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SKILLS PROFILE

I am a young Italian architect with a strong interest in alternative ways of conceiving architecture, integrating sustainable technologies, vernacular forms, local knowledge and community inputs. After graduating with a master degree in Sustainable Architecture at the University IUAV of Venice, he worked for few years at the Dutch/Nigerian architectural firm NLÉ. During his studies and early work he developed a particular interest in the architectural possibilities offered by developing countries and cities, different ways of living such as costal communities and adaptation strategies to the changing climate.

Marco CestarolliM: marcocestarolli@gmail.comP: +39 3808997383S: marco.cestaLinks:Online portfolio (in construction) Online CVPostcards from NowhereThesis project

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Bluethoot Speakers Date: 2016 Role: Design and realization Stage: Completed

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Serpentine Summer House Location: London, UK Date: 2016 - ... Role: VisualizationStage: Concept development© NLÉ Link to project.Link to Serpentine Gallery.

With a play on architecture, our design aims to fulfil the simple primary purpose of a summerhouse: a space for shelter and relaxation. The design is based on projecting an inverse replica of Queen Caroline’s historic Temple – a tribute to its robust form, space and material, recomposed into a bold new sculptural object.

By rotating the Temple’s interior void space, we expose the structure’s neo-classical plan, proportions and architectural form. Using prefabricated building blocks assembled from sandstone similar to the ones used in building the Temple, our abstracted forms come together to create a room, a doorway and a window for people to interact with the building, the environment and with one another.By locating the Temple in the proximity of the trees, we offer an extension of the space into the landscape, providing shaded

areas in their canopies and in the shadows generated by the object. The carved out void, soft interior and fragmented furniture blocks create comfortable spaces for people to eat, rest or play – in and around the house – all through the summer season.

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Drawn by: Marco Cestarolli

Contact: marcocestarolli@gmail.comPragati Chowk Learning Ground, Nepal.

Phase: preliminary drawings

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Pragati Chowk Learning Ground Location: Yangshila, Nepal Date: 2016 Role: Design and visualizationStage: Concept development Link to project.

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Jewels serie 2 Date: 2015 Role: Design and realizationStatus: Available on request

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Series of artistic jewels obtained by the combination of unconventional materials and reused objects, like bolts, shells, african glass beads, stones.Orhanic shapes and natural forms are a strong inspiration to introduce spontaneity to the jewels.

Desert Lamp Date: 2015 Role: Design and realizationTable lamp obtained by a reused jerry can, that has been cropped to accomodated the light bulb a little desertic garden.A portable garden and light source for a touch of zen in the urban environment.

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Rock, Chicago lakefront kiosk Location: Chicago, Illinois Date: 2015 Role:Design and visualizationStatus: Under construction© NLÉ

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ROCK, our Chicago Lakefront Kiosk in collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a pop-up pavilion – a public sculpture – composed from the raw and historic limestone blocks that once protected the city’s shoreline. Its bold yet sensuous and delicate balance transforms Chicago’s lakefront into a magnet for social and cultural life.

Sited at Montrose Beach, by the Great Lake Michigan, the kiosk is conceived as an ‘infrastructure box’ consisting of materials and technologies that are found at or belong to the local environment. The composition’s climate resilient limestone and concrete elements can be uniquely assembled each time to suit different locations, vendors and uses along the lakefront - by providing shelter whilst contributing to the shoreline protection.Link to project.

Rock & the Bean installation Location: Chicago, Illinois Date: 2015 Role:DesignStatus: Completed© NLÉ

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‘ROCK & The Bean’ is work in progress – a moment in the state of the art of architecture – in the green heart of Chicago’s famous Millennium Park. The exhibition consists of salvaged historic raw limestone rocks that once protected the city’s shoreline, stacked in a ‘depository’ in the south side, now midway on their journey to be repurposed into a new life as ROCK – a contemporary pop-up pavilion/lakefront kiosk at Montrose Beach.

Conceived by NLÉ in collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), the exhibition is a space for public participation, education and interaction between man and material. For the next 3 months during the Chicago Architecture Biennial we invite the public to come add value to these 1930s limestone rocks, by participating in artist facilitated carving, painting, performances and other unimagined processes.

Chicago residents and visitors will recognize their contribution to the lakefront kiosk for years to come, as it becomes a permanent part of the lakefront kiosk and the City of Chicago.

