MICHELA PALMISANO architect
P R O TF O LI O
2009 2016
Hi! Nice
to meet you!
Michela Palmisano 26.02.1990 | Tradate | VA adress: via Costanza 4 | Milano | MI mobile: +39 3347778675 email: palmisano_m@alice.it skype contact: michela_palmisano web: http://issuu.com/michelapalmisano born:
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Let
me introduce myself!
EN: Born in 1990, I earned my Master‘s degree in Architecture from Politecnico di Milano in April 2015 with the project “Manhattanville Urban Campus | A project for Columbia University’s new Harlem Campus in New York City”.
IT: Classe 1990, mi sono laureata in Architettura presso il Politecnico di Milano nella sessione di Aprile 2015, con il progetto di tesi “Manhattanville Urban Campus | Progetto per il nuovo Campus della Columbia University nel quartiere di Harlem, New York City”
This complex project allowed me to grew strong design skills , from conceptual design to detail’s project and drawing, to prove the power of persistence and to believe that you always can overcome your limits.
Questo progetto, caratterizzato da una forte complessità, mi ha permesso di accrescere le mie capacità progettuali in modo trasversale, dal concept al progetto e disegno di dettaglio, di provare il potere della caparbietà e di credere che si possano, continuamente, superare i propri limiti.
After a short experience in design communication, since november 2015 i work as an architect at Milan based architecture firm AAAA - quattroassociati, in which i work on different scales projects, from building to interior design,working on all project phases, from concept to construction, especially on interior design projects. I’m looking for new job opportunities in interior design and store design , which are my main interests and in which i’d like to go deep improving my proficiency and my professional skills.
Dopo una breve esperienza nella comunicazione legata al design, da novembre 2015 collaboro stabilmente come Architetto presso lo studio milanese AAAA - quattroassociati, nel quale mi occupo di progetti a diverse scale, dal building design agli interni, seguendone tutte le diverse fasi, dal concept al cantiere. Sono alla ricerca di nuove opportunità lavorative nell’interior design e nello store design, attività alle quali sono particolarmente interessata e nelle quali vorrei approfondire le mie competenze e la mia professionalità.
MICHELA PALMISANO architect
RÉSUMÉ WORK EXPERIENCES WITH AAAA - QUATTROASSOCIATI Ideas Competition Apartment Project
Renovation
for design of new and innovative school buildings
(confidential)
refurbishment in
Piazza Sant’Ambrogio - Milan
for a new building of
Stand
for corte
of an
Office Building
Cascina Merlata
Rugolin
Collegio
winery
in via
di
- Vinitaly - Verona
Broletto -
residential complex
Milano - Milan
piazza
Cordusio - Milan
- Units R2 / R3 - Milan
New West Venice - Hotel & Conference
center
- Venice
WITH DA-A ARCHITETTI New
sport center with football pitches and restaurant in
Busto Garolfo.
WITH PRIVILEGGIO_SECCHI ARCHITETTURA Neuchâtel 2020. Building
the future of
Neuchâtel
WITH ARCH. MARCO VOLTINI Restoration
of
Saline Joniche’s
waterfront and realization of a natural and
anthropic park.
MASTER THESIS PROJECT manhattanville masterplan columbia business school
PERSONAL PROJECTS yac-rome community ring landscape design project-supplément au paysage en mouvement
MICHELA PALMISANO architect registered architect n.
