My architecture portfolio

1. M a s s i m i l i a n o D e C r i g n i s
A R C H I T E C T U R E
P O R T F O L I O
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2. CONTENTS
about me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
PROJECTS
ACADEMIC
urban regeneration in Via dei Fori Imperiali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
student housing in Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Alessandrino civic centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
“EX-FIERA” masterplan in Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
restoration of the former Brancaccio hunting lodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
PROFESSIONAL
Church Elm Lane housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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3. MASSIMILIANO DE CRIGNIS
Rome • 14/September/1991 • +39.331.1512473
massimilianodecrignis@gmail.com
EDUCATION MSc in Architectural Design (Expected July 2019)
Università degli studi Roma Tre
BSc in Science of Architecture (2015)
Università degli studi Roma Tre
EXPERTISE Software
Autocad 2D/3D, Rhinoceros, Revit, Vectorworks, 3DS Max, SketchUp, V-Ray
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Language
English C1, TOEFL Score Report 101/120
Italian, native speaker
EXPERIENCE Benedetti Architects, Architectural Assistant Intern Sept -Dec 2018
Assisted in the design process of the following projects:
• Varco Road, Residential/Mixed Use (est. cost £17 milion)
Drew plans, elevations, sections. Made 3D model.
• Church Elm Lane Housing, Residential/Mixed Use (est. cost £16 milion)
Helped in the design of interior spaces. Drew Concept diagrams, plans, el-
evations, sections. Made 3D models and visualisations.
• Wingfield Mews, Residential (est. cost £2 milion)
Made visualisations.
U.S. Embassy to Italy in Rome, Project Assistant Intern May -Oct 2017
Support position in the Facility Management Office
M A S S I M I L I A N O D E C R I G N I S
I am a fresh architecture graduate currently working
towards getting my professional licence, which I plan
on doing by January 2020.
Architecture is my passion and it permeates every
part of my daily life, ambitions, and aspirations to
become a professional. While working on a project
of any scale I always take the utmost care in mak-
ing sure that the principles of clarity, simplicity and
usability are reflected in my work. To do that, I al-
ways start by analising the problem at hand, while
taking the designed program into consideration, to
make sure that space, scale and appearence of the de-
sign relate to the local context and culture through
the coherent use of materials, a critical approach to
environmental sustainability and use of appropriate
technologies.
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Via Varna 58, 00124, Rome, Italy
massimilianodecrignis@gmail.com
+39 331 1512473
instagram.com/massimilianodecrignis/
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14 / 09 / 1991
EDUCATION
MSc in Architectural Design (2019) | Università degli studi Roma Tre
BSc in Science of Architecture (2015) | Università degli studi Roma Tre
EXPERTISE
Software
Autocad 2D/3D, Rhinoceros, Revit, Vectorworks, 3DS Max, SketchUp, V-Ray
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Language
English, C1, TOEFL 101/120
Italian, native speaker
EXPERIENCE
Benedetti Architects, Architectural Assistant Intern, Sept-Dec 2018
Assisted in the design process of the following projects:
• Varco Road, Residential/Mixed Use (est. cost £17 milion)
Drew plans, elevations, sections. Made 3D model.
• Church Elm Lane Housing, Residential/Mixed Use (est. cost £16 milion)
Helped in the design of interior spaces. Drew Concept diagrams, plans, elevations, sec-
tions. Made 3D models and visualisations.
• Wingfield Mews, Residential (est. cost £2 milion)
Made visualisations.
U.S. Embassy to Italy in Rome, Project Assistant Intern, May-Oct 2017
Support position in the Facility Management Office
• Interior design project to enhance acoustics in an U.S. Embassy to the Holy see office
(concept, design, drawings, cost estimate, contract documentation)
• Restoration of the perimeter wall of the U.S. Consulate General Naples facility and
design of a new steel staircase (site survey, design, drawings, cost estimate, contract
documentation)
O T H E R
Exhibitions
XXI Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura de Quito (Quito, 2018)
Venice Biennale Sessions, Caution Wet Floor (Venice, 2014)
Workshops
E-RESPLAN Intensive Course on Energy Planning (Faro, 2017)
DfWA Design for Waterfront Architecture Workshop (Iseo, 2013)
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U R B A N R E G E N E R A T I O N I N
V I A D E I F O R I I M P E R I A L I
M S c F i n a l p r o j e c t
Via dei Fori Imperiali has been the subject of a cultural
and administrative debate regarding the relationship
between history and modernity since its conception.
The temporal stratifications in the area causes an
evident fragmentation of space, which results in bad
urban fruition and historical comprehension.
The design aims to mend the ancient and modern
traces through an archaeological and urban recon-
nection through four main actions:
_Reconnect the Trajan’s Forum, the Augustus Forum,
the Nerva’s Forum and the Caesar’s Forum together,
in order to improve their fruition and historical un-
derstanding.
_Restore some urban routes belonging to the medi-
aevil city that had been lost with the archaeological
excavations of the nineteenth century.
_Return the spatial arrangement of the Fori on Via
dei Fori Imperiali through a redesign of the pavement
and greenery.
