cattaneo, Torino August 2008 - June 2009
American High School Diploma Moss High School, Holdenville, Oklahoma
Certifications
Tools
July 2018
Microsoft Office
NLP Practitioner NLP Italy Coaching School
Adobe Photoshop
Courses & Workshops
Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign AutoCad 2D, 3D
March 2018 - May 2018
Revit Architecture
Revit Architecture Proficiency User 60 h Revit BIM course | Autodesk Certified
Rhinocerous
July 2015
Karamba
“Sewing a small town”, Gassino (TO), IT Politecnico di Torino and APAC Summer School October 2014
“Reciprocal Structures”, Aalborg, DK Aalborg University Workshop April 2012
Digital Week, Torino, IT Politecnico di Torino and Salford University
Prizes Febbruary 2017
Finalist for the Competition Observatory Houses Young Architects Competitions May 2015
Grasshopper SketchUp Be10 BSim Pachyderm Acoustics Robot Autodesk
Personal & professional qualities Great resources managing skills Great attitude in streeful environment Analysis & problem-solving skills Synthesis skills
A Place to Ascend exposed at Utzon Center Exhibition “Architecture søm Mobel, Learning from Utzon”
Habit (and attitude) to get out of the comfort zone
April 2013
onist ENGJ)
Honourable Mention for the Competition of Urban Furniture for Cuneo City Center, IT BEST Architecture Competition
Publications
Leadrship skills (Myers Bryggs 16 personalities test: ProtagIndipendent, but also team player Ability of questioning myself
Languages
December 2017
Italian
Mothertoungue
ISBN: 9788891762900 Ippolito, A.M. 2017. Pensieri di paesaggio. Un itinerario lungo 20 anni. Paesaggi. BoxTown as case study pp. 30-35
English
Advanced C1/C2
Spanish
Average B2
Danish
Average B1
Russian
Basic A1
23/11/2017
Qureshi, M. Mig og Aalborg (newspaper) “Aalborgs nye Food-market: BoxTown melder ny december-dato ud” 09/12/2018
Anderson, M.K. TV2 NORD “Abning af BoxTown: Vil gore nordjyderne mere okologiske”
Things I Enjoy
July 2017
Bologna, A. (a cura di). 2017. Spazio. Tempo. Utopia. Scritti e progetti per Sewing a small town, 2015-2016. Vol I. Milano, FrancoAngeli Editore.
VOLLEYBALL
KICK BOXING
READING
COOKING
ROCK’N’ROLL
SINGING
COFFEE & THE
TRAVELLING
Giugno 2017
Knudsen,S.H. KANT no. 4 (architecture journal). Pp. 8-9. “Lokale fodevarer i ny containerby”
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Selected Projects
Experience Market | Built 2017 | Aalborg, DK
Sky Rocks
Albergo Diffuso | Ideas Competition 2017 | Roccascalegna (CH), IT
Urban Planning
Architecture
BoxTown
Urban requalification strategies | Academic
2015 | Gassino (TO), IT
Cusco Sun City
Residential, commercial| Academic 2014 | Cusco, PE
Nordic
From vacant place to good space
DeafSpace
Re-Thinking Carmagnola
Himmelbyen, Ørestad Syd Residential & Commercial | Construction 2015 | Copenhagen, DK
Q.B.
