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Basic I am a young Italian architect with a strong interest inÂ alternative ways of conceiving architecture, integrating sustainable technologies, vernacular forms, local knowledge and community inputs. After graduating 2 with a master degree in Sustainable Architecture at the University IUAV of Venice, he worked for few years at the international Dutch/Nigerian architectural firm NLĂ&#x2030;. During my studies and early work I developed a particular interest in the architectural possibilities offered by developing countries and cities, different ways of living such as costal communities and adaptation strategies to the changing climate. Recently i got more and more interested in the field of landscape architecture, biodiversity and ecology, exploring how design could contribute to environmental conservation.

Marco Cestarolli M: marcocestarolli@gmail.com P: +39 3808997383 S: marco.cesta Links: OrtiKa Postcards from Nowhere Thesis project

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Portable seed No 2 tress are bank the same

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Grain jewellery Naturally fallen furniture

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Bluethoot speakers

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J2 Jewelry serie 2

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Interactive lamp

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Jewelry serie 1

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Cave lamp

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Palla di fuoco lamp

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Il Sicomoro Burkina Faso

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A mosque for Venice

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ProFilo furniture

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Flywood furniture

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Electronic jewelry

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Magic lamp

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Ri-melo furniture

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Hand made fornitures

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Kalabash Lamps

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Afara line furniture

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Venice Ospedaletto

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Karamoja project

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NewYork city thater

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Rublo - Dollar

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Kurule Tenupa Campus

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Victoria Monastery

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Serpentine Pragati Chowk summer house workshop

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Z-line furniture

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Bloomsbury waterfront

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Surulere residential

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Impollinando Yona Friedman OrtiKa identity

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Kakyri House

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Quality Hill Mall

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Rock & the Bean

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Ziranumbu house

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ISU Kamuli

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Green Line Art Center

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Cdl bank headquarter

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22 July memorial

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Xylo ofﬁce building

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Ganvié Thesis MoMa Uneven work growth

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Virunga lodge Spa

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Vertical Univesity

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Gaia’s Journey

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Bonny Island masterplan

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Museo diocesano

Manzana Barcelona

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Archiectural sketches

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Yaba residential

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Black Rhino Kruger Training Vitra: making Poscards from Giolisu dance Academy path Africa nowhere company

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Cupole workshop

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The Biodiversers

Following the Hyperdense & ﬂow hyperempty

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Batwa community

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Desert lamp Concrete lamp Rock Chicago kiosk

Dowa school Chicoco Radio renovation

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Carbonia masterplan

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Seeding Biodiversity: a portable seed bank

Location: Trento, It Date: 2018 - ongoing Role: Conception, leading designer Stage: Project development

Il progetto consiste in una banca dei semi portatile, un contenitore adatto alla conservazione e catalogazione di sementi, volto ad attirare un pubblico dilettantistico, anche 6 analfabeta da un punto di vista botanico, verso una maggiore attenzione per il mondo vegetale, rendendolo partecipe in prima persona della conservazione di specie e della propagazione attiva di biodiversitĂ . Attravesrso un network diffuso di cosiddetti â&#x20AC;&#x153;seed saversâ&#x20AC;? si otterra una diffusione esponenziali di specie selezionane e dei relativi servizi ecosistemici. Parallelamente, un osservazione guidata del ciclo intero della pianta da seme a sempe, punta a sviluppare un empatia maggiore con con le specie vegetali, stimolandone la comprensione e la conservazione.

Kit semi in dotazione Raccolta di semi di altre specie

informazioni e istruzioni

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Diffusione di servizi ecosistemici

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Semina, coltivazione e raccolta dei semi

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Gahinga Batwa Community Village Location: Gahinga, uganda Date: 2018 Role:Project architect Status: Completed ÂŠ Studio FH

This settlement for eighteen families has been built for and with a Gahinga-based group of Batwa, a marginalised people living in great poverty and destitution ever since their eviction from the forest. 8 10 acres of land, donated by the Volcanoes Safaris Partnership Trust for this purpose, has now become the new home of over 100 people. All materials utilised for the construction were donated by Volcanoes Safaris and guests of their nearby Mount Gahinga Lodge. Studio FH Architects provided the designs and supervision services for free as part of our pro-bono programme.

common room and tiny bedrooms. The houses are built on rubble stone foundations using stones collected on site. Walls are constructed of eucalyptus poles with a bamboo grid and finished with earth plaster. Roofs are made of metal sheets with a papyrus layer above. The village layout was not drawn; instead, the placement of individual houses was done â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;on the goâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by the builders themselves. They were encouraged to respond to trees, rocks and other features; to avoid verandas facing the strong winds coming from the volcanoes; not to align the houses in strict rows; and to keep them tightly spaced as wind protection and to maximise the space available for farming. This has led to an interesting, random pattern that will, over time and with the help of trees, create comfortable public spaces and niches.