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Black Rhino Academy Location: Karatu, Tanzania Date: 2015 - ... Role: Design, implementation and visualizationStage: Construction documentation phase© NLÉ

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The Black Rhino Academy is a proposed primary and secondary boarding school located in Karatu, Tanzania. The 7 hectare hilly site is situated just outside of the Ngorongoro Crater conservation area, surrounded by rich natural vegetation and abundant wildlife.The buildings and campus are organised through a planning principle vested in the region for millennia – the Iraqw/Masai Boma. Organised in a circle, these villages typically consists of multiple buildings that are connected by thorn bushes forming a protective belt around the village.The school program, schedule and activities are divided into three ‘Islands’; Live, Learn, Play. These are interconnected by a protective pathway, creating a safe yet open environment protected from and yet within the wildlife.The Live Island is located in the most environmentally favourable location on site – to ensure the best

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living conditions for the children, fundamental for learning. The dormitory buildings aim to create a protective environment where children can study in the evening, play in the afternoon, enjoy the free time in weekends and, perhaps most importantly, feel ‘at home’. The Learn Island has classrooms which are set on the sloping landscape interacting with nature. The school hall is a simple yet iconic building that overhangs above the natural slope that forms an amphitheater. The Play Island includes the sports field and is located on the only flat area of the site. The rest, an undulating playscape where children can live their imaginations.The Black Rhino Academy aims to provide a visual and experiential environment that promotes joyful & innovative learning experiences and instills the value of excellent education in the children and in the overall community. Link to project.

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CURRENT POSITIONSPEED: 40 KM/HTIME TO DESTINATION: 5'

LODGE CAMP DISTANCE: 3 KMREST AREA - VIEW POINT

TRAIN IWC O7 DISTANCE: 9 KMRESTAURANT - CAFE

TRAIN IWC 11 DISTANCE: 10 KMACCOMODATION

TRAIN IWC 13 DISTANCE: 7 KMPROJECTION - CONFERENCE

TRAIN IWC 06 DISTANCE: 10 KMACCOMODATION

TRAIN IWC 04 DISTANCE: 8 KMANIMAL CARE - VETERINARY

TRAIN IWC 09 DISTANCE: 11 KMRESEARCH - TRAINING

CENTRAL STATIONDISTANCE: 14 KM

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Kruger Training path Location: Kruger Park, South Africa Date: 2015 Role: DesignStage: Competition

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Once upon a time a straight line was crossing trough the wild landscape of the Kruger Park. The Selati Railway Line, established in 1912, was connecting the border town of Komatipoort with the gold fields in the north-western Lowveld of South Africa.The train played a fundamental role in the history of the park helping its establishment, spreading the awareness of the beautiful South African wildlife heritage. Before being abandoned in 1974 the Selati Railway Line was a true symbol of the Kruger Park.Let’s imaging to take a fascinating tour around the park with a modern train, that could take you silently at close contact with the fauna, without disturbing the animals with any pollution or human smells. What if we could wonder around the magnificent landscapes, focusing completely on the natural beauty trough your window, instead of driving a noisy 4x4? What if we could spend a night setting up a totally imapct-free camp in one of the lodge-station along the line?

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Vitra + Guggenheim: Making Africa Location: Basel, Germany / Bilbao, Spain Date: 2015 Role: Model design and realizationStage: Completed© NLÉ Link to project.Link to exhibition.

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Postcard from nowhere: Natura Meccanica Date: 2015 Role: Conception and visualizationStage: Completed Link to project website.

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Flyers for Giolisu dance company Date: 2015 Role: Graphic designStage: Completed Link to company website.

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Af14-3 AfaraLine Furniture

Location: Lagos, Nigeria Date: 2014 Role: Design andvisualizationStage: Available on requeste © NLÉ

The AfaraLine is a range of ‘afro-minimalist’ furniture designs by NLÉ. Crafted out of the rich grained tropical timber called ‘Afara’, our bold furniture design language accentuates the unique physical appearance of the wood as a raw and robust natural material.

The range of products includes Osisi (living room console), Aarin (center table), Akpoti (side table/stool), Ihé (floor lamp), Tufafi (Wardrobe), Gedu (floating shelves) and more.Link to project.

The school furniture is children’s most basic infrastructure in the learning environment. The basic design still has room for improvements.

With its dynamic form and playful colours our ZLine of school furniture offers new, vibrant and stimulating environments to improve the educational experience for children in schools.Link to project.

ZLine Furniture Location: Lagos, Nigeria Date: 2014 Role: Design and visualization Stage: Available on requeste © NLÉ

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Interchangeable lamp Date: 2014 Role: Design and realization Laser-cutted lamp with several slots where to inserts different and customized masks, in order to create differnt lights effects and intensities.The removable triangular supports allows for differentpositioning of lamp.