Urban requalification | Bachelor Thesis 2013 | Los Angeles, USA
Renovation | Built 2017 | Torino, IT
University Campus | Final Thesis 2016 | Washington DC, USA
Residential, commercial| Academic 2013 | Carmagnola (TO), IT
Interior Design
Teglholmen B Residential | Construction 2015 | Copenhagen, DK
Renovation| Proposal 2017 | Aalborg, DK “Arkitekture som møbel” Exhibition setting | Built 2015 | Aalborg, DK
Climate-based-design
Concerts’ room
ZEB Renovation
Dora
Hatleholen Church
A place to ascend
Residential | Academic 2015 | Aalborg, DK
Renovation | Academic 2014 | Torino, IT
Renovation | Built 2013 | Torino, IT
Renovation | Academic 2015 | Aarhus, DK
Garden Pavillion
Furniture
Place of Worship | Academic 2014 | Hatlehol, NO
Furnitecture| Built 2014 | Aalborg, DK
Swing Bench Urban Furniture | Ideas Competition 2013 | Cuneo, IT
Poirino Church
Burr App
C9-apartments
Residential | Academic 2012 | Torino, IT Legenda
In portfolio Upon request or on web-site
Heritage
Reciprocal Structure | Built 2014 | Hune, DK
Roof Renovation | Academic 2013 | Poirino (TO), IT
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Reality&Perception of Green Spaces
Landscape & History| Ideas Competition 2016 | Dojingyu, CN Past-Forward, Living in the Park Residential, commercial | Academic 2011 | Venaria Reale (TO), IT
Architectural, Environmental & Historical Survey
Survey | Academic 2011 | Torino, IT
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2012
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2016
Freelancing
Alca Line Architecture
Master Degree
Internship
Volunteering at Museum
Bachelor Degree
Internship
Places Overview
Time-line
2018
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BoxTown experience market Architecture 8
BoxTown is a prototype of a punctual and temporary installation, part of a research project which objective is to define a model for the creation of movement of people in interstitial and unused spaces and in areas under development by proposing concepts with a cultural weight. In this case, Box Town is just next to the Cloud City construction site with the objective of reproposing its concept of social sustainability and of informing the public of the evolution on the project itself, trying to develop a sense of ownership. Box Town becomes, therefore, a cultural lab and a place of exchange, where creativity and digital experiences inform the users on a sustainable attitude. Another goal of Box Town is the one of creating a circular local economy and to improve the awareness on the provenience of food.
Project Type commission Client Martin Nielsen, CloudCity Function commercial, education and leisure Gross Area 285 sqm Place Aalborg, Denmark Year 2017 Project Status built Work Team Alessia Chiambretto, Camilla Orlandi (Alca Line Architecture) Personal Tasks Concept definition, design, documents, project managing, building site supervision, branding and communication
Production
Informed Consumption
L’APPROCCIO SOSTENIBILE DI BOX TOWN
Consumption Recycle’s Products
Recycle BoxTown
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THE BRANDING One of the main challenges of this project has been the absence of funds. So, if the design process hasn’t been very complex, the need of creating from the very beginning a strong identity for Box Town has been a great concern. Much before the existence of a definitive project, we have worked with the client at the creation of a branding line and a marketing strategy to collect funds. The experience has been extremely instructive, especially in understanding which events were capturing the most the target groups.
BoxTown
Experience Market
aalborg local martket with global taste BoxTown
www.boxtown.dk
Local farms produce goods
We pick up the products...
Why local products? regional pride! It comes from nordjylland farms to your table It’s sustainable: less resources used, less soil erosion, more biodiversity, less waste... it gives you high-quality products for a fair price, and everybody wins!
...and bring them to BoxTown
it’s easily accessible now: here in boxtown
Here we sell the products in our markets
Why a container design? the containers we are using have travelled the world: they are all second hand shipping containers are the most visible waste caused by transportation of goods
Or we use them to cook delicious meals
To know more about... our farmers and their farms
to remeber the industrial soul of the place: the akvavit faktory in its old and new look they are modular, easily dismantable, easy to move, highly available and they need few construction resources
...to be enjoyed!
our collaborations and how we did it sustainability and how to do it our events, food offers or future project visit BoxTown and follow us on social media!
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And waste is responsibly recicled!
BoxTown
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Sky Rocks Architecture 12
The Observatory Houses competition brief required for this area the creation of a diffuse hotel and the introduction in the Rocca (the castle) of a series of services, with the final aim of restoring this area as a touristic attraction, both for historical and natural landscape. Our approach to the project is phenomenological: based on the creation of layered perspectives as a driver for the design of the spaces. The units’ design mimics a telescope, both in shape, both in the idea of having a close opaque envelope, directing over a glazed transparent opening. This serves in creating different kind of views, by working on section, and using thermal mass to our advantage, as well as increasing daylight, being the open facades north-oriented. The masterplan is thought in a very pragmatic way, so that the kind of accessibility changes according the type of residence: from the family villa near the parking and with an elevator to the cabins for backpackers, accessible only through dirt roads into the forest.
