COMPLETED RESEARCH

Monumental Ground. Infrastructures, Construction Sites, Landscape
2017 – 2022
Graduate: Chiara Pradel
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca

Architecture and Unesco Buffer Zones. The architectural project as a tool for archaeological sites within fragile territories
2018 – 2022
Graduate: Greta Allegretti
Supervisors: Pier Federico Caliari (Politecnico di Torino), Angela Maria Ferroni (Ministero della Cultura)

Adequate Urban Housing: Case Studies of Novel Settlements of Housing Cooperatives in Zurich
2017 – 22
Graduate: Maryam Khatibi
Supervisor: Alessandro Rogora

The Architecture of contemporary art museums in Shanghai: from the inside to the outside
2017 – 22
Graduate: Xu Xin
Supervisor: Pierluigi Salvadeo

The Accessible Frame. Research on Ancient Chinese Landscape Architecture
2016 – 2022
Graduate: Luyi Liu
Supervisor: Luigi Cocchiarella

The Lean City,  / design+experience+new media for Millennials and Generation Z
2016 – 2021
Graduate: Federica Marchetti
Supervisor: Pierluigi Salvadeo

Virtual experience in augmented exhibition. Virtual technology application in real museums and its impact on exhibition spaces
2016-2021
Graduate: Shilong Tan
Supervisor: Luigi Cocchiarella

The uncertain project. Experimenting devices for the modification of marginal contexts 
2016 – 2021
Graduate: Gianfranco Orsenigo
Supervisor: Andrea Di Franco

Rethinking the Architecture of the Renewable-energy Power Plants: Potential Stations to Transform the Social Flows 
2014 – 2021
Double Doctorate Polimi – TU Munich
Graduate: Parisa Vaziri
Supervisors: Guya Bertelli, Sören Schöbel (TU Munich)

The Shapes of Water: A Discourse around Heritage and Design for a Landscape Reactivation in the Fujian Province 
2016 – 2020
Graduate: Francesca Berni
Supervisors: Ilaria Valente, Marco Bovati, Ma Wenjun
Joint Supervision Polimi / Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Compositional Studies on Luigi Caccia Dominioni 
2016 – 2020
Graduate: Veronica Ferrari
Supervisor: Luigi Spinelli

Opening a lexicon of the new social spaces. Towards building a common conceptual framework for transdisciplinary collaborations 
2016 – 2020
Graduate: Roxana Madalina Ghibusi
Supervisor: Pierluigi Salvadeo

Publicness in Transition. Contemporary Public Open Spaces in Urban Design-Led Development by Private Sector 
2016 – 2020
Graduate: Jingwen Shan
Supervisors: Laura Montedoro, Marco Bovati

Dissonant Memories in the Post-Soviet Space: Comparative Analysis of Newly Established Museums of Political Histories in the Post-Soviet Countries (1991-2016) 
2015 – 2020
Graduate: Maria Mikaelyan
Supervisors: Luca Basso Peressut, Francesca Lanz

Rural Revitalisation in the Chinese New Era. Design Challenges in a Village of Fujian Province 
2015 – 2020
Double Doctorate Polimi / Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Graduate: Gerardo Semprebon
Supervisors: Ilaria Valente, Luca M. F. Fabris, Ma Wenjun, Huang Jianyun

Architecture and Creative  Transformation. Creative Urban Practices in London 
2014 – 2018
Graduate: Giuliana Bonifati
Supervisor: Carlos García Vázquez

Dwellings and Settlements in Pemba. A Typo-Morphological Field Study in a Changing Urban Environment 
2014 – 2018
Graduate: Corinna Del Bianco
Supervisors: Michele Ugolini, Michael Turner

Landscapes and Forms of ‘Modification’: the Contamination as a New Paradigm of the Contemporaneity 
2014 – 2018
Graduate: Martina Sogni
Supervisor: Guya Bertelli

The Architecture of Motorway Infrastructures Between Maintenance and Preservation. The A22 and the Territory of Mantova 
2014 – 2018
Graduate: Claudia Zanda
Supervisors: Andrea Gritti, Eric Alonzo

Devoid of Any Style. Problems and Perspectives of Architecture in the Age of Post-Consumption 
2014 – 2018
Graduate: Francesca Zanotto
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca

Musei di narrazione, tra parole e progetti. Modelli comunicativi per gli spazi dell’esporre d’oggi 
2013 – 2018
Graduate: Marcella Camponogara
Supervisors: Gian Luca Basso Peressut, Federico Bucci

Gli spazi dell’istruzione primaria nei progetti della cooperazione. Le scuole dei Paesi in Via di Sviluppo: il caso del Mozambico 
2013 – 2018
Graduate: Luca Faverio
Supervisor: Michele Ugolini

Metropolitan frameworks of civic robustness. Mapping and designing for East African urbanism 
2013 – 2018
Graduate: Alessandro Frigerio
Supervisor: Antonella Contin

La Terza Città. Il Diritto alla Città: strategie di rigenerazione urbana attraverso pratiche autonome e creative di produzione dello spazio 
2013 – 2018
Graduate: Simona Galateo
Supervisor: Luca Molinari

Re-inhabit modern utopias. History and design for the renovation of post-war large public housing estates 
2013 – 2018
Graduate: Michele Gerli
Supervisor: Pierfranco Galliani

Rovine della contemporaneità: concetti, strategie e metodologie progettuali per la trasformazione dei luoghi dell’abbandono 
2013 – 2018
Graduate: Dario Giordanelli
Supervisors: Guya Bertelli, Carlos García Vázquez

Sprawlification: a new method to analyze periurban space 
2013 – 2018
Graduate: Arian Heidari Afshari
Supervisors: Ilaria Valente, Richard Ingersoll

Advancing toward water-sensitive cities in Iran. Public spaces as sustainable water management measures in Lahijan, Caspian climate zone, Iran 
2013 – 2018
Graduate: Masoumehsadat Mirsafay Moqaddam
Supervisor: Alessandro Rogora

The evolution of museum exhibition in Arabia. A qualitative study of the exhibition design and identity in Saudi Arabia 
2013 – 2017
Graduate: Abeer Alsobahi
Supervisors: Gian Luca Basso Peressut, Oli Ali Hashem

From the Medina to the Metropol. New integrative approach for the sustainable revitalization of the historic center in the metropolitan cities 
2013 – 2017
Graduate: Hamza Benacer
Supervisor: Antonella Contin
The research focuses on the preservation of urban identifiability from the unplanned urbanization and global impacts that regional cities are increasingly exposed to. 

Intra-structures. Scenari di densificazione urbana per la mobilità in transizione. Il caso della tangenziale A20 della città di Rotterdam 
2013 – 2017
Graduate: Gianluca Ferriero
Supervisors: Luca Molinari, Dirk van den Heuvel

Metaphors of performative-oriented architectures. Exhibitions, installations, interventions 
2013 – 2017
Graduate: Ayman Kassem
Supervisor: Pierluigi Salvadeo

Undergrowth urbanism. Pratiche spontanee nella città contemporanea. Verso una metodologia di analisi e intervento nella città informale 
2013 – 2017
Graduate: Valentina Mion
Supervisors: Laura Montedoro, Jose María Ezquiaga

Museo è/e territorio. Il museo diffuso come dispositivo per l’infrastrutturazione culturale dei luoghi. Il caso della litoranea libica 
2013 – 2017
Graduate: Alessandro Raffa
Supervisor: Gian Luca Basso Peressut