The years of my university course taught me to dream and trust my ambitions, in spite of a lot of sacrifices. Debating with fellow-students and teachers has been continuously feeding my passion for this wonderful discipline, which is able to grant space to creativity and imagination.
Quite like you, Marco and Gloria, I finished my studies desiring to work in the region where I had been born and grown up and dreaming to provide my contribution to designing places being able to improve the lives of many people.
But when you leave university, you happen to face a different situation; the dream of one’s future in our country risks to vanish when facing an industry generally unable to add value to young people’s capabilities.
Receiving the Grenfellove award has been a great honour, an act of generosity that proves to be, for me as well as for many other new graduates, an incentive to keep believing in their own dreams and skills, in spite of the countless challenges this profession implies.

During my studies I’ve indeed developed the will of considering architecture an act of generosity proper, able to perceive the needs and peculiarities of a specific area.
Jointly with my fellows Andrea Debiasi and Edoardo Lazraj and professor Michel Carlana, I faced the challenge of imagining new living spaces, able to conform to the needs of our continuously evolving society. My thesis examines the concepts of collective housing and mixed-use and, based on both flexibility of structures and prefabrication, develops a residential court-equipped prototype to be integrated into an industrial area to be redeveloped, located next to Bolzano’s historic centre.
The design of the block, mainly intended for young and aged people, results from considering residential buildings an urban part which is made by heterogeneously aggregating dimensionally-diverse buildings, united by common spaces providing the community with social relations and services.
Our intent of controlling costs and making the complex transformable with the passing of time drove the research towards a prefabricated wooden structural system, made of T-arranged elements able to make the central zone free.
All adopted solutions make building costs of economical housing lower than the local ones, by contemporarily assuring a very good building quality.

Thanks to Grenfellove this research may turn into a major element of reflection and sharing about present and future living.
I am deeply grateful I could participate in this initiative and contribute to keep Marco and Gloria’s memory and dreams alive.
I warmly thank the Foundation, with special reference to Giannino and Daniela, whose vigour and confidence in the future strengthen young people’s capabilities, thus feeding their ambitions.