Francesco SIMONI

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Presentation

 

I graduated cum laude from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence with a thesis on an Auditorium - City of Music to be placed in a Science park for the Environment.

During my years at University I did various jobs and collaborated with Studio PARIGI.

I took part in the Erasmus exchange program and attended the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Montpellier, where I sat some exams and prepared for others which I took in Florence.

I have travelled extensively throughout Europe and other continents and I have lived in Florence, Montpellier and Lima.

I can speak, read and write in English, which I studied during and after university in Florence and London.

I can speak, read and write fluently in French and Spanish.

After finishing university I passed the state exam which allowed me to officially practise as an Architect and I am currently a member of the National Association of Italian Architects.

I also began to collaborate with the Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca ABITA - Architettura Bioecologica e Innovazione Tecnologica per l'Ambiente - ABITA Inter-university Research Centre for Bio-ecological Architecture and Technological Innovation for the Environment - with MSA Architects Studio - Marco SALA Associates - and with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence, where I carried out research and professional activities and was an assistant at the Environmental Planning Course.

I then took part in the research on the project Abitare Mediterraneo - Mediterranean Living,  promoted by the Region of Tuscany and the Department of Technology of Architecture and Design “Pierluigi Spadolini” of the University of Florence.

I got  my Research Doctorate - PhD in Technology of Architecture and Design at the “Spadolini” department.

My Doctoral thesis was on the costs of constructing residential buildings - Social Housing in the field of Management Engineering. The result of the thesis was an instrument and procedure for the control and optimization of building costs.

During my doctorate studies, I was also a Tutor for the ABITA II Level European Master's Course  and was part of the editor's staff of the publication “Bollettino della Ricerca in Tecnologia dell'Architettura e Design” - Technology of Architecture and Design Research Journal.

After my Doctorate I collaborated with the ABITA Perú Asociación Civil and Abitar Green Business. Both these institutions are based in the South American country. In Perú I edited a Protocol for Energy and Environmental  Certification, for Peruvian institutions, and I held a training course for local experts and professors at the Universidad Ricardo Palma. I was also an economics- financial consultant for the project Torre Verde Lima, new headquarters of the “Caja Metropolitana” bank of the Municipality of the capital Lima.

 

My publications include: 54 articles for the Architect's Almanac, edited by the Renzo Piano Foundation, and a full paper, selected according to the double blind review procedure, published in the “Atti della Conferenza annuale Osdotta”- Osservatorio Nazionale dei Dottorati di Ricercari in Tecnologia dell' Architettura - Osdotta Annual Conference Acts - National Observatory of Research Doctorates in Technology of Architecture.

 

The fields in which I have developed most experience and expertise are Bio-climatic Architecture, Sustainable Planning and Social Housing, Technologies for the Eco-compatible use of natural resources, innovative components and systems from the point of view of Management Engineering - economic control with the aim of typological and technological innovation of process and product in the building.