ONGOING RESEARCH
41° CYCLE
From Digital Heritage Models to Adaptive Reuse Decisions: A Rule-Based Framework for Residential Heritage
Candidate: Gong Kaijie
Supervisor: Luigi Cocchiarella
Low Definition.Degrees of Definition in Contemporary Architectural
Practice
Candidate: Sofia Hosszufalussy
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca
Designing with the Ground. Architectural Design and the Long-Term
Thermal Management of Shallow Ground
Candidate: Huang Xutian
Supervisor: Gian Luca Brunetti
The Territories of Emilia Romagna between Floods and Droughts. Guidelines for the Integrated Project of Prevention and Contrasting Works
Candidate: Maria Morozzo della Rocca
Supervisor: Sara Protasoni
Methods and Tools for the Revamping / Decommissioning Project of Ground-Mounted Photovoltaic Installations. Solar Fields as Sites of Anticipation And Preparedness for Unexpected Extreme Climate Events
Candidate: Carlotta Oliosi
Supervisor: Sara Protasoni, Filippo Orsini
Thinking Compact. Sequences and Voids in Contemporary Collective Housing
Candidate: Loris Luigi Perillo
Supervisor: Camillo Magni
Between Satellite and Soil: Generative AI as a Connective Tool for Agrivoltaic Landscapes in Marginal Territories
Candidate: Giulia Quaranta
Supervisors: Matteo Umberto Poli, Stefano Mariani
The soft field: a case for an embodied practice
Candidate: Jo Rigo
Supervisors: Matteo Umberto Poli
Transitional Commons. Assembling Housing and Infrastructure in Urban China,
1978-1998
Candidate: Zhekung Tang
Supervisor: Pierre-Alain Croset
Emergent Informal Morphology. From recurring practices to architectural patterns and intervention guidance
Candidate: Wu Yueqing
Supervisor: Gian Luca Brunetti
40° CYCLE
No-Stop Countryside. The Future of the Italian Rural Energy Landscape
Candidate: Simone Baccaglini
Supervisor: Sara Protasoni
Dataspaces. Architectures Of The Posthuman
Candidate: Irene Benincasa
Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto
Crafted Atmospheres. A Compass for Architectural Design
Candidate: Alessandra Bruno
Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto
Genealogies of Indeterminacy. Towards a systematization of knowledge
Candidate: Cherem Serur Jose
Supervisor: Fabrizia Berlingieri
Living Together with Shophouses amid Crises of Liveability and Fire Safety. Accommodating Heritage Conservation with Local Communities in George Town World Heritage Site, Penang
Candidate: Chow Yi Xing
Supervisors: Pierre-Alain Croset, Tan Chin Ling
Post-Carbon Infrastructure. Slow Mobility Design for Climate, Material and Energy Transition
Candidate: Saskia De Fabritiis
Supervisor: Giulia Setti
Careful Contamination. The Role of Architectural Design in Francesco Venezia’s Teaching
Candidate: Giulio Delle Sedie
Supervisor: Carles Muro
Reclaiming Spatial Agency: Hybrid Value Propositions for Spatial Practitioners in Education and Practice
Candidate: Ujal Gorchu
Supervisors: Marco Bovati, Ilaria Valente
The Dream of Communal Living: Designing for Publicness in Chinese Urban Housing
Candidate: Yichuan Guo
Supervisor: Croset Pierre-Alain
From Brownfield Characteristics to Landscape Regeneration Strategies: A Multi-Scalar and Lifecycle-Based Design Framework
Candidate: Yawen Han
Supervisor: Luca Fabris
Beyond the classroom. Schools’ connective spaces among flexibility, typology, and urban role
Candidate: Elena Marchiori
Supervisor: Filippo Orsini
Adequate and Appropriate Shelter Practices. Sustainable Modular Construction Systems for Emergency Contexts Using Local Materials
Candidate: Martino Camilla
Supervisor: Battistella Alessio
Piacenza Past Forward. Progettare il riconoscimento: le Mura Farnesiane di Piacenza
Candidate: Mondin Elisa
Supervisor: Corradi Emilia
Anatomies of Stone. On the Possibility to Design Public Spaces with Stones
Candidate: Monella Riccardo
Supervisor: Setti Giulia
CO.MOUNTAINS. Architecture, Society and Collective Space in Val di Rabbi: Towards a Mountain Community House Typology
Candidate: Olcay Ekin
Supervisor: Marco Bovati, Alisia Tognon
