Architecture is inherently architecture of relationships. The game of relations and mutation is what most preciously emerges from the formal reading of the city, from the image and interpretation of the dynamics that belong to its inherent structural logic.
VALERIO CROCI
EDUCATION 2018
Master’s degree in Architectural Design - with the higest possible grade - 110 cum laude
2015
Bachelor’s degree in Architectural science
2008
Licensed Member of “Ordine degli agenti Immobiliari” Monza e Brianza
2007
High School degree
Politecnico di Milano University Politecnico di Milano University Camera di Commercio Monza ITC Martino Bassi Seregno
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2017-18
Assistant architect - CE-A Studio- Milan Six months experience for an urban and landscape project in San Giovanni Lupatoto, Verona (Italy). This was my very first non-academic work experience as an architect. I assisted the main designer with the idea and its grapich rappresentation. This experience was usefull because i also had the opportunity to compare in a professional way with the client.
2016
International Competition Winner 3rd place Matterbetter’s international open ideas competition for architecture students to research the new housing concepts for the future of the post-war Syria. I worked on the main idea and solution for housing scarcity crisis, design of the project and graphic reprsentation for the final submitting. http://matterbetter.com/blog/article/49
2015
Internship - LPzR Architecture studio - Milan Internship as design assistant for a project area in Lecce (Italy). This experience was useful to understand how to relate with a professional design team who approaches for the first time the analysis of a project context. I had an interesting view on landscape architecture that helped me to incrase my architecture knowledge. I also dealt with the normative aspect due to many area’s territorial restrictions.
2014
3D Designer - Lourdes 3D project Architectural modeling and Bim to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. I contributed to the realization of the Rosary Basilica’s 3D interiors. I improved my modeling skills together with the knowledge of Bim design softwares such as ArchiCAD.
2013
Exhibition - Castel san Pietro - Switzerland Partecipant and organizer assistant in the temporary exhibitions proposal for the consolidation and preservation of Castel San Pietro’s church. It was an essential experience of historical buildings project, i was involved with the preservation of the main Chapel of the Holy Crucifix together with the request to design new public spaces.
2008 2015
Assistant - Real Estate - Studio Croci - Monza
2007 2013
Other experiences
Working in a real estate agency has allowed me to delve into architecture’s economic side which is usually not analyzed in detail in my university. To compare architectural theory to people’s real demand helped me to design my projects for people and to create relationships between them. This experience has contributed a lot in my education as an architect.
COMPUTER TEACHER / TURISTIC ENTERTAINMENT / FIREFIGHTER VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT
SKILLS Proficient Photoshop, Rhinosceros, ArchiCAD, Office suite, Indesign, Lumion, AutoCAD
LANGUAGES Italian mother tounge
English (TOEIC 865) fluently spoken and read and written
Good Vray, Blender, Artlantis, Sketchup, Illustrator Basics Revit, GIS, 3DSMax Laser cutting, Architecture hand modeling
ADDITIONAL Critical thinking and problem solving Optimistic and motivated Team player Ability to take initiative
INFRASTRUCTURE and RESILIENCE Master’s degree project thesis Project Type :
Architecture
Purpose : Location :
Stadium re-use, social and urban regeneration. Naples - Italy
Year :
2017-2018
Built in 1929 Arturo Collana’s stadium was the main character of historical events, as well as sporting and social occurences for the Vomero district in which it’s located. Since 2014 it’s been in a state of degeneration and neglect. The absence of a specific professional football club that manages the structure has led the municipality of Naples to close the stadium. What strategy can be adopted for a building in which the primary function is no longer considered sustainable? The project idea thinks about the concept of “infrastructure” as an element that works not only at the local level, but also as an engine for the urban redevelopment. The re-opening of the area plays an essential role for the livability of the district that requires collective spaces in a strongly condensed urban fabric. The intervention includes: - demolition of the walls and deteriorated buildings to guarantee better access to the area;
- reactivation of sport activities inside the bleachers as a non-invasive addition, in order to protect their historical and architectural value; - reconversion of the football field into an underground cultural center, that creates a relation between sport, culture and society, welcoming a flexible and multi-functional square on the surface, capable of hosting events, weekly markets and acting as a reception center in case of disasters; - construction of two new permeable buildings, in order to ease access to the internal square, capable of hosting new sports activities as well as coworking spaces. The purpose of the project relies on the concept of “resilience”, learning from the experiences that led the complex to decline, the project aims to create a stronger system to make it sustainable over time.