Project Type ideas competition Client // Function diffuse hotel and sky lounge Gross Area 1200 sqm Place Roccascalegna, Italy Year 2017 Project Status proposal Work Team Alessia Chiambretto, Camilla Orlandi (Alca Line Architecture) Personal Tasks Concept definition, design, documents, 2D drawings, presentation
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Deaf Space
Individuality + Integration An extension of Gallaudet University, Washington DC
Architecture
The competition brief asked for the design of the new extension of Gallaudet University, giving instructions about the new functions to be introduced in the area. Our goal was to give this area an identity within its context. The acquisition of a character will allow the integration of the area within the surroundings, therefore dissolving the campus edge, and fulfilling also the Washington DC and the Campus Development Plan. To achieve so, the design is treated in such a way to inform and ease the interaction in the built environment among the deaf and hearing societies. We created an extensive set of guidelines and design criteria regarding mobility, relationship among people and built environment, light and visual stress and acoustics and background noise. These parameters allowed us to create a comprehensive and informed design process during which every aspect could be constantly tested against the chosen criteria. Creation of volume along the Sixth Street
Project Type academic/final thesis Client Gallaudet University Function Impaired-hearing-people university campus Gross Area 15800 sqm Place Washington DC, USA Year 2016 Project Status proposal Work Team Alessia Chiambretto, Asta Krongborg Trillinsgaard Tutors Arch. Isak Worre Foged, Ing. Søren Madsen Personal Tasks Research, methodology, site and thematic analysis, concept definition, design, 2D drawings, structure dimensioning, performance analysis, construction details, presentation
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Connection to campus
Creation visual axes and distribution
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Using the site characteristics
*Images from DeafSpace Design Criteria by Hansel Bauman. SENSORY REACH
360 degree audiotory senory reach
180 degree Visual senory reach
How to ease social intergration and interaction of Deaf people in the built environment and how to arise awareness now and in the future, when creating architecture?
SPACE AND PROXIMITY
MOBILITY AND PROXIMITY
LIGHT AND COLOR
ACOUSTICS
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Elevation along Sixth street.
Masterplan
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Retail
University Parcel
Parking House
Student Dormitories
Groundfloor Plan
Cafeteria
Gateway Core
Gateway Corridor
Teaching & Meeting Facilities
Visitors’ Center
Campus retail
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Trasversal Section University Parcel
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03 - Campus Entrance 18
02 - Info Point and Exhibition Area
04 - Sixth Stree Entrance
06 - Cafeteria View
05 - Internal Plaza
SPACE AWARENESS Hearing-impaired-people do not experience the world in a total visual way. This means it could create a great discomfort if a design would propose only the visual way of experiencing the spaces. We have, therefore, focused on using architecture to create awareness of one surroundings. This has been done by working on leading users toward a very intuitive understanding of the built space. An example, among many, is putting together two kinds of floors with very different characteristics, as a concrete and wooden floor, in order to use the intrinsic characteristics of the material to inform about the nature of the area the user is walking on. Moreover, to enhance the behavior of the pavement, we have studied a floor section which would create more vibration then the norm. This kind of floor would be use in areas where there is the need of higher spatial awareness. The simple repetition and fluent height inclination of the glue laminated frames leads the attention to the core of the building from the plaza and also provides a fluent transition of light, from the bright natural light to the interior conditions.
