PORTFOLIO 2020 by Maria Vittoria Tesei

Maria Vittoria Tesei

architecture portfolio 2020

Contents

About me Bio Work experience Realized works Personal competitions Educational background Publications (personal and collaborative) Languages Software

Works with ecosistema urbano Malaga City Campus Viviendas Febres Cordero Open Shore Banyan Hub Bosque Aumentado IVAM 314 Clematis Market Idea Hermosillo Videos/animations

Personal works GrowingTogether Open Library Pattern House E-Co-Scalo El antiguo Quiosco NexTiburtino Domestic Boundaries Domestic Boundaries 2.0 Holiday farm in Italy Norsk Skogfinsk Museum Univercity House L

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About me Rome, Italy, 11/09/1990 Architect founder at m²ft architects Freelance architect at ecosistema urbano address: calle de Quiñones, 10, Madrid, 28015 email: mavi.tesei@gmail.com telephone: +393409002813 website: www.m2ft-architects.com

Work experience jun 2018 - present co-founder of m²ft architects, Madrid, Spain. jan 2017 - present Architect at ecosistema urbano. Collaboration with the role of architect and visual artist in numerous projects at different scales and stages, from schematic design to construction documents. Selected projects: • Bosque aumentado IVAM, Valencia, Spain. Pavilion and public installation in IVAM’s museum front plaza. • Malaga University Campus, Malaga, Spain. Transformation of a 3 km boulevard into a new linear urban park for the University of Malaga. • Harbor waterfront, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Design of a new waterfront along the harbor area of Palma. Status: competition • An Agora for Madrid, temporary pavilion for Madrid Biennale in 2019, Madrid, (Spain). Status: design development • Campus Eco-Tecno-Logico, Málaga. Urban Park for the university of Málaga. Status: Won competition, now construction document. • Fadura Community Center, Getxo, (Spain). Sustainable renovation of a social facility in Fadura sports center. Status: Participatory process and schematic design. • Febres Cordero, Mixed-Use Building, Cuenca (Ecuador). Reconversion of a former school into a mixed-use building and public space. Status: under development • Spielraum, Der andere Park, Heidelberg, (Germany). Transforming a former military base (Campbell Barracks) into an open park for the city. Status: competition, Third Prize • Idea Hermosillo, Hermosillo, (Mexico). Urban strategy to activate the historical center of Hermosillo. Participatory process through onsite and online activities. Status: Urban consultancy, completed • Active Passageways, West Palm Beach, (Florida USA). From service alleyways to active passageways: urban reactivation in West Palm Beach. Status: schematic design delivered. • Banyan Hub, West Palm Beach, (Florida USA). A Hybrid Building as a new urban catalyst fot West Palm Beach. Status: design developement delivered. • The thoroughfare, 314 Clematis Market, West Palm Beach, (Florida USA). Urban market and retail spaces in West Palm Beach, Florida. Status: All design phases until construction document • Open Shore, West Palm Beach, (Florida USA). Urban design project reimagining downtown West Palm Beach as a dynamic, resilient waterfront city. Status: won competition + predisign and schematic design implementations 4

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may - aug 2016 Architect at design Erick van Egeraat, Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Working for new sustainable housing developments for the Floriade Almere Gardens in Amsterdam, based on the MVRDV masterplan jan - may 2016 Internship at Nio Architecten, Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Working on a proposal for a new residential tower in Amsterdam june - dec 2015 Collaboration with Delisabatini architetti in Rome (Italy), mainly working on international competitions

Completed Personal Works may 2019 “Domestic Boundaries 2.0”, exhibition in Madrid, designer and curator nov - dec 2018 “Domestic Boundaries”, exhibition in Rome, designer and curator aug - nov 2018 “Inclusive Habitats”, research project on innovative ideas for the Inclusive City. In collaboration with Utrech Municipality and AM. sept - oct 2018 “Domestic Boundaries” book, collaboration and review 2015 - present environmental requalification of an agricultural area in “Pietra Pertusa” near Rome and project for the renovation of three buildings on it, for agricultural and farm holidays use.

