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METAMORPHOSIS Ghost town refuge Time builds and marks thoughts. A regular geometric mesh rhythmically punctuates the complexity that defines Craco. Self-sufficient drones support the structure that hovers over the city and defines its fate. Long invisible wires are seen falling by this giant luminescent machine. Volumes that blend with the sky penetrate, without touching, the spacetime of the ruins of this ghost town. Inside the church, an elevator descends by a crack on the roof, allowing access to people. Here every single person becomes themselves the contact point between Craco’s body and soul, between the ruins and the flying machine. The voyage ends inside the complex structure of the machine. The project is conceived as a refuge over time, which becomes the new city: volumes are added to the machine while the ancient city becomes increasingly ephemeral. A new metropolis with the shape of Craco will be born: and the metamorphosis cycle repeats itself. Craco - Italy 2020
GREEN CULTURAL VILLAGE In the heart of Nørrebro A sustainable green oasis in balance with the inhabitants and green open spaces of the area merges the uniqueness of Union and Alice with the site. It is an invitation to fellowship and participation. Union and Alice become an agora in Nørrebro and the city, a public window open to different cultures and ways of thinking, a place for confrontation, collective growth, utopias, change. Copenhagen - Denmark 2020
SARI TREATMENT CENTERS WHO technical helpdesk In times of pandemic, the number of infected people can often exceed the capacity of the health facilities, as well as its resources in terms of staff, medicine, and personal protective equipment. Countries are dealing with this issue by rapidly building to receive patients, attaching temporary units or adapting already existing buildings. How can we contribute as architects when a health issue becomes a matter of design, planning and construction, but not only in terms of early response but of mitigations and preparedness? Worldwide 2020
NON-SCHOLAR LEARNING SPACES FOR ART & CRAFTS Graduation thesis AIA - 2nd prize “You’re missing the point. We don’t arrange things in an order (that’s the function of the utilities). Quite simply, we are facilitating the processes so that anything may happen.”John Cage interviewed by Daniel Charles, 1981. The main purpose of this research is to contribute, from the architectural discipline, to rethink the educational spaces destined to arts and crafts learning, oriented to the insertion of young people and adults in the labor market, considering how is the dialogue between the theories on learning, non-traditional pedagogical proposals and architectural spaces. Santa Fe - Argentina 2016-2018
VER PARA LEER IX BIAU - 3rd prize Seeing is reading. From twisting the “seeing is believing” proverb, a new concept for the town’s old library is born. A green lighthouse guiding people’s paths from the crowdness of the city into the stillness of the river. Contained in a patrimonial building located on a small gulch of the Paraná River, a strong vertical object emerges while visually appropriating its surrounding environment. No other element is developed in height in the area. This strong formal proposal is a lantern that captures the curiosity and the interest of the public providing them with new perspectives of the city. Rosario - Argentina 2015
GREEN-UP Trace the evolution of staircase design The stair is no longer an object, but a space. Its function would not only be to go up and down, but to stay, to be lived, to be part of people’s social interactions. This pure and simple stair becomes the cornerstone of the building and its whole interior spatiality, which is now contemplated and lived through it. Halfway there its core comes into sight. There staircase and ramp meet on a levitating platform, which is not the typical resting place escaping from the workplace; this level is a new and different indoor green space, surrounded by life and movement. The Netherlands 2016
DOME HOME Emergency response shelter DOME HOME is a compact portable housing device that guarantees shelter and basic living conditions in any natural environment, with the capacity to comfortably accommodate 6 people. This temporary shelter can adapt to all types of geographical and climatic conditions for any situation of natural disasters and other emergencies. It supplies itself with alternative energy and has in its interior a reserve of drinking water, a small box of basic tools and a first aid kit. Once fully deployed, it can be paired with another opened module, to combine in a safer and more solid morphological unit that optimizes its structural, thermal and energetic efficiency. Worldwide 2015
EROSION(A) (Wind + Space + Matter) * Time RedSur - 2nd prize Resignify wind and time as builders and givers of form, as they alter, arrange, displace, degrade over time. The wind plays a role as a modeling agent of space, where where erosion and sedimentation actions modify the architectural object, transforming it from the richness of its own indetermination. These operations, complemented by the raw material that composes the object, provide a condition of vulnerability and fragility, which only perish when the object has disappeared, when all that remains is its trace. A poetic reading of nature that respects and does not alter the laws that order the landscape. Worldwide 2015