Silvio D'Ascia
http://www.dascia.com

Francia

Silvio d’Ascia, born in Naples in 1969, has lived and worked in Paris since 1993. After a period in association with G.R. Associés, he founded his own office in 2001. His international design activity (France, Italy, China ...), thanks to his Italian humanist education, is deeply connected to an explicit reflection on new forms of urbanity of the third millennium city, and modern development poles' identification of contemporary society, often within historical contexts: multi-modal interchange nodes, mixed-use residential centers, cultural centers,... In Naples, in his hometown, his creative research, has been the opportunity to be experimented in some projects: Montesanto Station (2003-2008), with the proposal for the transformation of the “Complesso della S.ima Trinità delle Monache” (2005-07), Torregaveta Station (2005-10), the new University Centre of Agricultural Sciences and CNR at Herculaneum (2006-construction in progress), a new commercial hub Ge.Co. (2005-2010), a multifunctional complex called "la Porta del Parco" Bagnoli Futura, recently inaugurated. While developing his activity in Naples, S. d’Ascia, in association with AREP, has successfully participated to a number of prestigious international competitions in Europe and China: a new technological center for the stock exchange of Shanghai (2005-2010), the New Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome-Eur (2000, second position), and the winning project for the new station of Torino Porta Susa (that will be inaugurated at the end of 2011), with a tower of services (competition won in 2002)... Some projects have already been presented in numerous magazines and exhibitions in Italy and abroad (Venice Biennale) and a biography has just been published by CLEAN.