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I feel like a crazy bouncing ball

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to another, being dyed with a

new tint on every bounce.

ACADEMIC projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

RETAIL projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

HOTEL projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

ART & DESIGN projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Degree Portfolio

Bucky LAB

Building Technology

Informatics Design

Canal Plus

Levi’s

Marionnaud

Tiffany

Buddha Bar Hotel Budapest

Montenegro Dorm

Migrants

Frontiers

Oppression

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to face the planning of a science and technologies museum. The site was included in an emerging cultural area of Rome. Its surroundings included the "MAXXI" (a museum for the XXI cent. art) by Zaha Hadid, the "Auditorium" of Renzo Piano and the "Palazzetto dello Sport" of Luigi Nervi.

The approach of my design followed the mass flows of people exiting the new metro station, next to the site. The intensity of these streams of people influenced the bending of a matrix of parallel strips, a texture recalling the former settlement of the site: some military barracks. By pulling up the matrix, a series of spaces were formed. The site is divided in two by Via Guido Reni, so one side hosted the museum and common

areas, and the other included an auditorium. The two parts were connected by an under-passage, and the ground level street was converted into an urban parc. The existing street was buried under the museum under-passage. The blind border of the museum site included a restaurant that looked out at the newly made MAXXI museum.

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bachelor presentation at the university of Rome. It included my most important academic projects and explained how they were connected to each other. I analyzed the process of finding an idea, and how and what was needed to achieve it.

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S A master degree’s course for the Building Technology track at the TU Delft that covered the whole creation process of a prototype for a façade, from its conceptual phase all the way to the final design.

The design was inspired by Victor Vasarely, one of the major artists of the OP-Art, a visual art movement that makes use of optical illusions.

The concept of shading was achieved by rotating of 90° a set of panels forming a pattern inspired by the famous texture used by the artist in “Hommage à l’hexagon” (CLIP 1). 3D printed gearboxes host the mechanism and a laser cut structure bears the loads of the prototype.

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S Building technology was a course which aimed to the creation of an innovative façade concept. My design consisted of a double curtain breathing façade which was composed of double glazed windows cut in triangles shaped and placed on different angles to scatter the reflections of the surrounding environment.

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tubular steel frameworkanodized aluminum framework protectionsteel central node covered in an aluminium shellaluminium profile modulesstainless steel point fixing outer façade: 8 mm toughened extra-clear glass claddinginner façade: sliding door, thermally insulated double glazing, extra-clear glass in aluminium framewalkway for cleaning and inspection4 mm natural anodized sheet aluminiumperforated in alterned bays remote operatedadjustable support foot structure, hung on:curtain wall support systemfloor convectorexisting slabexisting steel structurethermo-insultationbolted connection to central nodebolted base steel node façade plintsingle glazing vasistas window, remotely or manu-ally activated for extra ventilationsilicon joint vasistas manual and remotely controlled single glazing window

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10Technoledge Informatics Design was a course that aimed to the creation of a fiber glass reinforced plastic bench by using parametric softwares such as Grasshopper for Rhino.

This concept is composed of 4 identical modules that are repeated and rotated to form a knot like bench. The repetition of the same module allows to create moulds for only a quarter of the whole model.

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12CANaL plusSeveral designs for a series of popup stores for the French pay-per-view company Canal Plus.

Role in the realisation of the project:Assistant designer from concept to production.3dimensional images and 2dimensional plans and elevations.

Employer: (link to website)

Pop Up StoreOption 2

Architecture Design Urbanism www.rev-architecture.com © REV Architecture 2012

Pop Up StoreOption 2

Architecture Design Urbanism www.rev-architecture.com © REV Architecture 2012

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14 LevisPop Up StoreOption 2

Architecture Design Urbanism www.rev-architecture.com © REV Architecture 2012

The Levi’s flagship store for France.

Role in the realisation of the project:Assistant designer for part of the underground department.2dimensional plans and feasability.

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MarionnaudPop Up StoreOption 2

Architecture Design Urbanism www.rev-architecture.com © REV Architecture 2012

Complete restyling of the Marionnaud megastore on the Champs Elysées.

Architect and assistant designer during the concept design period.

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Restyling of the Marionnaud mega-store on the Champs Elysées in Paris, France.

Role in the realisation of the project:Architect and assistant designer during the concept design period.3dimensional images and 2dimensional plans.

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18tiffanyPop Up StoreOption 2

Architecture Design Urbanism www.rev-architecture.com © REV Architecture 2012

Concept design for the flagship store of Tiffany, on the Champs Elysées in Paris, France.

Role in the realisation of the project:Assistant designer during the concept design period.3dimensional images, 2dimensional plans and construction mockups.

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20Buddha barPop Up StoreOption 2

Architecture Design Urbanism www.rev-architecture.com © REV Architecture 2012

Refurbishment of the Buddha Bar Hotel + restyling of the terrace on the ground floor.

Role in the realisation of the project:Assistant designer during the concept design period.2dimensional plans.

Employer: (link to website)

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Architecture Design Urbanism www.rev-architecture.com © REV Architecture 2012

Ski resort in the mountains of Montenegro.

Role in the realisation of the project:2dimensional plans.

Employer: (link to website)

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24 MIGRANTSThe Artist analyses how migrants focus on the psychological consequences of their feelings, their suppression, and the painful inner processes. The shape of this sculpture follows both in form and materials the meaning of such emotions.

A rubber deck holds steel cabels that inflate and deflate neoprene membranes included in glass bottles. Every heart loudly beats and has a speaker inside, which plays a recorded original suffering story, spoken by the voice of a migrant, in its own language.

“The ensemble is drowned out by the beating hearts.”

Role in the realisation of the project:Artist assistant during the conceptual period.

Employer: (link to website)

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26 FRONTIERSA series of gold-plated aluminum sculptures, describing the borders and stigmatizing their evolutions: the nation symbol, the sense of nation reinforced by borders drawn as a result of war, the national ideal. It involves overlaying historical paths, incorporating the key dates in the history of a nation. The one to the right is Israel.

Role in the realisation of the project:Artist assistant during the conceptual period.Feasability and technical drawings. 2dimensional and 3dimensional images.

Employer: (link to website)

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In the centre of a circle symbolizing the globe, or Homer’s sphere surrounded by oceans, an abstract group of countries will be symbolically gathered. Each cube represents an imaginary country. A place of oppression, lack of freedom. The interstices in the concrete let through whispers, cries, sounds of rebellions and military marches, discussion, poetry about freedom, etc. It’s an organized cacophony amid the rubble of destroyed countries. Is it not political or economic oppression which drives people onto the road? On the other hand, encouraging us to look to the skies, we will hear from above, randomly and triggered by the audience’s movements, birdsong of freedom.

Role in the realisation of the project:Artist assistant during the conceptual period.2dimensional and 3dimensional images.

Employer: (link to website)

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s.costa-2@student.tudelft.nl

+31 6 37528323

s.costa-2@student.tudelft.nl