_Constitute a network of pedestrian connections and
service spaces capable of giving structure to the Cen-
tral Archaeological Area of Rome.
location: Via dei Fori Imperiali, Rome
in collaboration with: Michele Beccu (Tutor)
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9. S T U D E N T H O U S I N G , R O M E
M S c F i r s t s e m e s t e r p r o j e c t
The project takes into consideration its urban context
with a design proportioned to its surroundings and
capable to enliven the area.
The building was designed to have public spaces and
retail at ground level, while the upper floors have
students accomodations and services such as study
rooms, laundry rooms and shared facilities.
The upper floors are connected by catwalks that span
over the public realm beneath, this way the private
and the pubblic areas of the building always interact
with each in intersting ways, but without mixing pri-
vate and social use. This configuration creates a lively
public space and a safe private housing.
location: Via degli Stradivari, Rome
in collaboration with: Francesco Cellini (Tutor)
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12. ALESSANDRINO CIVIC CENTRE
M S c T h i r d s e m e s t e r p r o j e c t
The Alessandrino Civic Center hosts a variety of pub-
lic services and spaces: public offices, a restaurant, a
gym, a reading room on the upper floor and a basket-
ball field, a pool and a lecture hall on the ground floor.
The 3 functions that needed a high ceiling were put at
ground level and are mostly transparent, all the other
functions were located above them, in 4 “slabs” that
appear to float.
These “slabs” have mostly open plans with minimal
internal partitions, this way the program can have a
certain degree of versatility if necessary.
location: Via degli Olmi, Rome
in collaboration with: Arianna Conte, Giovanni Longobardi (Tutor)
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“EX-FIERA” MASTERPLAN, ROME
M S c F o u r t h s e m e s t e r p r o j e c t
The project site spans an area that covers 2 differ-
ent neighborhoods divided by a high traffic route and
various abandoned buildings, including the former
fair pavillions of Rome.
The main objective of the project was to connect the
two neighborhoods and to redevelop the abandoned
areas in order to establish new functions and rela-
tionships in this part of the city. To do so, 3 key ar-
eas where chosen in which to establish strong links
between the 2 neighborhoods: on Viale Giustiniano
Imperatore (1) Via Cristoforo Colombo was burried in
order to exted the city fabric on top of it. In (2) and (3)
pedestrian bridges were made to create a safe cross-
ing.
location: Via Cristoforo Colombo, Rome
in collaboration with: A. Conte, A. Golchay, F. Javid, V. Palmieri (Tutor)
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PROGETTODIRIQUALIFICAZIONEDELL’AREADIPIAZZADEINAVIGATORI-EXFIERADIROMA-VIALEG.IMPERATORE
PROGETTAZIONEARCHITETTONICA3M-PROFF.VALERIOPALMIERI-SIMONEOMBUEN-KETILELO-EMANUELEVONNORMANN
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PROGETTODIRIQUALIFICAZIONEDELL’AREADIPIAZZADEINAVIGATORI-EXFIERADIROMA-VIALEG.IMPERATORE
PROGETTAZIONEARCHITETTONICA3M-PROFF.VALERIOPALMIERI-SIMONEOMBUEN-KETILELO-EMANUELEVONNORMANN
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RESTORATION OF THE FORMER
BRANCACCIO HUNTING LODGE
B S c F i f t h s e m e s t e r p r o j e c t
This little building has had numerous stratification
during its history. Its basament is composed by ruins
of the baths of Trajan, in fact on its facades the origi-
nal opus latericium that composed the ancient roman
building can be seen.
During the Middle Ages these ruins had its first new
use: on top of them was erected a hunting lodge.
The latest layering goes back to 1930, when the ad-
ministration of restoration of Rome organized a ren-
ovation of the building. Nowdays it is being use as a
rest home for elders.
The aim of the project was to restore the building
from a structural standpoint.
location: Terme di Traiano, Rome
in collaboration with: A.Conte, M. C. Aguillera, M. Zampilli (Tutor)
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CHURCH ELM LANE HOUSING
C o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h B E N E D E T T I A R C H I T E C T S
The project is situated in Dagenham, Greater London,
and it aims to redevelop the site by demolishing the
existing structures and introducing a part 6 storey,
part 8 storey and part 9 storey building, compromis-
ing a mixed-use, residential led development capable
of establishing new relationship in the neighborhood.
location: London
established cost: £7 million
in collaboration with: R. Benedetti (Director), A. Liu, A. C. Viciano (Project
Architect)
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Bartlett House
(9 storeys residential)
Affordable
Align
Align
Private and Intermediate
Site boundary
Church Elm Lane
IN
OUT
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Bartlett House
(9 storeys residential)
Affordable
Align
Align
Private and Intermediate
Site boundary
Church Elm Lane
IN
OUT
Bartlett House
(9 storeys residential)
Affordable
Align
Private and Intermediate
Site boundary
Church Elm Lane
Bartlett House
(9 storeys residential)
Affordable
Align
Align
Private and Intermediate
Site boundary
Church Elm Lane
IN
OUT

25. MASSIMILIANO DE CRIGNIS
massimilianodecrignis@gmail.com
+39 3311512473