An exhibition that addresses Cold War–era tank barriers as relics whose original defensive function has collapsed. Through symbolic and mediatic exposure, these structures re-emerge as historical, symbolic, and cognitive conditions embedded in the everyday landscape.

Tabula Insomnia is a series of original works that exposes a condition of persistence and wakefulness through material accumulation and repetition.

A series of original works in which material accumulation and gesture operate as a field of exposure.
The drawings function as direct records of action, matter, and repetition.

Corpus Terrae is a unique artist’s book composed of drawings that expose the earth as an unstable, stratified, and unknowable body. Through material accretion, erosion, and gesture, the work reveals drawing as a site where matter, perception, and introspection collide without resolution.

Assemblea is an open ecological infrastructure conceived as a shared habitat for humans, plants, insects, and animals. The project operates as an open-ended spatial device that mediates ecological relations and activates collective processes of care and construction over time.

Inclusive Design is an exhibition presented at Milano Design Week 2023, developed as an architectural prosthesis. By hacking existing Swiss products, the exhibition showcases research and development on inclusive design strategies and assistive technologies.

Tempietto R. is a nursery designed to be built exclusively using roof battens, developed with architecture students to replace a greenhouse previously destroyed by arson.
Conceived according to the simple proportions of a “temple,” the structure celebrates the genius loci embodied by the volunteers of the Ramarro Association, who protect the cork oak forest from criminal fires.
The project was developed within Bosco Colto, an architectural and landscape laboratory promoted by Marco Navarra in the territory surrounding Caltagirone.

A spatial installation that brings the conflict of urban densification into visibility. Processes of demolition and replacement are exposed through displaced architectural elements.

Opera Aperta is an installation designed together with Beatrice Fontana and Frank Dittmann, reflecting on the Baugespanne, a distinctive tool of the Swiss building process used to visualize architectural volumes prior to construction. By decontextualizing and stripping the Baugespanne of its original function, the installation reveals its sculptural potential, occupying and reconfiguring the exhibition spaces of Palazzo Miccichè.

Tabula Incerta is a series of original works conceived as exposed conditions of indeterminacy rather than representations.

In più d’ora is a collection of seven drinks that trace a journey through memory “to the end of the night,” borrowing a paraphrase from the title of Céline’s novel.
Composed and matured between 2019 and 2023, the drinks accompany a passage through a difficult period and are rooted in the peripheral landscape where the author’s studio is located. Each drink is named after a song, inspired by the taste and the situation each potion aims to evoke.
The recipes follow simple steps and allow for interpretative variations, including professional ones, while remaining conceived for domestic, informal, and open environments.

Tabula Scripta is a series of original works that exposes drawing as a form of inscription, where marks operate as traces rather than images.

The Innocent Chair (and Other Stories) is an installation and a book of instructions that reflects on design as a form of knowledge rather than product-making, imagining humble devices as tools for ethical, social, and spatial transformation.

An installation composed of ropes, suspended chairs, and projected shadows.
Light and gravity articulate a spatial condition in which objects appear as relational bodies.

An advanced educational program focused on spatial transformation as an operative practice.
The course activates spatial thinking through design, artistic experimentation, and applied strategies.

No to War Drawings is a series of 20 original drawings produced in 2022 for a fundraising auction of architectural drawings in support of humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
The works were presented during a public auction held in Zurich on April 30, 2022, bringing together architects, designers, artists, and photographers in a collective gesture of solidarity.

A design tool conceived to structure and transfer knowledge during collective design processes.
The canvas operates as a shared spatial framework to align goals, actions, and temporal sequences.

Jericho Rose is an event concept developed to involve the public during the Festspiele Zurich.
The project consists of mobile and modular grandstands that can be assembled into an arena for performances or used independently as urban furniture, hosting workshops and temporary programs beneath.

A temporary pavilion conceived as a device for cultivation, climate control, and collective use. The structure activates growth as a spatial and social condition.