The village has eighteen small houses, each measuring 20m2. The floorplans vary slightly but have all been based on a model house that was built by the future users themselves using branches and grass. All homes have a covered At the bottom of the site, near the veranda for cooking, a small main access, is the new community

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centre. This dome-shaped structure, measuring about 100 sqm, is a multi-purpose space that can be used for assemblies, dance performances, adult education and many other uses. Its design inspiration was the traditional forest dwelling of the Batwa which is a light-weight dome made of bent branches covered by grass. The building is made of eucalyptus poles painted with recycled engine oil; galvanised metal sheets; papyrus roof cover; translucent sheets for doors and windows; and grass mats for the ceiling. The building has a total height of 6m and features two garage-like doors that can be swung open to increase the size and flexibility of the space.common room and tiny bedrooms. The houses are built on rubble stone foundations using stones collected on site. Walls are constructed of eucalyptus poles with a bamboo grid and finished with earth plaster. Roofs are made

► Define points A, B, C, D, E, and F by drawing 2 additional circles, of the same radius, with their centers at the edges of the diameter of the previous circle.

of metal sheets with a papyrus layer above. The village layout was not drawn; instead, the placement of individual houses was done ‘on the go’ by the builders themselves. They were encouraged to respond to trees, rocks and other features; to avoid verandas facing the strong winds coming from the volcanoes; not to align the houses in strict rows; and to keep them tightly spaced as wind protection and to maximise the space available for farming. This has led to an interesting, random pattern that will, over time and with the help of trees, create comfortable public spaces and niches. Project link 15057 Volcanoes

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Which has been the frst human action to compromise its own sustainability and its harmony with the eco-system? It is clear nowadays that the heavily unbalanced environmental situation, in which we are living in, it is not only a matter of sustainability in terms of quantities or technologies, but also a matter of a cultural position, that has dominated the last few thousands of years, which sees human beings and “nature” divided by a clear boundary. The Biodiverser has the name of appliance, the look of a machine, the function of an architecture and the complexity of an ecosystem, mixing the language of the industry with 12 the one of the growth. It overlays the word of the artefacts with the on of the spontaneous generation, mixing them up to the point they become functional to each other. The Biodiversers are constituted of metal substructure plus other materials, with the obvious aspect of a man-made object, alluding to mechanics, architecture and industrial production, but its components are studied and placed in a way so they will favour the development of a ecosystem on top of them, generating a series of interdependent relationship between the plants and animals on it and of the surrounding, humans included. The installation poses the attention to certain urban conditions

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The Biodiversers / I Biodivesificatori Location: Italy Date: 2018 Role: Conception, design Status: Project development © OrtiKa

and their potential when seen under a wider lens, where human necessities and environmental ones resolves each other. Those “ecological machines” are meant to enhance the biodiversity level and the interrelationships of the environment where they are placed, showing how complexity is not necessarily related to “size” or “scale”, therefore even tiny spaces can be of huge importance if we look at them with the measure of complexity and ecological relationships. They are infrastructures only partially designed, of which we define only few initial parameters, and that will result incomplete without the organic component that will make their final aspect unpredictable. In that sense they suggest a step further from sustainable architecture or biophilic design where natural environment is, yes, considered as something valuable to be preserved, but still something “else” than us, humans. The Biodiversers

are a celebration of complexity, or diversity, assumed as fundamental value. They output is measured in biodiversity, entropy and imperfection. A device that doesn’t produce but qualifies

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Yona Friedman_Meuble Plus

Location: Milano, Italy Date: 2018 Role: Team leader Stage: Completed

All’interno dell’esposizione Smart City: Materials, technology and people di Materilaconnexion, una multinazionale rete di materioteche, per il Fuorisalone del mobile a Milano trova posto Meuble Plus, un installazione in collaborazione con l’architetto Yona Friedman, volta a stimolare il ragionamento sull’abitare mobile, leggero, sostenibile e partecipato. Con l’impiego di materiali quaotidiani e imballaggi riciclati, forniti dai consorzi per il riciclo di milano, sono state realizzate, con forme elementari, alcune simboliche unità abitative per migranti e alcune torri concettuali per immaginari possibili città fondate su economie circolari e fenomeni migratori.

