portfolio silviatoffanin
curriculum vitae Address Telephone E-mail Nationality Date of birth
Silvia Toffanin
via maino 9A, 21012 Cassano Magnago, Varese, Italy +393491202532 toffanin.silvia@gmail.com Italian 20.12.1987
Desired employment ARCHITECT | DESIGNER
Work experience October 2012 January 2013 Position held Main activities and responsibilities Sector
September 2008 February 2009 Position held Main activities and responsibilities Sector
SASIS ARQUITETURA E CONSULTORIA Curitiba, Paranà, Brazil
http://www.sasisarquitetura.com.br/
Architect and urban planner
Planning; 2D e 3D design; Graphic Design; Design of a residential complex in Luanda, Angola; Realization of thearchitectural firm’s portfolio; Participation in the competition of Interior Design “Ibis Style Hotel” Architecture and urban planning
STUDIO D’ARCHITETTURA CARLO MORETTI Cassano Magnago, Varese, Italy Intern
Planning; 2D e 3D design; Graphic Design; Participation in the competition “Thyssenkrupp Tall Emblem Tower Dubai” Architecture and urban planning
Education and training September 2010 April 2012
Master’s Degree in Architecture 107/110
LM4
September 2009 July 2010
ERASMUS
LM4
Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture 109/110
L17
October 2006 October 2009 September 2001
Politecnico di Milano - Faculty of Civil Architecture, Milan, Italy Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon - ENSAL, Lyon, France Politecnico di Milano - Faculty of Civil Architecture, Milan, Italy
Scientific high school diploma 94/100
Liceo scientifico Leonardo da Vinci, Gallarate, Varese
Workshop August 2011 May 2010 May 2007
Living in Valsesia Valley Varallo Sesia, Vercelli Politecnico di Milano | TU Delft Requalification of San Martino’s Area Como, Italia Politecnico di Milano | ENSAL Lyon
IWTA International workshop for tourism and architecture
Famagusta, Cyprus
Personal skills and competences Mother tongue
Skills and competences - computer - social
- organisational - technical - other
Italian English French Portuguese
First Certificate level B2 // understanding speaking writing: independent user understanding speaking: independent user // writing: basic user understanding speaking: independent user // writing: basic user
Autocad, Rhinoceros, Sketch Up, Vray, Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, llustrator, Pacchetto Microsoft Office, Windows Movie Maker Attitude to work in a team; good ability to adapt to multicultural environments, gained through my work and study experience abroad; good communication and socialization skills Sense of organisation and problem solving ability Good ability to making architectural and urbanism models with different techniques Passion for DIY and photography
AWARDS February 2013
Mention in the interior design competition “Ibis Styles Hotel” for the project elaborated during the working experience at SASIS ARQUITETURA E CONSULTORIA, Curitiba, Brazil
January 2013
Thesis “Archaeological excavation as an architecture’s project in the city. Redevelopment of Beirut’s Martyrs Square” selected for the Premio Mantero, an award
for the best thesis of the Politecnico di Milano October 2007
First Prize “Gian Girolamo San Micheli Award” for the projet elaborated during the work-
shop IWTA - Dwelling Sundurme Award ceremony at Triennale di Milano BVS
publication February 2013
Publication in “Giornale della Facoltà di Architettura Civile”
of the Thesis “Archaeological excavation as an architecture’s project in the city. Redevelopment of Beirut’s Martyrs Square” Politecnico di Milano, Faculty of Civil Architecture, Milan
exhibitionS January 2013 March 2013
Participation in the exhibition “Mostra tesi di laurea Premio Mantero” with the The-
October 2011
Participation in the exhibition “Infrastrutture, territorio e paesaggio. Il caso Brebemi” // “Infrastructure, territory and landscape. The Brebemi Project”
sis “Archaeological excavation as an architecture’s project in the city. Redevelopment of Beirut’s Martyrs Square” Politecnico di Milano, Faculty of Civil Architecture, Milan
Centro incontri cultura “Enrico Cavagnari”, Antegnate, Bergamo June 2009
Participation in the exhibition “Mostra per un giorno 4, 24 luoghi espositivi” // “One Exhibition in One Day n° 4, 24 pavillions” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voW9qUTR6AI Politecnico di Milano, Faculty of Civil Architecture, Milan
sasis arquitetura e consultoria curitiba brazil work experience
interior design competion Ibis Styles Hotel mentioned project + interior design of the hotel room + concept development + graphic design of the hotel room
booklet of the competion Ibis Styles Hotel + concept development + graphic design
architectural firm’s portfolio + concept development + graphic design
competition // interior design // graphic design
q uar to “ happy m o o d ”
interior design competition “ibis styles hotel” year place
2013 curitiba|brazil
This interior design project follows the requirements set out in the call: create a different and unique design, that has to be cheap and adaptable to any type of public, from the family to the business man. The project has to follow an “happy mood”, condition easily possible in a country like Brazil, whose colors, scents, flora, fauna and culture are an emblem of optimism and liveliness! the developed concept is related to local identity: each hotel has a different decoration, following the landmarks of the region in which it is located, to benefit the reading and understanding of the place and encourage his guests, both Brazilians and foreigners, to explore the city. The city’s sights and wonders of nature represented with bold designs and bright colors become decorative elements and characterize the private and public spaces of the hotel. In the hotel rooms the space is large and comfortable, due to the perspective created by the inclined axis, designed by the bathroom block and the night area. Different heights, task lighting, bright colors and natural materials are the elements that characterize the rooms.
