Makan Caleido
Restaurant in Madrid, Torre Caleido


Makan is a refurbishment for a Lebanese restaurant at the intersection of modern and traditional lifestyle. At Torre Caleido, you will find an atmosphere of food and architecture to temporarily transport you to Lebanon. This exercise presents the nobility of raw materials to create a warm environment, with a tiled floor to create the aesthetics of traditional Lebanese restaurants.


Y-Chair
Hybrid Formations, Harvard


The Y-Chair is an exercise of innovation in the field of fabrication, structural engineer and performance. It shifts the fixed understanding of furniture behavior towards a flexible interpretation of it, making the chair adaptable, space efficient, and playful.



Makan Velázquez
Refurbishment in Madrid, Velázquez 118


Makan is a refurbishment for a Lebanese restaurant at the intersection of modern and traditional lifestyle. At Calle Velázquez 118, you will find an atmosphere of food and architecture to temporarily transport you to Lebanon. This exercise presents the nobility of raw materials to create a warm environment, with a tiled floor to create the aesthetics of traditional Lebanese restaurants.


Act_tlantis
an MIT Island


Given the opportunity to create a water structure in the Charles River, we are able to explore the possibilities of inhabiting the water at the same time that to provide spaces that inspire others. For it, a nomadic, semi-autonomous, floating island is created; a new piece of land that will serve the needs of the area.



Hypnos
Circadian programming


Hypnos is a wellness wearable device to tune the circadian rhythm of the body to be more productive while working, to reduce levels of stress, and to help in your resting times. For this, it uses different color frequencies to which the human body reacts in the natural environment.


Private Campus 
Office Space, Salzburg


The aim of the planned urban development intervention is to sensitively supplement the existing structures and to design a campus that is equally efficient and flexibility distinguishes itself and, with all due respect for the structural conditions, stands out through bold, modern architecture.


Private Housing
Housing, Salzburg


When different individuals live in close proximity under the same company vision, how housing is approached is a key factor for an efficient team. The conception of both, private and common areas that favor a permanent exchange is essential.


Mediterranean Glamping
Málaga, Spain


The intervention consists of a tourist accommodation complex with didactic purposes linked to the sustainability of resources and agricultural production methods. The needs and preferences of camping users have undergone transformations in recent years, giving rise to the appearance of "Glamping" or quality camping. This project aims to go one step further, combining Glamping with "Agro-tourism."  



Smart Regional
Alcañiz, Spain


Smart-Regional is a series of proposals to reactivate rural territories in Spain. This is done by reactivating abandoned railway infrastructure. Some of these railways were deactivated due to management shifts, underuse, or prioritizing development in other regions. This trend has contributed to the depopulation of rural Spain, a trend that Smart Regional aims to shift.  


Terraceo Madrileño
Public Space, Madrid 


We propose a series of spaces endowed with inventions that make them capable of hosting temporary activities. In them, nourished by the micro-brewery, every month different traditional bars of Madrid will provide services. It will be a place where leisure is mixed with history, where the consumer gets an intellectual value that will be remembered based on an experience.


United Rooms
School, Los Bates


United Rooms invites to break paradigms of enclosed classrooms and standardized education programs to adapt to the 21st-century citizen with holistic principles of innovation, collaboration, and integration. It does it by establishing a homogeneous network of classes that distributes equally under an agora, leaving the core path as a common playground for exploration where students from different ages and genders can collaborate and educate themselves in the disciplines that most interests them.


Floating Art
Hangzhou Museum, China


An alternative construction method that allows the regeneration and recovery of as much of the wetlands as posible and offer a program which matches with the ecological value of the place to slow down the city growing in that area.




Offshore Towers
New York Masterplan, USA


Offshore Towers is a masterplan to adopt the growing technological industry of New York while increasing the logistics and resiliency of the future Lower Manhattan. The incoming FAANG technology giants to the city, namely Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, are leading the technology hub being created in New York, however, this trend have brought concerns of gentrification and lack of contribution towards the existing community.