Prizes and Competitions mar 2020 ActúaUPM, startup competition. Madrid, Spain. feb 2020 Concéntrico festival, architecture festival, Logroño, Spain (FINALIST) feb 2020 NIB Award, as one of the 10 best italian architecture practices under 35. Winner. Salerno, Italy feb 2019 “Genius Loci”, urban regeneration competition in Rome dec 2018 “Open Library”, Competition for a new library in Madrid, (SHORTLISTED) aug 2018 “Am I Included?”, call for Ideas, (SELECTED PROJECT, 2d PRIZE) jul 2018 “Riqualificazione Tiburtino”, urban regeneration competition in Rome jun 2018 “Becoming 2018”, installation competition at Venice Biennale jun 2018 “Barilla Pavilion”, architecture competition apr 2018 “Norsk Skogfinsk Museum”, urban design competition jun 2017 “Fanoi”, architecture competition apr 2017 “Kaira Looro”, architecture competition jun 2016 “University Island”, architecture competition (MENTION) feb 2015 “Inspiration Hotel”, architecture competition

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Educational Background sept - dec 2017 Revit Course at ETSAM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) oct 2009 - oct 2015 Master’s degree in U.E. Architecture at the University of Rome “Sapienza” with a project for the extension of the “New artist’s colony of Rosenhöhe” in Darmstadt (Germany) june 2015 BIM Autodesk Revit Course held by “Sapienza” University of Rome april 2015 Seminary and Workshop for Master’s degree in Architecture in collaboration with the Technischen Universität Darmstadt, Germany oct 2014 Workshop at Biennale di Venezia 2014, “Fundamentals” held by “Sapienza” april 2014 Grasshopper basic course held by “Sapienza” may 2013 Rhinoceros Advanced course held by “Sapienza” sept 2009 Matriculate at the University of Rome “Sapienza”, Architecture UE (five years Master’s degree) july 2009 High School Graduation: Liceo Classico Statale Goffredo Mameli, Rome (specializing in classical studies)

Publications (Personal and Collaborative) jun 2020 Copenhagen Architecture Festival (online). “The intermediate scale”. Essay. apr 2019 Designboom, “What If” (SPECULATIVE PROJECT PUBLICATION) apr 2019 Designboom, “Neon Rome” (SPECULATIVE PROJECT PUBLICATION) mar 2019 Architect Magazine, “Domestic Boundaries” (ARTICLE) jan 2018 Beta Architecture, “Norsk Skogfinsk Museum” (COMPETITION PUBLICATION) sept - oct 2018 “Domestic Boundaries” book, collaboration and review jun 2017 African Design Magazine, issue 31, “Sacred Architecture for Tanaf, Senegal”. (ARTICLE) may 2017 Designboom, “Vertical Multifaith building for Tanaf”. (ARTICLE) dec 2016 Koozarch, “The Monument: Related and Contextualized System”. (ESSAY)

Languages english good speaking, excellent writing and reading spanish excellent speaking and reading, good writing italian native language french beginner

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Software architecture AutoCAD Rhinoceros 5 V-Ray Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Revit Schetchup video AfterEffects Premiere web design Wordpress Dreamweaver Muse office Word PowerPoint Excel work organization Asana WorkFlowy

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works with ecosistema urbano

Málaga City Campus Transformation of a 3 km axis into a new boulevard for the University of Malaga Design, construction document, energy strategy and construction management Project Data Credits: Ecosistema Urbano Status: Competition First Prize – Construction document delivered Year: 2017-ongoing Location: Malaga, Spain Client: Universidad de Málaga, Smart Campus

The project, in line with the strategic framework of the University of Malaga, proposes an open and innovative concept for the campus. In order to enhance public spaces for study and socialization, it creates an attractive and comfortable natural environment and adds technology to enable a whole new world of possible interactions. The Louis Pasteur boulevard project recovers and transforms an underutilized area, turning it into the main space on the university campus. It does so by combining new spatial and landscape features with highly articulated programs, improved climate comfort and continuous connectivity throughout the entire area. The design proposal serves the dual goal of enabling situations from everyday university life (like teaching, studying, meeting or reading) to take place in public space, while at the same time offering a new green infrastructure to the city. It is based upon four ways of rethinking a campus: connected, green, interactive and open.

