Architectural Portfolio _ Arch MJDL

2014 - 2024

SELECTED WORKS PORTFOLIO

MATTEO JOSEPH DA LISCA ARCHITECT

Matteo Joseph da Lisca architect

CV

date of birth 28.12.1993

base Milan

nationality italian and american

phone +39 3318627317

e-mail matteojoseph.dalisca@gmail.com

web www.linkedin.com/in/matteo-joseph-da-lisca-3ba037212/

work experience

Since Feb 2023 Architect

Stantec Italia

Segrate, Milan

Dec 2018 - Jan 2023 Architect deamicisarchitetti

Milan

Sep - Dec 2018

Jr. Architect

Studio Lula Ferrari

Milan

May - Sep 2018 Internship, Erasmus + for Traineeship

Ensamble Studio slr

Madrid

Feb - Apr 2017 Internship

Studio Privileggio-Secchi

Milan

Sep - Oct 2014 Intership

02arch Studio

Milan

education

Oct 2015 - Apr 2018

Master’s Degree in Architecture

Politecnico di Milano School of AUIC Score 110/110 cum lauda

Milan

Sep 2016 - Feb 2017

Erasmus Mobility Exchange for Study

Katholieke Univeristeit Leuven Sint-Lucas, Gent

Sep 2012 - Sep 2015

Bachelor’s Degree in Arc. Science

Politecnico di Milano Score 107/110

Milan

Sep 2007 - Jul 2012

High School Diploma

G. Falcone & P. Borsellino High School, Scientific Studies Arese, Milan

Master Thesis

Paesaggi Lenti

New Graduate Thesis Award

Third place

accademic experience

Oct 2021 - Feb 2022 Assistant Professor, Master Class in Thematic Studio

Prof. F.Berlingieri & Prof. M.Motti

Politecnico di Milano School of AUIC Milan

Oct 2018 - Feb 2021 Assistant Professor, Master Class in Urban Planning and Design Studio

Prof. A.Longo & Prof. M.Motti

Politecnico di Milano School of AUIC Milan

workshops & competitions

2019

Sep 2018

New Graduate Thesis Award Third place

Ordine e fondazione dell’ordine degli architetti P.P.C.

Milan

20th International Landscape Urbanism Design Workshop Groenendaal, Brussels

Mar -Jun 2016 Young Archictects Competition Poveglia, Venice

2015

Workshops

Premio Piranesi Prix De Rome Tivoli, Rome

lectures & exhibitions

Jun 2018

2014

Lecture

Arch Week Festival 2018 Triennale, Milan

Exhibitions

Restoration Study on Villa Turconi Villa Turconi, Castel San Pietro Atmospheres

Biennale di Venezia

Ri-Formare Milano Triennale, Milan

languages

italian mother tongue

english

spanish

mother tongue

level C2 - CAE Cambridge certificate

5 months abroad in Spain

High school studies

personal competences

computer photoshop, illustrator, indesign autocad, rhinoceros, office

This portfolio displays selected works developed during professional collaborations with several practices and academic years at Politecnico di Milano.

The projects focus on conceiving design as an exploration process throughout different scales.

Investigating matters of artifact and nature, space and landscape, building and inhabiting.

Chapters

Chapter 02

Chapter 01

ARCHITECTURE

NTT Headquarters

NTT DATA HEADQUARTERS

Client

NTT Data Italia spa

Project Topic: Office HQ

Location: Milan

Date: Jun 2019 - Sep 2021

Project Manager

Giacomo De Amicis

Collaborators

Sara Fuga

Giovanni Lanzi

Silvia Marega

Antea Pacini

A city within the City |

Contemporary work practices have a relational dynamism that implies creating spatial complexity in its sites and rethinking consolidated typologies. Increased reliance on external spaces (including homes), flexible use of environments, multiplication and diversification of spaces of relationship and collaboration are just a few of the new requests brought on by workers and companies.

In recent years, the ideal habitat of an office seems to want to compare itself to almost an entire city, rather than with a single activity: organic, stratified, incremental in space and adaptive and in the times that pass through and transform it.

In the fit-out project for the new NTT Data headquarters in Milan, articulated in 16, 1000 square meter floors, the core principle is making each floor unique in layout, materials and furnishing, in order to recreate the complexity of urban life inside the building. Spaces and layouts of the floors echo typically urban structures and situations, that by nature and character generate indeterminate relationships: squares, stairways, balconies, courtyards.