OPENING THE AREA
BOUNDARY
Urban plaza
CENTRALITY
CIRCULATION
Temporary exhibitions
Events - Concerts
Weekly markets
Natural disaster
ADAPTABILITY
FROM RIVER TO THE MOUNTAIN Accademic Work Project Type :
Architecture
Purpose : Location :
New Engineering University, and landscape Genova - Italy
Year :
2016
The project takes place in Genova val Bisagno along the river, a river that in the last century has seen his space taken away repeatedly from Genova’s people, up to the minimum necessary. This deprivation has led to countless floods with a steady cadence that have been plagueing the area for over 50 years. The project area is located in a very critical point; the intervention, as well as the construction of a new engineering university, aims to give a possible solution to the problem of floods. The main structure takes shape from the old route of ”Ponte Vecchio”, the only connection with the center of Genoa in 1900 that was demolished around 1980. This strong axis runs through the area and divides it into two parts. The first one aims to give space and “breath” to the river along with landscape principles, the inner one to relate to the mountain and the ancient aqueduct that passes in the outlying area. An important aspect is given to landscape architecture; We designed raingardens and water drainage methods for a total safety in case of floods. In the inner part near the mountain the garden system changes by the cours of seasons giving stronger relevance to visual impact and colors of the vegetation. The idea was to create a “garden in movement” that it’s able to guarantee a beautifull landscaped appearance with minimal maintenance. The use of native vegetation is the key to the success of the garden. In the end the project doesn’t of course solve the global problem of floods that affects Genova, but it wants instead to be a role model to change, to show that we can do something to have a better life. The problem is at larger scale and the project couldn’t not aspire to solve it, but, inside his area of intervention, shows that it is possible to find a union between architecture and nature, an element that during the previous centuries in val Bisagno has gradually left out.
Section A-A’
Section B-B’
Section C-C’
Plan 1st floor
Plan 2nd floor
NEW NEUE GALERIE MUSEUM Accademic Work Project Type :
Architecture
Purpose :
Museum and public spaces
Location :
Berlin - Germany
Year :
2017
Competition for the Museum of the 20th Century located in the heart of Berlin’s Cultural Forum in Germany. The building and site plan serves as new home of multiple internationally significant art collections, including the National Gallery’s Marx and Pietzsch collections, sections of the Marzona collection, and a collection of works from the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings). The area’s specific feature is a large open space between important buildings that speak a different language. The project has the purpose to put in relationship these elements developing physical and visual connections, on the ground as well as on underground floors. Particularly relevance was given to Sharoun Plaza which grows in front of the famous Philharmonic; taking advantage of the natural inclination of the area we decided to emphatize this feature to connect the square with the underground entrance of the museum, creating a relationship square - existing museum. The difficult relationship with the surrounding formal elements led us to opt for a modular settlement principle; we decided to use the shape of the church to generate the project. The ground floor harbor main functions available for the city, such as library, restaurant and multimedia classrooms and meeting and auditorium spaces. The museum takes place for the most part on the underground level, the main building facing the road block acts as a boundary edge of the project and hosts oversize spaces and the National Gallery’s Marx. Particular attention was made for the inclusion of the works and to give the possibility to experience the existing neue national gallery that develops in the building by Mies Van der Rohe. The new museum open in the same way whether you enter from the back entrance or if you continue the path from existing neue national gallery. The space around the secular tree is designed as a contemplative place, the project embraces it creating a memorial place for the whole city.
Modula principle
Connection and relations
Ground public functions
Underground floor plan
STUDENT HOUSE COMMUNITY Accademic Work Project Type :
Social Architecture
Purpose :
Student house
Location :
Milan - Italy
Year :
2016
From the second half of the 900 in Italy and in Milan there was a considerable urban growth phenomenon that has seen as protagonists houses made of ‘condominium’. Today this huge stock, which still characterizes the urban landscape, has become obsolete both in terms of physical, energy and typological aspects against the multiplicity of contemporary living patterns. The theme of the project is the riqualification type-techno-morphology of the building site in Milan, the goal is to test the potential in terms of building riqualification and urban regeneration through the use of volumetric bonus defined by the Municipality rules of Milan. In particular the function in addition is specific to the theme of socialhousing or / and architecture for the community to deal with contemporary issues. The analysis of the façade has higlighted the modulation of volumes and structure of windows, this form has been used to define the maximum height that the project had to achieve. In fact the absence of buildings on the sides hasn’t made possible the relation to an elevation level, therefore we mantained a global building proportion and attention with the context. For the landscape side the project works on two different themes, opening and shielding / light and shadow. The south-east facade uses the exposure to create light, and at the same time, to shield the intense radiation of the sun; the northern front instead, opens toward the downtown skyline of Milan supporting soffused light . On the first floor of design there are 8 rooms wihch can accommodate 2 students for a total of 16 students; each room has a double bathroom allowing privacy and different needs and timings. Each module is also adaptable for disabled people. . The second floor is designed as a community space for the study, leisure and meeting place. There are two study classrooms, one for the collective study and one for individual study, a recreation room, a gym and a greenhouse for the cultivation of a common urban garden. The project idea is to encourage mutual support during the coexistence to deal with social architecture issues that the project dictate.