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Viviendas Febres Cordero Reconversion of a former school into a mixed-use building and public space. Commission

Project Data Credits: Ecosistema Urbano Status: Completed Year: 2017 Location: Cuenca, Ecuador Client: IADB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Inter American Development Bank

The project is conceived as a hybrid building capable of hosting different programs, aiming to create a diverse community around it and to become a reference in the area for economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Following the design, the existing building around the central courtyard is refurbished for residential use, while also creating a new public terrace at roof level. In addition to that, a new building is constructed in place of some fewer valuable structures. This new building permits the inclusion of residential typologies that were not possible in the existing structures and spaces (halls, rooms, terraces) capable of supporting new public activities. The courtyard is connected to the street through several entrances and is turned into a public square. The final design and construction systems were devised under the following sustainability criteria: following bioclimatic design principles for better energy efficiency, adopting local materials and construction techniques to improve durability, and considering the economic impact of the construction at a local level.

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Open Shore Urban design project reimagining downtown West Palm Beach as a dynamic, resilient waterfront city Competition - First Prize

Project Data Credits: Ecosistema Urbano Status: First Prize Year: 2017 Location: West Palm Beach, Florids, USA Client: Municipality of West Palm Beach, Van Alen Institute

Open Shore project considers West Palm Beach as a balanced and connected human ecosystem in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Challenges are addressed and opportunities are developed in each of the specific proposals and, in the greater picture, the relation and integration between each new proposal and the existing city is carefully considered. This project imagines the future West Palm Beach as a dynamic and inclusive downtown where activities and spaces are closely interwoven, providing access to a new urban waterscape, enhancing the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s connection to the lagoon and bringing infinite possibilities of urban culture, economic development and leisure. In this vision, the waterfront plays a key role as the most representative and attractive space, and the Banyan Hub becomes a forward-thinking epicenter for urban reactivation. The project takes into consideration the needs of youth and elders alike in order to make a positive impact on the city as a whole and create a healthier living environment for all residents and visitors.

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Banyan Hub A new urban catalyst in West Palm Beach, Florida Schematic design - Commission

Project Data Credits: Ecosistema Urbano Status: Schematic Design delivered Year: 2017- ongoing Location: West Palm Beach, Florida, USA Client: West Palm Beach CRA - Community Redevelopment Agency

After winning the international competition Shore to Core, commissioned by the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) and organized by the Van Alen Institute in 2017, Ecosistema Urbano is developing several parts of the proposal, among them the visionary Banyan Hub building. Ecosistema Urbano has finalized the Schematic Design of the project that has been officially approved by the West Palm Beach City Commission. The Banyan Hub offers in a single building a wide range of different programs: three public plazas with retail and an event pavilion, a nature-framed business hub, a YMCA with spectacular views over the lagoon and a residential area with different housing typologies, ranging from 500 sq. ft. micro units to duplex units of 1,500 sq. ft. Moreover, the new building will not lose its garage function, as it will provide parking space incorporating Automated Parking System technologies.

