Francesca is an experienced designer and project manager with over 15 years of experience and a wide range of acoustic projects. She is collaborating with Studio Jouan as an external consultant since 2022.

Prior to establishing back in Italy to work as a freelance, Francesca was part of the Arup Acoustics team for about 14 years based in Glasgow (where she worked with Sebastien Jouan), Sydney, Amsterdam, Berlin, London and lately in the Milan office.

Before specialising in the acoustic field, she started her career as a civil engineer, working as an architectural and structural designer of various type of buildings, mainly residential and industrial.

Working in different countries and in contact with different cultures and approaches to design, she has gathered extensive international experience in acoustic design, mainly in building acoustics, through the design of different types of buildings, in particular performing arts with theatres and auditoria but also commercial and educational buildings, hotels and airports.

One of her main interests is the acoustic design of buildings in timber or mixed timber and concrete structures, as well as the prediction of noise generated by the interaction of wind with building facade elements, for which she has been involved in various research projects.

After facing different aspects of the design of a building and after working with both engineers specialised in various fields of engineering and architects with different visions and approaches to the design, Francesca is supportive of an integrated and holistic approach to the design and likes seeing the building as a result of this.