Digital Walden is an educational and experimental spatial project that translates the literary archetype of Walden into a contemporary reflection on digital labor, autonomy, and resilience. Through the transfer of construction knowledge across contexts and the activation of hands-on building practices, the project exposes the conditions of work and independence in the “digital forest” of our time.

Tenun Ikat Sikka is a fashion booth conceived as an exhibition and scenographic device to store, transport, and showcase Ikat textiles from Sikka in multiple locations.
The project supports the association Tenun Ikat Sikka, which protects the practice, knowledge, and intellectual rights of the Ikat technique from Sikka, recently acknowledged as a Geographical Indication (GI) in Indonesia.

Le Confessioni di Cagliostro is a notebook-based contribution reflecting on creativity as a tool for social change and on the culture of sharing and giving.
The work is part of the Moleskine Foundation Collection, which gathers notebooks created by authors and thinkers and donated to the Foundation in support of its cultural and social activities.

A set of mobile kitchen devices built through the assembly of as-found materials.
Food operates as a spatial and cultural interface to activate temporary forms of neighbourhood and exchange.

Paesaggi Postumi is a series of 18 original drawings produced in 2019.
The works explore posthumous landscapes through material accumulation and layered mark-making.

An institutional project that reconfigures arts education as a device for spatial agency. The program activates new forms of spatial practice by interweaving existing disciplines, curricula, and infrastructures.

La Città Libera is a performative installation that explores participatory architectural forms of “off-grid neighbourship”. The project consists of a toolbox designed to stimulate the public imagination toward participatory and self-sufficient urbanization. The toolbox includes 1:50 scale architectural elements used to assemble a hypothetical housing concept hosting eight people according to “Swiss living standards”.

The Jungfrau Pavilion is conceived as an architectural contribution to the iconographic tradition of the Jungfrau, initiated by Paul Klee, Arnold Böcklin, and Ferdinand Hodler, and continued by many artists to this day.

A participatory workshop conceived to operate on heritage as a living condition.
The project frames the territory as an active archive, enabling the transfer of knowledge across places, practices, and generations.

HIC ET NUNC (Here and Now, in Latin) defines a design attitude grounded in immediate, situated action within fragile contexts. HIC ET NUNC III, developed with the Zurich University of the Arts and AOZ Zurich, focused on mediating practical and ethical knowledge to activate semi-private and protected spaces within an asylum seekers camp.

Cosenza Selva Oscura is a landscape installation developed within the Landworks Calabria workshop series, conceived for the reactivation of the historical center of Cosenza.
The project is based on the participatory involvement of international architecture and landscape students and local inhabitants to upgrade a degraded public square through a temporary spatial intervention.

Edible Eden is a small-scale installation developed for the 100c Wastewater Bottle Art Exhibition at K11 Design Store in Hong Kong. Using a mineral water bottle as a hydroponic vessel nourished with diluted human urine, the project exposes hidden nutrient cycles, mediates alternative forms of knowledge transfer, and activates a radical reflection on consumption, branding, and fertility.

Hesje is a temporary pavilion developed through a participatory design–build process in an asylum seekers centre in Norway. By translating a vernacular fishing structure into a collective construction, the project mediates the transmission of cultural and constructive knowledge and activates a shared space for gathering and celebration.

HIC ET NUNC (Here and Now) defines a design attitude focused on immediate, situated action.
HIC ET NUNC I is the first workshop of a series developed with the Zurich University of the Arts and AOZ Zurich, in which students activated small-scale spatial interventions to improve everyday life in an asylum seekers camp.

HIC ET NUNC (Here and Now, in Latin) defines a design attitude grounded in situated action under constraint. HIC ET NUNC II, developed with the Zurich University of the Arts and AOZ Zurich, mediated the transfer of practical and ethical knowledge required to enter, read, and act within an asylum seekers camp through small, realizable interventions.

How to: Easy Hydroponics is an instruction manual commissioned by the United Nations World Food Program to promote accessible hydroponic farming practices in South American favelas.
Designed to support bottom-up food production, the manual translates hydroponic techniques into simple, low-cost instructions adaptable to informal urban contexts.

