CAMILLO LEONE 23.08.1995 Cosenza, Italy M.A. in Architecture
C O N T A C T mobile: (+39) 348 9804238 email: camilloleone23@gmail.com link: instagram.com/camillo.leone
Ciao! I am Camillo, I studied Architecture at the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria and graduated with full marks in May 2022. This collection is a selection of academic projects, international competitions and design workshops that most involved and passionate me during my university study years. The sketches, drawings and images contained in it, are personal tools for understanding and defining the emotions and suggestions of each design story. The attempt is to convey my passion towards an idea of architecture as a form of spatial events, as a means of knowledge of the world and belonging to society. My goal is to improve my skills through the study, interaction and comparison finalized at raising awareness of all the tools useful for defining an Architecture project.
BAS - Berlingieri Architetti Studio
Architecture Assistant - Collaborator for design process and responsible of design concepts, drawings, renderings and graphics presentation for competitions and public/private commissions.
ARCHA (a project by ICARO)
Co - founder - ARCHA is an Architecture platform, a ‘’space’’ where students can show their ideas and develop their artistic and expressive skills by drawings, photos and images.
2014-2015 2020-2021 2009 2014
Architecture and Construction Engineering (5 years degree course )
dArTe ( Department of Architecture and Territory ) 110/110 lode
Università degli Studi Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria (RC), Italy
Scientific High School Diploma
from jul 2022 2019 oct 2019 jul 2019 nov 2018 jul 2018 C.V
Liceo Scientifico ‘’ Pitagora ‘’ Rende (CS), Italy
MAS Taranto International Workshop - From the sea to the Land MAS - Modern Apulian Style and Comune di Taranto Taranto, Italy
International Architecture Summer School - Contemporary architecture and archaeological sites in Calabria: the study case of Vibo Valentia
dArTe with Ozyegin University, IPP Institut Plytechnique Panafricain, SDS Struttura Didattica Speciale Architecture of Siracusa and Museo Archeologico Nazionale “Vito Capialbi” of Vibo Valentia and Soprintendenza Archeologia della Calabria. Vibo Valentia, Italy
Workshop Ostia Autumn School - Lidi Misteriosi AIAC - Associzione Italiana Architettura e Critica Roma, Ostia Antica, Italy
International Summer School - 1st edition #JointLandscapes
LandscapeinProgress - dArTe department with Ain-Shams University of Cairo and Consorzio Macramè Reggio Calabria, Italy
mar 2021 jan 2018 jul 2018 apr 2018
COMPETITION
NOVECENTOPIÙCENTO
International design competition Team member, responsible to produce design concept, drawings, renderings and graphics presentation Municipality of Milano and Museo del 900 Milano (MI), Italy
BAMBOO#PAVILION
Design competition for an expositive pavilion realized with bamboo technology Team member - 2nd prize Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria (Italy) and College of Civil Engineering of Nanjing Tech University (China) Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
1ST EDITION JOINTLANDSCAPES
International design competition for an effimeral pavilion in a confiscated properties in Rosarno (RC) Team leader - 1st prize and construction dArTe department, Ain-Shams University of Cairo and Consorzio Macramè Rosarno (RC), Italy
Selected as partecipant with the academic project “Torre Espositiva” at exhibition La morte del Minotauro: I paesaggi ritrovati –Il progetto degli edifici confiscati alla criminalità in Palazzo San Giorgio (RC).
LandscapeinProgress Reggio Calabria (RC), Italy.
LANGUAGES
Italian (native language) English (B1 level )
S K I L L S
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PAESAGGI DELLA MEMORIA (extract) SACRED SPACE / THESIS Antonimina, Calabria, Italy 2021 supervisor: prof. Marina Tornatora co - advisor: prof. Gianluca Peluffo (Peluffo&Partners Architettura), arch. Lucia La Giusa.