Architect at AAAA
19607 - Ordine
architetti paesaggisti pianificatori e conservatori di
Milano
Registered architect of OAPPC MILANO nr.19607
Tutor during the Workshop ”Building the new Harvard University campus “ held in Boston. 11 - 2015
quattroassociati
2016
11-2015 / ongoing
Teaching Assistant at Architecture and Construction Design Studio Prof. E. Battisti / F. Battisti
Internship at Organisation in Design 09/10 - 2015 Collaboration with Da-a architetti 06/08 - 2015
2015
MSc in Architecture/Building Architecture Politecnico di Milano “Manhattanville Urban Campus A project for Columbia University’s new Harlem Campus in New York City” 110 with honours/110 04 - 2015
2014
Workshop in New York City preliminary studies at Columbia University Erasmus Exchange Program at Ecole Nationale Superieure on Manhattanville Campus d’Architecture et de Paysage 10 / 2013 (ENSAP) de Bordeaux 07 - 2012 / 07 - 2013
2013
2012
Internship at privileggio_secchi architettura 02 / 03-2012
2009
International Workshop the Chicago charrette with Illinois Institute of Technology, Iwb (Institute without Boundaries), The City of Chicago, Cannon Design and Arup. 03 - 04 / 2014
Bachelor Degree in Architecture Politecnico di Milano 110/110 09 - 2012
High School Diploma Classical studies 83/100 07 / 2009
2004
1990
MA - USA
Boston
IL - USA
Chicago
NYC - USA
New York
FRANCE
Bordeaux
Milano
Saronno
26.02.1990
exhibitions
research in drawings and graphics
design
interior design
graphic
research window display
design
in new fashion
materials
design
store
building
design
design
26.02.1990 - Tradate - VA Costanza 4 - Milano mobile: +39 334 7778675 e-mail: palmisano_m@alice.it born:
skype contact: michela_palmisano
address: via
web: http://issuu.com/michelapalmisano
https://it.linkedin.com/in/palmisanomichela
https://www.instagram.com/michelapalmisano/
Education
Skills
July 2016 | Registered Architect matr. 19607 - OAPPC MILANO
Italian: native speaker
28th April 2015 | MSc in Architecture/Building Architecture | Politecnico di Milano, “Manhattanville Urban Campus | A project for Columbia University’s new Harlem Campus in New York City”. Supervisor E.Battisti | F. Battisti 110 cum laude/110
French: fluency in written and spoken communication. | C1
nomination at the order of architects, planners, landscape architects and conservators of Milan prize for best graduate thesis 2015.
April 2014 | participation in International Workshop Activating resilient communities_the Chicago charrette with Illinois Institute of Technology, Iwb (Institute without Boundaries), The City of Chicago, Cannon Design and Arup. May 2013 | participation in Workshop“Architecture with ENSAP Bordeaux and ISA BTP
et Ingénierie”
Software 3D
drawing
Google Sketchup Pro McNeel Rhinoceros Autodesk Autocad 3D Autodesk Revit
Autodesk Autocad 2d Adobe Illustrator Vectorworks
110/110
83/100
Quattroassociati | Milan
September 2015/now | Teaching Assistant at Architecture Construction Design Studio | Prof. E. Battisti / F. Battisti | Politecnico di Milano.
Adobe Photoshop 3D Studio Max Artlantis Text Edit, Publishing & Data
Work Experience at
Goethe Zertifikat | Start Deutsch | A2
Rendering & Post Production
July 2009 | high school diploma (classical studies) | Liceo Classico S.M.Legnani | Saronno(VA)
November 2015 /now | Architect
German: basic knowledge
Vector Graphics
September 2012/ July 2013 | Erasmus Exchange Program at Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture et de Paysage (ENSAP) de Bordeaux. September 2012 | Bachelor Degree in Architecture | Politecnico di Milano, “Spatial Concept: forms, imaginations and projects between matter and limit”,
English: fluency in written and spoken communication Toeic (Test of English for International Communication) 830/990 | C1.
Adobe Indesign Microsoft Powerpoint Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel New Software Learning
Model Making
and
September /October 2015 | Intern of the project department of Organisation in Design | Milan June / July 2015 | Collaborator at da-a architetti | Saronno(Va) I worked at the final phase of the executive project for a “Sport Center with football pitches and a bar-restaurant in Busto Garolfo (MI)”. January 2015 | participation in Yac (Young Architects Competitions) ”Rome Community Ring. How to transform a former military tecture into a leisure time and cultural hub?” April/July 2012 | participation in international competition with Arch.Marco Voltini “Restoring Saline Joniche’s waterfront and realization of a and anthropic park”
archi-
Detail Scale Model Building Scale Model Urban Scale Model Cardboard Wood & Wood Veneer Plastics Plaster & Concrete
Technical | Structural Skills Detail Project Detail Drawings Executive Project Executive Drawing
natural
February / March 2012 | Intern Architect at privileggio_secchi architettura | Milan I worked on the international competition “Neuchâtel 2020: shaping the future of Neuchâtel”.
