FRANCESCA PILATI DI TASSULLO | WORK IN PROGRESS . . .
Works 2005-present Architecture Portfolio
Francesca Pilati di Tassullo Guy Resident in Milan, Italy francescapilatiditassullo@gmail.com online portfolio at http://issuu.com/ francescapilatiditassullo
WORK EXPERIENCE ̶̶̶
- FREELANCE at Studio Associato Gobbi Marzatico (Milan) 05/2013 - present - JUNIOR ARCHITECT at Arons en Gelauff Architecten (Amsterdam) 03/2012 - 02/2013 - STAGIER at Studio Associato Gobbi -Marzatico (Milan) 02/2009 - 07/2009 - STAGIER at Amazing-studio (Milan) 09/2008 - 12/2008
EDUCATION ̶̶̶
- MASTER SCIENCE DEGREE at TU Delft 2009-2011 Graduated in Architecture and Dwelling 8/10 - BACHELOR DEGREE at Politecnico di Milano 2005-2008 Graduated in Construction of Architecture 110 summa cum laude/110 - SCIENTIFIC HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA at Liceo Leonardo da Vinci 2000-2005 Graduated in Scientific studies with Bilingual Specialisation 100/100
PROGRAMS COMPETENCES ̶̶̶
OPERATIVE SYSTEMS: - Windows XP/7/8 - Mac OS X PROGRAMS: - Autodesk Autocad - Adobe Illustrator (CS5) - Adobe InDesign (CS5) - Adobe Photoshop (CS4) - Adobe Acrobat (CS4) - Rhinoceros - Autodesk Maya - Google SketchUp - Vray plug-in - Maxwell plug-in - Quark Express - Microsoft Office - Open Office
LANGUAGES ̶̶̶
ITALIAN - mother tongue
AWARDS/ CERTIFICATES ̶̶̶
ENGLISH - Excellent knowledge of both written and spoken language
- 2005-2008 SCHOLARSHIP at Politecnico di Milano for academic merits.
DUTCH - Intermediate knowledge of both written and spoken language (A2 certificate completed)
- 2008 TOEFL exam 100/120
GERMAN - Elementary knowledge of spoken language and intermediate knowledge of written language
- 2007 Admission to ALTA SCUOLA POLITECNICA for academic excellency.
AT HOME IN THE CITY
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GRADUATION DESIGN
Housing design for Pohlstrasse, Berlin | 2010-2011 Tutor: D. van Gameren
The graduation design was carried out in the course of one year and it consisted of three main phases: research, concept development and design stage. We were immediately assigned the location for the project and the program: the task was to develop a housing complex in Berlin, located near the commercial area of Potsdamerstrasse. During the first stage we had to define the theme that we wanted to develope in our work and organise a theoretical research to acquire the knowledge in order to implement it in the conception and design process. The theme for the research was about how housing complexes can create a feeling of urbanity in the city. Urbanity means how to make a place recognizable as part of the city, therefore conveying to the citizen or observer a feeling of belonging to the place. The research was carried out focusing the attention on the role of the street as mediator between the house and the city and therefore as main actor in the relationshipp between the citizen and the city; the same theme was then implemented in the design process. The central role of the street shaped the approach to the urban strategy: an outer compact front to define the border of the street and reinforce the direction of the location opposed to a wavy and changable inner front to convey a homely and familiar feeling. In order to convey a precise identity to the project, sequences are created along the complex: airy cuts throught the compact street facade allow light to filter from the south, thus bringing a peculiar contrast shadow/light to the pedestrian walking along.
Northern facade: sequences of light and swadows while the observer moves along it.
STRATEGIES: * Interconnection of vertical and horizontal walk-ways: the galleries develop on different levels, thus creating a routing along the different “branches� of the complex. * Public and collective functions are scattered along the routing, thus enhancing its usage and converting the traffic space into functional routing.
1. The eastern courtyard and the walking path. The passing-through distribution core creates a visual connection between the different areas of the ensemble. 2. The eastern courtyard and the wooden galleries. The choice of materials and the architectural strategy mark this space as familiar.
