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Research WIP:
Analysis of urban drossscapes by 3d-scanned meshes into clusters of similar texture groups, using t-SNE (t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding).

And if the Urban were Small… Recasting the object of digital twin cities University of Zürich, 21 June 2022

in Future Urban Habitation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptions, and Deigns, 2022
Oliver Heckmann, ed.
ch. 18, pp. 415-428

Undergraduate studio, with Milagros Barchi.
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Fall 2021.
Swansea Docks, Wales UK.
This studio reconsiders the legacy of the linear city by instrumentalizing the linkage that it constructs between architectural form (in section) and urban ambition (in extension). The selected site at the Swansea docks prompts a re-thinking of cultural and infrastructural space in the contemporary urban condition, challenging the Linear City's typical modernist values of standardization and focusing instead on the potential for flexibility and heterogeneity within the type.

Student work:
1: Barbara Calvente, Elena Curdi, Antonella Grecco, Abril Mendez Cuellas
2-4 and cover: Mora Ludueña, Camila Belén Orlando, Victoria Scatamacchia, Priscilla Seggio
7-8: Micaela Days, Pilar Nuzzolesse, Martina Romano, Marco Trovato

Undergraduate seminar, with Melissa Pomsztein and Inés Verna.
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Fall 2020 & 2021.
Rio de Janeiro.
This seminar investigated the critical and projective impact of mapping on urban design over two, independent semesters and across four cities. Addressing the figurality of the landscape, projects on Rio de Janeiro tended toward the megastructural though considering the effect at the pedestrian scale as well.
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Student work:
1-2: Joaquin Dowdall, Mariono Mederos, Marco Pierdominici, & Pedro Rovasio
3-5 and cover: Juan Cruz Begino, Luis Fernando Davila, Juan Manuel Fernandes, & Dana Shocron (3rd image is a large .gif, may load slowly)
6-8: Josefina Lalor, Ian Giribaldi, Stefano Rossi, & Manuela Peña

Undergraduate seminar, with Melissa Pomsztein and Inés Verna.
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Fall 2020 & 2021.
São Paulo.
This seminar investigated the critical and projective impact of mapping on urban design over two, independent semesters and across four cities. São Paulo's field of hills preclude a single image, instead comprising a landscape of pedestrian-scaled moments.
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Student work:
1: Sofia Bentham, Maximiliano Groshaus, Santiago Diaz Lucero
2-5: Luciano Mortarotti, Julia Persic, Lucia Romanato, Milagros Ucha, Trinidad Urriste
6-11 and cover: Violeta Mastronardi, Carola Garione, Florencia Corna Hayes, Delfina Ameijeiras

Spectral Clustering of Urban Networks
Bangkok, 5-8 August 2020

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Birch plywood, Hardwood ironing board (salvaged)
Convertible WFH desk that conceals hardware behind work surface when not in use.
2021, 2.9 × .45 × 1.45m

Undergraduate studio.
Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2021.
Hoàn Kiếm Ancient Quarter, Hanoi Vietnam.
This studio explored the idea of urban privacy not as isolation but in immediate proximity with the flows of public life. As the city has developed, private life has been increasingly forced into the public domain, albeit without the support of built form. The tension between a project’s boundaries and the extension of its urban effects by limiting the scale to operations smaller than a building.

Student work:
1-3 and cover: Shirley Chen
1, 4-6: Rachel Lu
1, 7-9: Xindi Lyu
10-11: Grace Ji
12-13: Kwins Minghao Yang
14: Ammar Hassonjee
1,15: Jacob Moscowitz

Informal Regeneration by Swarm Intelligence
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 24-26 March 2021

NEWS: A'Design Silver Winner

5-Axis CNC cut 18mm Baltic Birch, Lasercut 1mm Aluminum
Furniture Installation for DMAnD Centre, Singapore
2019, 7 × 3 × 1.2m

Tool to write G-Code for 5-axis CNC-hotwire cutter directly from model space via Grasshopper
ghPython in Grasshopper for CUT-1600S
2019

Panel Discussion with Andrew Pringle Sattui
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 20 April, 2021

CNC cut 18mm OSB
Adaptation of residential apartment, Singapore
2019, 6.5 × 2.2 × 5.3m

Video translation from source to détournement:
Georges Peltier. Plan de Paris à vol d'oiseau Guy Debord: Guide psychogeographique de paris 2020, 44 s

Undergraduate studio, with Milagros Barchi.
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Fall 2020.
Uttara Model Town: Phase 3, Dhaka Bangladesh.
This studio responds to the eccentric growth of megacities worldwide and the displacement of transit nodes from civic centers to placeless, exurban outposts with a new typological form organized through a radical engagement with infrastructural elements—including a long-rumored high-speed rail connection to Kunming, Mandalay, and Kolkata—bundled to building systems.