La stanza abitata. La cultura italiana degli interni nelle mostre della casa e dell’arredamento (1923-1986)
Candidate: Patella Benedetta
Supervisor: Imma Forino
FUTURSpaCE. Future Spaces for Cinema and Entertainment
Candidate: Terna Diego
Supervisor: Luca Maria Francesco Fabris
Non-coercive companionship: A typology of micro-healing spaces and an intervention framework for older adults at risk of depression
Candidate: Zhou Jingya
Supervisor: Carvalho Antonio
39° CYCLE
Sustainable vernacular architecture is a resource from the past. The case of Qatar, in a hot, dry region
Candidate: Deema Alattar
Supervisor: Valentina M. Dessì
The Archive as space-medium: architecture between permanence and oblivion
Candidate: Filippo Lorenzo Balma
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca, Nina Bassoli
Architecture, landscape, and territories in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Candidate: Riccardo M. Balzarotti
Supervisor: Luca M. F. Fabris
Opacity: a reflection on spaces in architecture
Candidate: Federico Casati
Supervisors: Carles Muro, Fabrizia Berlingieri
Living a mirage. The existenz-maximum of Italian interiors, 1968-1990
Candidate: Isabella Giola
Supervisor: Immacolata C. Forino
Threshold. Milanese Relativity
Candidate: Guan Kaiyue
Supervisor: Carles Muro
Neo-rural architecture: integrating land renaturation through circular economy processes
Candidate: Francesco Gugliotta
Supervisor: Alessio Battistella
Spatial acting. Performance as architectural production in the 21st century exhibitions
Candidate: Alessandro Pasero
Supervisors: Alessandro Rocca, Nina Bassoli
Exposing domesticities. Experimentation and dissemination of new dwelling paradigms
Candidate: Miriam Pistocchi
Supervisors: Alessandro Rocca, Nina Bassoli
The redesign of social housing suburbs in Italy: targeted actions on built heritage
Candidate: Marco Patruno
Supervisor: Prof. Luigi Spinelli
Strategies and projects for the rural architectural heritage. The “casa a torre” in the Reggio Apennines
Candidate: Erika Sezzi
Supervisors: Pierre Alain Croset, Emilia Corradi
The design of students’ learning spaces in academic architecture
Candidate: Shilu Huang
Supervisor: Maria Fianchini
Karachi’s public space. Design enhancement of the leftover spaces as a tool to curtail the impact of social polarization
Candidate: Babar Khan
Supervisor: Cassandra Cozza
Informal practices as a drive: Exploring the potential of social infrastructure in urban renewal
Candidate: Li Dongni
Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto
Community-based architecture for the elderly: Towards the integration of healthcare spaces with nature
Candidate: Lin Zhihang
Supervisor: Stamatina Kousidi
A comparative study on spatial adaptive design of large-scale sports infrastructure in China and Europe
Candidate: Liu Siyu
Supervisor: Filippo Orsini
Social housing projects between process and architectural design
Candidate: Giuliana Miglierina
Supervisor: Camillo Magni
From space to time. Air mobility for current evolving infrastructural urban forms
Candidate: Francesca Monteleone
Supervisors: Fabrizia Berlingieri, Giuseppe Quaranta
Architectural heritage reuse: a comparative study of spatial design methods for commercial buildings in Italy and China
Candidate: Qi Yangyi
Supervisor: Ferdinando Zanzottera
Abandoned buildings and compounds of public real estate in Italy
Candidate: Maria Scandroglio Anelli
Supervisor: Ilaria Valente
Enabling houses: reflecting perceptions and needs of older adults in the architecture project
Candidate: Joana Teixeira Pinho
Supervisors: António Carvalho, Gennaro Postiglione
Countryside, the naked land. A new urban-rural linkage in responding metropolitan dynamics
Candidate: Yang Dicheng
Supervisor: Antonella Contin
Reused Material Considerations for Practical Time Efficiency in Architectural Design
Candidate: Zhang Wen Quan
Supervisors: Josep Maria Garcia-Fuentes, Alberto Bologna
Essence-form-architecture: critical research on the work of Yang Tingbao
Candidate: Zhong Yue
Supervisor: Maurizio Meriggi