First floor of design plan
Second floor of design plan
Sections
Roof view
View from the interior and section
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Politecnico di Milano
LABORATORIO DI PROGETTAZIONE E COSTRUZIONE DELL’ARCHITETTURA
BETWEEN SCIENCE AND ART Accademic work Project Type :
Architectue
Purpose :
New classrooms and exposition spaces
Location :
Milan - Italy
Year :
2013
The project was developed inside Brera’s Garden, right in the center of Milan. The garden, now as before, is hosting the botanical garden which belongs to the complex of Brera Academy along with the Art gallery and the astronomical observatory. The garden is hidden within the complex and due to his secret location is not well-known; therefore this situation has saved the cancellation and has protected it from an intensive use. The aim of the project was to connect two important poles: Arts Academy and Citterio Palace, thus creating a new way of living, studying and working in the Garden. Thanks to the project the garden can achieve a new visibility and protect his safety, provide new classrooms and study rooms for students attending Brera’s Academy, Workshops and exhibition areas for young artists, as well as reading rooms and coffee shops for the visitor’s Botanic garden.
The greenhouse built by Piermarini is completely preserved and the connection space with the academy is built over it within a separate structure. We tried to give a significant attention to not to be over the disused building, but instead enhance its historical and artistic value. The relationship with the sky is designed to conceal with the surroundings and the garden, also the open space of the project has been implemented with new green spaces for the botanical garden. A bridge connects the two poles preserving vegetation and helping to create a place where time expands and belongs to the biological rhythm, botanical, where the minimum articolations become from annual to decades.
Main section
Greenhouse plan, first floor design
Second floor plan
BACK HOME shard of memories International competition winner 3d place Project Type :
Ideas - Architectue
Purpose :
Solution for housing scarcity
Location :
Syria
Year :
2016
In Matterbetter’s Post-War Housing Competition participants were asked to propose a solution for housing scarcity crisis, which will affect the country as more and more cities of the war-torn country will be freed and refugees will start to come back. Living conditions in the current refugee camps and temporary buildings across Europe and other countries are mostly inhuman, making refugees feel desperate, since there’s also nowhere to come back as the Syrian towns are in ruins, offering nothing to people who once lived there. Our proposal works with the idea to retrace shape of urban’s lot that were destroyed from war, in order to conserve the morphology and city’s identity. New buildings are assembled parlty with ruins, partly with new materials and they play the role of traditional syrian house organized around a courtyard. The idea is to realize two different type of courts: the shape of the urban lot is sorrounded with small and private courts, this system composes a single larger public courtyard which can accommodate different
functions such as public or historical buildings, public gardens, mosques or attraction poles. A wider urban network connects all these public spaces resulting in a new city’s identity and idea. Every building has a ground floor with commercial and public spaces in order to have a direct relationship with the courtyard; housing is developed on the higher floors. Single residential units are flexible houses with 25 mq of immediate living rooms and 20 to 50 mq of potential a dynamical space, that allows the owner to change the unit configuration in relation with his needs. In the beginning every smaller couryard block will have services like kitchen, dining room and living spaces in common. With the passing of time these spaces will accomodate new different public functions or will become new houses for other families . The purpose is to establish a wide community to help each others to rebuild a new urban block, a new city and at last a new Sirya.
Ruins of the city
Subsistem of courtyards
Network of smaller community
Trace of urban edges Urban historical identity
Boundary building
Employment of remain materials
Reinstatement of city memories Immortality of urban identity
City Memories Public Spaces Landmarks
Network of urban centralities New image of the city
...after 50 years New urban composition
25 mq + 25 mq +
1st floor
25 mq + 25 40mq mq++ 40 mq +
1st floor
40 mq + 40 mq + 40 mq +
Time 3: Possibility of elevation
25 mq + 25 mq 50 25 mq mq ++ 25 mq 25 50 mq mq ++ 25 mq 25 50 mq + 25 25 mq mq + 50 25 mq mq + 50 mq +
Time 2: Possibility of extension
Time 1:
40 mq + 25 mq 65 mq mq + 40 25 mq 40 mq + 65 mq 25 mq 40 mq mq + 65 25 40 mq mq + 65 25 mq mq 65 mq
1st floor
2nd floor
1st floor
2nd floor
1st floor
Single housing unit
40 mq + 40 mq 80 40 mq mq +
Time 0: Housing Unit plans
40 mq 40 80 mq mq + 40 mq 40 mq + 80 40 40 mq mq + 80 40 mq mq 80 mq
2nd floor
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