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hello DESIGN ERGO SUM I design, therefore I am.
Italian spatial designer currently based in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). I am a collector of cups, a cookies addicted and a maker of paper planes. Design to me means making paper planes. A simple sheet of paper that can be folded in many ways. To let it flies different components need to fit togheter. But when this small machine moves through the air you smile. Curiosity is the driving force in my life and in my passion, design. I am fascinated by how design can translate the abstract into something concrete to be experienced. As designer I always try to capture the silence essence of a space and create a loud atmosphere.
biography 04/02/1990 - TURIN (IT)
work experience JAN. - JUN. 2017
JUNIOR INTERIOR DESIGNER AT CC-STUDIO architecture & engineering AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS -partecipated in the sketch design phase -produced study and presentation models -produced presentation drawings and visualizations -produced proposal exhibition space -attended client meetings
education 2014 - 2016 MASTER INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE: RESEARCH + DESIGN PZI - PIET ZWART INSTITUTE (Willem de Kooning Academie) ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS 2010 - 2013 BACHELOR IN INTERIOR DESIGN IED - ISTITUTO EUROPEO di DESIGN TURIN, ITALY
skills 3D STUDIO MAX AUTOCAD ILLUSTRATOR INDESIGN PHOTOSHOP SKETCHUP + VRAY SKETCHING MODEL MAKING
publications DOMUSWEB.IT - “Next Habitat” (2015) ARTSTHREAD.COM - “Milan15: Piet Zwart Institute, Next Habitat” (2015) LSN:GLOBAL.COM - “Precious Resources” (2015) TRENDNOMAD.COM - “Sweet Screens” (2015) AXISMAGAZINE.COM - (2015) BLOGIT.TIKKURILA.FI - “Trend Direction of the Design Milan Week” (2015)
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contents The Villa 6 Niasstraat House Renovation 16 SPF Sugar Protection Filter 20 |E|scape 26 People Make the City 34 Book Crossing 38 Home 01 44 The Luxury of Seeing Beyond 50
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The Villa The landscape house in collaboration with cc-studio
A new build of 300sqm in the countryside of Amsterdam, a large open space to allow the family members to be always visually in touch, an indooroutdoor feeling seamlessly and a warm and raw taste for materials. Based on the client brief, the ongoing project consists of two volumes stacked one on the other. Conforming to the building regulations, the villa is adjacent to the lower perimeter of the plot and buried 1,5m in the ground. These strategies maximise the qualities of the site which results into a spacious garden. The terrace-garden located on the top of the basement creates an interaction with the living room and, like a ribbon, connects the upper level and the lower level. Reachable through stones-in-cage steps, the continuous landscape carries to the guest room front faรงade and introduces the enclosed barbecue spot. In order to create the desired indoor-outdoor living experience, two large trees are planted at the core of the villa. Nestled in a light well, a grassy border decorates the bathroom that visually connects the kids bedrooms. The green approach brings a sense of health and well being as well as improves the air quality of the indoor environment. The idea for the materials includes a combination of exposed concrete for the underground block and wooden panels of CLT for the higher block. The correspondence between interior and exterior materials strengthens their visual continuity.
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Master bedroom, kids bedrooms and guests room are all located in the basement floor. By partially buried the volume, the house takes advantage of the thermal inertia that naturally adjust the indoor temperature. Furthermore, the dwellings can enjoy a pleasant thermal comfort and maintain the privacy required.
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The “L” shape upper volume features large windows and a rounded glass that break up the north-facing façade. These allow the natural daylight to flood throughout the entire open space. From the main entrance to the dining room, the “bridge” gives the view of the underneath inner garden and the trees.
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Niasstraat House Renovation A pleasant greenery environment in collaboration with cc-studio
The renovation seeks to exploit the rear garden of a private apartment located in the eastern area of Amsterdam. To aim the client’s request, the garden is embedded in the living room from the surface area approach as well as the conceptual one. The horizontal vegetation removed is replaced by a cascading green façade. The wide range of climbing plants frames the floor-to-ceiling sliding windows encouraging a comfortable living environment with abundant daylight. Plants run into the living room and create the cozy and intimate corner that is half meter lower than the original floor. The natural greenery is opposed to the artificial one. A soft tone of pastel green is used throughout the entire apartment to emphasize its volumes and bring a rhythmic and geometric taste. The extension of the sculptural sitting place underlines the conversation between the interior and exterior environment. The hidden desk and the pin-up cork surface characterized the studio as a wall-less room when it is needed.