Community gardens: assessment and strategies to improve microclimate and usability in different urban contexts
Candidate: Zhu Lixuan
Supervisor: Valentina M. Dessì
Upcycling as a New Preservation. Component-Driven Design in Existing Building Upcycling
Candidate: Zhu Zhengwen
Supervisor: Josep Maria Garcia-Fuentes
38° CYCLE
Co-design: theories and practices for transformation, mitigation, and resilience
Candidate: Francesco Airoldi
Supervisor: Emilia Corradi
Temporary Architecture in Qatar. The stimulus, practice, and performance
Candidate: Alma Ahmad Al Malki
Supervisors: Jacopo Leveratto, Mohd. Faris (Qatar University)
Theories and projects for the regeneration of rural architecture in mountain areas
Candidate: Giulia Azzini
Supervisor: Emilia Corradi
Rewriting Railway Infrastructure. From the caesura to the dialogue: an opportunity of environmental, urban and architectural regeneration
Candidate: Beatrice Basile
Supervisors: Michele Ugolini
Windowless Architecture: Towards Expanded Interiority and Exteriority
Candidate: Đorđe Bulajić
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca
Ecological fragments: expressing landscapes of transition
Candidate: Thomas Cabai
Supervisors: Matteo Poli, Chiara Geroldi
Hybrid Learning Spaces. Open Schools and Educational Architecture
Candidate: Raffaella Cavallaro
Supervisor: Barbara Coppetti
Age-appropriate architectural design in the COVID-19 era
Candidate: Tian Qin Chen
Supervisor: Antonio da Silva de Carvalho
Sustainable Mobility as an opportunity for Urban and Landscape Regeneration. Rethinking Milan Ring Road System for the Ecological Transition
Candidate: Nicolò Chierichetti
Supervisor: Laura Montedoro
Small-Scale Architecture. Recycling abandoned buildings for the ecological transition of minor centers
Candidate: Silvia Di Mauro
Supervisor: Marco Bovati
Unscripted Architecture. The Yards of Tbilisi
Candidate: Duccio Fantoni
Supervisor: Fabrizia Berlingieri
The Last Lifetime Period of Buildings: Installation Art in Extending of Lives of Abandoned Buildings as Memorials or Monuments
Candidate: Yiling Fu
Supervisor: Marco Borsotti
Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings through HUL approach
Candidate: Xiao Hu
Supervisor: Pierre Alain Croset
Eco-digital design in Architecture. Environmental design protocols for energy and water self-sufficient affordable housing
Candidate: Maddalena Laddaga
Supervisor: Pierre Alain Croset
Sinking Landscapes. Living with Water in the Age of Climate-Crisis
Candidate: Davide Montanari
Supervisor: Sara Protasoni
Artificial Paradises: Leisure as an Architectural Question
Candidate: Margherita Marri
Supervisor: Imma Forino
Contemporary Representation of Traditional Rural Architecture in Hebei Mountain Areas
Candidate: Rui Ren
Supervisor: Ilaria Valente
Transgressing Boundaries: The Urban Space Appropriated by Domestic Practice
Candidate: Yuwei Ren
Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto
Architecture project for the regeneration of river areas: Lura River as an opportunity for experimental relationships between humans and environment
Candidate: Andrea Renucci
Supervisor: Michele Ugolini
Design strategies for the revitalization of the Rural: Contemporary Transformation of Spatial forms of Traditional Settlements
Candidate: Likun Shen
Supervisor: Ilaria Valente
Mobility Platform: Conception and Perception in Urban Architecture
Candidate: Hao Wang
Supervisor: Pierre Alain Croset
Tutor: Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi
Study on the overall cooling benefit of urban ventilation corridors
Candidate: Zheng Wu
Supervisors: Matteo Poli, Eugenio Morello
Architecture Communities online. Participatory Design and Collaborative Processes
Candidate: Qianqian Yang
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca
Yingjin Driven Architectural Design. Interpretation, Re-elaboration, and Re-production of the Ancient Chinese Craftsmen’s Book
Candidate: Junliang Zhou
Supervisor: Luigi Cocchiarella
Sustainable and memorial urban green space design method in the post-pandemic era
Candidate: Yuhan Zhou
Supervisor: Sara Protasoni
