Francesco Maria Cerroni Engineer-Architect portfolio.

research.Flow-n.eu, research blog on mobilityAudi, urban future initiativePolitecnico di Milano, Urban planning courseHarvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge (USA)Territorial Planning Department, University of Calabria

qualifications.Lenguages: italian, spanish, english, french (base), german (base)Software: arcGIS, civil3d, legion, autocad, indesign, illustrator, photoshop, autotrack, rhinoceros, maxwell studio, sketch up, microsoft excel, microsoft word, acca primus, acca certusProgramming language: java, html

work experiences.Town and transport planner at Mobility in ChainArchitect at Corvino + Multari srlUrban and landscape designer at Studio.euCollaboration with Xat production srl

traininig events.Architectural Engineer Master degree. with honorGrant for thesis abroad. Sapienza University of RomeConstruction site safety course. Faculty of Engineer-ing, Sapienza UniversityErasmus grant at Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arqui-tectura de Sevilla

summary.

1. urban and landscape design

2. town and transport planning

3. architecture and space planning

4. graphics

1 urban and landscape design

Convention Center, Miami Beachcompetition2013/ client OMA

Sitting on 52 acres within the vibrant and unique community that is Miami Beach, an outdated conven-tion center acts as an urban blockade – inactive when conventions are not in town, disruptive to adjoining neighborhoods and inhibiting connections to surrounding communities.The strategy for the proposed circulation scheme, was to create an internal network consisting on three dead ends. Those 3 dead ends are connected, offering an internal flexibility and dedicated routes to different facilities such as parking, valet, dropoffs and loading areas, only for authorized movement, mean-while restricting the external traffic to pass throughthe complex and around can move on its periphery. As opposed to the current condition that generate traffic within the site perimeter,

Plan maestro Eje Bulnes, Santiago de Chileurban design competition2010 /Client Broadway Malyan

The project unites the city and the naturallandscape. Its immense popularity is a testament to its quality and diversity as an ever changing place for residents, workers and visitors... people from all over the World are visiting the city just to be in this space, and to feel the powerful sense of dynamism of its art and architecture showing the best that Chile can offer. Like Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, this is the final chapter of a historic constructionprogramme.The international competition brief called for a Bicentennial Legacy, to consolidate the existing buildings while completing the formal axis to the south, connecting the urban vistas with the park as a cultural hot spot. The designers have created a space for everybody. It is a calling card, a meridian reaching out to the wider cityand its communities, harnessing the urbanpulse.

Promenade des cretes, Genevecompetition2012 /With Salottobuono

This project takes the form of a proposal for two separate routes:

• a wide, fast cycle path along a route with a gradient of never more than 5% which is connected to the network of cycle paths linking Geneva to its environs;• a separate slower route intended mainly for pedes-trians, which explores the topography of the hillside to a greater extent and links the existing parks on the site.

Where these two lines of red asphalt surmount obstacles, they metamorphose into small white metal structures (bridges, footbridges and a helical ramp). Finally, the points where these two lines intersect with the landscape give rise to occasional contextual interventions, a series of public or recreational micro-spaces, none of which modify the existing topography.All of this clever lexicon of lines and points stems mainly from the spirit and imagination inspired by the railway line that gives the site its character.

Piazza Ohm, Milanobuilt2010 /Collaborazione con studio Corvino + Multari srl

Piazza Ohm is the intersection of five streets, major traffic flows south-west end of the band suburban Milan. A context, strongly inhomogeneous which finds its specificity in long-term phenomena such as the Canal Grande. The project defines these phenomena as the elements of the entire redevelopment plan and work on these elements trying to recover the appar-ent loss of the relationship between the design of the soil and the construction of the buildings. A road junction thus becomes, thanks to a simple but radical reorganization of the road an urban garden full of boxwood bushes and groups of alders. The heart of the intervention, square Ohm, is illuminated by a spe-cially designed system able to change the coloring of the light as a function of ambient temperature.

parklandschaft Tempelhof, Berlinlandscape design competition2010 /Collaboratio with studio.eu and Stefan Tischer

The central area of the former airport Tempelhof in Berlin: a vacuum with an area of about 3 million square meters. The basic idea was to “freeze” the existing state of the already popular with Berliners for its qualities and symbolic space to prevent the unfolding of speculative forces that would irreversibly compromise the quality of the place. The mainte-nance of the status quo appears to be the first phase of a landscape project designed to protect the various habitats present on the “wiesenmeer” but also as the starting point of a strategy for further development based on the exploitation of renewable energy and biomass.Other priorities that have guided the design of the park were the connections between the vacuum represented by the park and public space surround-ing neighborhoods, the promotion and protection of temporary events in order to prepare the plots for the future development of the area as well as the protec-tion of marks left on the various uses of the area in recent decades.