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OrtiKa

Location: Trento, Italy Date: 2018 Role: Designer Stage: Completed ÂŠ OrtiKa Identity and grphic design for the creative collective OrtiKa

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Handmade Fornitures Location: Trento, Italy Date: 2018 Role: Designer Stage: Completed

Series of hand made furnitures from recycled timber.

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Kurule Tenupa Campus

Location: Kurule Tenupa, Nepal Date: 2017 - ... Role: Project Architect Stage: Under construction ÂŠ KTK Belt

A community center, research facility and educational campus sited in a region of Nepal where in recent years many springs have dried up with consequent massive outmigration. Water acts a main driver in this project, shaping its structure, masterplan, materials and resource system. The center will enable to study the water cycle, regional and global climate changes, the status and links of river habitats and at the same time provide livelihood, act as a gathering center and provide environmental education to the local population.

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Our Lady of Victoria Monastery

Location: Uganda Date: 2017 - ... Role: Project Architect Stage: Under construction © Studio fh Project Link

In order to accommodate a growing community of monks, this existing Cistercian monastery in southern Uganda requires a doubling in size. Our design proposes a total of four new buildings – Church, Noviciate, Guesthouse and Gatehouse. All are intricately detailed clay brick buildings arranged around three courtyards. The church is proposed as a 12m tall barrel vault structure, made of reinforced brickwork with inserted strips of glass bottles. A lightweight tropical roof hovers above the church, shading and protecting the building, collecting rainwater and producing electricity. The church design is based on the long Cistercian building tradition; as a long, narrow and tall vaulted volume, it is in strict reference to the monastic church. As traditional as the space is, its structure has been subtly inverted; instead of solid masonry columns with windows in-

between, ‘columns of light’ seem the carry this church, connected by arches made of strips of brickwork interspersed with glass bottles. The other three buildings are modest courtyard blocks. Towards the outside, an inclined plinth made of stacked clay tile strips will elevate the building above the swampy surrounds. Above, there is a play between solid and perforated brick walls, blurring the lines between walls and openings. Towards the courtyard, the walkway roofs are supported by load-bearing perforated brick screens of varying width. 27

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Flywood Furnitures Location: Uganda Date: 2016 Role: Design and realization Furniture serie realized with local upcylced materials

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Serpentine Summer House Location: London, UK Date: 2016 - ... Role: Visualization Stage: Concept development © NLé Link to project. Link to Serpentine Gallery.

With a play on architecture, our design aims to fulfil the simple primary purpose of a summerhouse: a space for shelter and relaxation. The design is based on projecting an inverse replica of Queen Caroline’s historic Temple – a tribute to its robust form, space and material, recomposed into a bold new sculptural object. By rotating the Temple’s interior void space, we expose the structure’s neo-classical plan, proportions and architectural form. Using prefabricated building blocks assembled from sandstone similar to the ones used in building the Temple, our abstracted forms come together to create a room, a doorway and a window for people to interact with the building, the environment and with one another. By locating the Temple in the proximity of the trees, we offer an extension of the space into the landscape, providing shaded

areas in their canopies and in the shadows generated by the object. The carved out void, soft interior and fragmented furniture blocks create comfortable spaces for people to eat, rest or play – in and around the house – all through the 33 summer season.

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Completed research educational community center and ongoing environmental education activities.

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Quality Hill mall

Location: Kampala Uganda Date: 2016 Role: Architectural design Stage: Completed Project link.

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The Vertical university Masterpla Location: Nepal Date: 2016 - ... Role: Designer, Architect Stage: Under implementation ÂŠ KTK Belt Project Link

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Gaia’s Journey

Graphic project in support of a fundraising for an environmental conservation cause. The story of Gaia, a young daughter of a Nepali farmer, who decides to take on a journey from the flatlands to the Himalayan peaks of his region. Trough it she will learn from different habitats and species the troubles and values of the environment, symbolically ascending to the enlightenment about the complexity and fragility of her country.

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Jewels serie 2 Date: 2015 Role: Design and realization Status: Available on request

Series of artistic jewels obtained by the combination of unconventional materials and reused objects, like bolts, shells, african glass beads, stones. Organic shapes and natural forms are a strong inspiration to introduce spontaneity to the jewels.