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Surulere terrace housing Location: Lagos, Nigeria Date: 2014 - ... Role: Project architect and visualization Stage: Construction documentation phase© NLÉLink to project.

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Credit Direct Limited is one of the fastest growing microfinance banks in Nigeria, providing microcredit to low to medium income earners. Situated in Ikeja district of Lagos in Nigeria, the new headquarters for CDL consolidates its various facilities into a single building that redefines the conventional notion of a bank building as a closed and private institution, by creating a more approachable, open and civic space to meet the needs of its customers – the everyday people.

The specific tropical climate of Lagos suggests an alternative approach to designing a building with distinct private and public functions. A conditioned volume containing the most public functions – efficiently enclosed and protected to reduce heat gain – is suspended above the ground floor comprising an auditorium, entrance lobby and service block. The top floors with more private function

have a transparent envelope which increases the opportunity of views and natural ventilation. The envelope is protected by a generous folded roof plate that also harvests rainwater.

These distinct spaces are connected in a continuous loop that starts with a lush garden on the ground level leading up to a roof garden via an open walkway, connecting the various functions and providing direct access to the restaurant café. The courtyard brings abundant natural daylight into the heart of the building and its character reduces boundaries between inside and outside to create a communal, contemporary and civic atmosphere.Link to project.

CDL Microfinance bank Location: Lagos, Nigeria Date: 2014 - ... Role: Design and visualization Stage: Construction documentation phase© NLÉ

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Me14-7 22 July National Memorial

Location: Oslo, Norway Date: 2014 - ... Role: Design and renderingsStage: Competition© NLÉ

Our proposals for the July 22 Memorial sites are sensitive and responsive interventions within natural and man made environments. They create a multi-dimensional, transformative and twinned experience that embodies the diverse values for the memorial; solidarity, sorrow, love and victory. In doing so, it answers the diverse yet cohesive values and expectations of the Norwegian people.

Both memorial sites commemorate the victims through arboreal representations of the age of the victims – age rings in Hole and timber tablets in Oslo. For every tree that falls, another one takes its place. And just as July 22 marked an ending for many, it also generated the conditions to reassure the nation’s values. Our approach works with man and materials, yet ensures nature is not traumatised in memory of man’s trauma.

The Sorbraten memorial in Hole is conceived as a static and contemplative place in nature – a frozen moment in time – an abstraction of the environment and narrative of the event on Utoya Island. On the other hand, the Oslo memorial is a dynamic and reactive place in an urban environment – in perpetual motion – reflecting and registering the diverse values and moods of its users.

With the varying sizes of the timber tablets and diverse configurations possible in the installation, the memorial generates new relationships between the tablets themselves. And the memorial also acquires different characters ranging from very dispersed and uniform tombstones to a very dense and monumental stage. The memorial is therefore not predetermined in character or symbols but only registers functions and assigned meanings. By taking the three most

important values for the memorial expressed by the families, friends of the victims and of everyday people (Solidarity, Sorrow and Love) combined with the least popular/minority view (Victory) – in the true spirit of inclusiveness – we propose a memorial that is not a static monument, but a transformative space to feel sorrow, show solidarity, feel love and celebrate victory.

While the event aimed at bisecting people, its memorial becomes a place of collective social and intellectual processes – and there is no better memorial than the collective human memory. We propose ‘a memory dial’.Link to project.

Bi14-8 Bonny Kingdom masterplan

Location: Bonny Island, Nigeria Date: 2014 - ... Role: Design and visualizationStage: Implementation© NLÉ

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Sk14-9 Sketches

Date: 2014 Role:Visualization© NLÉ

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Ya14-10 Yaba Prototype

Location: Lagos, Nigeria Date: 2014 Role:VisualizationStatus: Concept© NLÉ Link to project.

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Jewelry serie 1 Location: Venice Date: 2013 Role: Design and realizationStatus: Available on request

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Series of jewels handmade from reused materilas, such as: Murano Glass, silver, tin and copper.The jewel has origin from the shape of the broken piece of glass, as it has been found. Without any cutting or shaping, the gem of glass gets tight with wires and drops of tin, almost as this has been a natural process.

Epp Dowa Center Location: Porto Novo, Benin Date: 2013 Role: Project architectStage: Completed© Atout African ArchLink to project.

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Chicoco Radio is a floating media platform being built with and for the residents of Port Harcourt’s waterfront community in Nigeria.

480,000 people live in waterfront settlements along the creeks that fringe the city. The state government plans to demolish the settlements. Chicoco Radio is the community’s voice and platform.

