Paolo Mercorillo

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Hi I'm Paolo! I am an architect and illustrator with international experience in Spain, Ireland, and Italy.

About

Hi I’m Paolo!
I am an architect and illustrator with international experience in Spain, Ireland, and Italy. Alongside my architectural career, I specialise in hand-drawn and coloured renderings for architectural and interior visualisation, transforming line drawings into vivid illustrations while adapting to different visual styles. My work spans watercolour, pencil, ink, digital illustrations, and narrative comic panels, with a focus on playful, engaging, and atmospheric spaces. Illustration is for me a way to spark imagination and bring architecture to life.

  • Joined August 2025

Industry experience

  • Real Estate & Construction
  • Professional Services
  • Education
  • Government

Projects · 1

This portfolio showcases a range of hand-drawn and digital architectural illustrations, highlighting my ability to transform sketches and line drawings into detailed, expressive visualisations. It includes: Linework to Colour Transformations – Demonstrating how base sketches evolve into vivid illustrations, capturing atmosphere and spatial clarity. Watercolour Renderings – Architectural landmarks and urban scenes rendered in pencil and watercolour, emphasising colour, light, and texture. Ink Sketches – Observational drawings of historic and contemporary architecture, exploring structure, shadow, and form. Narrative & Playful Spaces – Comic-style panels and illustrative storytelling, showing engagement with social and urban contexts. Interior Perspectives – Hand-drawn digital illustrations of exhibition and interior spaces, blending technical accuracy with expressive rendering. The portfolio reflects my dual expertise in architecture and illustration, my adaptability to different visual styles, and a focus on creating playful, engaging, and atmospheric spaces. Each piece is created to communicate spatial layouts, materiality, and mood clearly and compellingly.

  • Architect
  • Architectural Illustrator
  • Illustrator

Work experience· 5 roles

Design Architect · RBTA - Ricardo Bofill Taller de ArquitecturaAug 2024 – Mar 2025 · 8 mos

Contributed to design development and construction detailing of international projects including Al-Ula Collection Facility and UM6P Rabat. Coordinated with consultants and manufacturers to ensure technical compliance, updated Revit models and drawings, developed detailed façade and interior packages from concept to construction stage.

Design Architect · Henry J Lyons ArchitectsNov 2021 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Experience on large-scale residential and public-cultural projects, produced contract and construction documentation, design packages for landscape, façade, interior fit-out. Collaborated with international, multidisciplinary team.

Architect · de Blacam and Meagher ArchitectsJun 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos

orked on small- to medium-scale residential, commercial, conservation, and cultural public projects, contributed across all phases — concept design to construction documentation. Responsible for technical layouts, architectural schedules, planning submissions, site inspections, while coordinating closely with clients and consultants.

Architect · McCullough Mulvin ArchitectsJan 2018 – May 2018 · 5 mos
Junior Architect · OOIIO ArchitectureJan 2017 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr

Education

Master Degree in Architecture · School of Architecture of Syracuse, University of Catania2009 – 2017

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