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ROCK, our Chicago Lakefront Kiosk in collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a pop-up pavilion – a public sculpture – composed from the raw and historic limestone blocks that once protected the city’s shoreline. Its bold yet sensuous and delicate balance transforms Chicago’s lakefront into a magnet for social and cultural life. Sited at Montrose Beach, by the Great Lake Michigan, the kiosk is conceived as an ‘infrastructure box’ consisting of materials and technologies that are found at or belong to the local environment. The composition’s climate resilient limestone and concrete elements can be uniquely assembled each time to suit different locations, vendors and uses along the lakefront - by providing shelter whilst contributing to the shoreline protection. Link to project.

Rock, Chicago lakefront kiosk Location: Chicago, Illinois Date: 2015 Role:Design and visualization Status: Under construction © NLé

‘ROCK & The Bean’ is work in progress – a moment in the state of the art of architecture – in the green heart of Chicago’s famous Millennium Park. The exhibition consists of salvaged historic raw limestone rocks that once protected the city’s shoreline, stacked in a ‘depository’ in the south side, now midway on their journey to be repurposed into a new life as ROCK – a contemporary pop-up pavilion/ lakefront kiosk at Montrose Beach. Conceived by NLÉ in collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), the exhibition is a space for public participation, education and interaction between man and material. For the next 3 months during the Chicago Architecture Biennial we invite the public to come add value to these 1930s limestone rocks, by participating in artist facilitated carving, painting, performances and other unimagined processes. Chicago residents and visitors will recognize their contribution to the lakefront kiosk for years to come, as it becomes a permanent part of the lakefront kiosk and the City of Chicago.

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Black Rhino Academy Location: Karatu, Tanzania Date: 2015 - ... Role: Design, implementation and visualization Stage: Construction documentation phase © NLé

The Black Rhino Academy is a proposed primary and secondary boarding school located in Karatu, Tanzania. The 7 hectare hilly site is situated just outside of the Ngorongoro Crater conservation area, surrounded by rich natural vegetation and abundant wildlife. The buildings and campus are organised through a planning principle vested in the region for millennia – the Iraqw/Masai Boma. Organised in a circle, these villages typically consists of multiple buildings that are connected by thorn bushes forming a protective belt around the village. The school program, schedule and activities are divided into three ‘Islands’; Live, Learn, Play. These are interconnected by a protective 53 pathway, creating a safe yet open environment protected from and yet within the wildlife. The Live Island is located in the most environmentally favourable location on site – to ensure the best

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living conditions for the children, fundamental for learning. The dormitory buildings aim to create a protective environment where children can study in the evening, play in the afternoon, enjoy the free time in weekends and, perhaps most importantly, feel â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;at homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The Learn Island has classrooms which are set on the sloping landscape interacting with nature. The school hall is a simple yet iconic building that overhangs above the natural slope that forms an amphitheater. The Play Island includes the sports field and is located on the only flat area of the site. The rest, an undulating playscape where children can live their imaginations. The Black Rhino Academy aims to provide a visual and experiential environment that promotes joyful & innovative learning experiences and instills the value of excellent education in the children and in the overall community. Link to project.

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Vitra + Guggenheim: Making Africa Location: Basel, Germany / Bilbao, Spain Date: 2015 Role: Model design and realization Stage: Completed ÂŠ NLĂŠ Link to project. Link to exhibition.

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Postcard from nowhere: Natura Meccanica Date: 2015 Role: Conception and visualization Stage: Completed Link to project website.

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The AfaraLine is a range of ‘afrominimalist’ furniture designs by NLÉ. Crafted out of the rich grained tropical timber called ‘Afara’, our bold furniture design language accentuates the unique physical appearance of the wood as a raw and robust natural material.

The range of products includes Osisi (living room console), Aarin (center table), Akpoti (side table/ stool), Ihé (floor lamp), Tufafi (Wardrobe), Gedu (floating shelves) and more. Link to project.

The school furniture is children’s most basic infrastructure in the learning environment. The basic design still has room for improvements. With its dynamic form and playful colours our ZLine of school furniture offers new, vibrant and stimulating environments to improve the educational experience for children in schools. Link to project.

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Surulere terrace housing Location: Lagos, Nigeria Date: 2014 - ... Role: Project architect and visualization Stage: Construction documentation phase ÂŠ NLĂŠ Link to project.

