Portfolio and Curriculum | 2023

Experiences Awards, publications

2021-2022

A2D (BE)

Designer and draftsman on competition and assigned commissions, Designer and draftsman on assigned commissions for parks and private gardens. From sketch to completion the main task was to design and propose different solutions in the field of landscaping in order to match the demands of the client with the company's knowledge of botanic and landscape design. Archicad+Twinmotion, Photoshop+Illustrator among the software used for visualization.

2021-2022

A2D (BE)

Designer and draftsman on competition and assigned commissions, in social housing, office workspaces and large scale residential. Archicad responsible among the office for bestpractice and workflow with others tools aimed to embed BIM design and architectural visualization.

2020-2021

OSK-AR (BE)

Designer and draftsman on a various range of architectural project, from concept, to realization. The office workflow is based on the use of BIM, such as Archicad, with which Sketch design to developed design phases are made with detailing and automated scheduling.

2018 | 2019

TALUD (BE)

Designer and draftsman on a various range of loca architectural project, from concept to realization. The office workflow is based on the use of BIM, such as Archicad, with which all the design phases are made together with automated scheduling and detailing.

2015|2017

Mecanoo (NL)

Designer and draftsman on a wide range of international project, from competition to developed design phases in the BIM environment of Revit. International team work, and a broad knowledge of software was fundamental in all the processes and in the comunication.

2015

Europan 13 Norway | Trondheim

classification: 3rd place

Team: Protocol Collective (http://divisare.com/authors/2144761815-protocol-collective)

Education and Training

2012-2014

University of Delft, The Netherlands | faculty of Architecture, department of Urbanism.

EMU, postgraduate masters in Urbanism, focused in urban and landscape design. MSc thesis focused on the redevelopment of the weak rural areas, from the understanding and mapping at a regional scale, to the proposal at the architectonic scale. Msc degree in Urbanism (8|10).

2013

University of Venice, Italy | faculty of Architecture, department of Urbanism. Exchange semester, focused in urban design. Recycling the city program.

2008-2011

University of Cagliari,Italy | faculty of Architecture. MSc in Architecture, integrated planning, study of the architectural morphology and the urban design. Technical and freehand drawing to approach the composition of the architecture from the scratches until the final visualization. MSc degree in Architecture (104|110).

2005-2008

University of Cagliari, Italy | faculty of Engineering, Building Department.

Learning of the construction processes and materials, applied physics, CAD and BIM softwares.

After completing my first degree in Architecture of Building Constructions ( M.Sc. 5years) in Italy, I extended my education with a post-graduate in Urbanism (M.Sc. 2 years) at TUDelft, Netherlands. My initial education taught me the technical understanding of construction processes and allowed me to develop the care for detailing ad craft-works, as well as fascination for traditional architectural typologies, and morphologies. The education I had in Holland sharpened my understanding of the complexities behind the urban scale, which I consider as a valuable addition to my architectural education. After the studies I had been working as urban designer at Mecanoo architecten (Delft, The Netherlands), where I was involved in many different processes and international projects. The responsibility to bring on a project from competition phase to development, within a young, international environment was another education on its own.

In 2018 I moved to work as architect at TALUD (Leuven, Belgium), where I was mainly involved in private residential project, entirely developed in Archicad, from sketch design to building permissions. My academic and professional experiences, together with the passion for travelling, brought me to work and live in a multicultural context, where the teamwork had been fundamental. Communication for me means proficiency in the language, as well as in the graphic where I usually focus, and spend most of the time.

Mecanoo architecten

2015 | 2017

Architect and landscape designer

Ai | Ps | Id

Revit | Autocad | Rhino

Project I’ve worked on : Tainan Public Library, Taiwan

Open competition, 1st prize | Schematic Design commision.

Taichung Green Corridor, Taiwan

Invited competition, 1st prize | Schematic Design commission.

Shell Commons Den Haag, The Netherlands

Invited competition | teamwork competition. Zinzia Care Center, The Netherlands

Developed Design phase | BIM and visualization

Kaoshiung Social Housing, Taiwan

Open competition, 1st prize | schematic design commision

European Investment Bank, Luxembourg

Developed Design teamwork | BIM draftwork

Tainan library, Taiwan | Open competition,1st prize.

