info – mattia de lotto

Mattia De Lotto is an Italian architectural designer currently based in Delft, the Netherlands. He completed his Bachelor's Degree in Architecture at Iuav University of Venice and is now finishing his Master's at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft, where he's currently working on his graduation thesis.

Currently he is working at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft as an assistant to the research project Port City Future.

He has worked first at GEZA Architettura in Udine (Italy) and then majoral·tissino architects in Barcelona (Spain), gaining experience on a variety of projects across different scales and contexts.

His latest research project, "The (Im)possible Palimpsest", reflects on Piranesi’s Campo Marzio and it has been published by Drawing Matter.

Code

Title

Type

Year

Category

001

Venetian Tale

Pavilion

2020

Academic (Iuav Venice)

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Academic design project for an Ephemeral Architecture in Venice.

002

Palimpsest Tower

Pavilion

2020

Competition

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Competition for ArkxSite in collaboration with Alessandra D'Acunto.

003

+House

House and Atelier

2021

Academic (Iuav Venice)

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004

Save the Kiln!

Restoration of national Heritage site

2021

Academic (Iuav Venice)

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005

Reconstructions

School and heritage restoration

2022

Academic (graduation project - Iuav Venice)

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006

In continuity

Pavilion and heritage restoration

2022

Competition

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Competition for ReuseItaly in collaboration with Alessandra D'Acunto and Edoardo Ambrosio.

In Genezzano, in Rome’s countryside, hidden on a steep and enclosed site, by a small stream, almost pretending of being an inhabitable extension of the land, the monumental ruins of a Nymphaeum can be found. Built in different stages, one of them by the hand of Bramante, was never effectively completed and in the late 16th century was left abandoned along with its surrounding park. It’s right in the meaning of ruin that our design finds its roots; a witness of time and its passing, whose memory must be preserved at any cost. The design proposal aims to build a new centrality of the Nymphaeum and its park in the community of Genezzano, creating a space of leisure open to everyone, where to find restoration from the heat and shelter from the sever weather. The visitor is shepherd throughout his entire journey in the park, where the only designated spaces are the restrooms, laid on the hill’s back, by the themes of nature and water, strongly eradicated in the Nymphaeum’s essence; with the vegetation growing spontaneously around the paths, barely drawn onto the ground, and the water, in the form of steam, sprinkled from some thin arches that mark the paths, filling the air, refreshing the hot summer days and submerging the Nymphaeum in a magical atmosphere. Following the paths, small oasis can be discovered, where only some chairs are found, where the visitor can rest and feel the overwhelming atmosphere of the newly found space.