ASSEMBLEA. An Open Infrastructure for Humans, Animals, Pants and Insects.
Designed as an ecological infrastructure, the wall provides habitat for plants, insects, and animals. It is conceived as an “open project” that sets the foundation for other groups of students to expand and complete the perimeter of @giada.sociale, in the future.
TEMPIETTO R. Cork Oak Nursery for the Ramarro Association Caltagirone, Sicily, (under construction).
Tempietto R. is a nursery designed to be constructed with the exclusive use of roof battens in collaboration with architecture students to replace an existing greenhouse previously burned by arson. The structure follows the simple logic and proportion of a "temple" to celebrate the holy spirits of the "genius loci" impersonated by the volunteers of the Ramarro Association who are protecting the natural forest from criminal arsons.
The project was realized within the initiative "Bosco Colto", promoted by Marco Navarra as an architectural and landscape laboratory to explore innovative ways and practices to inhabit the territory surrounding the city of Caltagirone.
TRANSFORMING SPACE. Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
The participants of the CAS explore different categories of spatial knowledge, learn about new tools and technologies and can apply targeted strategies for designing, changing or mapping space to address complex spatial transformation projects professionally. Through a transformation of the working environment, artistic interventions, participation processes, and development of new services or entrepreneurial initiatives.
JERICHO ROSE.
Concept for Festspiele Zurich.
The Jericho Rose is an event concept strategy for the involvement of the public during the Festspiele Zurich. The project consists of mobile and modular grandstands which could host workshops and temporary stores underneath. The modules can be assembled and create an arena to host the public for concerts or theatre shows or used independently as urban types of furniture.
UDATEGIA.
Temporary Greenhouse Pavilion, Institute for Basque Architecture, San Sabastian, Spain.
Udategia, in basque, means the place where summer is produced and kept.
This temporary pavilion was built in two and half days of pandemia in December 2020, with the help of a small group of talented, dedicated young architects on the Institute of Basque Architects terrace for the Food Hack Lab. The Pavilion will “produce” the “summer” and its products via automated hydroponics.
ART AND SPACE. Study Program Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Space Design Education (BA/MA/PhD) at Zurich University of the Arts
ARTS and SPACE is a project commissioned by the Zurich University of the Arts to design a new study program that involves all five school departments (Music, Theater, Cultural Mediations and Design) involving a major-minor system, to educate a new form of space expert or a space agent that can activate space transformation through the arts, culture and design summarized in five actions.
The program is designed to interweave the existing study programs allowing the possibility to maximize the current curriculums and allowing students to customize their interdisciplinary profiles.
The project results from a two-year participation program with the faculty members of all five departments.
Below is an extract from "The Knowledge of the Form" published in "Art, Self & System", edited by Donatella Bernardi and Published by SternBerg Press in 2019.
JUNGFRAU PAVILION. Temporary Pavilion, Steffisburg, Switzerland.
The pavilion is conceived as an architectonic contribution to the iconographic tradition of the Jungfrau series initiated by Paul Klee, Arnold Böcklin, and Ferdinand Hodler and carried until today by many other artists.
LA CITTÁ LIBERA.
Off-Grid Participatory Design City Making.
La Città Libera is a performative installation that aims to explore participatory "off-grid neighbourship" architectural forms.
La Città Libera consists of a toolbox that stimulates the general public's imagination to develop participative self-sufficient urbanization. The toolbox contains 1:50 architectural elements to assemble a hypothetical housing concept to host eight people at "Swiss living standards".
THE LIVING ARCHIVE.
Strategic Design Workshop for the Activation of the Olivetti's Heritage. Officine ICO, Ivrea, Italy.
The workshop's goal was to develop a vision for strategic and sustainable development of the Olivetti Factories within the frame of the newly acknowledged UNESCO site of Ivrea Industrial City of the 20th Century through a participatory process involving local and international stakeholders. The workshop led to a roadmap defined as the "Living Archive": a vision that sees the territory as the tangible and intangible archive of the Olivetti's heritage.
EDIBLE EDEN.
Edible Eden is a piece made for the 100c Wastewater Bottle Art Exhibition, at K11 Design Store, Hong Kong. Artists and designer were asked to transform a Primvus mineral bottle water. Edible Eden use the bottle as a vase to grow a head of salad with homeopathic doses of human urines.
HESJE.
