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ARB Registered Architect Art Manager Creative Director at SMart Project (no profit organization)

PURPOSE Architecture is an opportunity; I want to design to change methodically the world around me. WORK EXPERIENCES 01-2019_ Omnide | 96 Belsize Ln, London | https://www.omnideplusplus.co.uk/ Architect

Curriculum Vitae

WORK EXPERIENCE OmniDe | Jan 2019 - current job SCA | Dec 2017 - Oct 2018 Fuksas | Mar 2016 - Jul 2016 ACADEMIC

Softwares

Thesis | Master E.R.A., Emergency Rubber Architecture: Origami inspired response to natural catastrophes

International Competition | OWC | ARCHmedium

Sports and Entertainment Center where to organize and promote all sorts of water activities related to the lake.

Design Studio 3 | Bachelor

Design in the heart of Milan of an art museum, where the city was born, facing to the heritage of our memory.

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Revit Autocad Photoshop Indesign Illustrator Rhinoceros Grasshopper SketchUp V-ray Keyshot

Languages > Italian

Design Studio 1 | Bachelor

My first approach to architecture, a Balnear activity designed on the Comoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lake.

> Gallery Curator & Art Manager 12-2017_10-2018 Studio Costa Architecture

| Rome, Italy & DUBAI, UAE | https://www.studiocosta.ae/

> French

Architectural Assistant > Interior Design | ISMOLAS, Residence village | Sardinia, IT

> Spanish

> Competition | Model Maker | TECHNOPARK OF SBERBANK IN SKOLKOVO | Moscow, Russia

> English

Building Technology Studio | Master

Dubai EXPO 2020,advanced responsive technologies and parametrical development of the project. Best Energy, Ecotect 2011 and Rhino with Grasshopper are some of the softwares used.

04-2014 Marco Pivaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Studio

Architectural Assistant

Preservation Studio | Master

> Interior Design | Hotel Excelsior Gallia | Piazza Duca D'Aosta, Milan, IT

The Castel Masegra is a wonderful example of ancient architecture. Thanks to technologies like laser scans and thermographical analyses, it was designed a reinforcement structural process, to host an exposition area and a V.I.P. dining room on the first and frescoed floor.

Date of birth: Dec-23-1992 +44 (0) 7874 317253 elena.casini92@gmail.com

Passion and creativity,

Architecture is my life.

| http://www.studiomarcopiva.com/

https://it.linkedin.com/pub/elena-casini/67/63b/407

OD | OmniDe Ltd |

Architect ARB 96 Belsize Ln, NW35BE, London

Jan 2019 - Current job

CAPOSILE - Refurbishment - Via Caposile, Roma - Private Apartment, 98 sqm - RIBA 1 to 5 - 200K € - Completion date: Oct. 2019

Completed on October 2019, “Caposile” had been under my direction during the different stages of the project.

Contribution to the project

Skills developed

Interior design Planning (CILA application) Tender Construction Details Project management

My main duty was the Interior Design, general layout of the spaces and the fitted furtniture design, highly bespoken on the client necessities. The detailed lighting design and the accurate reflected ceiling mass analyses had contributed to make the project an example of fine design.

Project management Creative thinking Industrial design Time management Client relations

Hand sketches, Rhino, Autocad and Revit, from the detailed design o the construction drawings, any single part had been curated in detail to match finess and innovation.

