Work experxience

Architect Mauro Sullam

03/2017 - 04/2017 Collaboration as graphic designer with Ron Gilad, creative director of Danese Milano- Graphic and technical workflow improvement for the new Danese Milano catalogue;- Website improvements: new product datasheets, general graphic contents set-up and optimization;- Exhibition signage design and realization.

2011 - current Designer, Self-employed- Design and management for the renovation of resiwdential properties, with management of finishes and materials and development of technical drawings. - Team member/leader in competitions for public buildings and masterplans. - Exhibitions design and set-up

01/2012 - current Collaboration as designer with Studio Broggi & Infuso, Milan- Surveys, feasability studies, 3D views and landscape reports for renovation projects (private apartments and retail)- IT consultant

10/2011 - 04/2015 Designer at Progettisti Associati Tecnarc, Milan- Project development for hospitals and other public buildings: feasability studies, preliminary design, final design and working plans.- Integrated design among architects, electrical and mechanical engineers.- Attendance to meetings with clients, manufacturers and design teams.

04/2011 - 06/2011 Designer at Studio SBG Architetti, Milan- “Housing contest” competion for the development of two prototypical residential buildings (a tower and a slab), from the concept to an accurate costs evaluation

09/2009 - 04/2010 Architectural assistant at Studio Balsari Berrone, Milan- Landscape architecture (private gardens, public spaces): feasability studies, preliminary design and final design

01/2009 - 06/2009 Architectural assistant at Estudio Farini Bresnick Arquitectos, Madrid- Competition for a residential complex with nursery in Switzerland: concept development, 3d modelling and drawings

Place and birh date: Milan, Italy, 21/6/1984 - Nationality: ItalianResidence: Milan, ItalyEmail: mauro.sullam@gmail.comMobile: +39 **********Website: www.maurosullam.com - Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/maurosullamProfessional body: Ordine degli Architetti P.P.C. della Provincia di Milano, Architect n. 18606

Education and qualifications02/2017 PhD, Politecnico di Milano, DAStU Department

Thesis: “The permanence of the idea of wall in contemporary residential architecture”

03/2011 Master’s degree in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano - mark: 108/11009/2008 - 07/2009 1-year Erasmus at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Madrid07/2007 Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano Bovisa - mark: 110/11007/2003 Classical high school graduation, Ginnasio Liceo C. Beccaria, Milano -

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2016: Florencia Andreola, Mauro Sullam, Riccardo Villa (editors), Backstage. L’architettura come lavoro concreto, Franco Angeli Editore, Milano2015: Florencia Andreola, Marco Biraghi, Gabriella Lo Ricco (editors), Milan Architectural Guide 1945-2015, Ulrico Hoepli Editore S.p.A, Milano: some articles + urban maps graphic design2011: Mauro Sullam, Tra continuità e rinnovanento, in “AC - Architettura Civile”, Araba Fenice, Boves (CN)2010: Mauro Sullam,Via Padova: presente e futuro di una strada di Milano, in Gizmo MMX. Architettura zona critica, Zandonai, Rovereto (TN)

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Publications

Other experiences2015 - current Charter member of “The Formwork” cultural association, Milano - Venezia

(www.theformwork.org)2013 - current Academic assistant at Politecnico di Milano

(Professors O.S. Pierini and M. Fortis)2010 - current Editor at Gizmo cultural association, Milano (www.gizmoweb.org)2009 - current IT Consultant in architectural firms2011 - current Graphic designer and/or webmaster for private clients

Computer skills

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LanguagesItalian MothertongueFrench Mothertongue

English Very fluent (B2)Spanish Perfectly fluent (C1)German Basic understanding (A1)

ReferencesArch. Andrea Taddia (Progettisti Associati Tecnarc, Milan): +39 02 45490600Arch. Lucia Infuso (Broggi & Infuso, Milan): +39 02 36709888Arch. Giulio Barazzetta (SBG Architetti, Milan): +39 028372940Arch. Elena Farini (FWG Architects, Madrid - Lausanne): +34 914457865Prof. Arch. Orsina Simona Pierini (Politecnico of Milan): +39 02 87395403

Private houses refurbishments

In order to create a new space inside an existing apartment, the floor slab that separated the living-room from the attic has been partially demolished. Within the double height a complex piece of furniture was designed and installed. It is made of wood and metal profiles and it serves as a stair, a bookshelf, walkable slab and suspended desk. The suspended desk characterises the entire space with its light presence. Fir and white-painted metal combine with the blue linoleum used to pave the newly-created space.

VareseA suspendend space2016, personal work

I was asked to redesign the plans of an existing 300 sqm. villa in Sicily, in order to obtain more bedrooms and a pleasant and ordered layout for the two floorplans. The bedrooms are distributed along two corridors and each one has a walk-in wardrobe at its entrance. The bedroom space is conceived as a very intimate and peaceful space, with a 60 cm deep desk just below the window.

AgrigentoPrivate villa refurbishment2016, personal work

Collective housing projects

This competition was launched in Lombardy to build a design directory for high-performance, low-cost residential buildings. Both projects – the “residential tower” and the “slab” – meet several techincal requirements, i.e. sustainability, construction costs (1600 euros/sq m), floor area (5000 sq m) and dwelling types mixture.This residential slab features a southern façade with large loggias and a northern one with five emerging volumes, which allows to multiply the dwelling aspects. A central and naturally illuminated corridor leads to the flats.As to the tower project, the building complies with the required technical standards and its modular composition fits in a wide range of situations.