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Bosque Aumentado IVAM A new reception pavilion in the museum access plaza. Commission

Project Data Credits: Ecosistema Urbano Status: Construction Documents/Ongoing Year: 2020 Location: Valencia, Spain Client: IVAM museum, Valencia

The project works on both sides of the access threshold, the square and the lobby, completely redefining the way in which the museum relates to the city, turning these spaces into open welcoming places and connected to the contemporary debate on sustainability and climate change. The IVAM takes to the streets to activate and re-signify the access plaza and be a sphere of communication with the public. In this way, the public space is incorporated as an essential part of the visit, converting it from its status as a current place of passage into its main reception space. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Augmented Urban Forestâ&#x20AC;? seeks to place at the center of the debate the interdependence between the city and the environment we inhabit and how we can redefine and resignify this relationship. To do this, it wants to bring to the public space three issues on which to reflect openly and in dialogue with the public: how we approach the design of transition scenarios, how we address the loss of biodiversity and how we address the depletion of resources and climate change.

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314 Clematis Market Mixed-use space for 12 retails, a restaurant and community gatherings Schematic Design, Design Development and Construction Documents Project Data Credits: Ecosistema Urbano Status: In progress Year: 2017-2019 Location: West Palm Beach, Florida, USA Client: Municipality of West Palm Beach + Private Client

314 Clematis Market is an innovative concept located at the very heart of Downtown West Palm Beach. The space is conceived as a covered public space connecting the most representative street of the city (Clematis Street) and its rear alleyway, to be transformed in the short term as in this block the pilot project of the Active Passageway reactivation strategy will be implemented. 314 Clematis pursues two main objectives: on one hand this 12,000 sq.ft. space offers an affordable alternative for many start-ups and local businesses that aspire to have their retail space in the Downtown at a reasonable rent. On the other hand, it introduces a mix of activities that dynamize a strategic piece of the Downtown that otherwise would have been empty and abandoned for an undefined period. 12 modular pods characterized by their attractive design and colorful graphic patterns provide enclosed space for retail and food businesses.

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Idea Hermosillo Urban strategy to activate the historical center of Hermosillo. Urban Strategies - Commission

Project Data Credits: Ecosistema Urbano Status: Completed Year: 2017-2018 Location: Hermosillo, Mexico Client: BID â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Inter American Development Bank â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Emerging and Sustainable Cities (ESC)

The project aim is to develop urban studies and projects in order to create a long-term vision and support the sustainable growth of emerging cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. PARTICIPATORY PROCESS: After a detailed analysis of the context using municipal sources, studies, and reports related to the historical center of Hermosillo, we have worked in collaboration with citizens, different agents, and local institutions. Their opinions, impressions, ideas, and comments were collected and analyzed, becoming key to the development of the design strategies. STRATEGIES AND OPPORTUNITY SPACES: Idea Hermosillo identifies a series of strategic lines that address the challenges that the city center will face in the coming years. These strategies include actions that can be taken in the short, medium and long-term, together with the implementation of the Pilot Projects. Idea Hermosillo includes 27 Pilot Projects.

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Videos/animations Video editing works, motion graphics and photomontage animations Architecture communication

Project Data Credits: Ecosistema Urbano Status: ongoing Year: 2017-present

During my collaboration with ecosistema urbano I participated, having a key role in them, in some projects aimed at communicating on the media the work of the studio and which currently constitute its graphic identity: production and editing of videos, animation of photomontages and diagrams for explaining the projects. In addition to this I participated in the renewal of the website with wordpress and the renewal of the graphic identity of the studio.

IVAM AGUMENTED FOREST: LINK

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OPEN SHORE: LINK

MALAGA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS: LINK

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GrowingTogether Europan15 in Uddevalla, Sweden Urban design competition

Project Data Credits: m²ft architects, Maria Vittoria Tesei, Flavio Martella Year: 2020 Location: Uddevalla, Sweden Client: Europan15

“Growing Together” is an understanding of the current context of Uddevalla Nord as a complex urban situation, dependent on numerous factors. It realizes the necessity to create new relationships that put together all the actors of a regeneration to make it possible a growth on many levels. “Growing Together” therefore proposes an innovative architectural, social, economic, political, cultural and productive framework in order to generate a neighborhood that is vital, active, inclusive, compact, sustainable and resilient. “Growing Together” is not just a design project, but a multidisciplinary process that involves numerous actors, boosting the variety and the community typical of a healthy urban context. It is a development program capable of attracting new figures within the neighbourhood, and at the same time stimulating the growth of those already present, creating an innovative network of relationships that allows both a spontaneous development of the area, both a controlled development.