Campo Libero (The Innocent House) is a mobile off-grid pavilion designed to reactivate agricultural lands confiscated from the mafia in southern Italy. Conceived for the organization Libera, the project exposes the hidden conditions of illegal exploitation and activates concrete forms of use, training, and occupation through spatial presence.

T(h)UN is a lightweight landscape pavilion designed around the projection of a shadow line onto a thin wooden structure. Conceived as outdoor furniture for informal social use, the installation translates a specific landscape feature into a spatial and perceptual experience.

Altari Umili is a street food furniture project developed for the common areas of Milano EXPO 2015.
It operates as an epistemic activation of lay food rituals, celebrating the shared spirituality of food production and convivial consumption.

Farm-X is a modular vertical urban farm concept that displaces the historical separation between food production and consumption. By bringing large-scale food production back into the city, the project exposes the infrastructural implications of urban agriculture and activates abandoned industrial sites as productive, social, and energetic systems.

Orto Perpetuo is a reflection on the colors and textures of vegetable gardens translated into a contemporary domestic environment. It is an indoor edible garden that brings the countryside into the home through out-of-soil cultivation methods and artificial light, adapting food production to the scale and constraints of urban living.

ELIOOO is an instruction manual that transforms an affordable IKEA product into a domestic hydroponic device, enabling users to grow food at home. By doing so, the project displaces conventional production and distribution models, exposes hidden supply chains, mediates technical knowledge through design, and activates users as manufacturers of an idea.

Brick of Marseilles is a participatory landscape project that develops a constructive system for dry walls functioning as ecological corridors and plug-in public infrastructures. Through the transfer of artisanal knowledge and on-site prototyping, the project translates territorial conditions into an operable system that activates inhabitants and students as builders of their environment.

Hotello is a portable living–working unit designed to temporarily inhabit vacant interiors of the contemporary city. Conceived as a minimal and reversible spatial device, it enables the temporary occupation of empty lofts by condensing work and rest into a compact, deployable structure.

Harvesting Station is an urban device designed to activate interstitial spaces of the city by transforming them into protected sites of food production. By addressing pollution, accessibility, and scale, the project exposes the constraints of urban agriculture and activates micro-infrastructures for collective cultivation.

An aquaponic farming system installed on an industrial rooftop. Greenhouses and container-based infrastructures are displaced from the ground and reassembled as urban architecture.

TANTOOO is a fairytale beanbag conceived as a place to read and write fairytales.

An architectural project structured through the separation of distribution and form.
The facade becomes the primary architectural device.

Readykea is an exhibition design project developed for Revolution to Smash Global Capitalism at Cabaret Voltaire Zurich.
By hacking IKEA’s customer satisfaction policy, the project achieved a zero-cost and zero-waste exhibition scenography, using temporarily assembled IKEA components that were returned after the exhibition.

Hedron is a geodesic aquaponic rooftop greenhouse designed to relocate food production onto generic flat roofs. By redistributing structural loads and integrating closed-loop farming systems, the project displaces agriculture into the vertical dimension of the city, exposes the constraints of rooftop cultivation, and activates buildings as productive infrastructures.

Malthus is an in-home aquaponics unit conceived for the next-generation kitchen or living room.
The system produces one meal per day—a portion of fish and a side salad—by combining fish farming and vegetable cultivation in a closed-loop symbiotic ecosystem. Designed using components commonly available in DIY stores, the project reflects on domestic food production, self-sufficiency, and everyday environmental practices.

A visual calendar that registers night as a measurable temporal condition. Darkness, language, and duration are exposed through a continuous graphic field.

The Impact Hub Zurich is a co-working space and part of a worldwide network. The project consists of the interior design of two iconic arches under a viaduct, accommodating two distinct programs: co-working and events.

A collection of everyday objects produced by dismantling and reassembling a printed magazine. The project displaces editorial content into material practice, exposing new forms of circulation, value, and use.

Just Undo It is a collection of everyday objects generated by folding a hoodie.
The project reflects on design as a form of information and narrative capable of transforming what already exists, proposing a “product less” rather than a “product more”.