Architecture
PORTFOLIO Francesco Ubiali 2019
A recent Master of Architecture graduate seeking an opportunity to develop and enhance my current foundation in architecture and design obtained at the University of East London. Motivated, detail-oriented and a self-starter, I am keen to acquire the highly valuable experience that comes with working on wide scale projects. Contributed to complex architectural design projects throughout my academic studies, with particular emphasis on projects relating to cohousing , self-built strategies and sustainability. Produced detailed and sophisticated construction and design drawings both by hand and using a variety of software. Strong knowledge of AutoCAD, Rhino, 3ds Max, V-ray, Sketch up, Adobe creative suite,. Participated in team-oriented projects and lead peers to project success while also excelling at independent roles. I am confident that my strong academic background, coupled with skills such as project leadership, time management, and excellent communication, in part obtained in previous employment, has afforded me the ability to excel in this challenging field.
Email: Francesco.Ubiali@hotmail.it Phone: +44 7506456131
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Basic info Francesco Ubiali 32, Elmshurst crescent - N2 0LP - London 27th May 1992 Italian
Education University of East London, UK MArch ARB/RIBA Part II Oct. 2017 - May 2019
Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy Bachelor of Science in Architecture Sept. 2012 - Feb. 2015
Technical institute for Surveyors, Italy Sept. 2008 - May 2012
Skills AutoCAD Rhino 3ds Max V-Ray SketchUp Adobe Creative Suite Microsoft Office Physical Modelling
Languages Italian (native) English (Fluent)
Certificates April 2017 - IELTS, Overall band score - 7 - level C1 May 2011 - PET (Preliminary English Test), level B1
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Sharing the future: an inter-generational co-housing scheme
To tackle the housing crisis that London is facing, this project aims to find a valuable and affordable co-housing scheme. Statistics report that the most affected people from gentrification are people with difficult situations in London society, such as single mothers, families with children and a low income, seniors or people with disabilities. Those people are being forced to move and to find cheaper options, even if it means to move to different cities or to make sacrifices such as quality of living, often resulting in health, mental and/or social problems. The sense of community which has being lost day by day in the biggest cities in the world is a value that this project wants to bring back, being the first reason why people would like to live in community. The project argues that to be able to continue through the time, avoiding like this architecture without future, a community need more than one type of users, creating a cycle of life. The project takes place in a peculiar site with many costraints, being a nature reserve. The Architecture is characterized by a private part (families appartments) and a communal one, in which the elderly accommodations are interlocked. Bearing in mind in each phase about the site,the project aim to use architectural technologies and solutions in order to meet both between users and site requirements.
A.y. 2018/2019 University of East London
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Critical plan
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Self-built strategy
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CIrcular saw
CNC machine
Roof secondary structure
Roof shingles
Ceiling planks
Internal cladding: wooden curved planks
Structural beam: 15x22.5x600 cm
Insulation
Plywood sheet
Concrete pile foundations
Eave protection
Roof cladding Wooden curled shingles
Structural column: 20x20 cm
Structural column: 30x30 cm
Secondary structure: 22.5x5x600cm
Concrete retaining wall
Floor screed
Concrete foundation
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Communal spaces chunk
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2D detail Internal cladding: curved wooden planks
Insulation: 125 mm
Insulation: 100 mm Ply wood sheet: 12mm Eave protection: 1,75mm External cladding: curled wooden shingles
Daytime Night time
Wooden flooring: 20 mm Carpet: 2 mm Ply wood sheet: 12 mm Acoustic insulation: 30 mm
Insulation 5% slope: 60 mm
Ply wood sheet: 12 mm
Insulation: 225 mm
Insulation: 60 mm Electricity / pipes space
Planed Oak Mantel R90
Internal cladding: wooden planks
Triple glazed window Polished concrete: 37 mm Heating pipes Dry sand: 30 mm Eave protection: 1,75 mm Ply wood sheet: 12 mm Insulation: 225 mm External cladding: Wooden shingles
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Environmental section
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Trafacka 2.0
As a result of all the vacant buildings, present in Prague, a lack of affordable housing and a high demand for cultural projects has occured. People have taken this matter in to their own hands and started autonomous social initiatives. Arguing for a more sustainable social platform, this building wants to deliver an architecture designed for any artist. Rather than have many single artists spread around the Czech territory, forced to face a high rent, often even without the proper space in which perform his/ her art, the project aim to gather many different artists in one architecture, permitting the artists to work in proper artist’s studios. The user will be free to enjoy the building, surrounded by many artists, everyone focus on his/her own specific art, creating a productive and stimulating atmosphere. The client will be free to use the exhibiton/gallery area to show and sell his/her own work, bringing a first earning. To reach, also, an economical autonomy, in the first two floors of the building will be present an educational area, where people can learn about many different arts, having the artists as tutors, and an art supply totally managed by them. The aim is to deliver something to the artist’s society, which in turn give something else back to the everyday society. An autonomous not standard space. A.y. 2017/2018 University of East London