02 900più100 - MUSEO DEL 900 MUSEUM / COMPETITION Milano, Italy 2021
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TERRE FRAGILI MEMORIAL / ACADEMIC PROJECT Giampilieri Marina, Sicily, Italy 2018
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TORRE ESPOSITIVA MUSEUM / ACADEMIC PROJECT Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy 2017
PAESAGGI DELLA MEMORIA (extract)
SACRED SPACE / THESIS
The desire to confront and address the theme of memory and religious architecture was born during a design workshop held in Gerace, in the Convent of San Francesco, in September 2020. Here, one of the themes of reflection and study, was the fascinating and mysterious story of a young Calabrian religious woman, Rosella Stàltari, who soon became an absolute model of virtue and redemption force for the local religious community and, more generally, Calabrian. The ruins of his home in the municipality of Antonimina, among the rugged and wild mountains of Aspromonte, are in fact the destination of hundreds of faithful. To walk and listen to the places that have hosted the human events of Rosella Stàltari and that today host an intense activity of devotion, It was the first approach to what has become a mostly emotional experience that has found in the thesis project its spatial and architectural translation. In this sense, sketches and photography are two fundamental tools that will guide the development of the project, from the analysis of places to the design idea.
IL PIANORO (place of Assembly)
THE PATH (repentance, fatigue and conversion)
RUINS (birthplace of Rosella Stàltari)
The story of Rosella Stàltari is a journey. Physical and spiritual. A path of silent suffering, generosity and salvation at the same time. The project of the spiritual space dedicated to his memory is the will to put that in shape and make shared sensations, emotions and feelings that you feel “through it”. It’s the redemption of a fragile and brave land. Starting from the “stages” already outlined by the devotional practice of hundreds of faithful, the project will be divided into three main moments: The space will have the function of narrating, representing and evoking. A “path architecture” that draws a new landscape of memory.
EXTERIOR VIEWS: the churchyard and the entrance to hypogeum space STUDY SKETCHES:
The large PIANORO appears morphologically as a flat break in the middle of the rugged landscape typical of the Aspromonte hinterland. It is here that the commemorative functions are currently being celebrated on the occasion of the most important stages of Rosella’s life. This moment therefore represents an initial stage of spiritual preparation. It’s a place that has the characteristic of being perceived from afar and you discover its extension by slowly approaching it. A great suspended archaic element will mark on a perceptive and significant level the presence in that place of a story of faith. And its representation is entrusted to the mythical image of the ship stranded in the rock after the Universal Flood. The Ark, symbol of the Christian church and of the place chosen by Jesus to preach, represents in fact the human journey through life and salvation after suffering. The project proposal is focused on the redesign of a new space of contemplation and prayer, defined by the excavation of the cavea. The idea is that of an intimate and hidden place, like a cave, dedicated to collective celebrations and individual contemplation. Here will be kept the relics of Rosella, accessible only to the eyes and separated from the church classroom by the baptismal font: a natural mirror of water fed by rainwater and water collection systems. The large roof suspended above the underground space, offset and rotated, will allow light to filter and water to flow into the baptismal font.
Spirituality is translated into light in three main ways:
1. Natural light filtering from the vacuum left by the offset of the cover.
2. The blades of light defined by the lifting of the roof in relation to the ground
3. An idea of dematerialised light filtering through the coloured glass embedded on the roof.
INTERIORI VIEWS: altar, relationship between natural elements and furniture elements
EXTERIOR VIEWS: arrival at the ruins, the birthplace of Rosella Staltari
- MUSEO DEL 900 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Team member Milan (MI), Italy 2021
NOVECENTOPIÙCENTO - MUSEO DEL 900 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Team member Milan (MI), Italy
Ten years after the inauguration of the Museum of the twentieth century, the City of Milan launches “Novecentopiùcento”, international design competition for the expansion of the Museum, currently housed inside the Arengario in Piazza del Duomo and in the spaces on the second floor of Palazzo Reale. With “Novecentopiù cento” we intend to implement the services according to a new concept of museum that aims to enrich its cultural offer and to involve the community. The intervention will mainly concern the conversion into the museum space of the building, defined as Second Arengario - now home to municipal offices - to differentiate it from the First Arengario, home of the current Museum of the twentieth century.
