Studio PRATER deals with integrated design at all scales, following every intervention from preliminarydesign to executive and shipbuilding implementation. The studio develops real estate development and urbanregeneration projects, providing architecture and engineering services with particular attention to the principles of environmental sustainability and the objectives of the European Green Deal. Studio PRATER integrates multidisciplinary skills to guarantee architectural coherence, technical-economic efficiency and coordination between public and private entities involved in the transformation processes. Over time, the studio has consolidated an approach capable of combining strategic vision and attention to detail, developingand managing design from the urban scale up to interior design.
Giovanni Zorzi is an architect with consolidated experience in architectural design, interior design and advanced use of BIM technologies. He completed his training at the Iuav in Venice and the University of Florence, where he graduated with honors in 2017. After an initial experience in Rome in the field of hotel design, he moved to Beijing, where he collaborated with important international studios, including Open Architecture. In 2022 he returned to Italy to expand his skills, successfully obtaining the Keen BIM XIV Master. Since 2024 he has joined Studio PRATER, where he deals in particular with hospitality and interior design projects.
Lorenzo Castelli trained at AAM in Mendrisio, Iuav in Venice and PUCV in Valparaíso. Since 2021 he has been a teaching collaborator in Architectural and Urban Design at Iuav, Venice. From 2022 to 2024 he coordinated the Research Platform, La Ciudad Abierta, a self-construction project carried out by Iuav students at Ciudad Abierta. Since 2025 he has been teaching assitant in Foundations of Architectural Composition at Roma Tre University. Since 2019 he has been a permanent part of Studio PRATER and deals with complex project management and works management with particular attention to restoration and adaptive reuse.
Carlo Castelli trained at the University of Rome La Sapienza where in 1988 he graduated with honors in architectural composition with an assisted healthcare residence project for the elderly. In 1990 he founded the studio PRATER and developed various environmental and landscape redevelopment projects, obtaining a diploma in the specialization course in landscape and environmental design at the Faculty of Architecture in 1995. Subsequently, he dealt with some urban redevelopment interventions in the suburbs and specialized in the topic of complex planning, obtaining the URBAM master’s degree in urban planning in public administration in 2011. It therefore develops various projects with commissions from public clients such as school buildings, parks and street furniture. He deals with and promotes various urban recovery programs in Rome Capital and is interested in the times of sustainability and energy efficiency by training at the Master in Bioarchitecture at Lumsa University in 2018. He specializes in the recovery of historic centers and real estate finance, obtaining an international ReUHREF Recovery of Urban Heritage and Real Estate Finance Heritage Edge Funds Master’s degree in 2021 at Roma Tre University and the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and in particular on complex procedures regarding interventions on cultural heritage. He designs various building regeneration and environmental redevelopment interventions specializing in the holistic approach to the complexity of urban transformation processes, and obtains the MCAU International Master Management de la Complexité Architecturale et Urbaine at Sapienza University of Rome and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris – Val de Seine in 2024. He continues his profession by coordinating the activity of Studio Prater in the development of complex urban redevelopment and building regeneration projects.
Dealing with urban stratification on a daily basis with the interpretative approach together with the tools of contemporaneity’s tools is in a continuous translation and reinterpretation of the signs of which the space is composed that becomes practical. The rapid evolution of the surroundings calls for a constant updating and search for new dialogues placing architecture as an interlude betweenthe sciences and artistic disciplines gathering the needs of places and people. Each project calls for a renewal of the relationship with matter, for the assembly of elements that are the limit for what isintangible. The constant attention of the environment and the planning with Nature aware of the temporary nature of the anthropic intervention, favoring the cycles and allowing the possibilities of change, building with time and its phases.