Andrea Spanu Architect Portfolio

andrea spanu architect

Andrea Spanu A.R.B. Architect 145 Wightman Road, London N8 0BB +44 (0) 7474524039 andreaspanu8.6@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-spanu-58101b43

A resourceful team player with excellent communication skills and technical knowledge who qualified as an Architect in the United Kingdom. Specialised in high-end residential and experienced in RIBA stages from 1 to 4, currently looking for further development in his career in Architecture. Able to relocate.

Professional Experience

Software Skills

James Lambert Architects - London Architectural Assistant High-end Residential, CAD, 3D Modeling, presentations, planning application drawings and relative documents, setting out, technical details, quotations

Autocad

August 2014 Sept 2014

A.T.S. Andrea Truccas Services - London Assistant CAD, Quantity Survey Tasks

Sketchup

July 2013 Jan 2014

K2 Design - Cagliari, Italy Architectural Assistant Residential/Offices, CAD, Revit, 3D modeling and rendering, presentations, technical details, quotations

Oct 2015 Present

August 2011 March 2013

Sept 2009 Jan 2014

2010

Kylix - Cagliari, Italy Architectural Assistant Residential, assisting project managers in planning and design tasks, CAD, presentations, technical details, quotations Cultarch - Architettura e Cultura - Italy www.cultarch.it Founder, Secretary, then Vice-president Charity, event planning, business planning, finances, leading teams of up to 20 people, public relations Archides - Cagliari-Palerm, Italy Architectural Assistant Competing at P.R.I.N. Palermo 2010 (National Interest research project). Concept, Urban planning, CAD, 3D modeling, rendering, presentation Awards

2009

First place at the competition “New Spaces for new urban phenomena” Design of a Skatepark and a Piazza in Iglesias, Italy Education

2016

UK Qualification as an Architect

2016

Italian Qualification as an Architect

2012

Italian Qualification as an Engineer

2005 - 2011

Master’s Degree in Architecture (Distinction) University of Cagliari, Italy

Cat. 4/s (2005/36/CE) – Grade 110/110 Equivalence officially certificated by Naric UK

Revit 3D Studio Max Rhinoceros VRay Photoshop/Lighroom Illustrator Indesign Blender

Language Proficiency Italian - Native Speaker English - Proficient user French - Good User Side Skills Photography, 3D stock market, 3D printing

All references available on request

Portfolio

Date: December 2015 Site: London, UK James Lambert Architects Ldt. RIBA Stages: 1/2/3 Budget: Not specified GIFA: 220m2

48-50 S.W. The extension of two simmetrical residential units in north London is the object of this project. The approved planning application allows the extention on the back of the house and the raising of the roof level to create several new rooms, lit by new built dormers.

Particular attention has been paid to the original decoration of the house and the finishes to match the existing brickwork.

Front Elevation

Rear Elevation

3D View front elevation

Top View

Proposed ground floor plan

Proposed first floor plan

Date: 2016 Site: London, UK James Lambert Architects Ldt. RIBA Stages: 3/4 Budget: 650K ÂŁ GIFA: 151m2

38aDH A Victorian house in London has been the object of a high end refurbishment project, with the main priorities being a proper thermal and acoustic insulation and the creation of an open space on the ground floor, now consisting in an ample living room leading to the kitchen and the dining area. From the front of the house, the natural light flows from the bow window to the rear garden and the decking outside, establishing a beautiful connection between the inside and the outside.

Kitchen furniture arrangement

Corridor furniture arrangement Ground and first floor plans

Longitudinal section

Electrical plans

Pictures of the interior

Date: 2015-2016 Site: Cookham, UK James Lambert Architects Ldt. RIBA Stages: 2/3/4 Budget: Estimated 9M ÂŁ GIFA: 1350m2 + 94m2 Detached guest house

D. G. This luxury residential project, located in a beautiful natural location away from the town centre, is composed by an underground level with a swimming pool, a wine cellar and a cinema, and three levels with the living spaces and the bedrooms. An extention on the east side of the building contains the garages, a more modest kitchen and dining area and a playroom for the lucky children. Great attention has been dedicated to the original design of the building, the decorations and the finishes.