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Critical plan
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Educational art studio Art supply Open workshop space - exhibition space Reception
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Circulation chunk
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Facade system Pre-cast cladding FRC - 5cm Spacer - 3cm Waterproofing Hard insulation 5% slope - 15cm Prefab. concrete slab - 20cm
Floor cassette + floor finishing - 4cm Underfloor heating PB pipework- 1,6cm Insulation - 3cm Prefab. concrete slab - 20cm
Cast in situ reinforced concrete - 20cm Waterproofing Insulation - 10cm Pre-cast cladding concrete slabs - 5cm Electricity cables - water pipes box
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Patio house
The project consist in a head patio house, in the particular district of Borneo Sporenburg, situated in Amsterdam. The environment and landscape design of the tutorial application is the former naval port of Amsterdam, while the theme of the project is inspired by the “free-parcels”, the row houses experienced towards the end of 2000. The patio house had to have a commercial function Included in the scheme. Given the head position of the house on the canal, the design is disposed in an introvert way to best enhance the available landscape. The patio house consists of three residential units and common parts: the landlord’s apartment occupying part of the first and second floor, enjoying a mezzanine bedroom, facing a double-height glazed; the accommodation of the guests, situated on the ground floor and the students apartments situated on the first and second floors. The house also has a literary cafe completely facing the canal. the materials used and the position of the window reflect the design desire of an introversion to the patio and the channel in the private sphere and, conversely, a total extroversion in the case of the literary café
A.y. 2013/2014 Polytechnic of Milan
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Volumetric development
Waterfront view
Main road view
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Ground floor
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Column: 25x50 cm RCK-300
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Insulation: - EPS 100 HD, 10 cm - ESP 100 HD, 4 cm
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Gutter: 10 cm- pvc
Dirty water drainage: 10 cm - pvc
7 Alveolater 12 Super H25: 12x25x50 cm
Alveolater: 25x35x19 cm
8 Resin flooring
9 Wooden flooring
10 Ceramic flooring
Concrete Bearing beam Perimetric beam
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Critical section
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Screed Floor heating system Insulation Concrete slab floor Smoothing layer EPS insulation Alveolater 25x35x19 cm Iglu Daliform Ventilation system
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Facades
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Phytoremediation project
The aim of the project is to use the constructed wetlands in the town of Ala in order to re-shape the landscape and solving, at the same time, some issues encountered during the analysis of the territory, the city and of the industrial cluster. The project is divided in 3 different main phases: the “head� of the project, which is identified in a previously unused lot, with the important characteristic of being extremely close to the bridge, that perform as entrance to the city. For this reason the lot is wanted to be a public park, divided into well studied small clusters where the different type of plants (including the one used for the phytoremediation process) will transform the land as an entrance card of the city. The second areas called - Middle areas - are determined by the presence of a dense vegetation, located on what it was unused space, next to the busy and dangerous road, in order to create a strong landscape element and a visual obstruction, making reduce the speed of the vehicles. the vegetation is irrigated from the wasted water of the near industries, after being purified through the fitodepurative tanks, which they replace the strong separator element between lots, like fences and railings. The last area, called hub, has to deal with the pre-existences of three buildings skeleton. The hub is designed to study the flora of the constructed wetlands and include residences for the researchers.
A.y. 2013/2014 Polytechnic of Milan
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Masterplan
Mid-area planimetry
Woods
Phyto-purification tanks
Path
collection and pre-treatment
Growth over time
Phytodepuration functioning
Seasonality
First-step purification
Second-step purification
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Path way
Mid-area section
Wooden planks
Metal profile
Steel structure
Concrete wall
Concrete foundations
Path view
Street view
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Hub area ground floor
New buildings
Existing strctures
Volumes connections
Volumes subtraction
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Materials differentiation
Hubs sections
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