3. The different bodies of the complex work as links between the collective functions scattered along the site. 4. South facade: horizontality and wooden materialisation shape a waved facade.
STRATEGIES: * The complex consists out of several bodies, connected by the distributive system. The main tools chosen to achieve identity is the use of sequences and contrast. * To the massive stone-and-plaster bodies are opposed weightless and light-filtering cores. * This device creates visual connections between all the spaces of the complex, marking at the same time the entrances and the walking paths.
5. Comparison of the materialization of street facade (facing north) and courtyard facade (facing south). The link between this two different aesthetics lays in the distribution cores.
6. The dwelling layout is developed into ten typologies, according to level-number (single-, double-, and triple-level) and to the entrance disposition (from a private terrace, from the collective gallery, and directly from a distribution core.) 7. Images from a single-level dwelling: a sequence of light and vertical openings, together with a focal point at the end of the path (in this case a large window) mark the entrance and the experience of moving through the house.
STRATEGIES: * The focus for the interior design is the creation of an organic path within every unit, in order to enhance the “feeling of home�. * The architectural strategies include sequences, different light conditions, chosen perspective to the outside. * Simplicity of materials and logical organisation: the owner has the possibility for customizing and for the choice of how to use the space, leading to a personal interpretation of home. * Flexibility allows the owners to choose for their own houseconfiguration, based on their own interpretation of privacy and openness.
8. Flexibility: every apartment is given two large living areas, which can be both open or closed with partitions and used either as living room or kitchen/ dining room.
ROOFSCAPE FOR A MARKET
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INTERIOR MASTER COURSE
Design for a public market, Rotterdam | Spring 2010 Tutor: L. Weber, E. Schreurs.
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1. The beamed portico towards the street mediates between the market ad the city itself. It also serves the purpose of hosting outside market stalls during the warm season. 2. North facade: he structure of the portico creates a woven canopy that marks the space underneath with a socially active atmosphere, inspired to Mediterranean markets
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The architectural approach has been developed by combining a functional, simple logistic scheme with a more artistic gesture. The design process merges a clear horizontal development with a waved vertical section. Another central theme is the buffer-zone between the building itself and the street on one side, and the park on the other side. To solve the issue of approach a wide open public gallery has been created, in order to offer an in-between area to mediate with the street.
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3. A simply logic plan makes sure that the market would work well, with all its people and goods’ fluxes. 4. Longitudinal section: the inner space of the market is marked with the same roofscape than the outside gallery, providing a continuum space which connects the street with the park.
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The task of this studio was to design a public market hall in Rotterdam, in an empty terrain named Afrikaanderplein now used as open air market. The central theme of the design is the creation of a piece of architecture capable of becoming a centre for the public life of the area. The strategy which i decided to embrace is based on the development of an exceptional building, which could become a landmark for the neighbourhood.
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VERTICAL CONNECTION
5. The market itself is a combination of rough concrete and warm wooden beams. The concrete is used fot both the structure and the flooring, providing a resistant material easy to clean. The roof itself is made out of poly carbonate panels, with a 60% degree of transparency, thus providing natural lighting for the building. NORTHERN FACADE | SCALE 1_20
STRATEGIES: * The wooden beams in the of the canopy help turning the building into a warm-atmosphere place, lessening the monumentality of the massive concrete arches. * The portico towards the street invite the visitor to enter, and mediates with the city. * Concrete has been chosen for the floor finishing and the arches in order to cope with the traffic and usage stress public markets have to undergo to. * Towards the park the structure lowers, in order to limit the amount of strong sunlight coming in, thus helping with the thermal regulation of the building.
SUSTAINABLE EXPANSION
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URBAN DESIGN COURSE
Design for the requalification of the South Milan fringe | 2006-2007 Tutor: F. Infussi
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Keys to the interpretation of the area: -Different kinds of buildings and their localization -Presence of a large amount of agricultural fields -Progressive transformation from agricultural activities to built areas -High density of the city’s outskirts and lack of relation between them and the agricultural fields -Lack of streets crossing the agricultural fields
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2. The re-qualification of the area situated in the south fringe of Milan is to be reached through the integrations of different means: energetic agriculture to increase the productivity’s value of the land, controlled residential expansions (the so called “wharfs”), and the realisation of scheduled interventions (among which the Metrobosco project, and the Cerba institute construction).