Antonio Sanna | Portfolio

The competition aimed to select a project which would be a landmark, and a functional library, for the metropolitan city of Tainan, with the exibility to provide a scheme of a further expansion. Our idea was to provide a cantilevered structure, noticeable from distance that would also leave a wide open space on the ground level, and isolate the library from the city's noise with a green belt of selected species. Both the architectonic and landscape were conceived together, and as a result it was a winning design, carried out with good BIM management that created a fast and smooth process with the local Taiwanese partner ofce, from competition phase, until submission of the detailed design.

The water refelcts towards the cantiliver, whereas vegetation rises towards the exterior.

The enclosure made by the vegetation opens strategically to allows view of the facade, and to mark the entries.

Access on sides, and plaza with water

Section

Tiling schemes

Taichung Green Corridor, Taiwan | Invited competition,1st prize.

Given the professional experience in Taiwan, we were asked to nd a solution for a long dismissed railway, centrally placed in the city, and elevated on a dyke, that was recently replaced by an elevated railway. The linear area, and its strategic position gave the idea for a pilot project of a green infrstructure line, for pedestrians and bikers, together with a multifunctional park, that would give sport elds, leisure green areas, and public spaces for market and gathering

The railway line, before a barrier with some gates for cars, become a place more frienldy to other means of transport, and a place not only to cross, but where to stay

Shell commons, new ofces and campus. Den Haag, The Netherlands | Invited competition.

The project focuses on the idea to create a campus, and therefore embed the different buildings of the same company by a park-public space designed on the same boulevard that now separates them.

Concept for the boulevard’s landscape, design, and visualization of the masterplan from skratch.

Color schemes options.

Older schemes.

Zinzia Care Center, extension and landscape | assigned project

Part of the objectives of the project were differentiate areas according to mobility and deseases of the patients. This was achieved by the intagrated design of landsacpe and architecture.

The competition was about the rst social housing project in Kaohsiung, that had to be part of a broader requalication of a dismissed-railway area. The project took the rst prize thank of a broader thinking of the whole area, inlcuding a masterplan, a landscape design, and to have integrated specic characteristics of the local culture into the architectonic schemes.

A2D architecten

Projects I`ve worked on: Windmoleken

Invited competition, 1st prize | Re-development of a large scale social housing complex. (BE)

CNUZ

Competition| Proposal for a small scale green living on a budget. (BE)

Matexi

Direct assignment | Development for a private residential area. (BE)

BOBRA

Direct assignment | New construction for a private villa in the outskirt of Brussels. (BE)

1st prize competition for a large scale social housing refurbishisment. The different modules that characterize the project were outdated in terms of floorplan and insulation as much as the facade, made of different colored bricks that has been modified by each user into something different. With a keen eye for the low budget we chose to modify the floor plan for a more contemporary use, leave the interior car parking for more living space, and bike shed and eventually insulate to the latest constructions standards.

Windmoleken

Floorplan with intervention

The design for this masterplan proposal responds to the needs for new residential development in the green outskirt of Brussels. Three different zones would relate in the different ways with the public space, Zone A would have a more classic confortable apartments blocks with a park, aimed to elderly inhabitants. Zone B would be a typical flemish single/attached family house with a green slow boulevard , whereas Zone C would be a more experimental small scale village, with a communal space where to gather, do public gardening or just play open air.

ZoneA

Development of residential blocks for social housing units, with an eye for bright and flexible floorplan layout, and a green approach to the public space.

Projects I`ve worked on:

GB-LOT

Invited competition,1st place | Renovation and new construction for a public school in Lot (BE)

NEO

Deveoped Design specifications | Construction detailing for a multi-sport center in Brussels

DB-Evergem

Invited competition, 1st place | New construction for a public school in Evergem (BE)

Geert Heyvaert

Direct assignment | New construction for a private villa in the outskirt of Brussels

1st prize competition. The school in Lot (BG) comprises the kindergarten and the elementary school. Due to an increase number of alumni and an outdated functional layout of the structures, they asked both for a spatial extension, and a change in the layout. Considering the diversity of the two architectural element, one brick classic long element, and a modernist set of prefab boxes, we decided to add some more rational element that would directly highlight were the extension would be. The rest is a work of material and landscape, making both the layout, and the architecture more simple in the way it will be used by students, and teachers. My involvement was primarily in the management of the Archicad file, the set up of the existing situation, the design for the old brick compartment, and all the vector planar, axonometrical export and their final visualization.

