Ludovica Rolando

Tailor-made housing: how to improve housing affordability and adequacy through innovation of the co-housing model

Tutor: Matteo Robiglio
Affordable housing; alternative architectural and management models for housing; cooperative housing; existenzminimum and design quality; political meaning of domestic space; participatory architecture; how domestic space reflect social transformations and how it could reflect contemporary ones.

Bio

Ludovica Rolando is an architect and Ph.D. student in Architecture History and Design at Politecnico di Torino. She studied Architecture between Politecnico di Torino, UCL Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotà, Colombia. She collaborated with F:L Architetti, Turin (2016), TeamMinus, Beijing (2016) and Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Barcelona (2019/2020). She is now focusing on Contemporary Housing Models, and she recently joined FULL | Future Urban Legacy Lab.

CV

2021- PhD candidate and present teaching assistant in architectural and urban design at Politecnico di Torino
2019 – 2020 Junior Architect at Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Barcelona, Spain
2018 – Workshop at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotà, Colombia
2016 -2018 Master of Science in Architecture Construction and City at Politecnico di Torino
2016 – Traineeship at F:LArchitetti, Torino, Italy, and TeamMinus, Beijing, China
2016 – Erasmus at UCLouvain – Université catholique de Louvain
2013 -2016 Bachelor degree in Architecture (180 ETCs) at Politecnico di Torino

Selected publications

Rolando, Ludovica, and Nicolis Di Robilant, Manfredo. Il Fenomeno Airbnb E L’abitare Contemporaneo (2018). Web.

Barosio, M, and Rolando, Ludovica. “Da Louis Kahn a Rhino Vaults. La Matrice Strutturale Delle Forme Architettoniche.” In: Volume:3/2018. – In: Firstpage:141. – In: Lastpage:148. – In: Numberofpages:8. – In: Journal:AGATHÓN (2018): In: Volume:3/2018. – In: Firstpage:141. – In: Lastpage:148. – In: Numberofpages:8. – In: Journal:AGATHÓN. – ISSN: 2464-9309. Web.

De Sonnaz 1: Laboratorio di progetto “A(i)rchbnb”, Rolando L., Rrokaj E., Scalzo I. in Di Robilant M.,Torino quale futuro per le ex caserme, recintate o aperte alla città?, La Repubblica