Temporary Pavilion. Participatory process with Kaspar's Center Asylum Seekers and Norwegian Theater Academy Scenography Students, Norway.
Hesje, in Norvegian, is a particular type of primitive structure still used today by fisherman to dry fish near the beach. Inspired by the simple and yet elegant archetypical frame of the Hasje, a pavilion was conceived, designed and constructed in the asylum seeker centre of Kaspar, Norway.
CAMPO LIBERO (The Innocent House). Off-Grid Pavilion for the Reactivation of Lands Confiscated from the Mafia.
Campo Libero (The Innocent House) is a mobile device for reactivating the lands confiscated from the mafia in the south of Italy. It is designed as an off-grid rural mobile pavilion for the Italian organization Libera, which mission is to promote legality by training volunteers, providing legal support and helping refugees working with no rights in the tomato fields.
FARM-X.
Vertical Urban Farm. Feasibility Study.
Farm-X is a modular vertical farm concept that shifts the historical dichotomy between production and food consumption. It grows up to 5t / day of fresh food in 1000 Sqm using specific hydroponic farming techniques in a fully controlled environment to maximize the productivity of leaf and fruit vegetables.
Farm-X is conceived as a device for the production of food and the city itself. Farm-X is a reactivation of abandoned warehouses plots. It is designed to operate as catalysts for urban reactivation, providing employment and exchange energy and services within any urban development complex.
T(h)UN.
A Shadow Line Pavilion.
T(h)un is the design of a shadow line conveyed on top of a thin wooden structure. It's light landscape furniture designed to host an open-air moment of social life, and it has been installed at EXPO 2012 in Milano.
BRICK OF MARSEILLES. Participatory, Landscaping Infrastructure, Marseilles, France.
Brick of Marseilles is designed to assemble dry walls that can function as ecological corridors and plug-in infrastructures such as arcades, benches, promenades, and picnic tables. The project is conceived as a participatory factory to disseminate artisanal skills and produce the brick needed to extend the factory itself.
HOTELLO.
Somnia et Labora. Portable Office / Hotel Room for Das Konzept.
Designed in collaboration with visual artist Roberto DeLuca for the swiss firm das Konzert, 'Hotello', the four sqm unit is conceived to temporarily inhabit the contemporary city's empty lofts.
HARVESTING STATION. Community Gardening Micro Pavilion.
The device has been designed to activate the interstitial spaces of the city – supermarkets, bus stops, playgrounds – and turns them into productive locations. It can grow up to 200 plants in four square meters by keeping them protected from animals and the city's polluted air. The greenhouse is conceived in a wood framework structure realized with basic timber laths and plexiglass.
HEDRON.
Fish From the Sky With Diamonds. Geodesic Hydroponic - Aquaponic Farm.
Hedron is an aquaponic rooftop greenhouse designed to redistribute the concentrated load to a broader surface allowing its installation on any flat rooftop. Its natural cooling system is designed to filter the polluted air by preventing exposure of the harvest to it. The greenhouse estimated to produce up to ten kilograms of fresh crops a day.
TRAMPOLINES.
Suite Hotel, Riccione, Italy.
The trampoline suite hotel is characterized by an architectural shell of over a thousand square meters entirely made of Dupont Corian.
UF01.
Aquaponic Rooftop Farm, Basel, Switzerland.
The Urban Farmers rooftop farm consists of a 400 square meters industrial installation in Basel, Switzerland, to grow fish and vegetables using aquaponics.
The aquaponic rooftop farm consists of a generic architecture approach, consisting of two pre-fab modules that correspond to the two main feature of the farming program: the greenhouse for the production of fish and vegetables and the containers for all the other activities.
IMPACT HUB ZURICH.
The Impact Hub is a co-working space, part of a worldwide network. The project consists of the interior design inside two iconic arches under the viaduct, fulfilling two different functional programs: co-working and events.
RIKEA.
Community Project, Flea Market Turin, Italy.
Microstructures for instant urbanization, Porta Palazzo's flea market square, Turin. [with Marco Lampugnani]
DREAMING WALL.
Public Installation, Milano, Italy.
A Vertical Public Space. The Wall is an Info Forum: the messages are generated in real-time by a chemical reaction between a computer-controlled UV laser projection and glowing panels. Its constant transience metaphorically suggests the subconsciousness of a city asleep.