1st prize competition. The school in Lot (BG) comprises the kindergarten and the elementary school. Due to an increase number of alumni and an outdated functional layout of the structures, they asked both for a spatial extension, and a change in the layout. Considering the diversity of the two architectural element, one brick classic long element, and a modernist set of prefab boxes, we decided to add some more rational element that would directly highlight were the extension would be. The rest is a work of material and landscape, making both the layout, and the architecture more simple in the way it will be used by students, and teachers. My involvement was primarily in the management of the Archicad file, the set up of the existing situation, the design for the old brick compartment, and all the vector planar, axonometrical export and their final visualization.

New bike lane

New bike lane

Permeable pavement

Permeable pavement

Reinforced grass

Reinforced grass ( fire brigade )

Sand Grass

Sand Grass

Existing water course

Existing water course

1st prize competition. The competition for the extension of this college convinced the jury for its functional and simple design, an approach based on 2 phases scheme, and its sustainability. The playful outdoor space, once just an unutilized green area, becomes the center of the childrens’ activities, were numerous soils variation are created from the soil excavation materials, as shown in the diagram. My involvement in this project, among others, was on the design of the outdoor spaces, visualization of the diagrams, masterplans and plans. The entire project has been set up in Archicad.

Axonometry

Projects I`ve worked on:

Direct commission for new apartments| Urban study and sketch design

Direct commission for private extension and renovation | Sketch, definitive design

Direct commission for a dancehall barn conversion | Sketch, definitive design

Direct commission for private extension and renovation | Sketch, definitive design

Direct commission for private extension and renovation | Sketch, definitive design

Direct commission for area study and masterplanning | Sketch

Small private residential project. The clients had the desire to extend their living area towards their property, mainly covered by en extensive crown of trees, and a small, kitchen-garden style, wineyard. The opposite side faces the entrance alley, and a provincial road, for which the client asked to be hidefrom. Having these principles in mind, the extension is thought to be visually light and massive, made of simple steel-wood builtup. The demolition would regard only non load-bearing elements, allowing both a strategic division of spaces, a lower budget, and the possibility for the owners to cooperate in the project’s development.

Having already had the countryside villa already renovated with TALUD, the client, a dance teacher, decided to transform the unused barn into a dance hall that would comprise a bar-reception as extension. The main element, the tower and the wall are both an iconic remark for the changers, technical room, and bar, and are stratefic structural element that allowed to have a less invasive demolition, and lighter builtup. The arrangement of the dance hall, technical core, and bar are made to grant a diverse accessibility for the private living area,

Tienen, is a small Belgian city, which perifery is already a strategic location for residential and commercial expansions of surrounding bigger cities.The client asked to densify the lot providing a renovation for the existing family house, new family houses` typologies (private entrance) and offices, to be combined in a private inner courtyard rather than the common, banal street access.

Projects I`ve worked on:

Stelle Marine

Direct assignment. Activity park and garden for a leisure boutique hotel in Costa Smeralda. (IT)

Eden Rock

Direct assignment. Proposal for the steep landscape surrounding a villa. (IT)

Arkadia

Direct assignment | Proposal for the landscape surrounding a coastal villa. (IT)

Scheme Garden Park

The project comprises two phases, at first a landscape design is proposed for the new hotel expansion, comprehensive of a teatrical use of low blooming flowers, low shrubs and trees. A second phase foresee the design of an activity-park, were endemic mediterranean species make the stage for a leisure park were a range of platforms and paths, is intended to host a variety of activities and finally strenghten the connection with the marvellous shore.

Visuals

Masterplan

Arkadia

Softscape Hardscape

New trees

Existing trees

Wooden deck

Beach pool

Lawn

Low shrubs/blooming

Medium/High shrubs

Planters

Concrete planters

Reinforced grass

Wooden deck

Masterplan

Individual thesis project. Discover and design urban and architectonic requalications for border's condition areas. Autocad Corel Designer ArcGIS Revit Photoshop

Baunéi

Sardegna, Italia

Border's condition of the small, rural settlement, was the subject of the thesis' studio. The term border meant not only the physical conditions at the edge of the village, but also a situation of decay, where the links between nature and urban areas, which always characterize these settlements, were lost.