RFC plan - lightning layout

Planning Application LATO VERSO VIA GONZAGA DEL VODICE

LATO VERSO VIA GONZAGA DEL VODICE

BALCONE 1 2,24 mq

LATO VERSO VIA GONZAGA DEL VODICE HF 2700 - HS 000 F-01 LF 1100

BALCONE 1 2,24 mq BALCONE 1 2,24 mq

CAMERA DA LETTO 2 12.31 mq h 310mm

CUCINA 14.37 mq h 310mm

HF 1800 - HS 900 F-03 LF 1100

HF 1800 - HS 900 F-04 LF 1100

HF 1800 - HS 900 F-05 LF 1100

ALTRA PROPRIETA' INT. 13

CABINA ARMADIO 08 3.38 mq

SOGGIORNO/PRANZO 37.01 mq h 310mm

BAGNO 02 06 3.88mq

SOGGIORNO 09 34.25 mq

ALTRA PROPRIETA' INT. 13

CAMERA 3 11 14.14 mq

DISIMPEGNO 12 3.11 mq

CAMERA 02 07 11.77 mq

CAMERA DA LETTO 1 17.42 mq h 310mm

HF 1800 - HS 900 F-02 LF 1100

BALCONE 1 2,24 mq

ALTRA PROPRIETA' INT. 13

CABINA ARMADIO 08 3.38 mq

LAVANDERIA 10 4.25 mq

BAGNO 02 06 3.88mq

DISIMPEGNO 13 13 3.00 mq

DISIMPEGNO 14 2.84 mq

DISIMPEGNO 12 3.11 mq

CAMERA 02 07 11.77 mq

SOGGIORNO 09 34.25 mq

CAMERA 3 11 14.14 mq

LAVANDERIA 10 4.25 mq

DISIMPEGNO 13 13 3.00 mq

DISIMPEGNO 14 2.84 mq

SCALA B SCALA B

CORRIDOIO 2.81 mq h 310mm

INT. 14 CABINA ARMADIO 05 4.50 mq

CUCINA/PRANZO 01 30.64mq

INT. 14

SCALA B INT. 14 PIANO V

INGRESSO 16 3.68mq

DISIMPEGNO 15 3.80 mq

DISIMP. 9.60 mq h 310mm

CABINA ARMADIO 05 4.50 mq

CUCINA/PRANZO 01 30.64mq

ANTIBAGNO 02 3.10mq

CAMERA 02 03 11.63 mq

BAGNO 1 6.14 mq h 310mm

BAGNO 2 5.15 mq h 310mm

BAGNO 3 3.56 mq h 310mm

CAMERA DA LETTO 2 10.72 mq h 310mm

INGRESSO/SOGGIORNO 21.88 mq h 310mm

ANTIBAGNO 02 3.10mq

CAMERA 02 03 11.63 mq

BAGNO 01 05 4.18 mq

BAGNO 01 05 4.18 mq BAGNO 03 02 4.40mq

BAGNO 03 02 4.40mq

CORTE INTERNA

HF 1800 - HS 900 F-06 LF 1100 SEZIONE A-A'

SEZIONE A-A'

HF 2700 - HS 000 F-07 LF 1100

BALCONE 2 2,28 mq

HF 1800 - HS 900 F-08 LF 1100

BALCONE 2 2,28 mq

CORTE INTERNA

HF 1800 - HS 900 F-09 LF 1100

BALCONE 2 2,28 mq

SCALA B INT. 14 PIANO V

INGRESSO 16 3.68mq

DISIMPEGNO 15 3.80 mq

HF 1800 - HS 900 F-10 LF 1100

CORRIDOIO 9.60 mq h 310mm

RIPOSTIGLIO 3.92 mq h 310mm

CORTE INTERNA

SEZIONE A-A'

ALTRA PROPRIETA'

SEZIONE A-A'

ARCH. RAFFAELE OPPIDO VIA GIUSEPPE BELARDINELLI 03 00123, ROMA, RM TEL :

CILA

15/11/2019

SCALA:

INDIRIZZO: VIA CAPOSILE, 2 - ROMA 00195 scala B - piano V - int. 14

COPERTINA

SCALA:

NON SCALARE QUESTO DISEGNO

1:5000

INDIRIZZO: VIA CAPOSILE, 2 - ROMA 00195 scala B - piano V - int. 14

INQUADRAMENTO - ESTRATTO PRG

NON SCALARE QUESTO DISEGNO

SCALA:

1:5000

INDIRIZZO: VIA CAPOSILE, 2 - ROMA 00195 scala B - piano V - int. 14

AREOFOTO

NON SCALARE QUESTO DISEGNO

SCALA:

0,5

1 m

ESTRATTO CATASTALE

ALTRA PROPRIETA'

1:100

INDIRIZZO: VIA CAPOSILE, 2 - ROMA 00195 scala B - piano V - int. 14

NON SCALARE QUESTO DISEGNO

SCALA:

0,5

1 m

1:100

INDIRIZZO: VIA CAPOSILE, 2 - ROMA 00195 scala B - piano V - int. 14

STATO DI FATTO

NON SCALARE QUESTO DISEGNO

SCALA:

0,5

1 m

1:100

INDIRIZZO: VIA CAPOSILE, 2 - ROMA 00195 scala B - piano V - int. 14

CILA DATA

DEMOLIZIONE

NON SCALARE QUESTO DISEGNO

COSTRUZIONE

SCALA:

0,5

1 m

DEMOLIZIONI E RICOSTRUZIONI

CORPO SCALA

1:100

INDIRIZZO: VIA CAPOSILE, 2 - ROMA 00195 scala B - piano V - int. 14

NON SCALARE QUESTO DISEGNO

SCALA:

