Office

Market Square Office is a young architecture practice started in 2020 by Roberto Faccin, Luca Soldati and Simone Zanini, following the competitions’ work carried out during college years with the contribution of other two members, Andrea Lui and CarloAndrea Vescovi. The activity of the office focuses on urban-scale projects down to micro-housing projects, conceived for architecture contests worldwide and for private and public clients. The proposals delivered for competitions include extensive research on contemporary living matters and an attempt to produce unconventional solutions to the given inputs. On the other hand, the work carried out for local clients, including urban regeneration projects throughout the territory of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, attempts to produce intriguing yet feasible solutions to improve social life and quality of the urban environment.

Team

Market Square is the beating heart of a community, where people coming from everywhere get in touch with each other. It’s our vision to bring the same culture inside the Office, fostering physical meeting of people with different backgrounds, promoting creative dialogue, and defining the world of tomorrow through architecture. Our team now consists of four members, but the goal is to build a bigger community in the following years.

*Ravenna, 1994. Master’s degree in architecture & building engineering, at University of Bologna [2020]. For his master thesis project, he developed a foldable tensile-membrane structure for the “Rocca Brancaleone”, a listed building located in the city center of Ravenna and part of the National Historic Building Heritage. His project focused on the regeneration of the historical fortress with innovative technologies, aiming at integrated preservation of the existence in line with the current use as a concert arena. Luca Soldati is a licensed Engineer, registered at the Chamber of Engineers of Ravenna, n. 2312.

*Bologna, 1994. Master’s degree in architecture & building engineering, at University of Bologna [2020]. In 2017-18 he attained a year abroad at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His master thesis, under the title MMXX THERMAE, focused on the rehabilitation of an abandoned thermal bath. Parallel to the studies and the profession, since 2018, he’s collaborating as an academic tutor for “Architettura e Composizione Architettonica I”, a design studio at the University of Bologna. Simone Zanini is a licensed Architect, registered at the Chamber of Architects of Bologna, n. 4487.

*Mantova, 1994. Master’s student at the faculty of architecture & building engineering. Parallel with the professional activity within the Studio, he’s concluding his studies with a thesis on the acoustics of historical buildings. His research focuses on the acoustics design of a range of learning classes inside the university buildings of Palazzo Malvezzi-Campeggi (1548), Palazzo Ercolani (1785) and Faculty of Engineering Building (1937). For this project, he collaborated with DIN, the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Bologna. Roberto is proficient in parametrical and computational design.

Location

MSOffice Bologna | via Ponte 10/n, 40030 Grizzana Morandi, Italy