The village of Baunei is characterized by a strong and particular identity, which roots in the steep slope where the village settles on. Poverty, recent crisis' condition, land exploitation, are common ingredients in the region of Sardinia, that lead to bad residential, and urban development . With the project I aimed to propose an architectonic, and urban re-interpretation of the original texture, that would embed a social and economical renewal as well. The qualities of the vernacular features are mixed to the contemporary needs for an economic redevelopment.

The picture is taken from the top of the ridge, the position of the settlement allows natural enlightenment, proximity to water sources and hunting areas, and control over the underlying crops.

Antonio Sanna | Portfolio

Photography was the starting point, the incredible bond between the powerful, and wide natural context, I thought should be the backbone of the design solution. The steep conditions mean a complex network system, e.g. the roads parallel to the slope are the main vehicular axes, whereas the tiny and perpendicular alleys, are the perpendicular connection made in steps.

This create an organism where the public realm become private spontaneously, and where astonishing glimpses pop up in between a dense, and constructed layout. The masses control the land through alternated terraces, steps, and characteristic plan's solutions.

My design had to be related to the existing structure, in order to emphasize the amazing features, that nature gave as a gift.

Altitude

700 mt 0 mt 100mt

T h e v i l l a g e o f B a u n e i s t a n d s j u s t b e l o w t t h e r i d g e o f t h e w i l d e s t a r e a o f t h e r e g i o n , t h a t i s t h e n a t i o n a l p a r k o f G e n n a r g e n t u A s o f t e n h a p p e n s , t h e m a i n r e g i o n a l r o a d b e c o m e s t h e m a i n s t r e e t o f t h e v i l l a g e , a n d f r o m t h e r e , t h e e n t i r e u r b a n m o r p h o l o g y i s g e n e r a t e d

S o f t w a r e

G I S a r c m a p

I l l u s t r a t o r

Genesis of "Corte comune"

The historical research conrmed that Baunei expanded inwards compared to , due to the ground complexity, its original boundaries resulting in an overlaying of different historical textures. The spontaneous "sedimentation" of layers, has generated the particular feature, called the , a public Common Courtyard ( Corte Comune) space that neighboring dwellings perceive as their own, and therefore they gradually enclose it via small modications of the existing structure through time. The project aims to reinterpret the precious feature, and thus give the same quality of space.

Communal interest of a relevant public space. a.

b. Spontanous densification intended to "privatize" a public area.

Antonio Sanna | Portfolio

Dense historic texture, compression on the main axes. Porous historic texture, layers of reconstruc�ons. Borders, loss of historic's features, new types.

Viewpoints and flows

Nature, compactness, , and courtyards, were marvelous sights all together the ingredients for the rst sketches. The existing context at the edge of the settlement was a mix of casualness, exploitation, and cheap solutions, carelessy designed during the high demand of the 70', and the 80'.

Among the senseless typologies that characterize the edge of Baunei, my concern was to design a strong, iconic intervention, a cohesive project, that demonstrates the possibility to combine the nature and the intervention today, as it was normal at the village's origin.

The program should therefore ts the contemporary needs. The inclination of the project's roofs, contrasts the atness of the newly constructed masses, and above all it deals with the irregularity of the rocky plateau behind.

The program, considering the increasing call for a seasonal tourism, combines the need for dwellings for youngs, with the possibility to host guests (B&B type), also the presence of workshops and labs would allow artisans and farmers to nalize their products, towards a market which involves tourism too.

Chart of typologies

Case study 2

Ground Lv plan 5 mt

Residential Duplex

Workhops, expos, social

[wood beams + glass] facade

Case study 2

First Lv plan 5 mt

Residential Duplex Workhops, expos, social

[wood beams + glass] facade

Case study 2

Upper Lv plan 5 mt

Residential Duplex

Workhops, expos, social

[wood beams + glass] facade

Team work project. The project's area can be an important urban bypass, and a solution of continuity for the important architectonic tissue.