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Open Library An active and inclusive building for Villaverde Neighborhood in Madrid Architectural competition

Project Data Credits: mÂ˛ft architects, Maria Vittoria Tesei, Flavio Martella, Filippo Lorenzi Energetic Engineering: Ambra Guglietti Status: selected Year: 2019 Location: Madrid, Spain Client: Ayuntamiento de Madrid

The new Villaverde library is designed to become a catalyst, an open and inclusive building that opens to the neighborhood, allowing it to enrich its architecture and boost its social activity. The library is configured as an urban living room, which can house multiple scenarios of daily life, as well as places for study, relax, education, culture and politics. It is not only a place of study and cultural growth, but also a space that express the needs of the neighborhood. An inclusive place for the population, capable of strengthening the community; its characteristics of openness, dialogue and transparency towards the city transmit a strong message of belonging and understanding of the needs of the population. Its internal distribution, completely flexible and adaptable to different needs, is able to effectively include citizens in the creation of the space. The idea of a place open to the city also continues with the creation of the urban park at the northeast end of the lot.

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Pattern house Apartment in Madrid Private commission

Project Data Credits: m²ft architects, Maria Vittoria Tesei, Flavio Martella, Status: ongoing Year: 2020 Location: Madrid, Spain Client: Private

Pattern house is the renovation of an apartment in Madrid’s neighborhood “Opañel”. Inserted in a context of workers’ houses from a Madrid that is already disappearing, the project seeks to renew the spaces without altering the soul; for this reason, it was preferred to use materials produced in the region, in order to favor local businesses. Each area is also strengthened by inserting different ceramic patterns, also coming from local ceramic companies. A place between tradition and innovation that combines techniques and styles of the past with the energy and climate efficiency of the 21st century, as well as with the different interpretation of the domestic environment of the contemporary era. The spaces therefore open up, enter into communication, even if it never take the shape of an open space, allowing them to respond to the different needs of its inhabitants and to preserve privacy when needed.

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E-Co-Scalo Sustainable and productive neighborhood in Milan Urban design competition

Project Data Credits: mÂ˛ft architects, Maria Vittoria Tesei, Flavio Martella Year: 2019 Location: Milan, Italy Client: ConfCooperative

E-Co-Scalo is a project that promotes new forms of living in the urban fabric of Milan Rogoredo. It is proposed as a widespread urban catalyst, which, starting from the existing fabric of the neighborhood, defines new guidelines for a sustainable, inclusive and vital development of the area. The intervention relates to the railway through a green filter that softens its impact and increases its livability. The E-CoScalo buildings tend to thin out as they approach the linear park, and thicken towards the city, without ever becoming a barrier. In fact, the intervention is characterized by a high permeability that generates numerous and various public areas, so as to reflect the different needs of its inhabitants and the neighborhood. A double permeability, both urban and green, which allows E-Co-Scalo to become a hub for the entire neighborhood. These peculiarities are reflected in widespread architectures, which thanks to their multitude introduce an urban and architectural variety indispensable for creating new vitality and resiliency.

