francesco de felice portfolio
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profile born in novara in 1980. after a classical education at high school got graduated in architecture at the politecnico di milano in 2006. i spent my first year of specialization at CVUT in prague, and two months at CUJAE in the havana to develop the bachelor’s final project in urban planning and architecture. in 2005 started working in a graphic design and fashion photography studio, lo studio, and after an experience in an architecture, design, art and fashion gallery, anthologie quartett, set in hannover, worked in outfitting of public spaces at digit studio. met barreca&lavarra in 2008 and since then I am senior architect and develop medium and big scale projects including residential, corporate, contract interior and furniture design up to landscape design. i try to keep an eye on my personal vision of architecture developing private assignment with a variety of works like renovation of private villas, retail and store design, residential buildings and corporate with dfp architetti. i spend my spare time reading, travelling and trying to represent reality with pictures, paintings and drawings.
career data professional tasks schematic design
n째 of works for each voice
34
design development
22
construction design
08
outfit and furniture design artistic direction work direction
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works done built ongoing
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projects competitions
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work experience 2008-2013 . senior architect for studio barreca&lavarra, milano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
residential tower, ulaanbaatar, mongolia - apu residential settlement and sport facilities, ulaanbaatar, mongolia - himon srl via tintoretto residential building, milano - botta costruzioni bosco verticale residential building, milano - hines italia kerama marazzi showroom and residence, nizhny novgorod, russia - kerama marazzi kerama marazzi offices, moscow - kerama marazzi vie d’acqua for expo 2015, milano - metropolitana milanese spa siemens real estate headquarter, milano - bnp paribas nova - new mixed use settlement in ulaanbaatar, mongolia - termigas spa italian living culture, ulaanbaatar, mogolia - termigas spa sport center in ulaanbaatar, mongolia - termigas spa les fonds belval multisport center, luxembourg - les fonds belval housing settlement, appiano gentile - meraviglia spa office building renovation, milano - prelios real estate corso garibaldi 99 office building renovation, milano - prelios real estate domus academy and naba offices restoration, milano - laureate international universities siemens office building renovation, casteggio - siemens real estate l’arrivo hotel building renovation, milano - reale mutua assicurazioni siemens offices, genova - bnp paribas shopping center, cinisello balsamo - filcasa spa office building renovation, via filzi milano - bnp paribas rcs - corriere della sera headquarter, milano - pirelli real estate siemens real estate headquarter, milano - siemens real estate via cenni social housing, milano abitarECOstruire - social housing, pesaro royal sun alliance offices, genova - rsa insurance ltd royal sun alliance offices, milano - rsa insurance ltd public kindergarten and masterplan , abbiategrasso - essedue spa a&s shop in the shopping center, cinisello balsamo - filcasa spa oreste granillo stadium, reggio calabria - reggina calcio spa
2008 . collaboration with anthologie quartett, hannover . salone del mobile, euroluce 2008 . macef 2008 2007 -2008 . collaboration with digit associati - milano . villoresi ovest autogrill service area, milano - autogrill spa . zurich headquarter infographic and signage system, milano - zurich insurance group . via frua house, milano - private client 2005 - 2006 . designer for lo studio - milano . le posate prototype - zani&zani . trade fair and conference for the interior design market, abitare il tempo 2006, verona - fiere di verona . terrace villa, hong kong - private client 2007 - 2013 personal works - dfp architetti . . . . . . . . . . . . .
gaverina terme masterplan and development - private client patio houses #1, milano - private client casa paolin, milano - private client helsinki table - xyzdesign casap, milano - private client lomography flagship store, milano - lomography spa patio houses #2, milano - private client small living in s. eustorgio, milano - private client competition for new building access for villa della regina, torino competition for the theatre of nouvelle comedie, geneve country house, varsaw - private client competition for social dwellings and welfare services , fano square bar, milano - private client
education 1994 -1999 . classical A level degree at liceo classico statale carlo alberto, novara 1999 -2006 . graduation at politecnico di milano - final project: il caribe mediterraneo the havana, cuba supervisors: prof. arch. vincenzo donato, prof. arch. vittorio garatti 2003. scolarship erasmus at c.v.u.t, prague (first year of specialization) 2011. master course in photography journalism at polifemo fotografia, milano 2013. enrolled in the second year at the scuola superiore di arti applicate del castello sforzesco, milano
personal skills and competences mother tongue: italian other languages: english* understanding, C2 level (proficient user) speaking, C1 level (proficient user) writing, C1 (proficient user) spanish understanding, B1 level (independent user) speaking, B1 level (independent user) writing, B1 (independent user) * common european framework of reference for languages software: mac os x, windows programs: office suite, adobe suite, autocad, 3ds max, sketchup 2008 . member of the ordine degli architetti, pianificatori, paesaggisti e conservatori della provincia di milano 2013 . member of FAI, fondo ambiente italiano, volunteer architect
rcs headquarter
B
task: artistic direction
status typology client location year area design firm
built offices pirelli real estate milano 2008-2010 12.500 sqm studio barreca&lavarra
close view of the east facade module
B5 building is part of a sector under construction , destined to the headquarters of a major Italian publishing house, Rizzoli Corriere della Sera Mediagroup, which relocated its offices in an area north-east of Milan. The building faรงade have the primary purpose to provide an element of continuity with the surrounding buildings. The entire building is covered with silk-screened glass plates and additional vertical glass cornices.
