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ARIANO IRPINO
AGRI-FOOD LEARNING CENTER
Launched in 2017, this competition invited to propose designs that could envision a new type of school while regenerating the city’s urban quality, sorely strained by the repeated seismic events during the twentieth century.
In this context, our proposal aimed to perform as a new urban platform at the intersection point between the steep topographic landscape of Ariano Irpino and the dense building fabric of its historic center. To do this, the new building was organized in a sectional scheme that reconstructed the morphologic continuity of the city while creating a expansive multi-sided courtyard, purposed to bring the school and the community in visual, functional and symbolic interaction.
FAIR PLAY,
GRAND TURK
Cruise tourism has been present for ten years on Grand Turk. The amount of visitors has surpassed by three times the yearly expected amount. In the meantime the success of numbers does not match the expectations of locals and government officials. Despite the thousands of visitors to the island, the historic town center district remains almost vacant, as few tourists are attracted to go or stay there longer than a few minutes.
This document aims to provide a framework of guidelines that should lead to a more resilient development of the island in relation to improving the social, economic and spatial integration of small and medium local entrepreneurs to the presence of (cruise) tourism in Grand Turk.
UNIVERSIDAD
DE LOS ANDES
MUSIC SCHOOL
As part of a consolidation process of its campus in the Historic Center of Bogota, Universidad de los Andes launched in 2017 a competition for a new music school. Our proposal for it, had two objectives in mind: the first was, of course, to respond to the very complex programmatic and technical requirements that this type of building requires. The second was to develop a new space for commons in the campus that would resolve, at the same time, all the intricate circulation trajectories needed though the very steep site.
CYPRUS NATIONAL MUSEUM
In 2016 an international architectural competition for the construction of the New Cyprus Museum was launched. Our proposal developed the idea of opening the experience of the museum to the one of living in the city. With this in mind, our design liberated the central axis of the plot to occupy it with a public pedestrian strip that would bind the center to the river.
In section, the building operates as a layered scheme in which the top and the bottom correspond to archiving, study and restoration of archaeological pieces. And the in between hosts the exhibit areas, the library and the restaurant which are assembled around the central street to showcase and invite a broader public to discover the results of the curatorial efforts.
QUERETARO UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
Extending over an area of 78,000m2, the new campus proposal is designed around the idea of an educational village integrating diverse institutions, specialty schools and research spaces, providing at multiple scales a system of relations to bring the individual and the collective spheres in interaction.
The organization of the campus is defined by an optimized series of parcels, within which two parts are defined: the building and the yard. Progressively, parcels add to the previous ones, distributing in time and impact the implementation of the landscape pieces of the campus.
PRAGUE SEVEN CITY HALL
Developed in the context of an international competition to redesign the Prague 7 District City Hall, our proposal aimed to create a holistic design that would provide a clear interior spatial system while informing the new facade.
Offsets in the envelope’s modules, which reflect both the prefabricated system and the current volume of the building, assured variations in tone and shadows throughout the day, while projecting a cohesive image of the whole. A simplification of the structure of the building resulted in a clear circulation system, which produced flexible space, easily adaptable to possible alterations to the program in time.
HOUSING VILLA 20
This project attempts to define an alternative organizational and functional matrix for social housing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Rather than replicating traditionally homogeneous schemes, where buildings respond to undifferentiated, repetitive, and alienating block strategies, we propose to break the limits of the urban block through a fragmentation of the program into smaller buildings, each with its own typological singularity, constituting a micro-urban system: a small village structured around a fluid and porous public space, qualified by a gradient of spatial conditions.
BUCARAMANGA
METROPOLITANA
In the context of the rapid growth Bucaramanga’s Metropolitan Area is undergoing, the office was commissioned to study alternative strategies for the development of the region.
Working against the ongoing process of undifferentiated sprawl, a new vision for disperse urbanization was proposed in three parts: (1) a computer-assisted analysis of the different layers that determine possible land-uses in the region; (2) a definition of alternative developments at the metropolitan scale, and (3) an urban reflection and schematic design for a prototypical project of 250has in the southwest of the metropolitan ring.
RESEARCH
RESEARCH
The laboratory has long been an important part of advancing research in the field of science. The term laboratory has come to connote a culture of research focused on observation, speculation, experimentation and production. Today, many domains belonging outside of the realm of science use the laboratory as a place with the greatest potential for theory and practice to coalesce.
The research herein can be divided into three main parts. The first part offers glimpses of the laboratory from its early conception, to its development and further to its use in fields outside of science... +More
PROTOCERAMICS
Protoceramics is an ongoing experiment geared towards producing novel material formations with a special interest in tectonic performance.
Conducted by the Material Processes and Systems (MaPS) group at Harvard University, the project investigates the latest generation of thin, large-format ceramic tiles, which presently are largely used as interior surface finish or exterior cladding.
The work pursues three different material manipulations – cutting, folding, and bending – and explores the inherent opportunities of these strategies towards the production of self-supporting assemblies. +More
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