Autocad

Corel Designer | Ai

AllPlan

Cinema4D+VRay

Photoshop

2008|2009

Architectural Composition lab IV

Laboratorio di composizione dell'Architettura IV

The aim of the studio was to embed dwells, ofces, and commercial, within an historical context that nowadays is weak. The morphology of the territory has not been modied, and its architectonic types often don't match their original style, giving as result a lack of consistency, that we planned to solve with The is very important to the area, but our intervention north|south ow because of the old urban texture, that usually generate troublesome car lines, and difculties for the local pedestrians, giving also a noisy and polluted environment. Our goal was to generate a design that matches the original types, together with the more recent one, and to create a social gathering in the shape of a giant, intimate, public courtyard. The decisions were based on the re-interpretation of the existing courtyards, the proportions between masses and voids, the private areas and the public ones. We also wanted to revitalize the quality of the urban form, based on the old-but-good intimacy between courtyard and street, thus private and public. Eventually the north|south ow passes across the lot through a series of terraces and paths that recall the original sizes, while car and heavier trafc are left to other areas. The kitchen garden, a characteristic of the district, has being reinterpreted with semi-public gardens on the ground level, and a semi-private glasshouse below the roof of the southern building.

Urban concept

Project area.

No match with the historic texture.

Proper historic texture. Consistency with the historic texture.

Team work project. Redene voids within the historic tissue of Cagliari, Italy. Autocad

Corel Designer Photoshop

Process of patter's identification. Development of a new pattern.

From the types to the model.

Courtyards

The historic district of Marina, in Cagliari is a dense and compact urban texture with a mixed program; artisans, street food, bars and restaurant, together with the high demand of dwelling from the youth, created the project's program. We developed small, and flexible living units, suitable for cuples and small families, and smaller units for students. The weak illumination of such compact types, has been solved through the design of backyards on shifted levels, whereas we broke the heterogeneity of the lot's elevation via designing an external skin of brisoleil that allows the modulation of light.

Existing courtyards

The interiors, bright, and seemingly simples, are characterized by the use of steel and brushed alluminium, combined to a resin oors, which exible properties well t the dwell program. On the exteriors, the wood is juxtaposed to the rusted metal ( COR-ten) of the , in order to create a desired warm|cold contrast. facade's skin

St. steel eshing 5mm 1

2

Waterproong membrane 4+4 mm

Polyurethane panels 40mm

Vapour barrier 5mm

Light concrete screed slope (4%) max. 45mm

Concrete slab with mesh 40mm

EPS insole 200mm

Plaster 10mm

Alluminium frame, double glass 3

PVC manhole 100mm 4

5

Decking in beech

Light concrete slope (4%) max. 45mm

Waterproof membrane 4+4mm

Concrete slab with mesh 40mm

EPS insole 200mm

Plaster 10mm

Partition "Ecosism" 100mm 6

Concrete sleed 100mm 7

Epoxy resin, coating 25mm (white)

Vertical Garden

9 Metal eshing, and drip irrigation unit

10

8 Existing wall

Hollow metal frame 40mm

Vapor barrier 4+4mm

Florafelt© vertical garden planter

11 Gutter frame edge: galvanized, drain into pt.4

Antonio Sanna | Portfolio

Team work project. The city of Marghera si divided by the duality carachterized by its industrial, polluted port, and its residential side.

Autocad

Corel Designer | Ai

GIS arcmap

Photoshop

A bottom up approach.

Marghera, created as industrial expansion of Venice, nowadays its urbanity is sharply . sliced in two parts Conceived to be the place of work on the port area, and the workers' dwellings on the other side, today the two sides don't comunicate as before. A wide network of abandoned rails, dismissed and polluted industrial zones, and proximity to waters, offer alltogether a potential to invest in the area, and activate a new relationship based on contemporary needs.

The city of Marghera is designed according to the " G a r d e n c i t i e s " i d e a , a n d t o d a y i t s m u l t i c u l t u r a l evironment aska for recreative spaces, workshops, and startups, and of course the connection with the water Finally the division between the port and the city, characterized by the road Fratelli Bandiera, is badly renowned for its criminal life.