PLAN
competition // graphic design
c o m p e t i t i o n B OO K L E T
interior design competition “ibis styles hotel� year place
2013 curitiba|brazil
portfolio // graphic design
portfolio sasis arquitetura e c o n s u lt o r i a ARCHITECTURE FIRM’S PORTFOLIO // work in progress year place
2013 curitiba|brazil
studio d’architettura carlo moretti varese italy intern
competition Tall emblem structure in Za’aabel park in Dubai + architectural design + design 2D and 3D + graphic representation of the project + postproduction
competition // landmark
diamond: a landmark for dubai
competition “Tall emblem structure in Za’aabel park in Dubai” year place
2009 dubai|united arab emirates
The project participates in the competition “Tall emblem structure in Za’aabel park in Dubai” organized by the company Thyssen Krupp Elevator, and the claim is design an iconic building for the city of Dubai. The project area is in the city center within Za’abeel Park, from where you can see the main artery of the city’s traffic Sheikh Zayed Road and the nearby skyscrapers. The project provides a new layout for the park and the creation of a landmark visible from all over the territory and recognizable from the air. A diamond of 170m, reminiscent of Fuller’s geodesic dome, wants to be the representative symbol of wealth and power of the city. The diamond structure is glazed and conceals the true functional core of the building, a cube inside which there are an experimental theater, a library, a conference room and a bar with terraces overlooking the city.
theater
politecnico di milano ensal // workshop italy // france // cyprus formation and training
+ architectural design + design 2D and 3D + graphic representation of the project + postproduction + realization of architectural and urbanism models with different techniques + realization of conceptual schemes
master’s thesis // architecture // archaeology
Archaeolo g ical e xcavation as an architectur e ’ s projec t i n t h e ci t y Redevelopment of Beirut’s Martyrs Square year place
2012 beirut|lebanon
The project for Martyrs Square area in the center of Beirut is inspired by a central question in contemporary architecture: the link between archeology and architecture. The “old” that comes to light from the excavation as “new” upsets the previous order and needs an idea that can be absorbed and not denied. Indeed when the pre-existence is isolated, the architectural and cultural identity of a city impoverishes, and the complexity that is based on the presences, the additions, the interferences is destroyed. The project starts from this idea of the excavation as an essential entity to understand that particular urban fabric that is Martyrs Square. The aim is to enable the city to reclaim this area and to create a dialogue with the archaeological remains. The regulating lines creates a system for the designed elements in the area, which is broken in the presence of pre-existing buildings along the edge of the excavation. Main actors are the system of platforms, which relate the level of the buildings to the excavation, the border, which emphasizes the Cardo and Decumanus axes of the ancient Roman city and the rotation of the system, which shows the relationship with the past and is expressed strongly in the arrangement of the new square and the library, and has as its cornerstone the landmark tower of the Burj.
design elements cardo decumanus burj tower french axe serrail ottoman’s walls archeological remains excavation pre-existing system
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the border system
the burj tower
the library the shell copper coverage
the platform consultation area
the excavation archives and administration
the cardo
landscape // experimental // strategy
l andscape as architecture
brebemi,the new infrastructure in the territory: mediation strategy year place
2011 antegnate|bergamo|italy
Oppose industrial diffusion along the highway, the phenomenon known as sprawl, and mitigate the infrastructure impact on the territory are the two key points of this intervention strategy. The goal is transforming the “respect zone”, a non-place adjacent the infrastructure, into a “built respect zone”, a functional area, dealing respectfully with the environment. The strategy assumes a universal and reproducible character, because of its flexibility, that can be adapted to the different situations along the infrastructure. The traditional relationship between building and ground and the distinction between architecture and context are canceled: the landscape itself becomes a building material! The terrain is lifted up and creates green ramps that become a new urban park and a visual and sound barrier for the new infrastructure. The green ramps hide the production and commerce functions, so that these spaces don’t put on the chaotic and anonymous architectural aesthetic of the industrial centers along the highways.