Structural Project Structural Drawings
Personal
interests
Architecture photography, Illustration, Art & Applied Arts, Yoga, Food and Travel. After
all,I bake really good cakes!
with AAAA quattroassociati - Milano - www.quattroassociati.it Apartment refurbishment in Piazza Sant’Ambrogio Private Commission - Milan 2016 preliminary design - detailed design - supervision of construction site july 2016 - under construction
with AAAA quattroassociati - Milano - www.quattroassociati.it Project for a new building of Collegio di Milano Fondazione Collegio delle UniversitĂ Milanesi - Milan 2016 Competition june - july 2016
with AAAA quattroassociati - Milano - www.quattroassociati.it Stand for corte Rugolin winery - Vinitaly Verona Concept - detailed design february - april 2016
with AAAA quattroassociati - Milano - www.quattroassociati.it Renovation of an Office Building in via Broletto - piazza Cordusio Milan Preliminary design - detailed design december 2015 - ongoing
with AAAA quattroassociati - Milano - www.quattroassociati.it Renovation of an Office Building in via Broletto - piazza Cordusio Milan Preliminary design - detailed design december 2015 - ongoing
with AAAA quattroassociati - Milano - www.quattroassociati.it Cascina Merlata residential complex - Units R2 - R3 Milan EuroMilano Spa open competition november 2015
with AAAA quattroassociati - Milano - www.quattroassociati.it New West Venice - Hotel & Conference center Venezia - Mestre feasibility study november 2015
with Paolo Citterio Architetti - Saronno - www.da-a.com Sport Center with football pitches and Bar / Restaurant Busto Garolfo (MI) detailed design - project and construction of a 1:50 wood model - construction site june - august 2015
with privileggio_secchi architettura - Milano - www.privileggio-secchi.com Neuchâtel 2020 - Building the future of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel International Ideas Competition february - march 2012
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_STUDIO PRIVILEGGIO-SECCHI_CON M.MOTTI_F.PONTI_L.SANTO
NEUCHÂTIEL 2020_IDEAS FOR SHAPING THE FUTURE OF NEUC
with Arch. Marco Voltini Restoration of Saline Joniche’s waterfront and realization of a natural and anthropic park. Saline Joniche (Rc) International Ideas Competition april - july 2012
Master Thesis Politecnico di Milano Architecture | Building Architecture 110 with honour/110 Supervisor: E. Battisti | F. Battisti Nomination
Mantero Prize Graduate Thesis
for
for the
Best
Nomination for Best Graduate Thesis at Ordine Architetti paesaggisti pianificatori e conservatori - Milano
Manhattanville Urban Campus
EN: To project of a new Urban Campus for Columbia University means to remind and understand New York City’s settlement assumptions and why these didn’t work in Harlem context. In the same way Manhattanville is the only place that refuses the Manhattan grid in favor of its orographic identity, as happens in 125th street. This project is a crossover between Harlem district and New York City, departing from Harlem neighborhood to link it to the whole Manhattan Island through an urban and architectural strategy. Manhattanville Campus is a flowing space, in which the ground floor re-builds the genius loci through orography and through the project of an inhabited hypogeum space. The ground floor is overcame by hanged academic blocks, conceived as the evolution of context’s blocks, and relinked by a Mall,the evolution of “public covered spaces” of downtown Manhattan. The 125th street and the possibility of a mutation in island’s settlement produce a cross scale projects and the thesis main topic.
IT: Progettare un nuovo Campus urbano per la Columbia University significa comprendere le logiche della città di New York e come esse non riescano ad applicarsi al contesto di Harlem, come la griglia di Manhattan non riesce ad adattarsi alla variazione dell’orografia di questo luogo. Il progetto costruisce un dispositivo di mediazione tra la città e il quartiere, muovendo dal contesto prossimo, per costruire un legame con l’intera isola. Il progetto nasce dall’intersezione di molteplici impulsi e richieste e crea un campus fluido, in cui il piano terra ricostruisce l’orografia del luogo e la continuità con il sottosuolo, ora abitato; i volumi accademici si generano da una continuità di forme e proporzioni con il contesto, e lo spazio filtro ricuce la distanza con la downtown e i “public covered spaces”. La 125th street e il tema della variazione generano un sistema progettuale trasversale alle scale e costituiscono l’ambito di analisi specifica della tesi.