siemens pilot paradigm shift
B
task: outfit and furniture design
status typology client location year area design firm
built offices siemens real estate milano 2010 - 2011 500 sqm studio barreca&lavarra
informal meeting space
Pilot Paradigm Shift is a pilot project that experiments a new office concept applying new modes of interpersonal relationship between the employee and the workplace. The suggestion on which we have worked comes from our client specific needs: a non-territorial office where the relationship between user and workstation responds to a modern and dynamic conception of the working space.
royal sun alliance offices milano
B
task: schematic design . design development . construction design . work direction
status typology client location year area design firm
built offices royal sun alliance milano 2009-2010 1.500 sqm studio barreca&lavarra
main conference room
A hybrid space made of open work spaces, common rooms and shared services. The work moves through space. Following this concept paths, work spaces, meeting rooms, service areas, recreational and socialization are defined in their own function and identity but at the same time are integrated together within an articulated open space.
royal sun alliance offices genova
B
task: schematic design . design development . construction design . work direction
status typology client location year area design firm
built offices royal sun alliance genova 2008-2009 2.500 sqm studio barreca&lavarra
main entrance and lobby
The modern office should be a reassuring “area of work and representation� that makes employees feel involved in the corporate plan, and at the same time it should be a welcoming environment for customers, consultants and visitors. We have turned a few functional elements into representational and characterization devices representing and characterizing the spaces and thus, implicitly, the company itself.
kerama marazzi offices
B
task: schematic design . design development . construction design . artistic direction
status typology client location year area design firm
built offices kerama marazzi moscow 2012-2013 2.000 sqm studio barreca&lavarra
main entrance and lobby
We considered three essential factors which together contribute synergistically to create a place: efficiency, flexibility and quality. So we avoided to create a disparity between workspaces because no one of them is more important than the other, but they are all included in a composite space where it is visible a systematic succession of functions instead of a strict hierarchy in which the individual parts are boxed.
via savona art gallery
B
task: schematic design . design development . construction design . work direction
status typology client location year area design firm
built exhibition private milano 2013 25 sqm dfp-architetti
exhibition space
The need to design a space without a precise connotation, the aim of giving a definition to a container of multiple events have have led to precise design choices. The limit of a tangible floor swells through the optical effect given by the glossy resin, the portals of light, replicated on the mirrors, extend the physical limits of space, giving to the visitor the impression of seeing just a part of a bigger space.
lomography flagship store
B
task: schematic design . design development . construction design . work direction
status typology client location year area design firm
built retail lomography italia spa milano 2010 120 sqm dfp-architetti
lounge area
The project concerns of a renovation of commercial space on two levels located close to the Brera district. Client is the Lomography srl, a company that produces analogue cameras based in Vienna, which, after opening offices in major capitals of the world, inaugurated in Milan its italian flagship store.
shopping center addition
B
task: schematic design . design development . construction design . work direction
status typology client location year area design firm
built retail filcasa service srl milano 2010 1.700 sqm studio barreca&lavarra
multistorey parking facade
The Shopping Center is one of the first shopping malls built in Italy in 1974. Since 2001, through a series of subsequent interventions, the mall has changed its appearance. The aim of the project is to maximize the presence of the parking lot that becomes a landmark overlooking one of the most important streets in the northern Milan. On this commercial road, logos and banners create an ever changing street front.
bosco verticale
O
task: artistic direction
status typology client location year area design firm
on going residential hines italia milano 2010 - in progress 40.000 sqm boeri studio
towers street side view
Bosco Verticale is a project for metropolitan reforestation that contributes to the regeneration of environment and urban biodiversity without the implication of expanding the city upon the territory. This model of vertical densification ofnature within the city , currently under construction in the Garibaldi Repubblica area in Milan, will host an hectare of forest and the equivalent of an area of single family dwellings of nearly 50.000 sqm.
