LUCA FORMIGARI Architecture portfolio
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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Luca Formigari
Curriculum vitae
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Vallinfante village reconstruction
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Restoration of Tassoni Mirogli palace
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Student house by the water
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Restoration of a rural house
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Double house
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Gradient
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Modeling of Ferrara’s ramparts
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LUCA FORMIGARI 20.11.1995 - Rome, Italy
via Clitunno 15, 00198 Rome, Italy lucaformi95@gmail.com +39 340 1450428 Qualified for the profession of architect Working
Internship May 2020 - ongoing
Studio Crachi Rome Preliminary, final and executive design of extraordinary manteinance works for residential buildings, restoration of historical buildings, industrial design.
Internship May - June 2019
Dare_Architettura Ferrara, Italy Preliminary and final design of residential buildings in historical context, bills of quantities writing.
Education Post-graduate school 2020 - ongoing
Architectural heritage and landscapes University of Ferrara, Italy - Architecture department
Master degree 2014 - 2019
Architecture University of Ferrara, Italy - Architecture department Thesis in urban restoration and design: the reconstruction of an earthquake-stricken village (“Vallinfante: la lettura morfologica del tessuto storico per una riprogettazione contemporanea del borgo terremotato�). 110/110 cum laude
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Other formative experiences Erasmus March - August 2017 Erasmus February - July 2018 Academic class 2015 Languages
Munich, Germany Technische Universität München - Technical University of Munich Prague, Czech Republic České vysoké učení technické - Czech Technical University CasaClima/KlimaHaus for sustainable design Held by Ferrara University and CasaClima/KlimaHaus agency Italian English Native Advanced - C1 German Czech Advanced - C1 Beginner - A1
Digital skills
Personal capabilities/skills Others
Digital drawing BIM design AutoCAD, Vectorworks Revit, Archicad 3D modeling Rendering Rhinoceros, Sketchup Cinema4D, Lumion Graphics Point clouds management Adobe softwares Cyclone, Photoscan, Zephyr Office Team work, fast learner, public relations, writing skills Organised, positive and friendly Driving licence - category B Available for frequent business trips
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VALLINFANTE VILLAGE RECONSTRUCTION Vallinfante (MC), Italy - 2019 Master thesis project Team - Luca Formigari, Matteo Filippini Thesis Advisors - Riccardo Dalla Negra, Marco Zuppiroli Co-Advisors - Andrea Giannantoni, Gian Carlo Grillini
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Vallinfante and the earthquake in Central Italy
“Vallinfante: The morphological analysis of the historical urban fabric for a contemporary redesign of the earthquake-stricken village”. This thesis is set in the context of central Italy’s 2016 earthquake. Vallinfante is a small village in the mountaineous inland between Rome and Ancona, which was highly damaged during a strong earthquake in October 2016. The void created in the urban fabric of the old town represents an interesting case study: it allows the redesign of a new layout
seamlessly with the remaining parts of the village. At the same time, the relatively extended surface that needs to be rebuilt allows a high grade of freedom in the design process. A complex analysis of the existing urban structure followed the survey of the state of art. Thanks to those, it was possible to extract some general rules of the old town’s developement, that were reused to design a contemporary addition integrated into the historical urban fabric.
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Vallinfante in 2013 (above) and in 2016 (below)
The earthquake generated the complete loss of part of Vallinfante’s urban fabric, while the rest of the town features a lower damage grade. This is due to the orientation of the load-bearing walls: those of the buildings that once stood in the demolished area were oriented perpendicularly to the main earthquake direction (NNW-SSE), and were therefore more vulnerable.
The survey of the state of art provided for the integration of two survey techniques: photogrammetry, for the high amount of collectable datas, and laser scanning, for its metrical accuracy. The result is a coloured point cloud representing the whole village, from which it is possible to obtain all the ground plans and sections needed for the next phases.
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drone-aided photogrammetric survey
survey with laser scanner
DATA PROCESSING (Agisoft Metashape)
DATA PROCESSING (Cyclone)
non-dimensioned point cloud
dimensioned point cloud UNION (Zephyr)
3D model (>2mil points)
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Tyoe: terraced house I
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Type: terraced house II
After the survey, an analysis of the urban morphology and the building types was led on the existing urban fabric. It highlighted some recurring rules and patterns which were later re-elaborated and used as fundamentals for the planning of the new urban layout. The streets follow the terrainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s geomorphologic developement,
Type: row house
showing a curvilinear course. The streets define the building blocks with their organic shapes, composed mainly by terraced houses. A more complex multifunctional building is placed on a higher level, connecting the new layout to the historical town.
general plan of the project
cross section
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view of the project
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first floors plan
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The facades feature all the same elements: local stone walls, dark grey steel for the metallic components, wooden shutters and the indentation near the windows. The facadesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; elements are common to all the buildings, while their artic-
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ulation varies the perception of the streetscape according to the building types and their variants. For the structural walls, it was chosen to use a traditional constructive technique, stone masonry, improved through the insertion of
main elevation of the terraced houses
horizontal fiberglass nets. The seriality of these elements articulates the facade horizontally in 50 cm thick modules. Its rhythmicity is also enhanced by the hollow joints sealing. In order to cope with the high seismic hazard of the area, the
foundations are built with an apposite system of seismic isolators. These elements, placed between the building foundations and the ground, allow the block of houses to oscillate independently of the terrain, reducing structural damage.