Masterplan
Undisclosed


Our urban intervention is to pay respect to the site by restricting development to one corner and allowing the other to be preserved for desert wilderness. The experience of the lake is amplified through a light and water show in which it will be anchored by an iconic themed boutique hotel on the existing island.


Arcadia Cloud
Yilong Masterplan, China


Arcadia Cloud studies a social, territorial, and resource based urbanism that contextualizes its planning within the parameters of the Yilong Futuristic City site. This proposal serves as the platform to experiment with the meta urbanism occurring in the Chinese countryside.





Erosion Based Urbanism
Tarawa, Kiribati 


Erosion Urbanism presents an alternative urban planning to grow the atolls islands, thus increase the habitability of Kiribati. This is done through a common understanding between our living and natural environment. In this sense, landscape design is set to regenerate the ecosystem services provided by coral reefs and mangrove forests, reinforcing the existing atoll and even generating new land.


Regenerator
Hangzhou Masterplan, China


Alternative construction system that is organized and distributed like cells throughout the city. Such cells are elevated above the ground, to make way for the recovery of the wetlands. The cells should be translucent and permeable, without disrupting the natural cycles of the sun, air and water, which allow the natural regeneration of any ecosystem.


Mediterranean Metropolis
LAIA Lab, Barcelona


Some of the most demanded coastal cities are running out of space, something that emphasizes with the commonly mountainous topography that surrounds them. Mediterranean Metropolis introduces an alternative technique to land filling that –using over 40 times less material volume– enables the possibility of constructing (re)claimed land in more places around the globe.


Pedestrian Loop
Stadium, Madrid


This proposal consists in a design which takes into account the relevance of the site for the runner. It describes a jogging track taking into account alternative applications relating sports and culture. The track could be used for speed races, marathons, bicycle races, etc.


20 Gradas Bajo Cero
Public Space, Madrid


Shift from built architecture to landscape intervention due to the dimensions necessary for soccer training, generating a project based on the mixture of public and private spaces. In this sense, the landscape is architecture and vice-versa.





Lower Dream State explores the development patterns, construction methods, and resiliency strategies already in place, to understand the impacts of urban -and tourism- related growth. Seeking a systems approach, we documented the interconnected relationships of people and places.


Sovereignty on Stilts
Social Impact, Tropical Belt


Sovereignty on Stilts shows how the displacement of native communities in Latin-American Pacific coasts has occurred for centuries – from the Atlantic Slave Trade to the current commercial pressures. Coastal vernacular culture, rich in solutions for challenges of sustainability and resiliency, is hindered from reaching international acclaim by its poorly representation in the public media.


Symbiotic Infrastructures
Resilient Masterplan, Manila


Symbiotic Infrastructures proposes to use the void spaces left by the projected infrastructures worldwide to amplify its use range in emerging cities along the tropical belt. In this sense, the infrastructure will not only be used as such, but it will also provide public spaces, production areas, commercial areas, and housing to the inhabitants of the city where is proposed.  



Landboxes
LAIA Lab


Landboxes is a modular, cast in-situ, water-based infrastructure designed as a plug-in system for coastal developments. This infrastructure aims to reduce the social pressure and ecological impacts that occur in and near urban nodes. Landboxes are novel land reclamation techniques that enables land formations to emerge faster, more economically, and more in tune with the environment.



Allometric Sake
Harvard


The relentless growth of cities urges for solutions that relate to the improvement of levels of comfort in confined spaces. Informal communities, being directly affected by the lack of space, are an intriguing object of study. With constraints on cost and feasibility, we believe the population will greatly benefit from a passively powered space-conditioning system.



Informational Laboratory
Shibuya, Tokyo


Informational Laboratory proposes a new scenario for Architectural exploration, where the biggest challenge is to provide transparent information for citizens around the world, forecasting it's consequences on our settlements. In here the information is collected, filtered and provided to the citizens. Some possible reactions are represented with urban interventions.



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