Invisible Architecture
Invisible Architecture, published last March by Silvana, is a volume created as a catalogue for the same-name exhibition, which took place last winter in Rome at the Bilotti Museum in Villa Borghese. Nevertheless it was further developed from being mer …
Tuscanyness
Today the Italian architecture scene is getting dramatic: decline of suburbs, abandoned buildings, property speculation; in this context the architects are no longer a cultural landmark and a lot of young architects have to emigrate abroad. Indeed, man …
Louvre Abu Dhabi
“Louvre Abu Dhabi will open in two months. After several years of studies and construction, guests will be able to enter this place of light, this revelatory meeting place of a number of planetary cultures beyond the seas and centuries. It is an archit …
Urban Rigger
Recent years have demonstrated a substantial and sustained increase in the number of student applicants throughout Denmark. As the number of students continues to grow, additional student housing will be needed to accommodate them. There are few strate …
Momofuku Ando Centre
We wanted to place an architecture that is like a long stick. To be precise, a single, long, and ‘free‘ roof in the forest under which various activities – exercise, studying, eating, sleeping – are conducted. Box confines people to the closed space, b …
Elderly Person‘ Residence
Located in Cascais, in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, the Social Complex of Alcabideche with a total construction area of approximately 10,000 sqm aims to reconstitute a Mediterranean life style in which the outdoor spaces of streets, plazas and gard …
New dwelling house for students
The new dwelling house for students is placed in the same plot as the University of Architecture (ETSAV), in a low density residential area in Sant Cugat del Vallès. The competition, organized by the ETSAV and the UPC, considered three ambitious chall …
Meeting Centre in Grândola
Designed by Aires Mateus, Grândola’s new meeting center in Portugal is a pure volume, scratched only by some geometric and sculptural openings, forms derived from the context of the Portuguese city. photo by Nelson Garrido www.ngphoto.com.pt The contex …
Kitasenzoku Apartment
“As you find in Silicon Valley of the United States, I would like to produce a model case near Tokyo Institute of Technology, creating and developing a synergistic cycle for this university, companies and the neighboring towns.“ This wish of a client w …
Serpentine Pavilion 2017
The proposed design for the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion is conceived as a micro cosmos – a community structure within Kensington Gardens that fuses cultural references of my home country Burkina Faso with experimental construction techniques. My experienc …