Léa is an architectural designer and creative researcher.
Specialising in exhibition design, design research and strategy, she developed a singular eye through experiences in architecture, set design, editing and story-telling with diverse influences.
She has experience in exhibitions, experiential design, fashion events in The Netherlands, Brazil, France for institutions such as SESC Pompeia, Sao Paolo. She earned a master’s degree cum laude in Architecture from the Delft University of Technology. Her work focuses on articulations between architecture, identities, story-telling, design and technology.
︎email
lea.alapini@gmail.com
She has experience in exhibitions, experiential design, fashion events in The Netherlands, Brazil, France for institutions such as SESC Pompeia, Sao Paolo. She earned a master’s degree cum laude in Architecture from the Delft University of Technology. Her work focuses on articulations between architecture, identities, story-telling, design and technology.
︎email
lea.alapini@gmail.com
church & slavery
year_ 2024
project_ Exhibition design
with_ Namelok.eu
The exhibition design is inspired by the relationship between slavery and modern-day waste distribution. Addressing contemporary waste requires tracing the dynamics of global trade and its toxic byproducts, which are deeply rooted in the history of slavery and colonialism. The exhibition’s material choices—wood chips, paper planks, and sprayed paper pulp—symbolize the degrading process from tree to waste.
year_ 2024
project_ Exhibition design
with_ Namelok.eu
The exhibition design is inspired by the relationship between slavery and modern-day waste distribution. Addressing contemporary waste requires tracing the dynamics of global trade and its toxic byproducts, which are deeply rooted in the history of slavery and colonialism. The exhibition’s material choices—wood chips, paper planks, and sprayed paper pulp—symbolize the degrading process from tree to waste.
parable of progress
year_ 2023
project_ Installation
with_ artist Pélagie Gbaguidi
This proposal is a temporary extension, portal, and entrance installed on the occasion of SESC Pompeia’s exhibition Parable of Progress in Sao Paulo. It was inaugurated on the occasion of the space’s anniversary. Head for the Belly Spirit has been made in collaboration with the artist Pélagie Gbaguidi. It displays an extensive series of large drawings on fabric made from 1999 to 2000. This 6 meters high intervention invites the visitor to enter a sacred space, weaving experiences of struggles from yesterday to today.
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year_ 2023
project_ Installation
with_ artist Pélagie Gbaguidi
This proposal is a temporary extension, portal, and entrance installed on the occasion of SESC Pompeia’s exhibition Parable of Progress in Sao Paulo. It was inaugurated on the occasion of the space’s anniversary. Head for the Belly Spirit has been made in collaboration with the artist Pélagie Gbaguidi. It displays an extensive series of large drawings on fabric made from 1999 to 2000. This 6 meters high intervention invites the visitor to enter a sacred space, weaving experiences of struggles from yesterday to today.
water in dense urban areas
year_ 2021
project_ Academia
The proposal comes together as a construct in which the building becomes a manifestation of the surrounding urban phenomena, as well as an active participant which reveals the larger system to which these particular surroundings form part of. The site is an intersection point where the last remaining waterway of the Rotte river intersects with the founding dam of Rotterdam. Water is displayed as a part of the urban history as well as an aspect which needs immediate attention.
year_ 2021
project_ Academia
The proposal comes together as a construct in which the building becomes a manifestation of the surrounding urban phenomena, as well as an active participant which reveals the larger system to which these particular surroundings form part of. The site is an intersection point where the last remaining waterway of the Rotte river intersects with the founding dam of Rotterdam. Water is displayed as a part of the urban history as well as an aspect which needs immediate attention.
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