plan
background highway a4
future brebemi infrastructure
background analysis (the highway A4) and future forecasting (the BreBeMi infrastructure)
project strategy and case studies
development phases of the design concept
In the town of Antegnate a technology center is designed: the production function is combined with research and distribution also in short supply chain of agricultural products. Office buildings, laboratories, farmland to be used by researchers, a market, a restaurant, a sports center and a pedestrian and cycle route are functions that find place in this project.
museography // exhibition
p av i l i o n for l u c i o f o n ta n a year place
the
works
of
2009 porto di mare|milan|italy
The starting point for the pavilion design is the willingness to transmit the concepts, the ideas, the principles that characterized Lucio Fontana’s artistic research, in other words storytelling through architectural composition. The aim is making clear the artistic anxiety that characterizes the artist and communicating to visitors the sense of time, of contrast, of continuous research. The pavilion is partly underground, in order to show only the initial work of the artist and to encourage visitors to discover the final phase entering in the museum. This operation explains the metaphorically concept of “attesa” (wait) introduced by Lucio Fontana Moreover some works exposed in open air, giving visitors a chance to observe without entering the exhibition. The complexity of the content is described by the simplicity of the type. The space is constructed through three fundamental elements: a path, a gallery, a ramp, in order to achieve the essential and to “strip” the architectural principle from any other attachments.
detail
project manifesto
sacred space // use of light
the church of ligh
a project according to the ideas of Sol LeWitt year place
2008 ------
The formal creation of the project bases on the study of Sol LeWitt’s artistic work. Platonic solids, especially the cube, are reproduced in series and reduced to a white skeleton, to a tridimensional framework aggregated in open configurations that dialogues with the surrounding space. The first step is the comparison with an initial constraint: a cube of 9x9x9m, which is decomposed into a grid that maintains the initials proportions and determines the articulation of volumes, allowing the offsets till the final definition of the formal aspect. This project is set up as a pure formal and decontextualized exercise, in which the regulating grid is the base of each process, but the real compositional element is the light and the development of the religious theme of the chapel. The chapel is built on three levels: the lower level provides an area for the shrine, a central volume will be reserved for church service and in the top level there is a baptismal font. The three levels are connected by two vertical blocks, one acts as the service stairs, the other as a “light well”. The element that makes this space sacred is the light, its concentration varies depending on the space, growing in intensity going up: from the dim light in the space for the shrine, passing through the filtered light in the volume for church service, to the zenithal light of the baptismal font.
plans sections façades
multifunctional center // experimental
fert’ile : fertile island
research center, vertical farm, and urban mutations pavilion
year place
2010 lyon|france
The project Fert’ile is inspired by the ideas of the Degrowth movement, in particular the criticism of our way of life and the proposal for an alternative to a society in overgrowth: belief in unlimited growth in a world of finite resources hasn’t sense! The goal of the project is to restore the meaning of district life, promoting the system of relations and the local activities, and proposing a program that focuses on reuse and recycling and consumption of local products. The project is based on the realization of three bands with different functions and administered from a place of exchange: the urban mutations pavilion. The functions of the first band aim to re-educate our consumption: a food court is promoting the consumption of local and organic agricultural products. In the central area there is a study and research center related to the practice and knowledge of the earth. Finally, the last band presents workshops and ateliers open to the public and local artisans, offering a free and voluntary exchange of knowledge. The various functions are directly related to the vertical farm, the real experimentation and research center of the complex.
workshop // residential cell // experimental
dwelling sundurme International architecture year place
workshop
for
tourism
and
2007 famagosta|cipro
The project is developed in the historical center of the city of Famagusta, within the Venetian walls, an area which has lost population and life. The residential core proposed here is part of a multifunctional complex: educational, residential and commercial functions are concentrated in a green military zone in the north of the city, limited to the south by a residential area for popular housing and to the north by the city walls. The interior design aims to allow the establishment of different types of users, as tourists, students and Famagusta’s inhabitants, to promote the touristic, commercial and cultural development of the city. The residential cells are determined after a study of consumers and their needs and are based on simple volumes that represent the minimum space for each user. The cells are placed in the building without following a well-defined logic: the building is composed of basic volumes that intersect each others. The decomposition of volumes creates bundles, whose analysis designs the space inside the cell. The unit is developed on several levels designed for different users, communicating through double-height spaces and terraces that overlook each other and allow an uninterrupted view towards the hills and the city walls.
plan
student tourist
decomposition process: tbundles design the residential cell
access
common space
inhabitant
private
semi public
public
private
private
public flows and functions conceptual scheme
inhabitant
residence
commercial
university
venetian walls
conceptual section of the multifunctional complex the section becomes a decorative element for the cell interior and exterior
amateur photography travel diary
+ brazil + beirut + china
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beirut
china beijing shangai hangzhou pingyao
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