The Indoor University

Humboldt did not think that a university was either a machine for producing professional persons or for tuning out scientific knowledge.Fundamental was the cultivation of the ideal of the pursuit of truth and… Read More

[In]formal Interchange

This infrastructure alleviates the environmental, transport and cultural bottleneck that currently occurs at Novo Rio Bus Terminal junction in Rio de Janeiro’s Portuaria region along the Via Perimetral facing the city’s coastline, acting… Read More

Marsh Condenser

An evolutionary infrastructure situated in the Essex estuary, restoring lost marshland ecologies through an environmental restorative park typology based on sediment collecting ‘follies’ bridging the dynamic flood cycles of the site and the… Read More

Envelopes

“The building volume – the envelope – is currently the most relevant element of architecture because it best expresses the link between technology, representation and politics.” Alejandro Zaera Polo. These studies explore envelopes… Read More

Material Conflicts

MATERIAL INTENSITIES : SG 2012 Troy @ RPI Skin[s]lab developed a typical central core tower to explore an array of traditional tower typologies. We analyzed the generated variations for their energy and structural… Read More

Cyber Gardens

BUILDING THE INVISIBLE : SG 11 Copenhagen @ CITA The project tests a design method centered on combining design with social sciences, ecology and cybernetics: the designer facilitates communication between digital systems and ecologic… Read More

Nissan Maquinarias

Competition entry to Nissan Maquinarias Call for Ideas for a new Showroom in Lima, Peru. The project extends the current facilities into a spiral ramp contained within a box. This leaves an inner… Read More

Urban Borders

Instant communication by means of a wireless network has overtaken all aspects of our everyday life. Any architectural attempt to represent these forces deals with the contradicting need to provide a permanent enclosure… Read More

Aeroponic Facade

Developed during my 2nd Year at the Architectural Association under Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu (HKU), the animation explores the use of a dynamic aeroponic membrane that acts as facade that showcase the… Read More

Cluster of Shields

Installation for the Pinchbeck Library, as part of the 60th Anniversary Celebration for Markham College. Taking the library as the centre of the school’s raison d’etre and being the oldest building in the… Read More

Dies Irae

The Mural represents the Day of Wrath (Dies Irae). No particular religious motif has been used and the anonimity of the figures, solely encompassing genders, invites interpretation to be at  the level of… Read More

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