PORTFOLIO
LUCA DI LORENZO
Graduate Architect & Architect Designer
PORTFOLIO
LUCA DI LORENZO
Graduate Architect & Architect Designer
We should assess the value of architecture according to the principle that “what is essential is invisible to the eye.” * We should silently evaluate architecture for the sum of sensations it transmits.
*Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
INDEX RESUME AND CV WORKS
“2 THE TERRACE” - Auckland 2017 PIHA CAFE - Piha 2015/16 GREYS AVE - Auckland 2015/16 GREYS AVE - Auckland 2016 MARAETAI - Auckland 2016 GREYS AVE - Auckland 2016 CORNER STORE - Auckland 2016 KOKIRI TRUST PAPAKAINGA - Auckland 2017 TE APUNGA PLACE - Auckland 2015/16 CLIFTON COURT - Auckland 2017 TOA “STUDIO RENOVATION” - Auckland 2017 TOA “STUDIO RENOVATION” - Auckland 2017 TUARANGI - Auckland 2017
THESIS REHABILITATION OF A POMBALINO BUILDING - Lisbon/Rome 2014
COMPETITION OBA - AURORA BOREALIS ARCTIC OBSERVATORY XLAM THEATRE URBAN REHABILITATION PROJECT
ILLUSTRATION CONTACTS
RESUME & CV My name is Luca, I am an architect.
I studied and worked in Italy and Portugal, where I picked up my passion for architecture. Just after I earned my degree, I started travelling. I had my really first professional expierience at TOA, a Maori-European firm in Auckland, New Zealand. During the two years at TOA, I had the opportunity to work on a large range of projects – house projects, commercials and also civics, working in different scales from small construction details all the way to large urban dimensions. At TOA, we worked in a really fast and busy environment where we juggled various projects in different stages at the same time.
LUCA DI LORENZO Date of birth: 4th August 1987 Nationality: Italian Phone: +351 91 88 63 052 Mail: lucadilorenzo.ldl@gmail.com
From “the other side of the world”, I bring with me a renovated and genuine approach which can accomodate different designs and technical skills. In a country where almost everything is new, tracking down the origins from the peenores to the ancestors, and investigating local culture is natural and inevitable within the design process. Every day at TOA, we tried to identify the elements that define what is “Pacific Culture” today, and then transform these into Design for Aoteroa (New Zealand). After this experience in Oceania I joined the Decoration Empire’s team, a Dutch fine firm based in Gouda, covering the role of Designer Architect. Practicing architecture entails challenges, which are answered by creative ideas. Creative ideas come from your ability to perceive the habitat, its story, its shapes and colours, the sensation of being surrounded by all these things. This process is an open conversation between problems and solutions.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE DESIGNER ARCHITECT Decoraion Empire
EDUCATION
May 2015 / May 2017 - Auckland, New Zeland
DESIGNER ARCHITECT Self-Employed flat’s rennovations
September 10th 2014
MASTER’S DEGREE IN U.E. ARCHITECTURE SECTION N. 4/S ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING Sapienza University of Rome - May 2014
FACULDADE LUSIADA DE LISBOA, PORTUGAL
COURSE OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
April / September 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal
AUTOCAD RHINOCEROS V-RAY RENDER ADOBE CSx - CC REVIT SKETCHUP
LANGUAGE ITALIAN Native ENGLISH PORTUGUESE SPANISH
Erasmus Programme - September 2010 / September 2011
October 2014 / May 2015 - Rome, Italy
INTERNSHIP Jorge Mealha arquitectos lda
SOFTWARE
ITALIAN QUALIFICATION FOR ARCHITECTS
November 2017 / Dicember 2017 - Amsterdam, Netherland
GRADUATE ARCHITECT TOA architects
SKILLS
Sapienza University of Rome - September 2007 / June 2008
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN “Mario Mafai” High School, Rome - June 2007
INTERESTS SURF TRAVEL DRAW
WORKS
“2 THE TERRACE” HOUSE PROJECT - AUCKLAND 2017
Option 1 - Townhouses
Contribution:
CONCEPT PHASE VISUALIZATION
PIHA CAFE
CAFE RENOVATION - PIHA 2015/16
Contribution: CONCEPT PHASE VISUALIZATION PRELIMINARY PHASE DETAILING PHASE
GREYS AVE
SERVICE APARTMENT - AUCKLAND 2016
Contribution: CONCEPT PHASE VISUALIZATION PRELIMINARY PHASE
GREYS AVE
SERVICE APARTMENT - AUCKLAND 2016
Contribution: CONCEPT PHASE VISUALIZATION PRELIMINARY PHASE
MARAETAI
HOUSE RENOVATION - AUCKLAND 2016 “A meeting place by the sea” is the meaning Maraetai in the native Maori language.