Deaf Space, Individuality + Integration
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Himmelbyen, Ørestad Syd Architecture - Aarstiderne Arkitekter Internship
The project consists of a multi-functional building, located in Ørestad, Copenhagen. The building program consists of two main parts, which are involving different stakeholders: the lower volume hosting commercial functions surmounted by a “town”. The program subdivision also tells something about the economic management of the building. In fact the whole building construction will be paid by the non-residential functions of the building, while selling the apartments will represent the income for the client. The design concept is based on the idea of a solid massive volume which is excavated, to show a softer inner core. This is translated to the building thought the careful use of materials and architectural elements. In fact the lower and public part of the building is massive and shows a big scale, typical of high rise. The town has, instead, a warmer character, with a scale closed to human.
Project Type competition Client NREP Function residential and commercial Gross Area 26600 sqm Place Copenhagen, Denmark Year 2015 Project Status under construction Work Team Aarstiderne Arkitekter Personal Tasks Second floor and residential design, facade design, 2D and 3D drawings, presentation
This is one of the most complex project the office has worked on, both for the complexity of the volumes, both for the need to start from the very beginning a process of integrated design.
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Hatleholen Church Architecture
The goal of the project is to create a design with tectonic quality, ensuring the integration among form,materials, structure and construction. To achieve so, structural and acoustics aspects have been taken into consideration from the first phases of the project This incorporation of tectonic aspects has been done through the use of parametric tools for designing and performance analysis, for both structure and acoustics matters.
Project Type academic Client // Function place of worship Gross Area 1000 sqm Place Hatlehol, Norway Year 2014 Project Status proposal Work Team Alessia Chiambretto, Asta Kronborg Trillingsgaard, Christian Lundgaard Pedersen, Jacob Storgaard Pedersen, Line Ryltoft Zohnesen Personal Tasks Concept definition, design, 2D drawings, structural analhysis and performance analysis, presentation
Functions distribution
Sacred places espression
Service areas espression
Common entrance for the complex
Internal courtyard and visual access
From transition space to meeting place
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Project
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Tectonic Design: Structure and Construction
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Elevation North/East Location
Date
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Hatleholen, Norway
17/12-2014
1:200
Education
University
Semester
Architecture and Design
Aalborg University
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C9-apartments Architecture
The project brief was very detailed: to build nine apartments for nine families, with specific needs. Moreover, to improve the quality of private living spaces and to follow the sustainable attitude of the inhabitants, the building was required to have some common spaces for services as laudry, workshops etc. Being an area dentsely built, the solar irradiation, the level of noise and natural ventilation were not the best. by using a second-skin-facade we tried to increase the conditions for indoor comfort.
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Project Type academic Client // Function residential, co-housing Gross Area 1000 sqm Place Torino, Italy Year 2012 Project Status proposal Work Team Alessia Chiambretto, Taraneh Tafakkori, Margot Robin, Suhail Nseir Personal Tasks Concept definition, design, 2D drawings, double skin facade design, presentation
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Reality & Perception of green spaces Urban Planning
This project is to be seen within the frame of requalification intervention proposals set by the architecture school “Sewing a small town� organized from APAC and Politecnico di Torino in collaboration with many local and international professionals to sensitize toward the decay of satellites towns around Torino. This project is part of the macro-group of urban requalification strategies, which approaches the problem through various aspects: flows & mobility, historical heritage, green areas and urban links. In this case, the proposed strategies analyze green areas and use them in order to propose a requalification of the town. A step forward is done during the site analysis introducing the idea of perception of green spaces and how these contribute to the general wellbeing of the town users. One of the problems of urban requalification projects is the length of actual implementation and, therefore, the weight on society and economy. In order to avoid this, we have tried to involve the citizens in the design process through questionnaires and debates, so that to create a common sense of ownership.