Student work:
1-4, 14, and cover: Josefina Lalor, Malena Mac Donnell, Stefano Rossi, Trinidad Urriste
5-6: Ian Giribaldi, Federico Lacal, Florencio Olmos, Abril Pavia
7-8: Milagros de Castro, Susana Meta, Delfina Zanelli
9-11: Mia Morrone, Josefina Zen, Pedro Meszaros, Francisco Verni
12-13: Florencia Lostri, Macarena Rey, Valetina Vendramin

in Architecture Is All Over, 2017.
Esther Choi, Marrikka Trotter eds.
pp. 204-214

Undergraduate studio
Singapore University of Technology and Design, Summer 2019.
Guangzhou, CN.
Working within a set of urban villages on Hiazhu island—informal settlements without a central planning strategy, characterized by continuous transformation and direct intervention—the studio explored ways of operating alongside the existing urban metabolism through time-based, adaptive, and generative design methods in contrast to static, comprehensive masterplans. The students worked primarily through agent-based modeling and generative video animations (using Grasshopper/ghPython) to identify locations for tactical interventions into the existing fabric. These interventions were scoped to emphasize their contingency on the existing urban fabric.

Student work:
1-3: Lim Cheng Sin Ariel
4-7 and cover: Chia Sheng Wei
8-11: Kady Ho Wei Na and Ong Jie Min
12: Ian Soon Wen and Ng Jian Yi Mervin
13-15: Choo Ee Pin

White Space: Singapore Pavilion, Cities Exhibition (Curators: Chong Keng Hua & Calvin Chua)
Immanent Commons 공유도시, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017 (Curators: Hyungmin Pai & Alejandro Zera-Polo)
2017, 105 × 205 cm

PhD Thesis, EPFL
Advisor: Jeffrey Huang, Jury: Mario Carpo, Ciro Najle, Laurent Stalder
200pp, 2017

Full-scale installation
4mm MDF, 1.2mm and .6mm Chipboard, 250m String
2016, 235 × 170 × 73 cm

Bathymetry: Great Lakes
Watercolor Paper, Uderwood Elliott Fisher book typewriter.
2015, 38 × 63 cm

analysis of Santa Maria dei Sette Dolori

Exhibition at SUTD, Singapore
2015, 20 × 18× 1.8m, 50× displays

Realization by Immanuel Koh
Environmental graphics by &larry
Photos by Marc Tan

Bathymetry: Iceland
Watercolor Paper, Uderwood Elliott Fisher book typewriter.
2015, 38 × 56 cm

1:1 mockup of half of the design
4-ply Museum Board, 1000 Plastic Fasteners
2014, 100 × 100 × 150 cm

Small pavilion model, Zürich
2013, 60 × 45 × 45cm, 1:6.6

in Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else, 2010. Esther Choi, Marrikka Trotter eds. pp. 138-151

Competition, Montpellier
2013

Topography: Lausanne, Switzerland.
Watercolor Paper, Uderwood Elliott Fisher book typewriter.
2014, 40 × 42 cm

Elevator Chain, Master locks; Milwaukee
2005, ~50m

Bristol paper, Aquarelle 2013, 30 × 42mm (A3), Series of three.

Bristol paper, lasercut.
Begun 2013. Various dimensions.

Punctual Urban Redevelopment in Informal Urban Contexts
MIT, 2-4 November2017

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Bristol paper, Basil, Pepper, and Parsley plants; Lausanne
2012, 84 × 119 × 10cm

Bristol paper, lasercut; Animation begun 2012

Group exhibition in coordination with Rooftop Day, Lausanne With Paul J. Lorenz and Xinran Yuan. Includes antSyMap, 2014 and a new piece in the form of a Topographic Screenwall, 2015, 300 × 220 × 25 cm

Bristol paper, Mint plants; Beijing
2012, ~25 × 18 × 12cm (×3)

Bristol paper, lasercut.
Begun 2011. Various dimensions.