0,5

1 m

1:100

INDIRIZZO: VIA CAPOSILE, 2 - ROMA 00195 scala B - piano V - int. 14

STATO DI PROGETTO

Proposal Plan - Opt. 4

Fitted forniture, kitchen table

_bespoke fitted furniture, library

Fitted forniture, full lenght library

_bespoke fitted furniture, sink basin, WC3 layout

_visual plan

_bespoke fitted furniture, shelves and kitchen

_WC2 layout

OD | OmniDe Ltd |

Architect ARB 96 Belsize Ln, NW35BE, London

Jan 2019 - Current job _Exploded Axonometry

BIM Architect

70 HAVERSTOCK HILL - Refurbishment

BIM - Revit 2019

- Camden, London - 120 sqm, budget 50K - RIBA 1 to 5, expected stage 7 on March 2020 - estimated completion date: Mar 2020

Skills:

Responsabilities:

- Design Option Tool - Project Browser Organization: control over views and template - Use of Annotation elements as Keynote, Details Components and symbols - Schedule creation - Modelling: Model in Place, System Families and supporting elements - Collaboration Workflows - Worksets - Central file - Export/import a .dwg

- Creation of the practiceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Revit template & Standards - Management: Creation of new Project parameters and Shared parameters Default graphics (Object Styles, Line Styles, Fill Regions, etc)

Main responsabilities

Skills Developed

Design Planning Application Tender Package, Visual Specifications Construction Details Project Management

Revit level 3, advanced skills Planning, Architectural Codes Design to Delivery Client Relations Coordination Site experience

The poject is regarding the refurbishment and rear extension of the property toward the backyard. Located in 70 Haverstock Hill, the design of this two floors has an industrial and elegant character, high quality finishes and bespoken fornitures are creating a confortable space where to live. Furthermore, the new extension will not only enhance the appearance of this private property but also increase the quality of life and value of the property itself.

_Detailed Internal Elevation (WC3)

Aspirations: - More control over complex families and their uses - Basic Dynamo routines for data extract and geometry creation

OD | OmniDe Ltd |

Architect ARB 96 Belsize Ln, NW35BE, London

Jan 2019 - Actual work

KONTOOR-LEE-WRANGLER Offices -

London 85 sqm RIBA 0 to 4 estimated completion date: Feb. 2020

Main Responsabilities - Concept Design - Developed Design - Construction Details Skills Developed -

Creative Thinking Industrial Design Specifications Technical Vision

Kontoor Offices is an interior design project currently under Tender Phase. I worked directly with the clients (Lee and Wrangler design team) to design an innovative office with natural spots and bespoke furnitures (like the wooden canopy and the merchandiser display, on the right). I have delivered independently Concept and the Detailed design studying finishes, materials, colour palette and lighting system, both in 2d (Cad) and 3d (Rhino). The wooden canopy along with the glass wall, are defining the space in 3 main areas: the office space, the coworking&reception area and the conference room (please see section). _Construction Details, Canopy

_Detailed Plan

_Detailed section, office and co-working area

_3D study, Merchandiser Display

SCA | Studio Costa Architecture |

Architectral Assistant

Piazza Mattei 17, 00186 Roma

Dec 2017 - Sep 2018

Ghandouri Eco-Luxury Resort -

Apr 2018 - June 2018

Akoya Kindergarten DUBAI DESIGN AWARDS 2019

Tangerine, Maroc 40,311 sqm Masterplan proposal /

Main Responsabilities

Dubai, UAE 3000 sqm Under construction /

Main Responsabilities

- Masterplan Development - Site Analyses - Area calculations - Regulations research - Post-production (photoshop)

- Tender (IFC phase, Dubai) - Post-production Renders (Photoshop) - Marketing (Video animation, After Effect) Skills Developed

Skills Developed -

Dubai

- Time management - Team work - Positive thinking - Technical Vision & Specification - Bilingual (English, Italian) - Work under pressure

Time management Team work Decisiveness Flexibility Imaginative thinking _Masterplan, general development

_Concept The Ghandouri Eco-Luxury Resort is a masterplan concept design for a preliminary proposal situated in Tangerine, Maroc. The architecture is following the natural shape of the soil, with a specific respect with the genius loci of the city. Archetipes such as entrance arches, patios, ruelles (closed corridors in the medina, structural veins of the urban composition), are reinterpretated in the overall project.