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El antiguo Quiosco A temporary installation that reminds an ancient music kiosk Installation

Project Data Credits: m²ft architects, Maria Vittoria Tesei, Flavio Martella Status: finalist Year: 2019 Location: Logroño, Spain Client: Concéntrico Festival

Until 1953 the Espolon park in Logroño was characterized by an ancient kiosk, like any significant park from the 18th century, which catalyzed its social life with concerts and public events. An element that built the aesthetics and the central role of the park itself, managing to organize public space and time, but that disappeared for apparently no reason. A social and sociable architecture capable of strengthening human relationships and stimulating the urban interest and presence of the population. The ancient kiosk exploits the temporality of Concentrico Festival to briefly re-emerge memories of what the park and the city were in the past, and at the same time to stimulate a new sociability through the insertion of an element that has always been in the nature of the park itself. The antiguo quiosco is an urban attractor that recalls the traditional uses of an 18th century music kiosk, but which at the same time encourages greater flexibility and greater openness towards the park.

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NexTiburtino Urban regeneration of the Tiburtino Neighborhood in Rome Urban design competition

Project Data Credits: mÂ˛ft architects, Maria Vittoria Tesei, Flavio Martella, Giovanni Paolo Tesei Year: 2018 Location: Rome, Italy Client: Municipality of Rome, Acer

The project seeks an activation of the urban fabric of Romeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tiburtino neighborhood proposing interventions spread throughout the territory with the aim of generating a new urban vitality. The interconnection and flexibility of all the numerous proposed interventions places the citizen in the foreground, encouraging people towards a close relationship with the territory and the city, which will allow the spontaneous onset of new forms of living in Rome. Rediscovering the relationship between inhabitants and citiy allows the development of an urban vitality which is rare in Rome, guaranteeing resilience and sustainability to the neighborhood. The intervention is the set of numerous design criteria: create a system of reciprocal relations human scale diffused vitality areas (24h), urban circular economy, accessible roofs, energetical sustainability, social inclusion, mobility with human scale multi-purpose, car parks, urban pedestrianization, pop-up activities, cohousing.

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Domestic Boundaries Towards new limits of the spaces we live Exhibition

Project Data Credits: mÂ˛ft architects, Flavio Martella, Maria Vittoria Tesei, Marta Rigato Status: realized Year: 2018 Location: Roma Smistamento, Rome

Domestic Boundaries is a research, a book and an exhibition that explores the contemporary dissolution of the domestic environment. The meanings of public and private, of exterior and interior, of architecture of the house and architecture of the city, are changing. The urban organizational structure that has accompanied us in the last century is undergoing a strong shock to its foundations towards a radical change in its nature that involves new relationships between city and citizens. The exhibition deals with the topic as a growing cognitive path, with the aim to reveal the change that is taking place, making it evident and readable. The final scope is to provide an accurate awareness of the topic, trying to interpret in a personal and critical way as many aspects as possible directly or indirectly related to the theme of domestic space. In this way we want to give a general picture to the viewer, also encouraging reflection and an active questionnaire on the subject.

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Domestic Boundaries 2.0 Towards an augmented domesticity and a domestic city. Ephemeral Installation

Project Data Credits: mÂ˛ft architects, Flavio Martella, Maria Vittoria Tesei Collaborators: Andrea di Nezio, Marco Enia Supervision: Atxu Amann, Hypermedia research group Status: built Year: 2019 Location: Madrid, Spain Client: Universidad PolitĂŠcnica de Madrid, Sika

In the contemporary era, changes in the family structure, work organization, technology, gender, social groups and communication are reflected in a new revolution that combines the domestic environment with the city. The dualities of the public and the private, the exterior and interior, work and leisure, man and woman, day and night, of the house and the architecture of the city are now disappearing. This revolution is affecting and involving all aspects of daily life, from the body to architecture, sociology to psychology, productivity to reproductivity, isolation and community. It also implies a rediscovery of the crucial role of architecture as a discipline related to many aspects of the social system, and that could later understand and respond to our current society, abandoning its selfreferential and theoretical autonomy. Domestic Boundaries 2.0 is an installation that aims to investigate how architecture must understand contemporary transformations, helping to develop new possibilities that respond to current needs.