Data Headquarters

Matteo

WASTE-TO-ENERGY PLANT - GIOIA TAURO

Client A2A S.p.A.

Project Topic: Industrial plant

Location: Gioia Tauro (RC), Calabria, Italy

Date: Mar 2023

Office Stantec Italia

Project Manager

Valentina Zanoni

Collaborators

Pietro Bregni

Luca Franchi

Nicola Tognoni

Status

Competition (results pending)

Reflecting the landscape |

Located not far away from the coastline of Gioia Tauro in the region of Calabria is located the old waste-to-energy plant that has become out dated and inefficient. The aim of the competition is to create a new plant that will initially collaborate with the existing one and in time replace it while it’s being dismantled.

Being the plot sorrounded by agricultural land and set on a plane, the architectural proposal aspires to create a building able to dialogue with its context, blending in with the materials of the sorrounding landscape: the earth, olive trees, vignards and the sky.

To achieve this goal, the massive volumes that contain the machinery are given order stepping them back from each other and making them more light as they get taller towards the sky. A gentle slope is created to hide the base level of the building reducing its perceived height and at the same time conceiling the infrastructure on which the trucks circulate.

The volumes are designed with two different skins: the exterior one is like a see trhough metal courtain with different patterns that make the building shine and vibrate with games of light and shadow; the interior one, made of alucobond panels colored according to the elements sorrounding each facade.

TMV Tauro

In the previous page: view of the South-Eastern elevation.

In this page: on top, corner view from the vignards on the South of the plant.

At the bottom, South-East and South-West elevations.

In the next page: on top, volumetric diagrams and coulour schemes.

At the bottom, detail wiew of the facade.

Ex-Cinema Maestoso

EX-CINEMA MAESTOSO: CINEMA ITALIA TEATRO

Client Italcine Srl

Project Topic: Building restoration

Location: Milan

Date: Mar 2019 - Mar 2022

Project Manager

Ambrogio Fazzi

Bruna Rivolta

Collaborators

Matteo Ardone

Sara Fuga

Luigi Lorenzi

Recycling cities |

Popular historic hall from the 1970s onwards, the former cinema-theater Maestoso will become a sports complex.

The restoration, which will be completed by spring 2022, is an initiative of owner of the property Italcine, while the management will be entrusted to Virgin Active.

The new function that will be installed will have a positive impact on the neighborhood, offering new activities and opportunities for aggregation, and on the city.

While maintaining the perimeter and volume of the existing building with its 1930s facade, the redevelopment, about 5000 square meters in total, aims to clarify the relationships between the parts that make up the building complex by assigning specific roles to the existing volumes: the entrance volume is the point of contact with the city and the historical memory, the great hall is the place of the building’s rebirth. The project also intends to encourage the dialogue with the outside by opening the facades with large windows that make the internal activities visible, and through a roof covered with glass tiles, which reflects the light, and makes the presence within the urban fabric special.

The marble that once adorned the façade on Corso Lodi will be reproduced on the entrance volume alongside with surfaces in brass strips, while large arched openings with brass inserts will be created on the classroom volume.

Ex-Cinema Maestoso

In the previous page: view from Piazzale Lodi of the restoration of the historical facade.

In this page: details of the buildings new facades

Matteo Joseph da Lisca

2014-2024

Ensamble Fabrica

ENSAMBLE FABRICA MANUFACTURING WORKSHOP

Professional Project

Ensamble Studio slr

Project Topic: Industrial Prototype

Location: Pinto, Madrid

Date: May - Sep 2018

Mentors

Antón García-Abril

Débora Mesa Molina

Javier Cuesta Rodriguez-Torices

Borja Soriano

Industrial building, prototype, showcase |

On the outskirts of Madrid, within Pinto’s industrial pentagon a new factory is raising made out of steel, concrete and glass: the Ensamble Fabrica Manufacturing Workshop.

The space is defined by very simple and precise elements wrapped by a fifteen meter high steel frame, enveloping the plot and the construction with different claddings in order to obtain different levels of visual permeability. The envelope creates two different enviroments within the site: a large courtyard and the industrial building.

The building itself is very minimalistic, yet a sofisticated artifact. In fact, it is a one nave space spanning over eighty meters, rythmed by galvanized steel columns. At the notrhern side of the building is located a two story housing module with only two glass openings on the east and west facade. On top of the module and of each column is placed a three meter tall galvanized steel truss, spanning eighteen meeters wide.