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SPF Sugar Protection Filter MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2014 | NEXT HABITAT in collaboration with Tinka Jongerius
The use of artificial light has led to a pollution of the interior with light waves followed by negative consequences for the human body. Its exposure to blue light results in a melatonin suppression, which disrupts our circadian rhythm and causes i.e. sleeping disorders. To counter this development SPF proposes filters made of sugar — a soon overproduced commodity in the Netherlands — in a range of orange shades that are based on the natural process of caramelization. Sugar, as a normally unhealthy matter hereby transforms into an organic protector of the human body.
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The range goes from a minimum temperature of 120 degrees to a maximum temperature of 155 degrees. Each temperature corresponds to a different and more amber gradation of orange. The layer of caramelized sugar is poured between two layers of plexiglass. The blue light test is a criteria of comparison to assess the effectiveness of blue wavelenghts blocking tools. By putting the sugar filter in front of a device the upper and the lower colour spectra appear very similar.
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|E|scape THE ARCHITECTURE OF INTIMACITY Master Thesis 2015-16
This master thesis questions the present matrix of domesticity by analyzing the social dynamics that inhabit our lives in our personal territory. My research and conclusions led me to define the architecture of intimacy as “a space of flow�. The current domestic lifestyle influenced by socio-cultural attitudes (co-habitation, reintroduction of work and proliferation of technology), makes our personal territory and us crowded and hyper-stimulated by a continuos flux of public data and information. But, the contemporary infrastructures that we lived and experience do not respond to the implications registered. Thus, the architecture of intimacy needs to be revised based on our necessities according to the present notion of privacy. The spatial layout proposed reverses the traditional and binary (on-off) classification between the private sphere and the public sphere into a space characterized by the confluence of degrees of privacy. |E|scape is a spatial installation that allows to experience the negotiation between sight, sound and proximity. As a gradient of intimacy, you find your nest that can be temporary privatized.
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The installation consists of a wood structure where more than one hundred parallelepipeds made out of polyurethane foam create a geometrical pattern. The visual is not the only sense that the spatial configuration involves. The compression and extension of the modules, which differ in proportion, dimension and direction, shape the aural pattern as well. The varying horizontal and vertical layering dampens and scatters the surrounding sound. As a result, the perception of proximity will be altered. The listener will have the feeling of a major or minor distance with the sound sources.
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The design and its variation of empty spaces attempts to encourage or discourage the user’s interaction with the surrounding environment. Indeed, spotting enclosures comunicate the choice of escape from unwanted interference, both visual and sonic.
Polyurethane foam is a common absorptive material whose insulating properties work by two directions (absorption and reflection). The purpose is to reduce the aural stimulus but not completely eliminate them. Because of the aromatic isocyanate components, polyurethane foam discolors after UV light exposure. What initially it may seem as an aesthetical degradation gives and addictional value to the design project by making it an installation in progress. 29
Once outlined the attributes that the module embodies, they can be amplified and extended to the whole domestic apparatus. Through a speculative perspective, the new domesticity is a geometrical pattern of filters whose dynamic variation draws gradients of privacy.
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People Make the City WORLD INTERIORS Case study for the Rotterdam World Expo 2025
In 2025, Rotterdam wants to host the World Expo with the theme “Changing Currents - Deltas in Transition”. Starting from this conceptual scenario we were asked to rethink and explore a new definition of an exhibition and information pavilion. The location of the project is the Akragon Tower on Heer Bokelweg near to the Hofplein in the center of Rotterdam. The project shows the necessity to surpass the idea of national pavilions and downsize their expression of national identity to a more democratic level. The level where this identity is shaped. The city level. The process of making city identity is based on the intrinsic relation between people and cities. Cities are not only the final manifestation of this mechanism but they reveal it through urban archetypes. Corners, streets and squares are the lens of legibility for the gradual process which involves different steps. Corner reminds the role of citizens as individuals. Street highlights the moment in which citizens meet each other and cooperate. Square is the public space where people gather in space and time. The Akragon Tower contains this urban pattern. The ceiling, an up-side-down city grid, is the guideline to develop and arrange the building. “People Make the City” is a progressive journey aims to make visible and the visitors aware of their role as makers of city’s identity.