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Interchangeable lamp Date: 2014 Role: Design and realization Laser-cutted lamp with several slots where to inserts different and customized masks, in order to create different lights effects and intensities. The removable triangular supports allows for different positioning of lamp.

Credit Direct Limited is one of the fastest growing microfinance banks in Nigeria, providing microcredit to low to medium income earners. Situated in Ikeja district of Lagos in Nigeria, the new headquarters for CDL consolidates its various facilities into a single building that redefines the conventional notion of a bank building as a closed and private institution, by creating a more approachable, open and civic space to meet the needs of its customers – the everyday people. The specific tropical climate of Lagos suggests an alternative approach to designing a building with distinct private and public functions. A conditioned volume 70 containing the most public functions – efficiently enclosed and protected to reduce heat gain – is suspended above the ground floor comprising an auditorium, entrance lobby and service block. The top floors with more private function

have a transparent envelope which increases the opportunity of views and natural ventilation. The envelope is protected by a generous folded roof plate that also harvests rainwater. These distinct spaces are connected in a continuous loop that starts with a lush garden on the ground level leading up to a roof garden via an open walkway, connecting the various functions and providing direct access to the restaurant café. The courtyard brings abundant natural daylight into the heart of the building and its character reduces boundaries between inside and outside to create a communal, contemporary and civic atmosphere. Link to project.

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CDL Microfinance bank Location: Lagos, Nigeria Date: 2014 - ... Role: Design and visualization Stage: Construction documentation phase © NLé

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Our proposals for the July 22 Memorial sites are sensitive and responsive interventions within natural and man made environments. They create a multidimensional, transformative and twinned experience that embodies the diverse values for the memorial; solidarity, sorrow, love and victory. In doing so, it answers the diverse yet cohesive values and expectations of the Norwegian people.

The Sorbraten memorial in Hole is conceived as a static and contemplative place in nature – a frozen moment in time – an abstraction of the environment and narrative of the event on Utoya Island. On the other hand, the Oslo memorial is a dynamic and reactive place in an urban environment – in perpetual motion – reflecting and registering the diverse values and moods of its users.

Both memorial sites commemorate the victims through arboreal representations of the age of the victims – age rings in Hole and timber tablets in Oslo. For every tree that falls, another one takes its place. And just as July 22 marked an ending for many, it also generated the conditions to reassure the nation’s values. Our approach works with man and materials, yet ensures nature is not traumatised in memory of man’s trauma.

With the varying sizes of the timber tablets and diverse configurations possible in the installation, the memorial generates new relationships between the tablets themselves. And the memorial also acquires different characters ranging from very dispersed and uniform tombstones to a very dense and monumental stage. The memorial is therefore not predetermined in character or symbols but only registers functions and assigned meanings. By taking the three most

important values for the memorial expressed by the families, friends of the victims and of everyday people (Solidarity, Sorrow and Love) combined with the least popular/ minority view (Victory) – in the true spirit of inclusiveness – we propose a memorial that is not a static monument, but a transformative space to feel sorrow, show solidarity, feel love and celebrate victory. While the event aimed at bisecting people, its memorial becomes a place of collective social and intellectual processes – and there is no better memorial than the collective human memory. We propose ‘a memory dial’. Link to project.

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Bonny Kingdom masterplan Location: Bonny Island, Nigeria Date: 2014 - ... Role: Design and visualization Stage: Implementation ÂŠ NLĂŠ

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Jewelry serie 1 Location: Venice Date: 2013 Role: Design and realization Status: Available on request

Series of jewels handmade from reused materials, such as: Murano Glass, silver, tin and copper. The jewel has origin from the shape of the broken piece of glass, as it has been found. Without any cutting or shaping, the gem of glass gets tight with wires and drops of tin, almost as this has been a natural process.

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Chicoco Radio is a floating media platform being built with and for the residents of Port Harcourt’s waterfront community in Nigeria. 480,000 people live in waterfront

82 settlements along the creeks that

fringe the city. The state government plans to demolish the settlements. Chicoco Radio is the community’s voice and platform. The structure is conceived as a linear composition of public spaces from land to water: a community radio station, recording studios, computer centre, meeting rooms, amphitheater and cinema. The radio broadcast mast is an integrated architectural component raising the structure like a bridge: launching one end of the building into the water, suspending the other in the air. The waterside of the building is a floating stage and jetty responding to the ebb and flow of the tide. The airside is the broadcast space where

programmes and music are made to air. The cantilevered studios open a shaded landscaped area beneath them – open public space beneath a place of open public debate. Built of locally available materials, the structure incorporates renewable energy systems. The concept and design development stages have been closely guided by the local communities: we have involved hundreds of residents in design workshops, focus groups and discussions over a number of years. Through this deeply responsive and collaborative design process, local residents have provided valuable insights to this solution, which carefully addresses their challenges and strongly reflects their collective aspirations. Chicoco Radio will be built, owned, operated and maintained by the waterfront communities.