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Holiday Farm in Italy Conversion of three former agricultural warehouses into an agriturism facility Private Commission

Project Data Credits: mÂ˛ft architects, Maria Vittoria Tesei, Giovanni Paolo Tesei, Giancarlo Sapio Status: Ongoing/waiting for permissions Year: 2017-2019 Location: Pietra Pertusa, Rome, Italy Client: Private

The project is part of the protected area of the Veio park, near Rome. The project maintains the agricultural identity of the buildings by integrating them with new sustainable energy production systems and new greenhouses for increasing the production of vegetables and fruit, inserting some tourist uses such as a residence, a restaurant, a natural swimming pool. A healthy oasis to escape from the chaos of the city, a few kilometers from Rome. The entire complex will be completely sustainable and self-sufficient in terms of energy and food production, while on the other hand it creates a curious contrast between the contemporary and the rustic. A new productive and efficient relationship with the countryside is experimented, at the same time creating alternatives to urban domesticities, but not completely opposite such as purely agricultural ones.

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Norsk Skogfinsk Museum A new building for the Skogfinsk population culture Architecture competition

Project Data Credits: mÂ˛ft architects, Maria Vittoria Tesei, Flavio Martella Year: 2018 Status: Competition Location: Svullrya, Norway Client: Norsk Skogfinsk Museum

The new museum building is designed to effectively integrate with the nature and culture of the Skogfinsk. Therefore, the building not only rises near the river and in the forest, but the forest enters the project thanks to an internal patio that allows the continuation of the forest atmosphere and guarantees a continuous immersion in total relationship with the Skogfinskâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s naturalness. The interior space is enclosed, protected and welcoming, as their homes, and, always as their homes, has few openings: the entrance and the terrace. The compact volume facilitates the maintenance of the internal microclimate and, thanks to the different heights of internal functions, a good circulation of air is also guaranteed. An additional connection to the tradition of the Skogfinsk people is visible thanks to the use of wood as ubiquitous material. The functions are structured around the patio, which is the fulcrum of the project.

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Univercity A new paradigm for a university campus in Venice Ideas competition

Project Data Credits: mÂ˛ft architects, Maria Vittoria Tesei, Flavio Martella Status: Finalist, second prize Year: 2016 Location: Venice, Italy Client: YAC-Young Architects Competitions

Venice is a city with a proud past, reflected in the numerous cultural activities that still pervade it, but that, in recent years, it is seeing his identity changing. It is one of the greatest architectural monuments of humanity, and as such, it would suffer in being compared with an ambitious new building, that maybe instead of help in maintaining its position as unique city in the world, would ultimately make it only more common. It is indeed a jealous place, which is not revealed immediately but in fragmented glimpses, that lives in symbiosis with the environment, and finds its strength in unity and coexistence of all its parts. Its urban grid is dense, labyrinthine, which unties only at key points such as squares, or the Canal Grande. Unlike the venetian city, the universities often manage spaces and functions in a schematic way; this allow a rigid separation between departments, libraries, residences and office, and allow them not to find a real relationship with the cities.

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House L Proposal for an apartment renovation in Rome Apartment renovation

Project Data Credits: mÂ˛ft architects, Maria Vittoria Tesei, Flavio Martella Status: Schematic design Year: 2016 Location: Rome, Italy Client: Private

House L is a renovation of a small urban apartment in Rome. The intervention is based on the will to create a bright and airy space in order to expand the small size of the apartment, trying to earn as much space as possible through careful design and arrangement of the furniture. From here come the key ideas of the project: a wall-piece of furniture extremely elegant and functional to store and expose all the items related to the kitchen and living room; and a glass wall to divide the space of the living area and the sleeping area without losing the brightness of the environment and boost the dimension of space. The spaces are all in communication, bright, clear, transparent, in order to fight the feeling of narrowness given by the small size. To allow better use of the environments, each element has been specially designed and built on site.

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Contacts: Maria Vittoria Tesei Calle de QuiĂąones, 10, 2c, Madrid mavi.tesei@gmail.com www.m2ft-architects.com