Art work for hatched glass in main hall

Pictures

Longitudinal Section

Top to bottom: Roof Plan, Second Floor, First Floor, Ground Floor, Lower Floor Plan

Pictures

Ground Floor - Electrical plan

Study - Electrical plan

Study - Joinery plan

Study - Join

Master Bathroom - Plan and elevations

Master Bathroom - Details

Date: 2015-2016 Site: London, UK James Lambert Architects Ldt. RIBA Stages: 2/3/4 Budget: Not specified GIFA: 210m2

31QGT This Listed Building, which is a self-contained two-storey maisonette, occupying the 4th and 5th (attic) floors of 31 Queen’s Gate Terrace, requires internal alterations and the addition of 2 no. conservation rooflights to the internal roof slopes. The project aims to improve, simplify and clarify the layout by eliminating poorly planned awkward junctions, doorways and spatial restrictions arising from previous alterations, reveal and highlight the historic features of the property, minimise the loss of any original material which would undermine the special historic character and value of the building, and improve the thermal performance and energy efficiency as well as the acoustic performance of the property.

Rear Elevation

Front Elevation

Demolition 4th and 5th Floor Plans, Section on staircase

Landlord licence application 4th and 5th F Plans, Section on staircase

General Arrangements 5th Floor Plan

Mechanical and Electric 5th Floor Plan

General Arrangements 4th Floor Plan

Mechanical and Electric 4th Floor Plan

Roof Plan

Rooflight Detail

Detail of living room and joinery

Date: 2016 Site: London, UK James Lambert Architects Ldt. RIBA Stages: 1/2/3 Budget: Not specified GIFA: 165m2

16KG - Extension

View of rear elevation

The property is a semi-detached Arts and Craft house, set back from the road with extensive gardens to both the front and the rear, exterior walls in Flemish bond solid brickwork with metal windows in the Crittall style, large chimney stacks matching the exterior walls. The extension presents a symmetrical elevation to the adjacent houses, the left part of the elevation is demolished to create a two-storey bay that expands the kitchen area on ground floor and creates an en-suite bathroom on the first floor.

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

Proposed Rear Elevation

Second floor plan

Front Elevation

Date: 2016-2017 Site: London, UK James Lambert Architects Ldt. RIBA Stages: 2/3/4 Budget: 250K ÂŁ GIFA: 130m2

6NL - Refurbishment This refurbishment respects the original layout of the flat, improving mainly the design of the living spaces and the thermal and acoustic insulation. The living room and the master bedroom have newly designed french windows that save space and improve the thermal performance. The refurbishment includes also a new set of radiators, and newly designed bathrooms and kitchen. Great importance has been paid to all the details of construction, the custom made joinery and the high-end finishes.

Mechanical and Electric Plan

Custom made Media Wall and Joinery in Living Room

Pictures of Kitchen, Living Room and French Window, Media Wall

French window detail

Date: 2016-2017 Site: Sussex, UK James Lambert Architects Ldt. RIBA Stages: 1/2/3/4 Budget: Not specified GIFA: 730m2 Main house, 137m2 Orangery, 145m2 Detached guest house

L. M. The house, listed buildin, is a magnificent manor circa 1760-80 surrounded by 12 acres of land. The works of renovation involved both the exterior and the interior, with new layouts for the bedrooms and bathrooms, with particular attention for decorations and finishes, and the creation of a new annex containing a swimming pool.

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

Front Elevation

Side Elevation

Detail

3D View, Pool

3D View, Interior of pool

Master bathroom shower enclosure, study of proportions

Master bathroom plan

3D Views, Master bedroom joinery and view on master bathroom

Master bathroom shower enclosure, detail

Date: March-August 2017 Site: London, UK James Lambert Architects Ldt. RIBA Stages: 2/3/4 Budget: Not specified GIFA: 67m2

43OC Refurbishment of a flat in North London, with a new layout for the Master Bedroom to create a flexible open space with the living room. The kitchen, bathroom and WC are renewed, with new ventilation system, and new thermal and acoustic insulation for the whole flat. On the North elevation, a new set of internal glazing is added to improve the thermal insulation.