abitare sociale, Milano Figinosocial housing competition2010 /Collaboration with studio Corvino + Multari srl

In social housing project in “Milano Figino” urban contest and identity of the place are the one conse-quence of the other. The analysis of the character of the settlement and urban morphology of the medieval towns around Milan led to the importance of retain-ing traces of their historical centers.The village of Figino has developed on a road net-work closely connected with the historical trail.Subsequent additions have followed up to 30 years, maintaining the same original fabric, while the inten-sive construction took place from the 70’s onwards, it has continued its strategy of settlement of the village, by setting up an unusual relationship with the edge of the countryside and, ultimately wrong and inefficient.The consciousness of the status quo was of help to recover a concept of reconnection of the urban compact, which continues the development history of the village and wantsto establish a clear relationship with the fields.

abitare sociale, Milano via Cennisocial housing competition2010 /Collaboration with studio Corvino + Multari srl

Social housing declines in two topics. The first concerns architectural choices and operational efficiency: a high standard use of space, domestic and public, must match limited construction costs and most importantly, easy maintenance. The second is to find a wise harmony between an internal and external spatial quality and compliance with technical standards often too limiting.This project is a solution to a paradox: it is a linear building of 150 m which has the peculiarity propie attention to human scale andthe its inclusion in the urban landscape. And even if he lives Via Cenni an intrinsic paradox (hay bales and farmhouse a few meters away from the towers of Novara) all’ingente surface application requested by the auctioneer has responded with a building line, compact and lifted off the ground, to meet the requirements of well-being: proporzionealla human scale, integration into the landscape and usability of public space, reduction of land consumption.

planimetria generale 1:1000

commerciale 18.000mq

divertimento 10.000mq

artigianato 2.000 mq

sport 3.874 mq

benessere 3.100 mqdirezionale 4.100 mq

ricettivo 4.600 mq

riepilogo superfi ci

SLU ammesa subambito ex Salamini: 50.573 mqSLU edifi cato oltre ex Salamini: 5.000 mq ca.SLU di progetto: 45.000 mqstandard pubblici: 45.000 mq

di cui:27.000 mq di spazio pubblico attrezzato18.000 mq di parcheggi

parcheggi di pertinenza:commerciale 19.530 mqdivertimento 3000 mqartigianale 600mqsport 1950 mqricettivo 1350 mqterziario 1200 m qtot dotazione parcheggi di progetto: 45630 mq (18.000 mq di standard pubblici + 27630 mq di pertinenziali)

parcheggi 45.630 mq

programma

concept

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Ex Salamini park, Parma1st price, competition2010 /Collaboration with Studio.eu

The masterplan for the area of the former factory, takes the elements belonging to the city and raises the potential latent transforming them into urban landmarks to characterize the city entrance idea of building a memory for those arriving from the sur-rounding regions by train and car.The rigid and recurring roman “centuratio “ represent the map that guides the territory, continually inter-rupted and crossed by streams that dig and are superimposed on the grid are an opportunity to gen-erate new and dynamic urban conditions where the park and buildings generate the new meeting places contaminating with this new idea of public space the geometric rigor of the “red forest” of the former industrial building in the center of the area.The soft nature that solidifies in the red grid of pillars like in a wood is the theme of the relationship with the context and with the landscape, it does corre-spond to the rigor of the metal structure, memory of the next industrial site, overlapping and fluid dynam-ics of the new architectures.

2 town and tranport planning

Switch and share, Bostonresearch on mobility2012 /Client Höweler + Yoon Architecture

This project is the result from the colaboration with Höweler + Yoon Architecture with the support of Audi and Style Park (which organize every two years the Audi Urban future initiative). . The definition of city is changing, as are its rules of access. Urban mobility will also need to learn from suburban mobilities, and post-urban mobilities. The future of the city is some-thing that the building and automobile industries both need to better understand in order to steer its evolution in productive ways. The transformation of the city into a productive, efficient and shared space is something that requires multiple parties including government, industry, designers, as the general public. This project try to deal with these chanllenges proposing a new model for mobility based on the sharing and on the different modes switching.

Safari city masterplan, Arushatown planning2013/Client Tanzania National Housing Corporation

Arusha lie in one the most beautiful places in tanza-nia and probably the world in between the famous national parks of Gorongoro and Kilimanjaro. The city is growing rapidly in the last years and the master-plan promoted by the National housing corporation want to contain the harassing sprawl typical in the region.A mixed landuse wants to create a new city center served by new infrastructures currently in phase of designing.