Context & Analysis
New York City Manhattanville | West Harlem 40’ 49’’ N | 73’ 57’’ W
1 | Common ground An inhabited soil, born from site geography, becomes a new shared space between Columbia University and West Harlem neighborhood.
2 | Context Academic buildings are suspended over the continous common ground and share with the context the farmal concept.
3 | Urban axis The 125th street comes back to its role: new landmarks sign the links with the settled city and re-create the lost urban tale.
3 | New Waterfront Columbia University arrives to Hudson River, passing under the infrastructure and building a connection with Riverside Drive Park.
Aerial View On the left page | Morningside Columbia University City Campus On the background | New Jersey’s natural Hudson shore. On the right page | Columbia University Manhattanville Campus in Harlem.
Welcome
to
Manhattanville!
General Plan | Original Scale: 1 : 2000. The academic tissue becomes the link with the context typology, whereas the geographical soil becomes the link with the context sociology. The 125th breaks the rules and changes the grid regulation in order to create a new urban Axis.
Ground Floor Plan (+6,5mt) | Original Scale 1 : 500 Perspective Section | Original Scale 1 : 500
The 125th street is viewed as a box: If you open box’s sides you may see all the space in one view. A new possibility is now discovered, the new project is right here.
The 125th
street tale
125th street brief architecture summary 1 | Section of the Recreation Center and the Park under Infrastructures. On the background the Waterfront Tower .
2 | Riverside Residential Tower | Recreation Center | Original Scale 1:500
3 | Lancaster Center for Performing Arts | Original Scale 1:500
4 | South West Corner Residential Tower | Original scale 1:500
Maquette | Original Scale 1:500 Venereed Wood and Forex | Laser & Hand Cutted
Columbia Business School 45.000 square meters 4 blocks | 1 building Public Ground Floor 6 stories blocks 1 library 50 classrooms 150 offices for researchers | Administration Informal areas
Columbia Business School
EN: From the masterplan, I chose to develop the project of Columbia Business School, which lies on the most relevant parcel and which solve through architecture the complex interaction between Manhattan’s grid and 125th street urban axis. Columbia University functional programme requested a two blocks building, one for Master degrees and one for Bachelor degrees,with some public facilities on the ground floor. The aim of the project was to split these two building in four blocks, in which classrooms and researchers’ areas are strictly interrelated through a system of informal spaces which spread all across the building. The divided blocks are re-linked through aerial paths and rooms on different heights, which also draw the section of the Mall: this borderline space between indoor and outdoor becomes the link between the new building and Manhattan’s downtown main architectural topic and also the possibility of a new meaning for one of the most discussed themes of American public spaces (POPS).
IT: A partire dal piano complessivo, il progetto si orienta prevalentemente sullo sviluppo del progetto della Columbia Business School, l’edificio che occupa il lotto principale del tessuto e che risolve architettonicamente le problematiche del rapporto tra i sistemi territoriali della griglia di Manhattan e dell’asse della 125th street. Il programma funzionale fornito dalla Columbia prevede la suddivisione della Business School in due edifici e la necessità di un substrato di funzioni pubbliche da svolgersi al piano terra. Il progetto articola i due edifici previsti in quattro volumi, in cui gli spazi dell’insegnamento e quelli della ricerca sono legati dal sistema di distribuzione, che privilegia la presenza di ampi spazi informali, percepiti come una spazialità continua. I volumi separati ritrovano una continuità attraverso i passaggi aerei, ad altezze diverse, che contribuiscono a disegnare la sezione del Mall, uno spazio al limite tra interno ed esterno, in cui si riconosce il legame dell’edificio con l’isola di Manhattan e in cui si attribuisce un nuovo significato a uno dei temi più discussi dello spazio pubblico americano.
Columbia Business School viewed from Riverside Residential Tower. South-West Corner Tower with Student Center on the ground floor and the Columbia Business School Entrance Plaza
On the right the
Perspective Section | Original Scale 1:100
The Business School is made by 3 layers:
1 | A continous,geographical and digged soil 2 | Classes and offices buildings, suspended over the ground 3 | A large mall, the link between the parts , conceived as a new interpretation of the typical commercial structure.
Ground floor Axonometrical View | Original Scale 1:200 The soil is inhabited both over and under the ground line. Above, the continous public space. Below, the the digged space with private & public functions.