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rear of the terraced houses
northern elevation of the square
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RESTORATION OF TASSONI MIROGLI PALACE Ferrara, Italy - 2018 Architectural restoration studio Team - Luca Formigari, Matteo Filippini, Davide Felloni Professors - Rita Fabbri, Marco Zuppiroli
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The restoration project was allowed by a deep historical analysis of the palace. The modifications that the complex underwent from 1400 until today were found consulting the original documents from the past centuries and were summed up in an apposite project panel. The surveys, pictures and their elaboration were used to map the decay on the structure and on the various materials. Thanks to these, specific interventions were planned in order to prevent further degradation. The complex’s refunctionalisation imposed the presence of new university-related functions and a library. At the ground floor are located some of the classrooms, the library and the cafe. The first floor is occupied by the conference hall and the rest of the classrooms, together with some study rooms.
The second floor hosts the professors’ offices. The placement of the indoor functions considered which activities were hosted in the single ambients in the past, and are related to each room’s transformability index. The opening of new passages through the ancient walls was reduced to the minimum. An additional staircase became necessary with the new spatial layout. It was placed on the northern side of the courtyard, directly in front of the main entrance. Its steel structure was planned beside the old wall, without interfering with it. The new outer facade respects the courtyard’s symmetry and the cornice’s continuity. The rhythmicity of the apertures is repeated on the outer facade with the variation of the terracotta plates’ spacing, characterizing the new courtyard’s side. 21
Architectural drawing
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Orthophoto
State of art
Damage mapping
Project
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ground floor
A-A section
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first floor
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STUDENT HOUSE BY THE WATER Ferrara, Italy - 2016 Architectural design studio II Team - Luca Formigari, Ilaria Manetta Professors - Gianluca Frediani, Valentina Modugno
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Student house placed on Ferraraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dockyard bank. The dormâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s facade facing the water basin features the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rooms, whose distance from the water surface variates creating an animated waterfront. The backside is placed on an artificial hill descending until the street level. The canteen, the gym and the study rooms are hosted in separate buildings between the dorm and the street. A tensile structure covers the central plaza, defining a multifunctional public space. The double rooms are set on three different levels. A pedestrian and cycling path runs along the riverside and connects park to the rest of the dockyard area and the city.
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ground plan +11 m
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roomsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ground plan
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prospetto nord-est scala 1:200
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environmental section
Prospetto nord-ovest scala 1:200
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southern elevation
technological section
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RESTORATION OF A RURAL HOUSE Markvartice, Czech Republic - 2018 Architectural restoration studio Professors - Tomáš Efler, Václav Girsa
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Located in a village in North Bohemia, the building is an example of traditional central european rural houses. The aim of the project is to restore and partially convert the house into the villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural centre, a function that today can not be found in the small town of Markvartice. The core of the house, however, keeps its residential function respecting the original layout. The building, first realised at the half of the 19th century, can be divided in three different parts: the house, central core of the building, the granary, located Northwest, and a small stable Southeast. The granary, the stable and the attic are set to be the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural centre, while the rest of the house will remain residential.
In particular, the granary will host an information centre about local vernacular architecture and a study room/library. The attic, with its fascinating wooden structure, will become and exposition space. In order to connect the granary to the attic, a new connective volume is added. Therefore, the prysmatic volume of the granary gets extended on its rear, where a small steel bridge connects it to the back of the attic This addition gets summed to the other volumes, such as the granary and the stable, that have been attached to the central core of the house during the years, each of them serving a specific need. The complexity of this small building is seen as an enrichment.
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ground floor
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A-A section
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first floor
second floor
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DOUBLE HOUSE Ferrara, Italy - 2015 Architectural design studio I Professor - Antonello Stella
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ground floor
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B-B section
first floor
second floor
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GRADIENT Prato, Italy - 2016 Architectural design studio III Team - Luca Formigari, Ilaria Manetta, Thomas Santen Professors - Alessandro Gaiani, Marcello Marchesini
The regeneration project of an area in Pratoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chinatown district consists in decreasing the building density in a lot occupied by abandoned industrial warehouses by distributing it in a larger area, creating a density gradient and enhancing the urban feeling of this part of the city. The new buildings create an interesting contrast between their plexiglass cladding alternated to the old warehousesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; thick
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brick walls. Their rhythmic succession with empty spaces and massive masonry structures offers a multitude of ambients that can be used for different purposes. Such a urban structure is repeated on the empty lot in front of the warehouses, creating a complex and various system of squares and passages.
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MODELING OF FERRARAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RAMPARTS Ferrara - 2018
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Tassoni palace
Cloister S. Antonio in Polesine
Costabili palace
Borso d’Este urban espansion(1451)
S. Giorgio rampart
Baluardo dell’amore rampart
S. Giorgio rampart
The objects of this survey are the two southeasternmost ramparts of Ferrara’s defensive walls. A light, camera-equipped drone was used to acquire all the necessary pictures. The next phase included the 3D photogrammetric modeling of the ramparts, using Agisoft Metashape. The final result consists in a dense point cloud and a tridimensional texturised mesh. With the aid of a few direct measurings of the distance between specific points on the ramparts, it was possible to scale the digital model at the actual size of the measured object.
Baluardo dell’amore rampart
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November 2020