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Starting from the top, the three floors describe the steps that characterized the process. Individuality, cooperation and sharing. The levels are connected through transitional spaces. Empty spaces whose role is to enhance the ceiling through black beams. In each spaces the external view is neglected because only at the end of the process the visitors meet the vivid outcome. The real City. LEVEL I - INDIVIDUALITY Visitors have to find their own path by moving semitransparent vertical elements. The materiality feature makes people conscious of the presence of others. LEVEL II - COOPERATION From individuality to cooperation. From vertical to orizontal. Visitors can experience the space moving elements which are fixed and mobile. The process of making city identity is reciprocal. By adapting the body to the space visitors have to cooperate because of the size and the heaviness of the elements. LEVEL III - SHARING This is the space where the third dimension takes place from the spacial and temporal point of view. Transparent extruded cubes develop from the ceiling by describing an ideal dome. Underneath it visitors gather and spend time.
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Book Crossing GARDEN DESIGN Case study for the Michelotti Park (Turin)
in collaboration with Anna Sardi, Cecilia Corda, Ilaria Di Dato
The project arises from the opportunity to regenerate the Michelotti Park in Turin and, in particular, the area used to the zoo until 1987. The new function aims to create a link and extension of the Geisser library, network for the citizens. The site becomes, thus, a locus amoenus where seeking refuge from the bustle of the city and engaging the pleasure of reading and sharing. The entry, a path in concrete steps, is accompanied by a vertical carpet in natural moss. The green circular perimeter totally envelops people during their entrance.
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The seeming unstable shape of an unconventional chaise longue. An interior furniture placed in an outdoor environment. The chair is in perfect harmony with the surrounded landscape. The double funcionality makes it a feature in the green space. The seat is made of engineered wooden planks with a books storage underneath. The engineered wood is a fully recyclable product obtained through the production process that uses residues of woodworking. 41
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Home 01 HOME DESIGN “I’m late / I’m late / For a very important date”.
Designed for a young independent student, the arrangement of the apartment differs from the traditional partition. The presence of two parts, the living area and the sleeping area, enhances the open space. Custom-made spaces and furniture personalise the interior. The walk-in wardrobe placed behind the bed is fully opened and reduced to a single tubular steel structure. Two plexiglass back-lit panels make the closet lighter visually. The house is limitless to be lived with freedom. The living space is characterized by an iron frame made of glass panels 90x70 cm. Each panel are held by iron stands and they can be opened through magnet. Below the mezzanine there is a layer of grass inhabited by a white rabbit, the young man’s housemate.
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The traditional concept of “bathroom� is completely surpassed by a new and modern shape. Conceived as a box within a box, the bathroom is placed inside an industrial recycled container. It is a partition element between what is public (the living area) and what is private (the sleeping area). The inner division follows this shift: first the guest bathroom then the master bathroom with direct connection with the bedroom. Owner and friends share only the bathroom suite. The passage from the public to the private space looks like a rectangular volume, a raw monolith made of reinforced concrete. A suffused light from fluorenscent tubes illuminates the all corridor.
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The Luxury of Seeing Beyond WHEN LUXURY IS PURELY FUN Bachelor Thesis 2012-13
in collaboration with Cecilia Corda and Ilaria Di Dato
The redesign of the 5-stars hotel Golden Palace in Turin comes from the opportunity to reverse the conventional idea about luxury as attitude of the superfluous satisfaction. The concept is to provide people an unexpected experience rather than a luxury product. The experience concerns temporary disorientation and astonishment through perceptual illusions. By definition perception is the psychological function that through the senses allows us to receive and interpret information from the outside world. The tools used to achieve the concept are the shift from two-dimensional to three-dimensional and vice versa, the use of physical and aesthetic feature of materials and the abolition of cultural archaic cogniton. Visual, formal and cognitive are the three levels with which the user is involved in the space.
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At the ground floor, we have taken into consideration the common areas: hall, bar area, lounge area and corridors. The reception desk appears like a vertical extension of the floor. The background has the same geometrical concept with decorative and functional features both. This chromatic dialogue results in a formal dematerialization of the two in a single element. Three hues decompose the decorative cube on the floor whose horizontal expansion organizes the space arrangement. The central long table is the protagonist of the lounge area. The presence of few steps on one side disorients the users who wonder if it is a space where eating or walking. This temporary doubt is accentuated by an acrylic mirror that gives the illusion of a suspended table.
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All typologies of the private spaces have been redesigned by working with a formal and cognitive approach. The seat continues the recurrent aesthetic theme which characterized the entire interior space, the diamond shape. From the seat to the desk, this functional link creates an effect of suspension. The optical illusion is highlighted by the graphic pattern. The geometrical wallpaper merges the couch and the sidewall togheter.
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A sliding multifunctional bedside table can turn into a working desk. Thus, the user easily interacts with the surrounding furniture, creating an environment always different in an enjoyable way. A non-invasive light sheets replace the traditional lamp table.
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