Team work project

New scenarios for the Dutch Delta areas

Corel Designer | Ai | Id

GIS arcmap

Photoshop

2013

Delta Landscape

EMU postgraduate master | 2° semester studio

Historical steps

Strijen Oud-Beijerland

The settlements start above, and behind the main dyke. The religious architecture lays protected in the back.

Initial expansion, on the left along and above the dyke, on the right towards inland, following the pattern of the crops.

Expansion still follows the same pattern, on the left it continues until saturation. On the right the new industrial area is placed outside the dyke.

The construction of bigger dams in the region, allows to expand the settlements in areas outside the original dykes.

Problems&opportunities

Strategic typologies

Make

Typical dyke’s settlement

Relation

The study of the historical cartography allowed to understand the dynamics of the settlements in the region of South Holland, and Zeeland, that is strongly inuenced by the presence of the delta. Numerous oods eventually let the Dutch develop the Delta Project, consisting in a system of dams, and dykes, that would protect the region from high tides, storms, and therefore oods. The studio explores different scenarios regarding the future of the area, and how those places could be adapted if there would not be dams anymore. The strategy we pursued with my team, called "back to the nature", foreseen that the big dams on the ocean's side would be re-open again, allowing salty water to ow towards the river

Reconnect

Within the team, my project focused as rst on the study of the local settlements, and how they could be adapted to deal with the water, e.g. with amphibious housing, water-proof ground levels, new dykes' systems. More in detail, the project I developed focused on the bigger scale of the rural area, and how to deal with the presence of salt in the water that would ow inland. The idea was to frame specic areas to store the exceeding water, as in the "room for the water" program, and then to develop a sandy dam, which would separate the brackish water from the fresh one. This dam would embed a program focused on the economical redevelopment of the area through a leisure area, and a botanical park which would have the rare characteristic to show brackish water plants, in front of fresh water ones, in a natural way

Biodiversity

Amphibious

Flood

It gives the age of the polder according to their subsidence, and where water would aim in case of flood.

Terrain + AHN depth map

Depths. Strategy for controlled flooding

New flexible residential areas.

Within the team, my project focused as rst on the study of the local settlements, and how they could be adapted to deal with the water, e.g. with amphibious housing, water-proof ground levels, new dykes' systems. More in detail, the project I developed focused on the bigger scale of the rural area, and how to deal with the presence of salt in the water that would ow inland. The idea was to frame specic areas to store the exceeding water, as in the "room for the water" program, and then to develop a sandy dam, which would separate the brackish water from the fresh one. This dam would embed a program focused on the economical redevelopment of the area through a leisure area, and a botanical park which would have the rare characteristic to show brackish water plants, in front of fresh water ones, in a natural way

Analysis of existing layers

III Occupation: Oud-Beijerland actual urban morphology

II Infrastructure: System of main dykes, and secondary dykes with roads.

I Ground: recognition of different depth levels.

Existing

Proposal

Rural areas strategy

Phase 0

Existing situation

Phase 1

Gradual opening of the Haringvliet dam, progressive regression of dam’s line, construction of the Sand Strip, which aims to retain the brackish water oods the crops, because of inuence of the salty water from the sea.

Full opening of Haringvliet dam. All the main infrastructrures work, settlements are protected by the secondary dykes, and new residential areas will deal with oods via anphibious techniques.

Phase 3

Development of the new infrastructures to strenghten connection with the Zeeland area.

Phase 4

The sand strip

Recognition of appropriate position

The less deep areas are chosen in order to avoid high cost of construction, and waste.

Program

The dam embed a program to boost the economy of the region, such as a park, turbine park for energy, trekking, and boat ’s docking.

Future scenario

When water will raise, and oods will happen often, the area could host further natural area, connected to the program of the Sand Strip.