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The theme X1 of the Urbanism studio is the re-qualification of a large area of Milan’s outskirt. The area we chose This scheme shows a possible development to work on is the South portion just outside of the city. in three stages of the This area main feature is the “agricultural park”, which is a wharf. The construction of this device starts with protected agricultural productive park; this means that the the laying down of a central “spine”, which city cannot extend into it unless the new expansions meet constitute the beginning of the wharf. requirements. certain The strategy of the design starts from the re-definition of the city “fringes” (as the outskirt doesn’t have a specific shape or limit), implemented with the design of expansion devices: X2the “wharves”. These devises are like piers projected into the “sea” of the park, allowing its peopling while respecting its borders.
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A second strategy of the design carries out the requalification of the park itself, converting the now empty fields into energetic field, where bio-masses and natural oil are produced. Into the park are then integrated a few big projects which have been approved by the municipality of Milan: the Metrobosco and the Cerba Institute.
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STRATEGIES: * The “wharf” device allows to build new ruled development of Milan without endangering the agricultural park * This device re-defines at the same time the border of the city, (thus stopping the uncontrolled expansion of Milan into surfaces the park) and reviving the now-disconnected outskirt Half-public urban texture.
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HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN TURKEY Design for housing development in Samsun | Ongoing Design team: C. Sezer, F. Pilati, F. Driessen
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+ The location of this project is Samsun, a city of about half a million inhabitants in Turkey, on the Black Sea. The task of the project is to design about 8500 m² of luxury apartments. The interesting theme of this development is the integration of traditional Turkish way of living with ORGANİZASYONU large surface of each apartment. These apartments are 17 yet traditional customers, and indeed meant for wealthy 16 task for the team is to mediate between as such the main this two polarities. Each apartment is about 200 m², has a double living area (according to the Turkish traditional house), several terraces and a possibility for flexibility which follows the development over time of enlarged families. This complex is to be build into a new enclave of residential buildings, and therefore some additional public and collective functions are integrated in the design (a swimming pool, fitness area, shops, day care).
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back a grandparent, who moves in. In this situation the grandparent can have his/her own independent access and night area where to live.
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components: living area, night area and service area. This last one can be adapted accoring to the development in time of the family itself: as the children are small, a nanny can live into the house, having a separate access and connection with the children’s room.
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3. General floor plan of the tall building. The double “salon” is in accordance with the Turkish tradition of having a separate living are for guests and for family life.
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STRATEGIES: * The buildings’ different heights help creating an open enclave, sun-minded and fresh. * Adding collective functions will provide the complex with connections to the other new developments, avoiding the creation of a gated community. * Using the natural slope of the ground to create terraces will increase the usage of the open space.
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AN INTROVERTED APPROACH
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INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO
Design for temporary housing in via San Vincenzo, Milan | Spring 2010 Tutor: A. Cerri, I. Ottolini.
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STRATEGIES: * As the context offers no possibility for an interesting relation, the house is inwardly designed. * A complex section carved with patios, roof lights and terraces brings light into the apartments reducing at the same time visual connection with the context. * A very functional interior design allows to exploit to the maximum the reduced floor area of the units. 2. A complex inner section allows the creation of an interesting architecture in a very restricted context, both in terms of space that in terms of character.
The Interiors studio focused on the renovation of a urban void of small dimensions, located on the roof top of an exhisting building. As the area’s main function is residential and the street is a quiet, small street, it was decided to design temporary residences, in order to introduce some variation within the same frame. The urban strategy is to create a discreet intervention which could blend in the urban fabric of the neighbourhood. Nonetheless the volume of the building is not a compact one, but reflects the complexity of the inner disposition. The reference for this intervention is the contemporary Japanese architecture: because of the low quality of the context, the house focuses onto itself, without referring to what lies around it. Therefore the vertical development of the building is perforated creating inner patios and verandas, in order to create private outdoor spaces for the apartments.