The purpose of this new building is to realize prefab architectonic elements that will then be shipped around the world by container. All the components for future buildings will be realized by robots.

What makes this project really valuble is that each element that composes the Ensamble Fabrica is a prototype and they are the same pre-fab elements that will then be built again and again by robotic manufacture.

Ensamble Fabrica

Matteo Joseph da Lisca

2014-2024

In this page: Ensamble Fabrica seen from the northern elevation.

In the next page: on top, the arming of the truss with rebarwork. In the middle, side view of the steel columns and the nave, from the courtyard.

At the bottom, the bit module and the glass façade.

Matteo

Chapter 02

URBAN PLANNING

Adagio Vivace

ADAGIO - VIVACE, REDEVELOPING LA RADE

Competition

Geneva City Waterfront Redevelopment

Project Topic: Museum + Dwellings

Location: La Rade, Geneva

Date: Mar - Apr 2017

Mentors

Nicolò Privileggio

Maria Alessandra Secchi

Collaborators

Matteo Motti

Stefano Ivaldi

Emanuele Casaldonde

A tale of two movements |

Adagio - Vivace expresses a new iconography for the Rade waterfront, evoking and reinterpreting the narrative richness visible in the images portraying the banks before the late XIX century and XX century restructuring. A new rich range of situations is grounded in a dialectic relationship between the ground of the city - which is the place marked by continuity and regularity - and the water plane, a surface endlessly surrendering to the metamorphosis of ephemeral events.

ADAGIO and VIVACE are two different spatial configurations while they also are two different ways to live the space of the roadstead, according to a redefined topography.

Adagio is the first movement: a unitary space, redefining the bank on the upper level of the city, in continuity with the built fabric. It is marked by a homogeneous surface - a monochromatic and mineral band of a constant width of 42m, unrolling all along the roadstead, planted with a regular system of four tree rows.

Vivace, the second movement: it is a wooden deck, laying at a lower level, in constant contact with the water. It twists to accommodate diverse programs and activities, re-designing the bank profile.

Adagio

section of the wall and building.

mobility network

green open space network

activity calendar

ecologies along the Rade

At the bottom: axonometric sections of the two systems with different activities for different seasons.

In this page: general plan drawing of the new lake front.

Paesaggi Lenti

SLOW LANDSCAPES: THE PROJECT AS AN INVESTIGATION FOR NEW URBANITIES IN THE MINCIO’S TERRITORIES

Academic Project

Master Disertation Thesis Project

Project Topic: Slow Territories

Location: Mincio River, Mantova/Verona

Date: Sep 2017 - Apr 2018

Mentors

Nicolò Privileggio

Matteo Motti

Collaborators

Nicolò Croce

Giulia Crotti

A complementary landscape to the city |

While defining the forms of inhabiting, “an embryonic alternative and/or complementary settlement-landscape model” emerged, identified by the term Slow Territory or Slow Landscape, distinguishing itself to more dynamic and fast environments.

The thesis wants to explore the possibilities of regeneration of Slow Landscapes offered by the planning of a new cycle path, which crosses northern Italy, extending from Verona to Florence. In specific the project takes place in a territorial section from Peschiera del Garda and Mantova, where the cycle path crosses through Mincio River’s landscape.

Secondly, the recent launch of the contest Cammini e Percorsi from the Italian State Property Office, in which several state-owned real estates are given to private individuals. The thesis project is first of all a description and exploration of a territory at risk endowed with a wealth of unexpressed potential. In the project vision the design of a linear river park offers a new idea of landscape able to restore unity to the territorial dimension. To this central system refers a capillary network of itineraries and a succession of cities of villages, portions of territory in which a new urbanization is defined by a density of new common services, paths for sustainable mobility and new activities related to the specificities of the landscape, its traditions and local knowledge.

Paesaggi

In this page: the City of Villages. A new urban model within the Slow Landscapes.

Four different landscapes are indentified and designed based on different natural and artificial permanences and persistances.

In this page: on top, view of the cycle-station ar Borghetto sul Mincio. A new public space along the river and a place where cycle tourists can stay the night. At the bottom, the cycle way with a net structure used for shade and for signaling events or stops along the cycle-path.

In this page: on top, the oasis with some productive spaces such as acqua-ponica and acqua-culture.

At the bottom, the hub for new experimental agricultural research.