A
geology & orography
the new orography
new paths geography
the new geology the caves
the new geology the subsoil revelation
Ground floor Plan |+1,5 mt | Original Scale 1:200
Technical Section | Original Scale 1:50
Ground floor Plan |+6 mt | Original Scale 1:200
Technical Details | Original Scale 1:10 Soil | Faรงade | Brick choices
A
built geography
Columbia Entrance Plaza. The soil, designed with sloping trianglular surfaces, allows the collection of the rain water towards useful points.
The Cave. View of the Students Associations Center, one of the cave spaces. The space is in connection both with the university and the urban life on the streets.
Technical Perspective Section | Original Scale 1:50 The building is hang up through a truss system on the top floor. The underlying stories are hanged up through cables while only concrete service boxes reach the ground and allows to traverse continously the public space.
Hanged
architecture
Typical floor plan | +14,8 mt | Original Scale 1:200
Informal Spaces
Openable window detail | Original Scale 1: 10
Offices
Office façade solutions
Classrooms’ system
Classroom façade solutions
Common Spaces, Library and Service Spaces
Façade system detail | Original Scale 1:10
Plan & façade detail | original scale 1:50
Cross Section | Original Scale 1:200
Cross Section | Original Scale 1:200
Cross Section | Original Scale 1:200
Everyday life of Business School Building
The Mall | Living space for the new community made by Harlem people, Business students and their crossing interests.
the public arena
informal and connection space
In | Between
auditorium
Longitudinal Section | Original Scale 1:200 The public space is built through the sequence of vertical compression and dilatation.
The Mall | The space under the mall is conceived as an exterior space, in which informal activity are encouraged as the expression of the possibility of culture and architecture for all.
The Street | Streets are Manhattan structure and suggest people the permanence of the neighborhood. The built geography is a lived space in its meanders and slopes.
Detail of the coverage | Original Scale 1:20
Detail of the exit air system | Original Scale 1:20
Detail of the ground | Original Scale 1:20
Technical section of the Mall | Original Scale 1:50
Axonometrical breakdown of the structure | Original Scale 1:100
Conceptual Design
Naked Structures
Vertical Structure
Horizontal Structure
Trusses System on the Top Floor
personal projects 1
international ideas competition
1
| Rome
landscape design projects
(Ensap Bordeaux)
YAC |Young Architects Competitions
Ideas Competition for the transformation of Forte Portuense (Rome) into a leisure time and cultural focal point. Creation of a cultural and wellness network made by all the disused military fortifications in Rome. team: Manuel Clasadonte, Daniele Demattè, Michela Palmisano
View of Forte Portuense (on the right side) and the new digged and inhabited bank (on the left). The moat becomes a “sport moat” and it’s conceived as a link between all activities in the bank and the city.
Axonometry of the internal empty space | the empty space is capable of resuming both itself and the opposite terms,and of giving an idea of which space people will live in.
Spaces are “tableaux� 1 | The community temple | Big hall for conferences with small and flexible chapels for neighborhood associations.
2 | Active and wellness center, provided with two swimming pools and gym.
4 | Band rehearsal space and music rooms.
3 | Workshop space & mediatheque.
Faible
et diffuse.
Petite
dictionnaire de la mutation, supplĂŠment au paysage en mouvement.
The Landes de Guascogne district has the biggest productive forest in Europe and the highest sprawl problem in France. A large scale project in this area has to forget the gesture and to build a method able to analyse and solve the multiplicity and the complexity of this large area ( almost 40 km). The method was based on permanence and has a strong procedural and synthetic way of working. The project is made by little interventions, but repeteables,all based on the duration of natural cycles, and in each of them,loisir and agriculture could become an unicum.Two villages are the start and the finish of the project, and their interventions are the only built part of the project. Each intervention is like a piece of a puzzle: you can recognise the general image even without all the pieces, but when you are there, you want to know easch detail of the image. Research
Fall-Winter
1 | the river
2 | houses in the middle of nowhere
3 | intensive farmland
4 | vegetable garden for schools.
of a method
Spring-Summer
5 | corn intensive plantation
6 | growig forest cycle
7 | main vehicle street
8 | hub into the forest: space for workshops, etc...
Labrit: start
Le sen: finish
Feel free to contact me for an interview, for a job or just to say Hi! at palmisano_m@alice.it or +39 334 777 86 75