The particular condition of having to design a Museum inside an artifact that will remain identical in its urban scenario, led us to the choice of designing a car within the limits of its “bodywork”. Here we will distinguish the constraints with which to arrive at an agreement from those to be emancipated. A vertical ovoid structure suspended over the Hall at full height and set back from the wall line overlooking Piazza Duomo. The horizontal structures cut through the ovoid element. A promenade ramp that connects all levels of the Museum. From the large hall it is possible to observe the visible section of the Ovoid and the horizontal structures that articulate the exhibition spaces. These allow the view of Piazza del Duomo to through the large existing openings placed on the facade left entirely free.
The Rooms inside the Ovoid, intended for sculptures, objects, projections and installations, will be compared with the main and fundamental product of a material culture: the City. The glass wall of the Arengario that faces Piazza Duomo, freed from the original floors, will be a dynamic picture at full height, which will change continuously for colors and lights, at any time of the day. The self-supporting steel ramp with open profiles becomes a vertical distribution and exhibition space. A function and at the same time a visual abstract of the contents of the Museum. Walking and watching become two aspects of the same will to proceed within a context.
URBAN SECTIONS
MEMORIAL / ACADEMIC PROJECT
On October 1, 2009, an unexpected trauma hit the territory of Messina in Sicily. A violent storm caused a series of landslides that swept the urban centers of Giampilieri, Scaletta Zanclea and Itala. In the following days, in addition to seeing the huge damage caused by the brutal flood, there were about forty dead and six people missing. In the case of Giampilieri, to determine the flood, with mudflows and debris, were the meteorological conditions, the particular morphology of the territory, marked by a strong acclivity of the reliefs, the poor state of maintenance of the waterways and the activity of deforestation to build new homes. Ten years later, the disastrous images of that day still remain vividly engraved in the memory of those who saw the tragedy with their own eyes. Remembering the victims is a civil duty. The project for the Memorial dedicated to the victims of the flood will then shape the rubble accumulated by the disasters of the cities. The work will focus on the geography of the territory, its warm and blinding light. its heroic nature and the relationship with water. The project will recover the altitude difference between the urban fabric and the coastline (six meters), becoming a semi-hypogeal building overlooking the sea. The building seems to be born from the void, transforming from a plant mass (the Pineta, the river) to a mineral mass. The plate/ roof of the building, in continuity with the pine forest and the project of renaturalization of the river, is slowly discovered among the pine trees, like a clearing, and will allow the view on the landscape of the Strait that becomes desire and necessity. The “Light Cannons” will storm the roof like large boulders collapsed from the mountains of the hinterland and bring natural light into the underground space. A large wound on the roof of the building will allow the light to dialogue with a rough wall, with soft and discontinuous shapes like stone gullies furrowed by the passage of water. A space capable of arousing emotions and evoking the suffering of tragedy through the contrast between darkness (tragedy, entrance), twilight (cannons of light and openings) and blinding light (rebirth, the sky, the sea).
Four pillars-trunks embedded inside the Memorial will support the overhang of the plate, like large bones.
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MUSEUM / ACADEMIC PROJECT
Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy 2017
TORRE ESPOSITIVA MUSEUM / ACADEMIC PROJECT
Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy
The reconfiguration project concerns a property confiscated from organised crime located in Reggio di Calabria.
The building is flanked by other buildings in a total state of decay. It develops mainly in height, with a very long and narrow rectangular plant. The strength of the property is its share above sea level: the terrace at 15 meters allows the direct and clear view towards the Strait of Messina. The retrofitting process involves the configuration of a new space, no longer intended for residential use but rather for public exhibition space.
The goal is to give strong recognition to a project that opposes the history of crime to which its past is linked, creating a space that promotes culture as knowledge, sharing and aggregation.
From this objective starts the process that leads to the definition of an exhibition “promenade” staircase that crosses the entire building in its total width, length and height, carrying out the important task of connecting a totally unused part of the building: the garden behind it.
The cross beams and vertical elements of the garden create a continuous connection between the two exhibition walls of the building evoking the theme of the “forest”, insidious and complex, made of light and shadow. The light, filtered by the opaque glass at full height, guides the path and leads gradually towards the panoramic terrace, where you can see the sky and the light of the Strait. Outside the building appears as a brutalist block dug through vertical slabs, wounds that instead of being erased are highlighted. The character of the museum is therefore deliberately introverted.
The reference becomes explicit: the prisons of Piranesi. A hidden and imaginary place.