Plan

Section through WC cistern, second glazing, mechanical ventilation

Section through bow window, with custom made bench

3D View of Living Room

3D View of Bathroom

Date: June 2009 Site: Palermo, Italy “Dessarch” Architectural Office + Arch. Francesco Cherchi, Andrea Spanu, Roberto Loi, Martina Caredda RIBA Stages: 0/1/2/3 Budget: Not specified

Agricultural Contaminations: A green pathway in the suburbs of Palerm The project takes place in the quarters of Bonagia and Falsomiele, built in the 70’s at the margin of the city of Palermo. Once a large agricultural resource, the area is now a poor residential quarter abused by Mafia. A massive motorway, moreover, cuts in two what was once the historical pathway from the Mount Grifone to the City and the sea, through the fields and through the River Oreto.

The project consist in a long pedestrian pathway that rediscovers the old agricultural roads and leads from the city to the Grifone in a sequence of urban episodes such as local markets, cultivated fields and recycling centres.

The new Faculty of Agricolture creates an underground pedestrian pathway under the motorway, letting a safe way to circulate from one part to the other of the area.

The Markets sell 0km products and support local cultivations, creating employment for the population and inhibiting the Mafia business.

Two new buildings complete the project: the new Faculty of Agriculture, offering employment in education and leading to wiser and more intense use of the fields, and the Research Lab to improve local and characteristic cultivations. Slow foods and reception areas are supporting the tourism and valorising the green areas outside the cultivations. Creating economical interests with agricolture and tourism prevents the Mafia from continuing the business of unauthorised building that is destroying this precious area.

New technologies

Local food production

Green energy

Tourism and Catering

Water and waste Recycling

Local Markets

New facilities

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1. Localisation of the Area 2. Top view of the Area 3. Plan and Section 4. 3D view of the Research Lab 5. Scheme of the Program 6. 3D view of the Markets 7. Explosion of the Project

Date: April 2010 Site: Iglesias, Italy Andrea Spanu, Alessandro Pusceddu RIBA Stages: 0/1/2/3/4 Budget: Not specified

First Place at “New Spaces for New Urban Phenomena” Skatepark and Piazza in Iglesias The Municipal Authority of Iglesias, a city in the south-west of Sardinia, decides to improve a peripheral residential area close to the historical mines of Campo Pisano. The new Skatepark and the Piazza host the skaters’ community as well as the residents. As a pebble in the water produces concentric circular waves, the skatepark articulates the space with a similar proportion, creating a sequence of spaces going from the noisiest, most animated (the ramps) to the quietest (a green space). A cafe, hosting cultural events to allow the space be used even in the cold season. The project won the first place in the competition “New spaces for new urban phenomena” but has not been built yet because of the lack of funds.

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1. Genesis of the Geometry 2. 3D View of the Ramps 3. 3D View of the Cafe 4. 3D View of the Street Furnishment 5. 3D View of the Green Area 6. 3D View of the Ramps 7. Longitudinal Section

Date: November 2012 Site: Alcamo, Italy Andrea Spanu, Paola Agus, Sara Marcheselli, Matteo Trincas RIBA Stages: 0/1/2/3/4 Budget: Not specified GIFA: 50-70m2

Allèstiti: Wine exhibition stand at Vinitaly The stand hosts a wine exhibition and contains a wine bar, a commercial area and a storage. Flexible and easy to assemble, disassemble and move, the furniture is designed to mimic the shape of the grapevine’s cultivation and the perlage of sparkling wine. The display stands resemble the line of a grape plantation and the bottles sprout out like leaves.

The shelves and the counter are marked with a sparkling pattern. The soft diffuse light comes from spherical suspended bulbs and from LED strips inside the joinery.

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1. Competition board 2. 3D View of the Stand

Date: July 2012 Site: Cagliari, Italy K2 Design RIBA Stages: 0/1/2/3/4/5 Budget: 100.000 â‚Ź GIFA: 50m2

Casa Sedda: Residential Expansion The house extension built on the roof has a surface of 50m2 and contains a kitchen/living room, a single bedroom and a bathroom.