The structure is conceived as a linear composition of public spaces from land to water: a community radio station, recording studios, computer centre, meeting rooms, amphitheater and cinema. The radio broadcast mast is an integrated architectural component raising the structure like a bridge: launching one end of the building into the water, suspending the other in the air. The waterside of the building is a floating stage and jetty responding to the ebb and flow of the tide. The airside is the broadcast space where

programmes and music are made to air. The cantilevered studios open a shaded landscaped area beneath them – open public space beneath a place of open public debate. Built of locally available materials, the structure incorporates renewable energy systems. The concept and design development stages have been closely guided by the local communities: we have involved hundreds of residents in design workshops, focus groups and discussions over a number of years. Through this deeply responsive and collaborative design process, local residents have provided valuable insights to this solution, which carefully addresses their challenges and strongly reflects their collective aspirations. Chicoco Radio will be built, owned, operated and maintained by the waterfront communities.

Chicoco Radio Location: Port Harcourt, Nigeria Date: 2013 - ...Role: Project architect and visualizationStage: Preconstruction phase. © NLÉ

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As a ‘bridge to transformation’, the amphibious nature of the building offers a reconnection between the communities’ life on land today, their historic past and their potential lives on water in the future. Anchored in the bay of Okrika waterfront and reaching up towards the ‘upland’ city, the building establishes a trajectory along which large areas of intense informal growth will be integrated into a more inclusive vision of the city’s future.

Chicoco Radio is a collaboration with CMAP Human City Project and a part of NLÉ‘s African Water Cities project which investigates the challenges and opportunities at the intersections of rapid urbanisation and climate change in African coastal cities and waterfront communities.Link to project.

Exploded diagram Community engagemet: vote for program Maquette

Bloomsbury Waterfront Development Location: Lagos, Nigeria Date: 2013 Role: DesignStage: Preconstruction phase © NLÉ

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The Bloomsbury Waterfront is a unique office development situated in the distinguished Walter Carrington Crescent of Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.The project is a premium office space that maximises the great views across the city’s waterfront. It meets contemporary environmental efficiency standards incorporating renewable energy and sustainable building systems, with state of the art access control and security systems.The building’s form, orientation and structural facade are designed for optimum solar shading, panoramic waterfront views, efficient office space and flexibility of tenancy. The building is suspended off the ground to minimise its footprint, making space for adequate parking and landscaping. The building features a lush sky garden with panoramic views over Victoria Island and Ikoyi, Lagos.Link to project.

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XYLO – Lifestyle Office Building is a renovation of a derelict building on one of the most prime commercial streets in Lagos – Adeola Odeku. The renovation includes the conversion of the previously multi- retail stores into large office spaces. The renovation includes the re-design of the exterior (facade) into a contemporary form with a unique identity. The building’s excellent location in the city’s commercial heart, its refurbished spaces and new architecture character aim to transform the building and improve its immediate environment. Link to project.

Xylo Office building Location: Lagos, Nigeria Date: 2013 - 2015 Role: Design, implementation and visualization Stage: Completed © NLÉ

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Learning from Ganvié Location: Ganvié, Benin Date: 2013 Role: Reasearch and design

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Learning from Ganvié is the result of my thesis work for the master de-gree in Sustainable Architecture.Departing from the urban history of Venice and it’s own ability to adpt to changes, the project led me to reas-erch the issues of leaving on water and facing climate changes around the world. landing in the end at the floating village of Ganvié in Benin, and using it as a context where to imagine a urban scenario that could allow waterfront comunities to prop-

erate, adpting to environmental and social changes, while preserving their own nature.Ganvié, for its own extremly flexible urban structure and the pressure that serveral problems are apply-ing to it, makes the perfect exam-ple of how we could turn fragility into adaptability, problems into opportunities and combine global approches to local specific needs.

Link to full thesis work.

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MoMa Uneven Growth exhibition Location: New York, USA Date: 2013 Role: DesignStautus: November 22, 2014 – May 20, 2015© NLÉ

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ResidentialThe Residential floating units, situated in the wave protected, floating layer of the water city, are grouped in sets of 4 and share a common courtyard. The structures are a variation of the floating building prototype of Makoko Floating School, designed by NLÉ for the aquatic community of Makoko in Lagos, and are built from locally sourced materials and using local expertise. To reinforce the social impact on the structures’ dwellers, the floating courtyard is a flexible common space capable of being utilised for food production or recreation.

