ONGOING RESEARCH

XXXIX Cycle

Sustainable vernacular architecture, a resource from the past. The case of Qatar, in a hot dry region, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Deema Alattar

Supervisor: Valentina M. Dessì

The Archive as space-medium: architecture between permanence and oblivion, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Filippo Lorenzo Balma

Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca

Architecture, landscape, and territories in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Riccardo M. Balzarotti

Supervisor: Prof. Luca M. F. Fabris

Opacity: a reflection on spaces in architecture, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Federico Casati

Supervisors: Carles Muro, Fabrizia Berlingieri

Living a mirage. the existenz-maximum of Italian interiors, 1968-1990, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Isabella Giola

Supervisor: Immacolata C. Forino

Threshold. Milanese Relativity, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Guan Kaiyue

Supervisor: Carles Muro

Neo-rural architecture: integrating land renaturation through circular economy processes, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Francesco Gugliotta

Supervisor: Alessio Battistella

Displaying broader narratives in architectural exhibitions, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Alessandro Pasero

Supervisors: Alessandro Rocca, Nina Bassoli

Exposing domesticities. Experimentation and dissemination of new dwelling paradigms, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Miriam Pistocchi

Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca

The redesign of social housing suburbs in Italy: targeted actions on built heritage, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Marco Patruno

Supervisor: Prof. Luigi Spinelli

Strategies and projects for the rural architectural heritage. The “casa a torre” in the Reggio Apennines, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Erika Sezzi

Supervisors: Pierre Alain Croset, Emilia Corradi

The design of students’ learning spaces in academic architecture, 2023 – ongoing

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, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Babar Khan

Supervisor: Cassandra Cozza

Informal practices as a drive: Exploring the potential of social infrastructure in urban renewal, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Li Dongni

Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto

Community-based architecture for the elderly: Towards the integration of healthcare spaces with nature, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Lin Zhihang

Supervisor: Stamatina Kousidi

A comparative study on spatial adaptive design of large-scale sports infrastructure in China and Europe, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Liu Siyu

Supervisor: Filippo Orsini

Social housing projects between process and architectural design, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Giuliana Miglierina

Supervisor: Camillo Magni

From space to time. Air mobility for current evolving infrastructural urban forms, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Francesca Monteleone

Supervisors: Fabrizia Berlingieri, Guseppe Quaranta

Architectural heritage reuse: a comparative study of spatial design methods for commercial buildings in Italy and China, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Qi Yangyi

Supervisor: Ferdinando Zanzottera

Abandoned buildings and compounds of public real estate in Italy, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Maria Scandroglio Anelli

Supervisor: Ilaria Valente

Enabling houses: reflecting perceptions and needs of older adults in the architecture project, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Joana Teixeira Pinho

Supervisors: António Carvalho, Gennaro Postiglione

Countryside, the naked land. A new urban-rural linkage in responding metropolitan dynamics, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Yang Dicheng

Supervisor: Antonella Contin

Reuse, repurpose, and recycle materials with upcycling architecture, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Zhang Wen Quan

Josep Maria Garcia-Fuentes, Alberto Bologna

Essence-form-architecture: critical research on the work of Yang Tingbao, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Zhong Yue

Supervisor: Maurizio Meriggi

Community gardens: assessment and strategies to improve microclimate and usability in different urban contexts, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Zhu Lixuan

Supervisor: Valentina M. Dessì

Components-driven design in the architectural upcycling, 2023 – ongoing

Candidate: Zhu Zhengwen

Supervisor: Josep Maria Garcia-Fuentes

XXXVIII Cycle

Co-design: theories and practices for transformation, mitigation, and resilience, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Francesco Airoldi
Supervisor: Emilia Corradi

Temporary Architecture in Qatar. The stimulus, practice, and performance, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Alma Ahmad Al Malki
Supervisors: Jacopo Leveratto, Mohd. Faris (Qatar University)