siemens spa headquarters
O
task: schematic design . construction practices
status typology client location year area design firm
ongoing exhibition siemens spa real estate milano 2008 - ongoing 80.000 sqm studio barreca&lavarra
top view inner courtyards
The 180,000 sq. meters master plan for the new Siemens headquarters in Milan, in its first phase includes 80,000 sq. meters of offices and services, and a 30,000 sq. meters public park. The proposal is based on a system of four courtyards arranged along an east-west axis. A solid three-story basement is interrupted by a series of towers and vertical elements of different heights.
patio houses #1
O
task: schematic design . design development
status typology client location year area design firm
ongoing residential private milano 2011 - ongoing 600 sqm dfp-architetti
private patio
The unfavourable conditions of the plot, stretched without exterior facing, combined with the landlord’s requests to create independent housing units, were the stimulus to find a design solution that could interpret and solve these premises. The design strategy is based on simple elements.Building on the edges, treated in different ways depending on the front, the alternation of solids and voids, in order to give privacy.
patio houses #2
O
task: schematic design . design development . construction design . work direction
status typology client location year area design firm
ongoing residential private milano 2012 - ongoing 400 sqm dfp-architetti
private patio
The project replaces an existing building for car repair shop with a three storeys building that is generated by an alternation of solids and voids that allows new housing units to look out exclusively on private patios. The access of individual flats is directly from the patios, distributed by a common walkway, illuminated by natural light coming from voids located between the units.
vie d’acqua for expo 2015
O
schematic design . design development
status typology client location year design firm
ongoing masterplan mm spa milano 2012 - ongoing studio barreca&lavarra
masterplan . intervention sites
Promoted by MM this conceptual project carried out for the 2015 EXPO involves different scales of intervention, starting from a urban scale masterplan, passing through the design of individual architectural artifacts up to the design of urban furniture and public services. The real connecting infrastructure is the water: an artificial canal and a cycling lane will link the historical city center to the international fair area.
italian living culture ulaanbaatar
O
task: schematic design . design development
status typology client location year area design firm
ongoing masterplan private ulaanbaatar - mongolia 2011 - ongoing 1.300.000 sqm studio barreca&lavarra
new city masterplan
Italian living culture is a masterplan marked by two fundamental elements. The first one is a strong integration with the landscape that respects the main characteristic of the place favouring the geometry of the ground and using the existing access system. The second is given by the variable density of the urban settlement, thath rarifies from the city center, built on flat ground, to the urban villas up on the surrounding hills.
via tintoretto residential building
O
task: schematic design . design development
status typology client location year area design firm
ongoing residential botta costruzioni milano 2013 2000 sqm studio barreca&lavarra
south facade
The theme of the isolated building on a plot has characterized entire urban parts of Milan, expecially during the 50s and the 60s. More than other zones, this neighborhood saw the development of this typology, with achievements of remarkable caliber which still today represent a model of great interest. The intervention is a fragment of a past time which comes back, updated to contemporary needs and standards.
cerba - european centre of advanced biomedical research
P
task: design development
status typology client location year area design firm
project medical research fondazione cerba milano 2009 62 ha boeri studio. land
masterplan
The European Centre for Advanced Biomedical Research is a project sponsored by the Cerba Foundation for the construction of a city of medicine for the purpose of combining clinical work, educational activities and a large advanced post-genomic research centre. The intent is to bring together some key clinical activities institutions around a single common services centre, in close contact with research and teaching activities.
l’arrivo hotel
C
mention
status typology promoter location year design firm
invite competition accomodation facilities reale mutua milano 2012 studio barreca&lavarra
street side view
This redevelopment project, following one the first request of the client, provides an important and integral improvement of the energy performance of the existing building to achieve the “A� energy class. Starting from this objective we designed a new facade that wraps the whole building and adapts its shape to the internal rooms modules and works either as a sunscreen and a strong architectural distinctive element.
liquid landscape
C
1st prize
status typology promoter location year design firm
invite competition mixed facilities reggio emilia admin. po river bank 2008 studio barreca&lavarra. yellow office
project area overall view . pier facilities system . program diagram
If we were to imagine a system of places for once again interacting with nature, with freedom, familiarity, confidence, ease and without going along the pre-packaged road of farm holidays, without falling into the trap of environmental theme parks, without lining up among the shelves full of goods in a shopping mall, the prime candidate for taking on this role is the Po river.
appiano gentile private housing
C
1st prize
status typology promoter location year design firm
invite competition residential meraviglia spa appiano gentile 2012 studio barreca&lavarra
The central green axis ensures environmental continuity to the existing plant system on the area, and through the planting of new trees, tries to build a small dense and continuous network of green spaces, meadows, hedges and trees. The project proposes a structured treatment of the living blocks that are meant to be a collective space, inhabited by community residents, both domestic and public.
photography
black and white film print
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photography
black and white film print
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drawing
ink on paper 2013
W
francesco de felice defelice.francesco@gmail.com skype: francesco.defelice80 mobile: +39 331 8453216
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