Francesca Cisaria portfolio

Puglia, Italy

francesca cisaria | portfolio 2018 - 2022

CONTENTS

C.V. / Curriculum vitae

Architectural project / Be Gatherd Tower

Interior design project / Mercato Fusina: un mercato da riscoprire

Structural and sustainable project / The Sustainable Student House

Urban design project / Parco Italia, Bioconnections

Urban design project / Criss Cross HUB

Restoration project / The Stronghold of Arquata del Tronto

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Via Benedetto Marcello 18 20124 Milano, MI

Via Angelo Solari 2 72107 Ostuni, BR cisariafrancesca@gmail.com francesca.cisaria@mail.polimi.it +39 3459434567

Francesca Cisaria

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Booking manager and Responsible of incoming July 2019 - To Date

Booking and management of the website and instagram page of two accommodation facilities in Ostuni, Puglia. Responsible for the reception and accompaniment of guests in the facilities. Casa le Mura. http://www.lacalce.it/casa-le-mura-ostuni/ Casa la Calce. http://www.lacalce.it/casa-la-calce-ostuni/

Internship - Studio Flore architettura, Ostuni BR February 2021 - June 2021

Intern at “Flore studio”, firm of architecture and design. The firm is located in the city of Ostuni in Puglia and deals with the design and restoration of typical Apulian structures, such as trulli, masserie and historic buildings. Worked on the development of a restoration project, starting from the analysis and redesign in plan, section, elevation and 3D model.

Internship - IMIEL/METTINLUCE, Ceglie Messapica BR June 2020 - August 2020

Mettinluce, a brand of Imiel A&G s.r.l., was founded in 2012 with the aim of creating a centre specialized in lighting, technological innovation and design and for over 40 years leader in the distribution and sale of electrical equipment. I worked there as a designer and I especially did a lighting job of a wine cellar.

EDUCATION

Exchange (Postgraduate) Non-Award at University of Western Australia (Perth). 27/02/2023 - 17/06/2023

Master of Science in ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN at Politecnico di Milano (Milano). September 2021 - To Date

Bachelor of Science in ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN at Politecnico di Milano (Milano). September 2018 - September 2021

First degree in ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN at Politecnico di Milano (Milano). Thesis: SITE AND SERVICE: UN’ALTERNATIVA ALL’ABITARE INFORMALE. “Sites and Services: An alternative to informal living” Grade: 110/110 22/09/2021

Diploma, Classic High School A.Calamo, Ostuni (BR) September 2013-June 2018

ABOUT ME

Adobe Autocad

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Rhino - Rhinoceros 3D

Lumion 3D Rendering Software

Sketchup Pro

Skiing and mountain walks Diving Making maquettes

Photography Editorials

Travel Cooking italiian food

Politecnico di Milano- 2022

BE GATHERED TOWER: A place for everybody

Architectural design studio. Milan,Italy.

team: F.Cisaria, A. Loney

prof : N. Bassoli, S. Tropea

Typology 6

Typology 5

Typology 4

Typology 4

Typology 3

Typology 3

Typology 2

Typology 1

Be Gathered is a tower located in the Crescenzago neighborhood in Milan. And old area that back in the 50´s had a big urban sprawl with working class houses. Nowadays people who live here are the former tenants and foreign families.

Be Gathered Tower has been designed to create a new green and social complex capable of integrating the old buildings with the new tower and develop 10% (420 sqm)of the capacity for public interest functions and 90% (3.780 sqm) devoted to residential use programs.

The tower is composed by 3 common terraces, (one of them unified with the main old building), vertical distribution of the tower (composed by elevator and stairs), the House of culture (in the first floors before the first terrace) and the housing. The combination of open and closed spaces like balconies, common spaces and terraces provides the best solution for adapting to the life experiences of different groups of inhabitants by generating a transition space between nature and the human living environment. We can understand how the structure is working and the composition on the walls, by the articulation between housing and common space which is the terrace. The materiality is formed by the rhythm of the 3 terraces (6m) and apartments (3m). The materiality is constructed with the same materials.

Politecnico di Milano- 2020

MERCATO FUSINA: UN MERCATO DA RISCOPRIRE

Architectural and interior design project: Fusina market in Milan, Italy.

prof : Roberto Rizzi, Silvia Cattiodoro

Perspective section

The plan provides for the requalification of the current market Fusina in Milan, currently used only to the purchase and sell alimentary products. The project is characterized by the presence of differences in height both inside and outside that allow to reach the different environments of the sale and sociality through ramps, steps and an elevator. The outdoor square is located at a low altitude and allows direct access to the market. As soon as you cross the threshold you are on a ramp that leads to a lowered central environment at -0.55 m. This route draws a slightly raised perimeter space that becomes itself a point of sale. On top of it, in fact, there are stables that allow the sale on one side and form a double skin of the building itself. They are all around the route and alternate with other set-up elements such as metal grids and bookcases. In the central part stands the core of the main stables ( butcher shop, fish shop, fruit and vegetables, bakery and fresh pasta) and the block of services and staircases.