Theories and projects for the regeneration of rural architecture in mountain areas, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Giulia Azzini
Supervisor: Emilia Corradi

Energy ecosystems. Design, construction, and operations of landscapes-integrated agri-voltaic plants, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Sara Barani
Supervisors: Sara Protasoni, Morris Brenna (Polimi – DENG), Stefano Amaducci (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

Rewriting Railway Infrastructure. From the caesura to the dialogue: an opportunity of environmental, urban and architectural regeneration, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Beatrice Basile
Supervisors: Michele Ugolini

Windowless Architecture: Towards Expanded Interiority and Exteriority, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Đorđe Bulajić
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca

Ecological fragments: expressing landscapes of transition, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Thomas Cabai
Supervisors: Matteo Poli, Chiara Geroldi

Hybrid Learning Spaces. Open Schools and Educational Architecture, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Raffaella Cavallaro
Supervisor: Barbara Coppetti

Age-appropriate architectural design in the COVID-19 era, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Tian Qin Chen
Supervisor: Antonio da Silva de Carvalho

The challenge of Sustainable Mobility. Rethinking Milan Ring Road System for the Ecological Transition, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Nicolò Chierichetti
Supervisor: Laura Montedoro

Small-Scale Architecture. Recycling abandoned buildings for the ecological transition of minor centers, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Silvia Di Mauro
Supervisor: Marco Bovati

Italian Yards of Tbilisi. Forms of Resistance, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Duccio Fantoni
Supervisor: Fabrizia Berlingieri

The Ecology of Logistics Platforms. Future Scenarios for the Architecture of Logistics in Emilia-Romagna, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Andrea Foppiani
Supervisor: Sara Protasoni

The Last Lifetime Period of Buildings: Installation Art in Extending of Lives of Abandoned Buildings as Memorials or Monuments, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Yiling Fu
Supervisor: Marco Borsotti

Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings through HUL approach, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Xiao Hu
Supervisor: Pierre Alain Croset

Eco-digital design in Architecture. Environmental design protocols for energy and water self-sufficient affordable housing, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Maddalena Laddaga
Supervisor: Pierre Alain Croset

Sinking Landscapes. Living with Water in the Age of Climate-Crisis, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Davide Montanari
Supervisor: Sara Protasoni

Artificial Paradises: Leisure as an Architectural Question, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Margherita Marri
Supervisor: Imma Forino

Building Paranoia: Rendering Trauma-Wares, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Valentina Noce
Supervisors: Matteo Poli, Andrea Gritti

Pioneering infrastructure. Architectural strategies for vertiport design in Italy, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Ottavio Pedretti
Supervisor: Giulia Setti

Biodiverse Public Spaces as a Common Resource: Spatial and Social Potential of Site-specific Interventions of Naturalization, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Michele Porcelluzzi
Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto

Contemporary Representation of Traditional Rural Architecture in Hebei Mountain Areas, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Rui Ren
Supervisor: Ilaria Valente

Transgressing Boundaries: The Urban Space Appropriated by Domestic Practice, 2022 – ongoing
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, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Andrea Renucci
Supervisor: Michele Ugolini

Design strategies for the revitalization of the Rural: Contemporary Transformation of Spatial forms of Traditional Settlements, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Likun Shen
Supervisor: Ilaria Valente

Mobility Platform: Conception and Perception in Urban Architecture, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Hao Wang
Supervisor: Pierre Alain Croset
Tutor: Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi

Study on the overall cooling benefit of urban ventilation corridors, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Zheng Wu
Supervisors: Matteo Poli, Eugenio Morello

Architecture Communities online. Participatory Design and Collaborative Processes, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Qianqian Yang
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca

Yingjin Driven Architectural Design. Interpretation, Re-elaboration, and Re-production of the Ancient Chinese Craftsmen’s Book, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Junliang Zhou
Supervisor: Luigi Cocchiarella

Sustainable and memorial urban green space design method in the post-pandemic era, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Yuhan Zhou
Supervisor: Sara Protasoni