_Site Analyses

SCA | Studio Costa Architecture |

Architectral Assistant

Piazza Mattei 17, 00186 Roma

Dec 2017 - Sep 2018

ISTAT - Nuova Sede Istat Roma - Competition Team - Location: Rome, Italy - Gross Leasable Area: 52.000 sqm - Budget: 82,984,600 â&#x201A;Ź Main Responsabilities

Skills Developed

- Concept Design Proposal - Area calculations - Facade Detailed Design - Post-production (competition graphical design final sheets)

Time management Team work Focus to productivity Flexibility

_Transversal Section

_Longitudinal Section

_Basement Plan

_Concept The project was a competition for the desing and construction of the new ISTAT headquarter, in Rome. The concept behind is creating a green terrace core around which sculptural elements are growing as foundations for the 6 floors above.

Studio Fuksas |

Architectural Assistant Piazza del Monte di Pietà, 30, 00186 Rome

March 2016 - July 2016

Interior Design team -

Is Molas Resort, Holiday complex REALIZED Pula, Sardinia 240 villas, 9 “islands” 4 types: from 230sqm to 500 sqm

Main Responsabilities - Post-production (photoshop) materials - Cad & Rhino models assistance Skills Developed -

Time management Team work Focus to productivity Flexibility

The project involved the enlargement of the existing resort, which had been an important benchmark in Sardinia for the Mediterranean exclusive tourism and international golf for over 40 years. The upgrading of the resort involved the creation of a new residential area with 240 villas divided into 9 islands. The first island comprises 15 villas, 4 of which were under construction. During my collaboration with Studio Fuksas I followed carefully the interior design trying different options depending on the living areas, carrying out a special study of the colours used. Primary tints were used for the main parts, as red for the living area and blue for the sleeping one. In the bathrooms green and turquoise were the final choice.

Studio Fuksas |

Architectural Assistant Piazza del Monte di PietĂ , 30, 00186 Rome

March 2016 - July 2016 Maquette artist

Skills Developed

Techniques

- Imaginative thinking - Time management - Work under pressure - Conceptualization - Hands-on experience - Team work - Focus to productivity - Flexibility

- Carboard - Plaxiglass laser cut - Gypsum - Water paint - Balsa wood

Lille | Private Restoration Project |

Architect

Paris, FR

October 2017 - May 2018

Rue de Lille, Private house refurbishment -

Rue de Lille, Paris 40 sqm Refurbishment 15K â&#x201A;Ź completion date: 05.2018

Main Responsabilities

Skills Developed

- Metric survey - Interior Design - Project Management

Imaginative thinking Specification Site experience Design to Deliver Bilingual (French)

_Upper floor plan

MASTER | Final Project | Emergency Rubber Architecture Origami inspired Response to Natural Catastrophes

E.R.A. (Emergency Rubber Architecture), is a modular assemblable tent structure, designed parametrically to be a quick response to any natural disaster. It proposes a different solution to the ones on the market, providing a natural rubber shell for refugee families: the space inside is warm and comfortable, a constant temperature is kept due to the insulating power of the shell.

12 rubber sheets, with a base of 30 Sh A natural rubber (Polyisoprene) vulcanised with an 85 Sh A harder layer, working as a rigid face in the origami pattern: meanwhile the valleys and the mountains are obtained by cut subtraction. The emergency rubber architecture designed has a hosting power of 12 people, experiencing the hollow acoustics of the interior and the translucency of the amber-colored walls: the referring main dimensions are 9.8 meters times 5.6 meters, with an internal height of 2.8 meters. It is safe and consistent, resistant to any stress and atmospherical adverse event: the structure is good to any kind of environment, tough to a high-temperature range and to the low ones, snow and acid rains have no effect of the rubber.

The structure had been shaped parametrically using Grasshopperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, following mathematical origami rules (Yoshimura pattern), a triangular mesh found in thin-walled cylinders under axial compression. The goal had been to match the physical properties of an elastic material to a rigid deployable structure, easy to package and to deploy on the site. The faces will exhibit a rigid movement as a result of the rotation between two adjacent faces around the specific axis of the angle of deployment.It is obtained a modular structure composed of periodical elements evaluated in the way to follow the productionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rubber constraints, with a maximum width of 1.5 meters.

Electricity is provided by 78 sun collectors on the top, furnishing 2.275 kWh to charge any cellular and or emergency kit by 6 sockets in the middle of the shared space: the internal temperature is maintained between the 22 and 27 degrees.