Sum up environmental (green, yellow), historical (brown) and infrastructure(blue, blak) analysis, carried out during workshop
Project Type academic Client // Function urban requalification Gross Area 20.5 sqkm Place Gassino, Italy Year 2015 Project Status proposal Work Team Alessia Chiambretto, Francescsa Micco,Marta Fiou Personal Tasks Analysis, research, concept definition and stretegies definition,mapping
Legenda: Visual Axes Gardens Agriculture Public Green Areas Decorative Green Areas Visually Qualitative Places
Towards Po River
Towards market and public services
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Towards Basilica di Superga
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Long term interventions proposals worked as a unicum with all the other macro-issues and aimed at involving a greater structure of the urban network connected to Torino. Medium term interventions aimed instead at requalification interventions within the central area of Gassino, but proposing already a visual unification toward Torino and other surrounding cities: the idea is to restore the view that was created between the 5 main domes of Torino’s surroundings (Gassino being one of them). Short term interventions consisted in simple acts of requalification by the insertion of green and art, which could eventually even carried out by the community itself through workshops and limited professional advice.
Reality & Perception of Green Spaces
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Arkitekture som møbel Learning from Utzon
The exhibition consisted in a selection of Jørn Utzon
Interior Design
works, from sketches, to pictures, to models, which would explain the ideas of gesture and principle and then show how these were unified into the creation of a building. Among the selected projects there were the Sydney Opera House, Can Lis, Fredensborg Husene, Utsep Furniture. In virtue of presenting the concepts of gesture and principle, the ten best students’ ‘furnitecture’ pieces, created during a tectonic workshop, have been placed in the exhibition. In virtue of its direct relation to the human scale, furniture offers tectonic seeds of learning about the design of architecture on a larger scale, both aesthetically and
Project Type volunteering Client Utzon Center Function exhibition Gross Area 200 sqm Place Aalborg, Denmark Year 2015 Project Status built Work Team Alessia Chiambretto, Calina Manisor, Inger Hohlweg, Marie Frier Hvejsel, Lasse Andersson Personal Tasks Concept definition, design, economy, realization
technically. The exhibition “Architecture as Furniture - Learning from Utzon” explores this dual learning potential experimented by architecture / engineering students of the Master Program of Architecture and Design in Aalborg University. With the objective of creating a representation of the theme “place to ascend”, the students have analyzed in a very peculiar way its principle and gesture, in order to create an object which would represent both intrinsically.
Gesture - Jørn Utzon
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Principle - Jørn Utzon
Arkitekture som møbel. Learning from Utzon
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Arkitekture som møbel. Learning from Utzon
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A place to ascend Furniture
The workshop brief was to exploit the tectonic quality of plywood with the objective of creating an object illustrating the theme: ‘Place to ascend’. This exercise led me to practice on the creation of tectonic quality, therefore on the analysis and creation of a gesture and a principle, then unified in the details and the construction. Extremely useful has been the understanding of the limits of material in practical terms. At the end of a in-house competition, the piece I have worked on has been selected to be exposed at the Utzon Center.
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Tool
Project Type academic Client // Function furnitecture Gross Area 1.5 sqm Place Aalborg, Denmark Year 2014 Project Status built Work Team Alessia Chiambretto, Asta Krongborg Trillinsgaard, Line Ryltoft Zohnesen, Maria Smirnova Personal Tasks Concept definition, design, realization
Structural Stability
Firmness and easy assembling and disassembling
A place to ascend
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I like to literally touch by hand the limits of materials.
A chat with Bjarke Ingels.
Lecture at Aalborg University about Box Town.
Award ceremony for the Swing Bench competition.
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Award ceremony for the Observatory Houses competition.
Zumthor, Oberli-Turner and Schelbert, 2006
“It is not the reality of theories detached from things, it is the reality of the concrete building assignment relating to the act or state of dwelling that interests me and upon which I wish to concentrate my imaginative faculties. It is the reality of building materials, stone, cloth, steel, leather‌ and the reality of the structures I use to construct the building whose properties I wish to penetrate with my imagination, bringing meaning and sensuousness to bear so that the spark of the successful building may be kindled, a building that can serve as a home for man.â€?
Contact me to know more. Talk to you soon!
Alessia Chiambretto MSc Eng. Arch.
alessia.chiambretto@gmail.com +39 3381799351 WEB alcalinearchitecture.com ISSUU issuu.com/alessiachiambretto LINKEDIN arkalessiachiambretto