Chicoco Radio

Location: Port Harcourt, Nigeria Date: 2013 - ... Role: Project architect and visualization Stage: Preconstruction phase. © NLé

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Community engagemet: vote for program

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As a ‘bridge to transformation’, the amphibious nature of the building offers a reconnection between the communities’ life on land today, their historic past and their potential lives on water in the future. Anchored in the bay of Okrika waterfront and reaching up towards the ‘upland’ city, the building establishes a trajectory along which large areas of intense informal growth will be integrated into a more inclusive vision of the city’s future.

Chicoco Radio is a collaboration with CMAP Human City Project and a part of NLÉ‘s African Water Cities project which investigates the challenges and opportunities at the intersections of rapid urbanisation and climate change in African coastal cities and waterfront communities. Link to project.

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Xylo Office building

XYLO – Lifestyle Office Building is a renovation of a derelict building on one of the most prime commercial streets in Lagos – Adeola Odeku. The renovation includes the conversion of the previously multiretail stores into large office spaces. 87 The renovation includes the redesign of the exterior (facade) into a contemporary form with a unique identity. The building’s excellent location in the city’s commercial heart, its refurbished spaces and new architecture character aim to transform the building and improve its immediate environment. Link to project.

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Facade fins pattern

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The Bloomsbury Waterfront is a unique office development situated in the distinguished Walter Carrington Crescent of Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. The project is a premium office 90 space that maximises the great views across the city’s waterfront. It meets contemporary environmental efficiency standards incorporating renewable energy and sustainable building systems, with state of the art access control and security systems. The building’s form, orientation and structural facade are designed for optimum solar shading, panoramic waterfront views, efficient office space and flexibility of tenancy. The building is suspended off the ground to minimise its footprint, making space for adequate parking and landscaping. The building features a lush sky garden with panoramic views over Victoria Island and Ikoyi, Lagos. Link to project.

Learning from Ganvié is the result of my thesis work for the master degree in Sustainable Architecture. Departing from the urban history of Venice and it’s own ability to adapt to changes, the project led me to research the issues of leaving on water and facing climate changes around the world. landing in the end at the floating village of Ganvié in Benin, and using it as a context where to imagine a urban scenario that could allow waterfront communities to

prosperate, adapting to environmental and social changes, while preserving their own nature. Ganvié, for its own extremely flexible urban structure and the pressure that several problems are applying to it, makes the perfect example of how we could turn fragility into adaptability, problems into opportunities and combine global approaches to local specific needs.

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Learning from Ganvié Location: Ganvié, Benin Date: 2013 Role: Reasearch and design

Link to full thesis work.

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MoMa Uneven Growth exhibition Location: New York, USA Date: 2013 Role: Design Stautus: November 22, 2014 – May 20, 2015 © NLé

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Following the Flow Location: Venice, Italy Date: 2012 Role: Reasearch and design

International inter-universities competition (Italy, France, China, Korea) exploring possibilities for parasite architecture in Venice. In this specific case the prosed solution is floating architecture that can be plugged into the canal residual spaces of the city; maintaining the mobility on water while occupying the air space above canals.

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Hyperdense - Hyperempty Location: Veneto, Italy Date: 2012 Role: Reasearch and design

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Il Sicomoro

Location: Gando, Burkina Faso Date: 2010 Role: Design Design workshop with Diebedo Francis KerĂŠ of a center for women in Gando, Burkina Faso. 102

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Karamoja project

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Karamoja Rain project

Location: Moroto, Uganda Date: 2010 Role: Design and construction site direction Link to project. Agro-forestal rpoject in Karamoja region, north Uganda, by the Italian ngo ISP. Project included realization of several rainfall harvesting systems, wells, solar pumps, school kitchen upgrading, seeds and tools distribution, plant nurseries.

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Cupole

Location: Napoli, Italy Date: 2009 Role: Construction Building workshop, with Fabrizio Carola, for domes and curve shaped building, realized with the ancient technique of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;compassâ&#x20AC;?

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