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Giulia Benedetta Bet graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano in 2018, with a transformation project regarding the area of via Mario Pagano in Milan. The work, entitled ‘un nuovo basamento pubblico’ is based on the design of a new mixed-use building which, in addition to the ambition to become a new urban landmark, combines functional needs with the wish to re-connect the existing open space system. She has several experiences abroad including a period of study in Boston and a year in Germany at the FHP university. She collaborates with KICK.OFFICE since March 2017.

Marta Zanardi graduated in Architecture in 2018 at Politecnico di Milano with the work ‘Kulturhalle am Tacheles’, a project of architectural reconstruction of an urban block in the heart of the Mitte district in Berlin. The project has been awarded with the ‘Michele Silvers, architecture projects in international contexts’ degree award and was selected in 2019 for participation in ‘About Future: Architecture_Cities_Environment. Models and Visions’ at Armani Silos, Milan. In 2017 she took part in the international competition ‘Periferie 2017’ promoted by MiBACT and CNAPPC, achieving, with her project team, the first place for area 07 of the Municipality 6 of Naples. She collaborates with KICK.OFFICE since April 2018.

Tomás Enrique Davis De Luca graduated in Architecture from a double–degree program between Universidad Central de Venezuela and Politecnico di Milano in 2018. His thesis project, ‘Il giardino botanico verticale’, focuses on botanical gardens as a strategy to rebuild urban voids and boost cultural identity. He has worked in Triennale Milano as part of the coordination team in museum atendance. In recent years he has collaborated with different architecture studios, including a one-year experience in SANAA (Tokyo, Japan), focusing on an architecture contest won by the firm in Luxembourg. He collaborates with KICK.OFFICE since June 2021.

Martina Massacesi graduated in Architecture Interior Design at Politecnico di Milano in 2021, with “Rural grafting. Towards new evolutionary palimpsests”, a thesis that studies the prototype of a design model that rethinks rural territories of the nineteenth century, particularly the “Leopoldina”, a type of casale toscano in Val di Chiana, Tuscany. The research reflects on the concept of reuse related to these historical strusture’s decay. As a student, she has had the opportunity to take on different experiences abroad, the last one being a six-month Erasmus programme exchange in Portugal. She collaborates with KICK.OFFICE since April 2022.

Riccardo Trimarchi graduated in Architecture Interior Design at Politecnico di Milano in 2021, with the thesis “Innestare la riconversione. L’edificio di via Ripamonti 42 come esempio del patrimonio terziario dismesso”, a project based on the recovery and transformation of an offices complex, bringing together functional and technological requirements with the insertion of new residential and third sector building types in Milan. He participated with Politecnico di Milano at the call POR FSE 2014-2020: Programmi integrati di innovazione sociale e welfare locale nei quartieri ERP di Milano, promoted by the Lombardy region. He collaborates with KICK.OFFICE since May 2022.