Mercato Fusina: un mercato da riscoprire

Chiara Cicirello, Francesca Cisaria, Matteo Oggionni PIANTE E SEZIONI IN SCALA 1:50

The central sales core consists of five aggregated and chained stalls that work all together. Externally, they have a light wood and laminate cladding in beige and dark grey lacquer. The whole core is surrounded by an upper band on which the signs are affixed. The stalls open and close by means of sliding tracks placed on the floor in order to give access to the sellers. Following the analysis of the existing building and the consequent development of the architectural project, the Fusina Market now assumes a new identity. It has a much more defined role within the neighborhood and, through the redevelopment of indoor and outdoor environments, allows all brackets of the population to live during the different hours of the day. The market is no longer just a place of commercial exchange but becomes a more complex and organized entity that hosts the most varied activities. The layout is accurate and detailed and makes the market attractive, inclusive and familiar.

Zoom- First floor and section

Politecnico di Milano- 2022

THE SUSTAINABLE STUDENT HOUSE Construction and Sustainability Design Studio Milan, Italy

team: F.Cisaria, A. Colombo, S. Horakoava, D. Peralta

prof : Daniele Fanzini, Giuliano Dall’O

Urban masterplan 1.500

The Sustainable Student Housee is a project part of the urban regeneration plan of Milan. Nowadays, indeed, the area is an abandoned site once used as railway station in the South-East of the city. Since the site plan is huge, the design concept is a complex archtectural object that is translated into a single long narrow building hosting various functions. It is a big system where every spaces work together and provide new functions to the district, especially cultural and social ones. Due to this, one of the main goals is to design a new meeting point that could be an attractive spot for every category of people. In the center of the site we can see a big underground square that allows the entrance to the pubic and semi-public facilities. On the opposite site the external space is mainly designed for students and for who is gonna live there. The gren area not only provides an efficient noise protection from the stret but it’s also a way to make Milan greener and implement public spaces.

As for the architectonical project, the main goal is to design a sustainable building and achive a high LEED level. For this reason, a steel structure and dry materials with an external alluminium cladding are used. The main feature that guarantees the flexibility of the space and a good indoor enviromental quality is the presence of winter gardens on the facades.

Groundfloor 1.100

section and facade 1.20

Politecnico di Milano- 2021

PARCO ITALIA - BIOCONNECTIONS

Urban design studio: Puglia, Italy.

team: F.Cisaria, V. Forese, A. Loney, A. Schmitz

prof : Stefano Boeri

The goal of the project is to create biological corridors to conceive new habitats for plants and animal species whilst increasing green areas throughout Italy. The work summarises the main intervention projects and shows how they are connected to the different natural areas in Puglia. The Gargano and Alta Murgia national parks are the areas with a high grade of wilderness and biodiversity, with one or more habitats and species of interest at the regional level, which must be preserved to maintain vitality of biological populations between the different nodes of the network. These extensive environmental systems alone are able to ensure the maintenance of numerous and significant populations of flora and fauna and represent source areas for populations of the same species. Gargano park is linked to rivers and Alta murgia park is linked to Lame, Gravine and Valloni that are now dry rivers and are functional territorial areas to allow the connection, and the displacement of populations (animals and plants) between the area and within the main and secondary nodes. The goal of the project is to reforest these natural existing connections creating new habitats for trees and animals and new ecological paths for humans.

Collage- Two faced Puglia

ABANDONED SITES + INFARSTURCTURE

PUGLIAS ECONOMY

AIR, SOIL + WATER POLLUTION

EXISTING STRUCTURES + TERRITORIES

SOIL, LANDSCAPE + FORESTS

LAMA, GRAVINE, VALLONI

URBAN AND DEGRADED AREAS

BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEMS

NATURE, ECOSYSTEMS + CITIES

AGRICULTURE + FOOD PRODUCTION

Through reforestation and phytoremediation the project aims to depollute industrial areas and make greener the abandoned industrial areas and parts of the cities. Connections are somewhere interrupted, so the project would aim to reconnect them to big national parks through existing roads and the creation of buffer zones. The buffer zones also provide for small areas of forest, small water collections. These are particularly sensitive to external pressures, but close to them, such as alteration of the hydrographic grid, increase in noise…

Section- topography of lama 30 year reforestation evolution

Xylotheque

Oil lab

Boardwalk

Tree house

Politecnico di Milano- 2020 CRISS CROSS HUB

Gruppo n° 8

Francesca Belmonte, Alice Bronzato, Alessandra Bruno,

Urban design studio: Milan, Italy.