Red October, Moscowtransport planning consultancy2012 /Client Foster & Partners

The Red October site is located at the Westerntip of Bolotny island, in close proximity tothe Kremlin. This special location needed many stud-ies on the Moscow road network including isochrone maps and public transport accessibility level maps.Great attention has been given to the streetscapes solutions: there aretwo main typologies of road sections withinthe masterplan. The first applies to the two-waypublic road and the second to the interior masterplan road network past the security checkpoints. In order to ensure that there is no illegal parking and key pedestrianconnections are maintained, the road sectionenvisions a road with a pedestrian kerb andbollards.

The sea dunes, Alghero transport planning consultancy2011 / Client 5+1AA

The masterlan foresaw the creation of a wellness resort within a protected area of Sardinia with a great naturalistic interest.The Client and the local administration were inter-ested on accessibility: how to ensure a functional and organic access to the resort without the need of new infrastructures and without impacting and threatening the fragile balance of the surrounding ecosystem?Through a detailed study of the visitors profiles it was possible to carry out an optimization of the existing system for both the private transport for the public sector. The promotion of intermodality will provide the maximum opportunity of cycle-pedestrian accessibility to the site area.

Urban parangolèurban future initiative2012 / Client Urban-Think Tank

The Audi urban future initiative every year give the possibility to international teams to investigate the future of our cities with a particular interest on mobil-ity. On 2012 I had the opportunity to collaborate with Urban think Thank on a project of a possible future development of Sao Paolo (Brazil). The concept, “urban parangolè” intend to preserve some informal aspects of the Sao Paolo mobility system in a digital vision. The digital revolution give the opportunity to rationalize some unplanned and often illegal mode of transport in the city that are part of the own city life. The Urban Parangole is made up of multi-scalar adaptable pieces. It proposes flexible, interactive, flowing and interchangeable mobility between a wide range of mobility devices with technology as one of its tools. Through this it inspires spontaneous, informalgatherings and productive activity as means to revive the street, while simultaneously addressing concerns about transport, livelihood, health and the environ-ment.

Gare Part Dieu, Lyonpedestrian accessibility study2012 /Clien Orenoque

The development of a new massive masterplan in the immediate surroundings of the Lyon Part Dieu railway station needs a deep study on the pedestrian connectivity. The station has an high number of pas-sengers and it is also part of a public transport HUB for metro, bus, tram and LRT networks. The works aim to calculate the future pedestrian flows on the basis of surveys and of future scenarios. Thanks to a level-of-service study approach and considering also the space syntax theory it has been possible to propose a framework for the ground level design of the station and the surrounding buildings.

Klokovo masterplan, Moscowtown and transport planning2010 /Client Cigler Marani Architects

The approach to mobility in the Klokovo Masterplan aims to give a response to the quality and the privacy expectations of residents without contradicting the naturalistic heritage of the site. The road network is conceived to minimise the extent of roads and reduce the negative effects of traffic. Particular attention has been paid to traffic mitigation measures: roads are designed following a natural weaving path not only to go along with the natural aspect of the countryside but above all to induce a safer behaviour in drivers, bringing them to keep the speed of their vehicles low. Furthermore, the width of the roads has been tuned so as to both slow down vehicles and avoid irregular parking.The whole mobility concept is in fact conceived to promote walking and cycling.Additionally, a network of pedestrian paths covers the whole area providing a safe and comfortable grid to move throughout the community

Communication Village Masterplan, Moscow transport planning consultancy and road design2012 / Client Cigler Marani Architects

The masterlan foresaw the creation of a wellness resort within a protected area of Sardinia with a great naturalistic interest.The Client and the local administration were inter-ested on accessibility: how to ensure a functional and organic access to the resort without the need of new infrastructures and without impacting and threatening the fragile balance of the surrounding ecosystem?Through a detailed study of the visitors profiles it was possible to carry out an optimization of the existing system for both the private transport for the public sector. The promotion of intermodality will provide the maximum opportunity of cycle-pedestrian accessibility to the site area.