Contribution:
CONCEPT PHASE VISUALIZATION PRELIMINARY PHASE
GREYS AVE
UMU RESTAURANT PROJECT - AUCKLAND 2016
Contribution: CONCEPT PHASE PRELIMINARY PHASE
CORNER STORE
CAFE BAR RENOVATION - AUCKLAND 2016
Contribution: CONCEPT PHASE VISUALIZATION PRELIMINARY PHASE
KOKIRI TRUST PAPAKAINGA
HOUSING PROJECT - AUCKLAND 2017
Contribution: CONCEPT PHASE VISUALIZATION PRELIMINARY PHASE
TE APUNGA PLACE
FACTORY AMPLIATION - AUCKLAND 2015/16
Contribution: CONCEPT PHASE VISUALIZATION PRELIMINARY PHASE DETAILING PHASE
TOA “STUDIO RENOVATION”
DESIGN OPTIONS - AUCKLAND 2017 Option 1
Contribution:
CONCEPT PHASE VISUALIZATION
TOA “STUDIO RENOVATION”
DESIGN OPTIONS - AUCKLAND 2017 Option 2.1 2.2 2.3
Contribution:
CONCEPT PHASE VISUALIZATION PRELIMINARY PHASE
TUARANGI ROAD
HOUSE PROJECT- AUCKLAND 2017
1 - (location) Outerspace Ka korekoreko oku karu i te tini o nga whetu i tuarangi. My eyes are dazzled by the multitude of stars in space. 2 - (modifier) Space He maha nga waka tuarangi kua puta atu ai i te whaitua o Paptuanuku. Many spacecraft have traveled out of Earth’s atmosphere. This new home has derived from the concept of Prometheus, the Greek Titan God vs. Mahuika, the Maori Fire Deity. Contribution: CONCEPT PHASE VISUALIZATION PRELIMINARY PHASE
THESIS
REABILITAÇÃO DE UM EDIFÍCIO POMBALINO
REHABILITATION OF A POMBALINO’S BUILDING LISBON & ROME - JUNE 2014
THIS IS A RENOVATION PROJECT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LOCAL BUILDING SYSTEM. THE MAIN FOCUS IS ON CREATING A POWERFUL DESIGN WHICH ENHACES THE UNIQUE ARCHITECTURAL SITE DESIGNED BY MARQUES DE POMBAL AFTER EARTHQUAKE OF 1755.
POMBALINO’S BUILDING “The first to be called is the carpenter; after then, when the cage is completed, it is called the mason who rises walls with carved stone and bricks. The reason why Portuguese decided to build in this way is that the combination of stone and wood confers eater resistance in case of earthquakes. The originally of intervention after-ethquakes is the conjugation of different levels, drawing up a plan wich started from the urban scale and comes to construction detail. A global plan that integrates urban design and architectural targeting as many production problems.”
COMPETITION
OBA ‘12 - AURORA BOREALIS ARCTIC OBSERVATORY The project includes several facilities (restaurant, sauna, planetarium and several types of rooms) organized around the observatory which is the heart of the project.. The shape of the project is a snow shovel according to the physical distribution of the areas. “A project that will help us rediscover our primitive instincts. We want to create a bond again with Mother Nature.”
X-LAM THEATRE
URBAN REHABILITATION PROJECT
ILLUSTRATION
CONTACTS
LUCA DI LORENZO +351 91 88 63 052 LUCADILORENZO.LDL@GMAIL.COM