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Education

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November 2014 - January 2015 Final qualifying examination in architecture professional practice Qualified Architect Politecnico di Milano

February 2015 - January 2016 Junior Architect Carolina Nisivoccia Architettura - Milan Art direction and exhibit design for Superstudio at Milan Design Week, high end housing in Milan and Paris www.nisivoccia-architettura.com

March 2014 - March 2015 Post Graduate Master Diploma ‘Itinerant Master in Museography, Architecture and Archaeology’ Accademia Adrianea di Architettura e Archeologia di Roma www.accademiaadrianea.net Thesis: ‘Re-drawing thresholds; musealization of the ancient Acropolis of Pergamon’ Birth 25.02.1989 Milan, Italy Home Via Valfurva, 2 20162 Milan Mobile +39 334 3308524 Skype marta_benedetti89 E mail arch.martabenedetti@gmail.com Personal Website

www.martabenedetti.wix.com/martabenedetti

Flickr

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October 2011 - April 2014 M.Arch in Interior Architecture School of Architecture and Society Politecnico di Milano 110/110 and honors Thesis: ‘Musealization of Teatro Greco, Grandi Terme and Museum in Villa Adriana’ October 2008 - September 2011 B.Arch in Science of Architecture School of Architecture and Society Politecnico di Milano 109/110 Thesis: ‘Existenzminimum’ 2003 - 2008 High School Diploma A. Volta Scientific High School Milan 100/100

July 2014 - June 2015 Architectural Assistant Dan Andresan - Baia Mare, Romania Bespoke rehabilitation of a sculptor’s private villa, retail design for a multibrand clothes shop www.danandresan.com October 2013 - March 2015 Junior Tutor for ‘Interior Architecture Studio’ and ‘Museography’ class Lecturer: Prof. Pier Federico Caliari M.Arch in Interior Architecture Politecnico di Milano www.museografia.it January 2014 - March 2014 Intern Studio Cerri & Associati - Pierluigi Cerri e Alessandro Colombo Architetti - Milan Architecture and exhibit design for Artemide at ‘2014 Light + Building Fair Frankfurt’ April 2011 - June 2012 Intern and Architectural Assistant Studio Lai - Milan Architecture, retail design, furniture design, high end residential www.laistudio.com

Workshops Competitions Exhibitions

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November 2014 Workshop - Asia Minor Istanbul / Pergamon, Turkey August 2014 Workshop - Digital Survey for Archaeology Villa Adriana, Tivoli (Rome), Italy June 2014 Workshop - Magna Graecia Palermo / Selinunte, Sicily, Italy May 2014 Workshop - Costrucción de la memoria: Cartuja de Vall de Cristo Valencia, Spain March 2014 Workshop - Area Archeologica Centrale Rome, Italy 25th August - 7th September 2013 Premio Piranesi - Prix de Rome ‘Designing Villa Adriana’ International Competition organized by ‘Accademia Adrianea di Architettura e Archeologia di Roma’ Villa Adriana, Tivoli (Rome) PRIX DE ROME 2013 AWARD www.premiopiranesi.net May 2013 Photography Exhibition ‘Un anno ai piedi dei Giganti: fotografie di Garibaldi - Repubblica Porta Nuova’ Urban Center, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan

CAD and BIM AutoCAD 2D + 3D Vectorworks 3D SketchUp / Rhino Blender Adobe Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Office Word Excel Power Point

English Writing Good Speaking Good Certification: First Certificate in English (FCE) University of Cambridge (European Level B2) French Writing Good Speaking Good Certification: DELF Ministère de l’Education Nationale de la République Française (Niveau B2 du Cadre européen commun de référence pour les langues)

Work Projects

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Workshops, Competitions and Exhibitions

Workshop - Digital Survey for Archaeology Villa Adriana, Tivoli (Rome), Italy 2014 The house and the trees Milan, Italy 2015 completed

Superdesign Show @Superstudio Superstudio, Via Tortona 27, Milan Milan Design Week 2015 completed

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Workshop - Magna Graecia RISO - Contemporary Art Museum Palermo, Italy 2014

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The extra room . An attic in Paris Paris, France 2015 - 2016 ... work in progress ...

Workshop - Meditation centre on the ruins of the ancient Cartuja de Vall de Cristo Valencia, Spain 2014 Re-drawing thresholds; musealization of the ancient Acropolis of Pergamon 2015 Post Graduate Master Degree Thesis Musealization of Teatro Greco, Grandi Terme and Museum in Villa Adriana Prix de Rome 2013 Award M.Arch Degree Thesis

A clothes shop Baia Mare, Romania 2015 - 2016 ... work in progress ...

The house of the sculptor Baia Mare, Romania 2014 - 2016 ... work in progress ...

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Un anno ai piedi dei Giganti Photography Exhibition Urban Center, Milan, Italy 2013

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Product Design and Branding

Free parcel: single family house Borneo Sporenburg Amsterdam, Netherlands 2010 Contemporary Art Gallery Naviglio Grande - Conchetta Milan, Italy 2012

Selene A lamp for a boat Restyling a gyroscopic lamp 2013

Student Housing for Politecnico di Milano University Campus Milan, Italy 2013 Citizen Home Gallery Temporary housing for artists Milan, Italy 2011

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Restyling Leopard 27 Yacht Arno Shipyard 2013 Lives on Wires ‘Made in Japan’ Exhibition Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy 2013

Lives on Wires branding ‘Made in Japan’ Exhibition Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy 2013 Cartuja de Vall de Cristo branding Valencia, Spain 2014

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Villa Adriana branding Premio Piranesi - Prix de Rome Workshop / International Competition 2013

The house and the trees, Rehabilitation of an old apartment Collaboration with CNA, Milan, 2015 The design of the interior spaces follows the main characteristic of the house: trees penetrate the apartment from all the windows. For this reason all the decorative elements and colors are inspired by nature: leaves, roots, branches, wood, green and so on.