CRISS CROSS

POLITECNICO DI MILANO

team: F.Cisaria, F.Belmonte, A.Bronzato, A.Bruno

ARCHITETTURA URBANISTICA INGEGNERIA DELLE COSTR UZIONI

prof : Maddalena Buffoli, Pietro Chierici, Marika Fior

Prof. sa Marika Fior

Prof. Pietro Chierici

Collaboratori: Arch Luca Dondossola Arch Andrea Brambilla Arch Silvia Magili

The project is concentrated in the area C of the “statale” district in Milan and is called Criss Cross Hub. It literally means “crossing”, considered as a meeting place, because it fully represents the design intent: intersecting functions that can vivify the neighborhood and at the same time be tied up to it through the intersection of axes, which are then the main routes of entry to the area. This will lead to the creation of a charity Hub, operating in the health sector. First, the role of this space in the urban whole was studied, with particular attention to what it represented for the neighborhood over time. From this analysis derives the will not to distort this environment, but to maintain in part the functional use that has characterized its history bringing it back to life through a new engine. In fact, it was decided to keep the historical buildings constrained, whilst thinking about their regeneration, through the predisposition of synergic but not univocal functions, that compensate those already opened in the neighborhood to enlarge the user base and transform Città Studi in a plural place.

PROGETTO DI RIGENERAZIONE URBANA NELL’AREA CITTÀ STUDI DI MILANO

Area C dell’Università Statale

The continuity of the university poles of Statale and Politecnico is guaranteed by the opening of Via Celoria that becomes a Shared Street, extends like a public carpet and evolves in a meeting place for the two realities. In turn, the sports infrastructure network, including the Jurors who recently acquired a new face, permeates the project area providing complementary services, such as post-sports rehabilitation. Another theme addressed is health and hospitalization, which comes close to the presence of hospital institutions that have constituted a strong identity for the neighborhood, and whose transfer strongly questions the role of Città Studi as an attractor. For this reason, the presence of a Health Center and other health facilities will be able to compensate for that dreaded future void. An investigation on the needs of the residents of the neighborhood, closer to a commercial area, was made, and this led to the placement of activities related to sales and consumption at the top and at the bottom of the area, especially in relation to the food sector, which is in continuity with the local weekly markets and is supported by the km0 cultivation inside the area. This new urban organism acquires strength thanks to the extension of the project, which does not close on itself but continuously tries to connect to the neighborhood on different fronts. In particular, it is the axis of Via Colombo, which has become pedestrian in the portion adjacent to the lot, that supports the entire system, connecting to the two metro stations M2 and M4 and the two main meeting points for the district: you find Piazza Leonardo in the north, which is meeting place for young students, and in the south South Piazza Guardi, that is an area popular amongst families.

team: F.Cisaria, E. Celegon, M. Colantoni, M. Smoter, M. Sonzogni prof : D. Del Curto, A. Bianchi

Maquette

West facade 1.50

south facade 1.50

The Fortress of Arquata del Tronto in the Marche region is an imposing structure that rises on the crag to the north of the historic center. It represents a typical example of military architecture in the Apennines Area. Its foundation is between the eleventh and the twelfth century, an initial phase of embankment which undergoes a gradual and progressive increase in structures to enhance the functionality of the fortress. The seismic events in 20162017 have compromised the Rocca, with large collapses that currently make the complex unusable. The intention is to undertake new restoration work, setting up a school construction site; this could represent a virtuous example to favor the rebirth of Arquata del Tronto, so strongly hit by the earthquake, through a project for the enhancement of its architectural heritage. Our project followed a stylistic restoration of the missing parts. To begin with, the team started to analyze the historical stratification, the decays and the strcuture of the castle. Afterward, the proposal has been to follow the original steps of construction : to rebuild the scaffolding, to reconstruct the wooden passage on the top of the external wall and the polygonal tower that was completelly destroyed, to reproduce the old merlons on the main tower and to make again the castle accesible, even for people with disablities.

Sections: before and after 1.20 Masterplan and urban section 1.200

Legend:

Missing part

Fragmentation

Cracks

Moss Discolouration

Erosion

Lichen

NORTH FACADE

WOODEN WALKWAY

Francesca Cisaria cisariafrancesca@gmail.com francesca.cisaria@mail.polimi.it