MASTER | International Competition | OWC | ARCHmedium -

Competition: OWC Watersport Centre Ohrid, Macedonia June 2015 Team: Elena Casini, Sunay Altintipe, Ghiath Al Jebawi, Matteo Gullo

ArchMedium proposes the creation of a new facility for the Balkan city of Ohrid, taking into account the historical, natural and cultural importance of Lake Ohrid. Thanks to the sporting tradition of the area and ideal weather conditions (with over 230 sunny days per year) we propose a new watersports center: the Ohrid Watersports Club. The OWC is a sports and entertainment center where all sorts of water activities related to the lake are organized and promoted. A place where to store efficiently the necessary equipment for windsurfing, rowing boats, canoes and kayaks.

_ Concept development conference area administration food and beverage area

entrance

B R I N G I N G - T H E - W A T E R

canal swimming pool

P U S H I N G - T H E - E A R T H

changing rooms

V I S U A L - P E R M E A B I L I T Y

The project was born after a studio of the area, famous for the purity of water and wondeful landscape. Around it, woods and mountains are ensuring the perfect background to develop an architecture that works directly with the earth, moving it and creating the shape in a way to obtain two principal facades, one oriented toward the old city, the second to the mountains. A canal is moving from the core of the building to the lake, like a spring immersed in nature and letting the canoas flowing directly into the lake.

BACHELOR | Design Studio III | FACING HEAR(i)T-AGE - Heritage Museum - Via Brisa, Milano, Italy - February 2014

Via Brisa is where Milan was born, where everything started hundreds of years ago (around 291 a.D.). From the castrum romanum to the construction of royal palace, Mediolanum has taken his capital role thanks to the Imperator Massimilano. Designing is such a context was exciting: in order to respect and give importance to the place, it was taken as reference the ancient level of the city: history takes place under the aspalth of the contemporary age, it is here that the museum is developed, with a respectful linearity. From above, the ancient palace is visible from the public plaza thanks to the open facade, designed in front of it, in a way to obtain an auditorium at the second level. A big cut in the open space defines the museum below it, and gives light to the entire expositive area. The second building is devoted to administration and offices, completely glazed on the groundfloor is exactly the opposite of the first one: lightness and modularity are its characteristics.

_state of art

_ground floor plan

_longitudinal section

_ancient level plan, -2,8 m

_West facade

MASTER | Building Technology Studio | DUBAI EXPO

BACHELOR | Design Studio 1 | BALNEAR LINEARITY - Balnear Center - Gravedona, Como, Italy - July 2012

Expo Japan Pavillion Dubai, United Arab Emirates January 2016 The course aim is to find the technological innovative solutions in terms of energetical efficiency, technology and structure, to design a pavillon for the next EXPO, planned in Dubai, in the 2020. The curved structure is in wood, it is designed with Grasshopper and analyzed in terms of technological efficiency with Bestenergy software. The chosen materials are wood and photovoltaic panels in the first case, in order to create a dark habitat inside; on the opposite side, glazed and single-curved panels are protected by irradiation with the use of responsive elements: on the one hand it was chosen to use origami tenso-structures that were closing and opening, on the other hand simple brisesoleil that are reacting to the intensity of the solar irradiation are analyzed. Another software used is Retscreen, to calculate the amount of energy provided by the photovoltaic panels to the entire structure.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;My first approach to Architectureâ&#x20AC;? This architecture is telling a story of layered perceptions. As the first impact for the organism coming from the street is a wall with few openings, a second layer authonomously emerges in the eclosed space, giving the opportunity to face directly with the lake, with volumes that are extruded from the wall itself. Water is the element that defines the linearity of the shape, reflecting it in an artificial lake where spaces are docked as ships on the plot.

MASTER | Preservation Studio | CASTEL MASEGRA - Restoration project: B&B, exposition spaces - Sondrio, Italy - July 2015

Castel Masegra is located in a strategical area, in Northern Italy. Since the ancient ages the Beccaria family was the owner of the castle, but after the 1639 it passed to the Salis one because of economical reasons. The portion that we analyzed with laser scans and the thermography pictures taken in loco, was dedicated to Jacobina Beccariaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal apartment: the pigeon coop, the umbrella vault, and all the architectural elements that are composing this section of the castle, are extremely charming from the the historical analisy point of view, infact we can find signs coming from different ages and periods. So, between the XV and XVI Century it is noticeable how this castle changes its function, becoming a nobiliar residence. In order to follow the milanese nobiliar taste, there were all of those necessary changes required by the common thought. So that, the external facade and the internal parts were changed in the aesthetic aspect: the engraved decoration and the rapresentation of false masonry by frescoes. These frescoes are giving importance and relevance to the entire structure, in this way the renovation project was concentrated on the accessibility and the innovation in the way of communication. There are an interactive museum at the ground floor and a VIP area at the first one, accessible during the day by the visitors and to rent durign the evening for elegant meetings and appointments.