Beijing airportcompetition2012 / Client Foster & Partners

Foster & Partners project for the new Beijing Airport had several innovative solutions in terms of mobil-ity. The complexity of the requirements has been solved dividing the whole system into its particular elements.Many local rules have made the design process even more complex. Thanks to a continuous dialog with the client and the local authorities every critical issue has been solved to guarantee the optimal solution. A central axe hosts infrastructures both for private and public transport and feed the 8 terminals from the center. All the facilities (parkings, bus terminals, railway stations…) are disposed along the central axe creating an innovative scheme for airports.

watergate, Fiumicinoresearch for Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (Italy)2010 / with Prof. Pippo Ciorra, Prof. Francesco Careri, Prof. Franco Rossi, Arch. Alberto Jacovoni

From 18 to 26 September 2010 were held in Rome meetings sponsored by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and for the course of Landscape Design of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University with the main theme “Water-gate: a new entrance for The Roman metropolitan area. “In view of the construction of a new commercial harbor in the territory of Fiumicino (closet o Rome metroplitan area) we analyzed the effects of this new infrastructure on the area corresponding to the last stretch of the Tiber basin. The study has the objective of analyzing the themes of landscape project as it relates to the effects that the realization of new in-frastructural systems has on pre-existing high-value historical and landscape areas. The study focused mainly on to two topics: recover-ing landscape of infrastructure and building new infrastructure as landscape.

3 architecture and space planning

SSI towers, Jakartamobility consultancy2010 /Client OMA

One is constantly moving in Jakarta through traffic, inevitably perceiving the city under momentum. The site for SSI Towers - HR Rasuna Said, one of the busiest roads in Jakarta’s Golden Triangle - offers an ideal location for a building that will come alive in perception through movement.

Adjacent to, and integrated with the existing Gran Meliá Hotel, the two SSI towers perform a delicate acrobatic move on a complex site, manoeuvring be-tween all the project requirements and expectations and responding to hotel at the same time.The bases of Tower A and Tower B - starting at dif-ferent levels - are connected by a stepped diagonal “bridge.” Tower A sits on the lower part of the bridge, and with a diagonal lift, the bridge opens up a cov-ered public plaza. Tower B sits on the elevated end, which in turn sits on a 1,500 capacity column-free function hall.

The plan emphasises public outdoor space: a roof terrace on top of the function hall, a covered public plaza under the retail bridge and a pedestrian-only promenade that offers a public path through the site.

Together, the two towers create an image of frater-nity, in which they look related, almost alike, while

Tempelhof library, Berlincompetition2013/ with TBC team

The library as a building typology is unique in that challenge because it involves a public nature on the one hand and on the other hand, an organizational operation. The functional unit and transparency of the library as a ‘service engine’ and the Archief which occupies nearly a third of the total floor area to form a solitary unit in the project presented and the typol-ogy of the library in the 21st Century question.The new ZLB basically consists of three main areas that can be designated as a public area, service or organizational unit and Archief. All organizational and secondary functions are organized along parallel ‘slabs’, comparable to an oversized shelving system.

Madonna delle Grazie churc, Lodiin construction2010 /Collabotaion with studio Corvino + Multari srl

The architectural articulation of the parish complex arises from the composition of two geometries, the circle, pure form par excellence, on which stands the church building, and the quadrilateral of the founda-tion body, characterized by the type of central cloister convent, designed around trees existing site along which are arranged all the local pastoral ministry.The volume of the church, characterized by a double-height (the classroom contained in the nine meters soffit and volumes emerging technical) is at the center of the whole composition, defining the long stone-paved courtyard.The foundation body spans the entire lot in east-west direction, is on one level, and is characterized by a grating texture brick enclosing it completely, filtering introspection from the outside but providing the necessary lighting to the spaces interior.The two volumes intersect at the churchyard, giving rise to an adequate porch that welcomes the faithful filtering the relationship between public space and the sacred place.

4 graphics

The digital revolutionresearch on smart cities2012 / Client Alcatel

Smart city has been one of the main issues of the last years. Many public and private actors have tried to understand and take advantage of this possible digi-tal revolution. To deeply understand a new innovative project it is fundamental to “visualize it” first. In this work I’ve tried to simplify the different aspects of smart cities dividing them and analyzing separately. On the base of a possible piece of town thanks to a clean graphics I’ve highlight the different advantages that smart cities could bring to the everyday life of each citizen: from public transport to waste manage-ment, from energy efficiency to safety.

Wayfinding, San Gimignanonew parking facilities wayfinding2012 /Client San Gimignano municipality

San Gimignano is one of the jewels of Italy. Every years thousands of tourists visit the city immerse in the Tuscany countryside. Most of them reach the city by private transport, that’s why the municipality wanted to optimize the road sign system with to an innovative wayfinding code. The aim was to reduce the car movement within the city addressing cars directly to the nearest car park. My proposal was to use a color based code for the 4 different parking facilities and setting in the city main entrances a vertical sign showing the city plan with the car park position. New icons inspired by the medieval city entrances has been designed to show the accesses to the touristic areas.

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