Qualifications:

RIBA

Experience:

Marco studied in Venice (Italy), Porto (Portugal), and Cambridge (UK), and practised as an architect in Italy before moving to the UK.

Since joining Formation Architects in 2007, Marco has gained depth of experience in a variety of projects, focussing on residential buildings at the design and planning stage. He has also led several projects from inception to completion in the UK and abroad.

As Director, Marco leads Formation Architects’ pre-planning team, which is involved in the early-stage design of commercial and residential schemes with a range of typologies, locations, tenures, and sizes.

More recently, Marco’s work has focussed on the regeneration of brownfield sites throughout the London Boroughs and Home Counties. Examples include:

• The Green Quarter, a new neighbourhood on the site of former gasworks in Ealing, providing 1,400 new homes and a variety of commercial units for Berkeley Homes.
• Bolingbroke, a 250-unit scheme for L&Q in Enfield, which is integrated with its suburban and natural context.
• Trundley’s Road, a mixed-used development for the Aitch group in Lewisham, which includes affordable flats, student housing, and light industrial units (‘bed on sheds’ co-location).
• The Green, a co-living tower in Ealing, promoting an innovative, high-quality housing typology with an emphasis on communal facilities.
• White Hart, a sensitive addition to a listed pub providing new residential accommodation in one of Merton’s best-preserved conservation areas.

Marco is particularly experienced in dealing with projects at an early design stage, making sure that the concept design can ultimately be translated into feasible and beautiful buildings.

His ambition is to deliver homes that people will chose to live in, creating dynamic new neighbourhoods integrated with existing communities. He firmly believes that sensitive design plays a pivotal part in this process.

Marco is a qualified Passive House designer has also completed an MSt at Cambridge’s Wolfson College in Interdisciplinary Design with a focus on sustainability and on the implications of architectural representation in the planning process, which was the focus of his dissertation.