InfrastructureUrban infrastUrban infrastructure is adapted to fit the needs of those living, commuting and working on water, as well as to tackle it’s main urban element and threat; water. Responding to its risks, such as waves, varying water levels and strong winds, the urban infrastructure depends on a locally developed system of dykes as means of dispersing the energy of the water. The dyke also enables the possibility of com-muting by bike or foot, and connects the traditional city street to the water city. Systems of rotating and elevating bridges ensure that commuting on water is seamless. 

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Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, is inhabited by over 170 million people. Lagos, its commercial capital, is home to about 20 million people, many of whom live in unplanned settlements with little formal infrastructure. Lagos is a paradigmatic mix of traditions, a place where history, culture, and popular wisdom interweave local knowledge and global awareness.Challenges remain common for all Lagosians, regardless of social or economic status. While oil is cheap, the state energy network is only reliable for three hours per day. Most homes and businesses depend on generators for electricity. Nearly 30 percent of Lagos state is covered by water, yet water is highly underutilized and inadequately handled by the city’s infrastructure. A poorly connected public transportation system boosts SUV use among middle and upper classes, while mini-transport

vehicles like okadas (motorcyles) or danfos (vans) proliferate among lower-income Lagosians. Urban growth is so rapid that strategies devised by authorities and city planners become obsolete before implementation. Most citizens have to set up their own businesses, often in semi-illegal conditions.To bridge physical and socioeconomic gaps, we examine three challenges — energy, water, and transportation—and rethink them as opportunities through infrastructures, prototypes, and local collective intelligence. We propose two representational tools: a map that echoes Lagos’s complex reality, and a catalogue of local inventions, situations, and players. Using these two tools, we propose prototypes to enrich the city fabric and three depictions of a future reality in which the day-to-day skills of “informal” bottom-up initiatives merge with “formal” top-down plans.Link to project

Following the Flow Location: Venice, Italy Date: 2012 Role: Reasearch and design

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International inter-universities competition (Italy, Fance, China, Korea) exploring possibilities for parasite architecture in Venice.In this specific case the prosed solution is floating architecture that can be pulgged into the canal residual spaces of the city; mantaining the mobility on water while occupying the air space above canals.

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Hyperdense - Hyperempty Location: Veneto, Italy Date: 2012 Role: Reasearch and design

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Pf11-1 Palla di Fuoco lamp

Location: Trento, Italy Date: 2011 Role: Conception and realizationReused Murano Glass lamp.

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Venice Ospedaletto Location: Venice, Italy Date: 2011 Role: Design and VisualizationRegeneration of the old Ospedaletto complex in Venice. Coversion of the hospital into social housing

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Museo Dicesano Location: Treviso, Italy Date: 2011 Role: DesignRenovation of the museum building, exhibition and infographic

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Manzana Simbiosi Location: Barcelona, Spain Date: 2011 Role: Design and visualizationProject for a coplex of ecological co-housing in a typical Barcelona plot.

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Il Sicomoro Location: Gando, Burkina Faso Date: 2010 Role: DesignDesign workshop with Diebedo Francis Keré of a center for women in Gando, Burkina Faso.

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Karamoja Rain project Location: Moroto, Uganda Date: 2010 Role: Design and construction site directionLink to project.Agro-forestal rpoject in Karamoja region, north Uganda, by the Italian ngo ISP.Project included realization of several rainfall harvesting systems, wells, solar pumps, school kitchen upgrading, seeds and tools distribution, plant nurseries.

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CCCP Dollar Date: 2010 Role: Graphic design Very different worlds become similar when it comes to economy.

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Direction-Connection Location: Venice, Italy Date: 2009 Role: Design and visualization

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immigrants lives without an official site for prying and aggregation, despite the hystorical connection and welcoming approach of Venice with the western world.The idea of a mosque-bridge on the great canal combines the local needs for functiona connection of the urban fabric with the concept of cultural connection with peoples.The bridge would be the 5th on the main canal of Venice, and it

would be oriented in line with the bridge connecting the city to the mainland and the Mecca.

Cupole Location: Napoli, Italy Date: 2009 Role: ConstructionBuilding workshop, with Fabrizio Carola, for domes and curve shaped building, realized with the ancient technique of the “compass”

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ProFilo Location: Venice, Italy Date: 2008 Role: Design, realization and graphic design © NLÉDesign for a 10 meter library that fits in a “shoe box”. Extremly flexible configurations, low cost and esy installation.

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Le Port du S. Malo Location: Saint Malo, France Date: 2008 Role: Design and visualization Project for the covertion of the industrial prot of S. Malo, Bretagne, into residential area.

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Carbonia Location: Sardinia, Italy Date: 2008 Role: Design and visualization Masterplan for a residential area in the post-industrial city of Carbonia, founded during fascist era.

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Thank you.Tk