I participated in all the phases of the project, from concept through to completion, meeting clients, preparing and delivering drawing packages, supervising the construction site.

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Superdesign Show at Supertudio, Milan Design Week 2015 Collaboration with CNA, Milan, 2015 Every year Superstudio hosts one of the most important exhibitions during Milan Design Week: Superdesign Show, which shows the most interesting Italian and International production, but also life-style projects and proposals that make design their starting point.

Our team had to visually coordinate all the exhibitors’ projects, design common areas and figure out 2015 branding.

I participated in all the phases of the project, from concept through to completion, meeting clients, preparing and delivering drawing packages.

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Garden

The house of the sculptor, Bespoke rehabilitation of a sculptor’s house - laboratory Collaboration with Dan Andresan, Baia Mare, Romania, 2014 - 2016 The bespoke rehabilitation project turns the two storey house - laboratory of sculpture into a luxury home in which every piece of furniture has been designed and custom-made by local craftsmen. Materials: white metal sheet, solid wood and roman travertine.

My main task is to prepare technical drawing packages and solve problems if necessary, so that craftsmen can realise all the furnishing elements.

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Kitchen and bathroom

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Entrance wardrobe

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Agorà’s threshold: the archaeological museum

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Re-drawing thresholds, Musealization of the ancient Acropolis of Pergamon Post Graduate Itinerant Master Degree Thesis 2015 Like most of the fortified archaeological sites in ancient world, Pergamon is composed of a series of concentric walls, each of which embodies a system of buildings, whose degree of accessibility decreases as it reaches the center. For this reason, the access points (the thresholds) were crucial. The project focuses on that issue; its main objective is to allow a re-reading of Pergamon as a fortified citadel, working on the concept of threshold and wall, now completely missing.

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Stoà’s threshold: Entrance door and the Temple of Dyonisus - Eumene’s threshold

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Teatro Greco and Museum

Musealization of Teatro Greco, Grandi Terme and Museum in Villa Adriana Premio Piranesi Prix de Rome 2013 Award, Master Degree Thesis The project’s main targets are: respect the bucolic nature of Villa Adriana and the consolidated image of Pantanello as grassy space, re-define Teatro Greco’s typological identity, re-define Grandi Terme’s architectural boundaries.

According to these objectives, I propose a museum composed by two grassy - roof underground pavilions (supporting services for visitors and permanent exhibition). Musealization of Grandi Terme consists in re-define the introverted nature of the building through the reconstruction of perimeter walls.

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Grandi Terme

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Un anno ai piedi dei giganti, Fotografie di Garibaldi - Repubblica - Porta Nuova Urban Center, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan. 7th May - 21st May 2013 Milan’s consolidated image is not related to tall and modern buildings, but development processes are transforming this visual perception.

My photos reveal an objective approach towards these urban transformations: I want to demonstrate that Milan is filling with construction sites, people and new buildings all its free spaces, both vertically and horizontally.

Milan is ‘architecturally’ congesting more and more.

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Contemporary Art Gallery + exhibition “Is it true?”

Milan, Italy, 2011 The building is divided in two separate volumes: at level 0 they do not connect, in order to generate a public square, but at higher levels they are connected to allow the circulation in the exhibition rooms. I designed the set up for an exhibition in the new gallery, chosing 50 works of art; the theme is ‘Is it true?’, whose target is to make the visitor doubt about what he is seeing and get him involved in the show through all the questions he is invited to ask himself.

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Citizen Home Gallery, Converting an old factory into temporary housing and laboratory for artists Milan, Italy, 2011 The existing building, whose total surface is 1110 sm, is converted into housing and laboratory for artists, including five guest houses with common living areas, work spaces, an exhibition space, a projection room, a cafeteria, a bookshop.

The cafeteria, the bookshop and the projection room are strategically placed near the public entrance, to let citizens use these facilities all day long.

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Lives on Wires, Deep Purple’s ‘Made in Japan’ 40th anniversary exhibition.

Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy, 2013 A tunnel invites visitors to personally experience the band’s frenzy life during the 70’s, characterized by incessant touring, alcohol, rehearsals sessions and live exhibitions on stage.

The big aula of Basilica Palladiana is dedicated to the experience of the live concert. Here 5 big stairs, each of which corresponds to a member of the band, are connected the one with the other by luminescent wires.

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- gyroscopic movement: the main target is, through movements on 2 axes, to stick the candle vertically while sailing, despite all the movements of the ship.

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electric wire

- its lenght allows the movement of the internal cage

Selene, A lamp for a yacht. Restyling a gyroscopic lamp used on vessels and ships until the beginning of the XXth century.

2013 The main target of gyroscopic lamps is, through rotations on 2 axes, to stick the candle vertically while sailing despite all the movements of the ship.

Selene is the result of a reinterpretation of those ancient lamps; it is composed by a spherical steel cage, which surrounds the gyroscopic system and the lamp.

Selene is thought to be a pendant lamp, as in ancient times.

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