The large terrace around has a wooden pergola from where the owners can enjoy the view of a large part of the city. The structure of the new building is made of extremely light wooden beams and columns; the external walls are made in MFD panel and despite their thickness they provide an excellent thermal and acoustic isolation. The design is simple and warm, with a beautiful contrast between the white plaster and the wood of the pergola and the wide windows.

Date: October 2013 Site: Cagliari, Italy Marco Peri (Coord.) - Andrea Spanu, Francesca Pani, Cinzia Sechi, Claudia Arioni, Claudia Castangia, Massimo Congiu, Pierluigi Sanna, Margherita Atzori RIBA Stages: 0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7 Budget: 0 â‚Ź

Una casa molto carina: Creative Lab for Kids The cultural organisations Cultarch - Architettura e Cultura and Trigu worked together on the theme of the Perfect House in a Lab for kids. The Lab started leading the kids through a tour of the stand, where there were fantastic and absurd toy houses, like floating or submarine houses, or houses made of smells or sounds. Each of those houses was posing questions about the nature of the house, of inhabiting a place and the feeling of home. After the tour, the kids had to draw and build a model of their own perfect house with recycled materials. The stand itself is a big house-shaped labyrinth, evoking a woodland with an inversion of the perception of inside and outside and a complex system of pathways.

Floating House

Houses to wear Bird-House

House of the Soul

Welcome to the House of the Houses Dog-House

House of Smells House of Sounds

Submarine House

Projects during University

Date: June 2009 Site: Villanova, Historical Centre of Cagliari, Sardinia Team: Andrea Spanu, Marco Piras, Aessandra Floris, Francesco Pes, Maurizio Castangia

Social Housing in Villanova

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In the perimeter of the historical centre of Cagliari, where two different historical quarters meet the modern expansion of the city, here the urban fabric is nothing but an overlapping of different urban typologies and architectural solutions and styles. The empty lot was originally an agricultural field owned by the Church, now facing the gothic lots of the quarter of Villanova and an unfinished nineteenth century block. The new building completes that block, concentrating all the residential and the commercial activities in one long line that, divided in stand-alone buildings in a transversal way, mimics the pattern of the historical buildings. The rest of the lot is left empty to let the community enjoy a green piazza in such a fascinating area. The protruding volumes make the interaction between the buildings and the public space stronger.

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1. Plans 2. Concept scheme 3. 3D Views 4. Elevation

Date: February 2008 Site: Villanova, Historical Centre of Cagliari, Italy Team: Andrea Spanu, Marco Piras

Residential building In the historical quarter of Villanova, Cagliari, Sardinia, this former empty lot is now hosting a new residential building with a commercial space on the ground floor. The historical context sets strong limits and gives precious hints to the designers. On the main front there is a beautiful piazza, at the rear and on the side run narrow pedestrian roads. The plan shows a division between servant and served spaces, to optimise the mechanical and eletrical services.

The section creates a loggia for passive cooling against the strong mediterranean sunlight. On the elevations, the details are sober and the sequence of volumes and windows match the historical buildings.

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1. Longitudinal section 2. Standard Floor Plan 3. Main elevation 3D view 4. Aerial view 5. Detailed section

Date: April 2013 Site: Palermo, Sicily, Italy Andrea Spanu

New Campus in Palerm The building is a bridge between two degraded quarters in the suburbs of Palermo, Sicily, divided by a massive motorway running through the area. The campus is hosting the new Faculty of Agriculture, creating an economical opportunity in re-discovering the agricoltural vocation of this area, once a vaste green cultivated area connected to the famous Conca d’Oro, and now offering employment in cultivation, tourism and education, discuraging the illegal construction activities from which this area suffered heavily in the past.

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9 1. 3D View from the Terrace 2. 3D View from the City of Palermo 3. Aerial view 4. Aerial view of the area 5. Tranversal Section 6. Ground Floor Plan 7. 1st Floor Plan 8. 2nd Floor Plan 9. Longitudinal Section

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