In the previous pages: on the left, the new landscape along the river; on the right the new landscape emergin from a re-clying of the abbandoned quarries. In this page: general plan of the interventions on the abbandoned quarries in Valeggio sul Mincio: a hub, two sperimental agricultural landscapes and a wet-land oasis.

Chapter 03

RESEARCH

Mycelium Brick

MYCELIUM BRICK: TOWARDS A BIODEGRADABLE ARCHITECTURE

Accademic Project

Bachelor Disertation Thesis Project

Project Topic: Bio-degradable Materials

Location: Politecnico of Milan

Date: Sep 2015

Mentors

Gianluca Brunetti

Collaborators

Matteo Vincenti

It’s no longer time to build Pyramids |

Following a brief historical overview, which compares two of the most important architectural paradigms on the factor of time defined in the permanent and temporary dichotomy, initiates a discussion, still unexplored and of a contemporary nature, regarding the biodegradability of materials used in architecture.This subject, fascinating and controversial to the eyes of the architect, is discussed through the scientific study of a new material, which could offer a surprising future. We are referring to an organic material, denominated by the researchers that first explored its characteristics, Mycelium Brick. The brick, that can be defined as a composite material, is the result of an extraordinary process of manufacture where mycelium, the vegetative part of the mushroom, is the main actor. The independence from electric energy and the absence of pollutant products are very important aspects to reach sustainability. The feedstock is in fact totally biodegradable and production doesn’t release carbon in the atmosphere. Secondly the relatively easy way with which this material can be realized and the low cost of the manufacturing process, means that we can consider the brick as a very innovative material in times of economic sterility.

Mycelium

Matteo Joseph da Lisca

2014-2024

In the previous pages: concept image.

In this page: plan and section of the installation.

In the next page: the making of the installation, showing the process of building inside-out.

Full List of projects

STANTEC

2024 _ Campus Italia di Poste Italiane, Via Bonghi 3-7, Milan, Italy _ Office _ Closed Competition

2024 _ Kindergarden, ARIA district, Ex Macello, Milan, Italy _ Education _ Final Design

2023 _ “A Valuable Collection of Things” _ Milano Design Week 2023 _ Alvoca _ Publication

2023 _ Waste-To-Energy Plant Gioia Tauro, Gioia Tauro (RC), Calabria, Italy _ Closed Competition

DEAMICISARCHITETTI

2022 _ Family apartement _ Via Vespri Siciliani, Milan _ Private Apartement 120 sqm _ Residential _ Completed

2022 _ Tuscan Villa _ Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy _ Private House _ Residential 600 sqm _ Final Design

2022 _ NTT Data Rome _ Via Mazzola 66, Rome _ Office Interiors 12,000 sqm _ Final Design and Construction Site Supervision

2022 _ Casa sul Parco _ Via Revere, Milan _ Private Apartment 140 sqm _ Residential _ Completed

2022 _ Symbiosis Milano _ Via Adamello, Milan _ Office Building 22,444 sqm _ Competition

2021 _ NTT Data HQ Milan _ Via Calindri, Milan _ Office Interiors 11,000 sqm _ Completed

2021 _ Metamorfosi Urbane _ Research on Sport Facilities in collaboration with Università Bocconi _ Pubblication

2021 _ NTT Data Spin Off _ Via Romagnoli, Milan _ Office Interiors 1,100 sqm _ Completed

2020 _ Ex Cinema Maestoso _ Piazzale Lodi, Milan _ Building Refurbishment Preliminary Design _ Commercial _ Completed

2019 _ NTT Data Napoli _ Centro Direzionale, Naples _ Office Interiors _ Completed

2019 _ NTT Data Attic _ Viale Cassala 14, Milan _ Office Interiors 700 sqm _ Completed

LULA FERRARI ARCHITECT

2018 _ Vibram Store _ Piazza Gae Aulenti, Milan _ Concept Desing

ENSAMBLE

2018 _ Ensable Fabrica _ Pinto, Madrid _ Building Workshop _ Completed

2018 _ Ensable Studio _ Las Rosas, Madrid _ Building Workshop _ Completed

MASTER THESIS

2018 _ Paesaggi Lenti: il progetto come investigazione di nuove urbanità nei territori del fiume Mincio _ Politecnico di Milano _ Master Thesis

PRIVILEGGIO SECCHI

2017 _ Adagio Vivace _ Geneve, Switzerland _ Open Competition