ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO LUCA SALA
Milano, 13th May 2019
DIPARTIMENTO DI ARCHITETTURA E STUDI URBANI
To Whom it may concern, It’s a pleasure for me to write a letter of recommendation for Luca Sala. Luca’s educational background and academic skills are extremely valuable. In my opinion he is an exceptional graduate and reliable young architect, among my best students at Politecnico di Milano. I tutored Luca’s master’s thesis titled “ReHub. An innovative penitentiary design”. During this period, he demonstrated relevant design skills, dealing comfortably with different scales, from landscape to architectural detail. Moreover, he showed creativity and open and propulsive mindset. His final grade, 110/110 cum laude, reflects the excellent quality of the project, carried out with enthusiasm, commitment and passion. The thesis demonstrated a positive attitude towards research and the ability to deal with a complex project, combining an innovative approach with culture of the place and aesthetic quality. In conclusion, Luca Sala is a valuable and resourceful person. In fact, I was very glad when he offered to help me as teaching assistant in my Architectural Design Studio 1 class at Politecnico di Milano, during which he demonstrated his dedication and knowledge. I am sure he is highly motivated to give his best. I consider his cultural background and his professional skills extremely valid for the architectural practice and I believe that his overall level of maturity, enterprising spirit and proved reliability can contribute to support decisively the quality of Your office. Should I be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me. Prof. Andrea Di Franco
Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani Via Bonardi, 3 20133 Milano
Tel. 02 2399 5400-5401-5406 Fax 02 2399 5435 www.dastu.polimi.it www.polimi.it
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LUCA SALA PROFILE
EDUCATION
Birth date Address Nationality Profession Email Phone Photography portfolio
01.19.1993 via Magenta 12, Monza, Italy italian architect luca_sala@outlook.com +39 3477009234 lucasala.portfoliobox.net
MSc in Architecture Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Oct 2015 - Jul 2018 110/110 cum laude Master thesis: “Rehub: un modello di carcere innovativo” issuu.com/lucasala7/docs/tesi_rehub_peruzzotti_sala Erasmus Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
FAUL, Lisboa, Portugal
BSc in Architecture Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Oct 2012 - Sep 2015 110/110 Bachelor thesis: “La cortina di ferro: da frontiera a nuova soglia europea” issuu.com/lucasala7/docs/tesi_sala_seminati High School Diploma Sep 2007 - Jul 2012
Liceo Scientifico Enriques, Lissone, Italy 84/100
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Italian native language English advanced [C1 level] - ETS Toeic Spanish basic knowledge
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Autodesk Autocad Adobe Creative Suite Google SketchUp Rhinoceros - learning Revit - learning Microsoft Office
WORK EXPERIENCE
Barreca & La Varra, Milano, Italy Dec 2018 - Ongoing Civic and residential architectural projects and competitions. Involved from conception studies to realisation documentation/competition panels. barrecaelavarra.it Consalez Rossi Architetti Associati, Milano, Italy Mar 2017 - Jan 2018 Civic and residential architectural projects and competitions, interior design projects. Involved from conception studies to realisation documentation/competition panels. consalezrossi.com LAND Srl, Milano, Italy Sep 2014 - Dec 2014 Landscape and urban projects. Production of architectural drawing during different stages of the design process. landsrl.com Teaching assistant with Professor Andrea Di Franco, Politecnico di Milano Sep 2018 - Feb 2019 Teaching assistant for Architectural Design Studio 1 (MSc Architecture Class) Collaborator for DAStU reasearch at Politecnico di Milano Ordinary Landscape, Ala, Italy Mar 2015 - May 2015 Set-up of the exhibition Ordinary landscape I curated the layout and content of booklet and panels of the exhibition. Webstores of apparel Nov 2013 - Ongoing Webstores like Redbubble.com, Designbyhumans.com and Society6.com Conception and creation of illustrations for t-shirts about themes chosen by the designer.
WORKSHOPS
Atmospheres 2016 Feb 2016 - Apr 2018
Politecnico di Milano, Milano
MIAW’15 Politecnico di Milano, Milano Feb 2015 - Mar 2015 Milano International Architectural design Workshop with Carlos Arroyo.
EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Ri-Formare Milano Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
Triennale di Milano, Milano Selected project
Ordinary Landscape May 2015 - Aug 2015
Ex Regio Ginnasio Cesare Battisti, Ala, Italy Selected project
Ri-Formare Milano. Progetti per aree ed edifici in stato di abbandono. Curators: B. Coppetti, C. Cozza, Publisher: Mondadori Bruno
CONTENT
Academic works 1. Rehub: un modello di carcere innovativo Master thesis project - Jul 2018 2. Coltivare la pietra MSc class “Design studio 1� - Professor F. Mangado - Jul 2016
Professional works
3. GiroTondo School La scuola che vorrei - Consalez Rossi AA - Nov 2017
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5. Photography
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Rehub: un modello di carcere innovativo Master thesis project - July 2018 With: Chiara Peruzzotti
The importance to study in depth the penitentiary thematic, nowadays, is fundamental for many different reasons: in Italy, prison architecture is the very last aspect of a complex system including administrative, political and cultural factors. The main aim of this work is to propose a new model of penitentiary, able to respond to cultural emergences and to critical points observed in the hole Italian penitentiary system. The new model starts from the idea of sociality, meant as the human capacity to establish long-lasting relations and to build the next future independently, even if in restricted environments. The new penitentiary is situated in the surroundings of Brescia, next to the existing prison of Brescia-Verziano. It is thought to host 500 inmates. The project is established to be an extension of the existing structure, with an increase of the number of presences and an improvement of educative and social facilities. The penitentiary is divided in three thematic areas: the residential area, with eight buildings to host different inmates typologies; the relationships area where the citizens enter and meet inmates; the work/production area, that features local agricultural production, direct selling and cooperative societies’ work spaces.
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Coltivare la pietra
MSc class “Design studio 1” - Professor F. Mangado - July 2016 With: Edoardo Businaro, Matteo J. Da Lisca
A new building proposal for a unique site: on top of a marble quarrey next to a small village in the south of Spain. The building is an art museum with individual residences for six sculptors, workshops and a library, where the life and work of the artists have a deep synergy with the Cobdar marble mountain. ‘Coltivare la pietra’ interprets this new way of living the stone by inserting a single level “c” shaped volume containing the dwellings, the library and the ateliers. The volume is directed towards the mountain in order to obtain on the top level a introverted ambient in continuity with the stone face, while on the lower level it creates an intimate cloister where art can grow and be one with the marble setting, which becomes art itself. Also in section the building works as a “c”: a closed and uniform marble facade on the outside to create continuity with the massif; a glassed cloister with marble columns on the inside to look at the stone facade. To experience the intervention, a promenade starting from the top escavates throught the marble stone and envelopes the cloister, raising back to the level of the museum entering it and closing the loop. This surrounding path is marked at its beginning by a wall that follows the orography of the mountain, but remains constant in level growing in height as the walkway descends creating a cut in the mountain, defining the space of the landscape and the one of the human.
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La scuola che vorrei - Competition - November 2017 With: Consalez Rossi AA
A large circular sign draws the perimeter of the schools (primary and secondary to the north, kindergarten to the south) and it is opened at the center with a linear square/park, facing south towards the mountain. The scale of the project seeks comparison with the signs of the landscape: the provincial road, the adjacent village of Pagliare di Sassa, the mountain. The project proposes the construction of a center, also symbolic, for the rebirth of the community hit by the tragedy of the earthquake. The figure makes possible to identify exactly the relevance of the schools and, in the remaining area, to realize a wide open space entirely public, always accessible to the citizens. The fence to the north of the square hosts the primary and secondary schools, connected by the gym building. The south fence of the square hosts the kindergarten. Through the schools we access the gardens of experience. The environmental strategy is based on two approaches: a bioclimatic one, through the use of greenhouses, accumulation walls, solar chimneys and shading systems that allow the optimization of passive inputs to thermal and environmental regulation. The second one is based on the use of bio-construction materials both for insulating layers and for the realization of transpiring plasters.
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Photography
Buildings, artifacts or nature details that I saw while travelling and recorded in pictures are a reliable source of inspiration and ideas. The correlation with the human figure, moving or stationary, always intensify the meaning of things. In the last years I have dedicated myself to personal photographic projects collected in my portfolio - lucasala.portfoliobox.net
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