Goudswaard

Middelharnis

Hellevoetsluis Nieuwendijk

Middelharnis

Individual thesis project

Msc EMU TUDelft | The Netherlands

Autocad

Corel Designer | Ai | Id

GIS arcmap

Photoshop

2014

Contextualizing Edges: The rural case of Sardinia

EMU postgraduate master | Thesis project

The social and economical phenomenon of depopulation led the countryside of Sardinia, as many others, to lose its inhabitants in favor of the major city centers. This is also called Rural Flight, and it's something that involves many other eld as rural Architecture and Urban morphology. Always more people move towards coasts and major city centers, or even abroad, seeking for better opportunities of education and job.On the other hand, always more people visit Sardinia because of its strong touristic vocation, not only for the beauty of its coasts, but also for the marvels which inland is particularly rich. The opportunities that this research explores are therefore focused on the Dicotomy that the Rural ight presents: a migration that is increasing the number of ghost towns as well as the residential expansion in the main cities, and on the other hand an increasing number of tourists that prefer wild and uninhabited to resorts and overcrowd.

The thesis fosters the mapping of social and economical data, giving thus a strong tool for the geographical understanding of a metaphisical phenomenon, and therefore a strong tool for the design interventions and proposals.

Altitude gap

2 km

The elevation this map shows, the pace of altitude, already sets the ground for the synthesis of three main areas: the Level Ground, the Hills and Plateaus, and the Mountains. The division is essential for the unerstanding of the Systems

An homogeneous system is dened by same topo-morphological, and architectonic typological features.

Antonio Sanna | Portfolio

The link between the geographical characteristics and the social implications is a key element of the master thesis. The rural architecture belongs to the isolated context and the introverted mindset of its population, thus the way of living is easily readable already from the architectonic types. The understanding of the territory and its features eventually matches the topic of the research, the loss of population. The aim of the project is to develop a network nowadays lost, which would regenerate the already existing benets of the rural life.There will be no changes in the thin line that bond architectures to its natural context and inhabitants. Nor there will be inhabitation. The old professions are strenghten and linked to create a system. The existing public network will be re -thinked to match the old and new needs. The system will take advantage of a renovated key structure, choose in a strategic point, which aims to connect the rural to the global, so the market of the handcrafts would have the chance of a global appeal.

Synthesis

The broad geographical, economical, and social research, eventually brought to a complex regional situation, that sought the necessity of a synthesis. The summary pinpointed a series of homogeneous "systems" similar in geographical features, social behaviour, architectonic typology, and urban morphology Within the thesis reseearch I opted to choose one system to develop in details, and this system would be the more affected by the socio-economical situation.

Basic Services

The recognition of the Public Services on a sample of villages across the systems dened by the synthesis, gave the chance to continue the study on one microsystem, the poorer.

The pattern is anyhow clear: the less the place can afford to offer to its citizens, the stronger the migration to more "confortable" places. The road to the solution is not to provide the same service multiplied in each settlement, but it's to strategically link the villages to create a uid system, not only of and , but also a public transports public services powerful economy that shares spaces within the microsystem.

Basic

Natural heritages

The mapping of the most important , brought to the layers of the microsystem discover of its potentialities, as the presence of an existing but hidden public network, the needed services are there but scattered within the microsystem. A tangled country-road network denes a landscape of tiny settlements and natural park, the interventions will aim to preserve the network while proposing a global intersection to them.

Giara of Siddi

Mount Arci

Regional park of Giara di Gesturi

Regional park of Monte Arci

The charts show in detail the public transport network and the production for each village of the system. Their importance lays on the fact they are the backbone for any intervention, the ease of moving within the system allows exchange, foundamental for both citizens and visitors.

Cereals

Olive trees

Grapevines

Broad Beans

Cherries

Barley

Almond

Sheep Pork

Goat Horse

Cow

Fish_trout

Fish_eel

Milk

Cheese

Slow food

Wood’s carving

Cork

Stone

Weaving textiles

Copper

Adobe Knife

Neolithic

Nuragic

Roman

Local types

Local Dress

Corona Arrubbia

Due Giare

Perda ‘e Idocca

Photography Fotografia

Italy, Baunei 2012

The contrast between wide sights and tiny alleys, as well as rural, and slow, could be clear in only one click.This picture was the coverpage of my M.Sc. thesis in Architecture, and it had to recap a quite broader story. In the following collection I juxtaposed pictures to create a story, a composition of lines and perspectives.

Venice, Italy 2013

Venice, Italy 2013

Muscat, Oman 2017

Empty Quarter desert, Oman 2017

Brighton, UK 2011