MilanHousing Contest2011, with SBG Architetti (Milan)

Estudio Farini Bresnick took part in an architecture competition for a complex with 20-30 flats, a nursery, commercial surfaces, a private garden and some parking in the small village of Veyrier, near Geneva. The housing layout is clear and very compact, and meets swiss “Minergie” energetic standards. The nursery is located in a separated, two-floor high part of the complex, and surrounded by green and protected playgrounds.

Veyrier (Genève)Housing and nursery2009 - with Estudio Farini-Bresnick (Madrid)

Urban design masterplans

Our proposal is intended as a hinge, a door and a landscape of memories.It’s a hinge because it creates a connection among several places: the new railway station, the business center, the old station transformed into a museum and Cividal historical centre (with its system of walls and public gardens).It is a door because it acts as a new threshold toward the city center for people coming from the state highway or by train.It is a landscape of memories because the exhibition spaces and the public ones blend into one another and create three significant places: a ‘hortus conclusus’, an open square and a ‘garden of walls’ which is a symbol of the WW1 trenches experience.

Cividale del Friuli (Udine)Puarte del ricuard2013, with Carlo Chiavi

MilanEuropan 20132013, with DRD studio

The area is enclosed between the southern border of the city and the Chiaravalle Abbey: it has the potential to act as a hinge between a very dense urban area and a beautiful piece of agricultural landscape, but it suffers nowadays from a deep state of neglect, with illegal settlements and unhealthful living conditions. Our proposal tackles this difficult situation through its masterplan: it combines a big and redesigned park with sport facilities and high-density low-rise mixed use buildings which gather along a pedestrian a slow traffic and pedestrian path.

Public buildings projects

The “Isola” neighborhood community center is planned to be built inside the new “Trees library” park, which opening is planned in 2017 within the new “Porta Nuova” masterplan. Our project stresses on flexibility, sustainability, reduced construction costs and on building a strong relationship with the surrounding area. It uses L-shaped walls which half-enclose each room, leaving the other two sides more open and undefined.

MilanIsola civic centre2014 - with DRD Studio

We were asked to work exclusively on façades and on some minor landscape arrangement. Internal spaces were not our scope of work, in fact, they have been designed quite irregularly; we therefore had to position windows randomly, sticking to a geometric grid and always using the same window size and type. We tilted the upper profile of the building, and bevelled one of its corners, to confer some unity to the whole volume.

TurinLocal health unit2012 - with Progettisti Associati Tecnarc

Architecture exhibitions

The exhibition was organized at Milan Politecnico (Faculty of Architecture), and displayed the boards made by the “Details – Architecture seen in section” research group and by the architecture offices who participated to the project.I was part of the research group, together with my PhD supervisor Prof. O. S. Pierini. More info at www.detailsinsection.org

Politecnico of MilanDetails: Architecture seen in section2015, with The Formwork - Cultural Association

For the “Gizmo” cultural association, I devoloped various exhibition layouts, following the projects from the initial concept to the final realization.

Milan (various locations)Gizmo exhibitions2015 - ongoing, with Gizmo - Cultural Association

Graphics and renderings

The goal was to obtain eye-candy, clean, easy-to-use and up to date maps for the guide readers’ everyday use. This was achieved through a fine and complex re-drawing of several Milan city maps.

Hoepli (publishers)Milan architectural guide maps2014 - with Florencia Andreola

I help various firms in defining their concepts and presentations with 3D-modelling and renderings.

MilanArchitectural visualizations2011 - ongoing

PhD research

The thesis claims that the wall has had a double nature from its very origins, being at the same time frame and continuous masonry. Hence, the dissertation also argues that the constructive and spatial characters of the wall are a synthesis of such duplicity, which makes it possible to go beyond the interpretations that label modernity as the ‘era of the frame’ and pre-modern times as the ‘era of masonry’, which supposedly con-cluded itself at the end of XIX century. While, on the one hand, the two natures of the wall have generated complexity and polysemy around it, they have also guaranteed its survival as idea, as site of theoretical and creative elaboration, as well as concrete structure. The thesis starts by identifying some fundamen-tal wall types, drawing on the great treatises written between the XV and the XIX century; secondly, it addresses the wall as a surface and eventually the relationship between walls and openings, where the complex connections between the construction and the appearance of the wall emerge.In the second part, the focus shifts on the relationship between wall and space, in particu-lar the urban dwelling space, which is chosen as the field to develop more in-depth analyses because of its condition of “mediocre subject”, i.e. far removed from the experimental and symbolic excesses to be found in monumental, institutional or infrastructural architecture. Some residential types are identified and their spaces are read as the repetition of a certain span (parallel walls systems), as systems of rooms, as a composition of circulations and espaces utiles (following J. Guadet’s nomenclature) con-nected to Beaux-Arts “plan poché” tradition. In each one of these cases, the elements of wall syntax, which have been previously identified, become the material base that makes it possible to materialize composition principles and spatial intentions.The third part of the thesis considers about one hundred residential projects, mostly contem-porary ones, and tries to identify a “conscious combination” of the syntactic and composition-al themes that emerged and established them-selves over the past centuries: the enhanced syncretism of current times is interpreted as a rich confusion in which the idea of wall, once again, finds a way to regenerate itself.

The idea of wall and its permanence in contemporary residential architecture.