Projects - Architecture
Self-Organising Network Co-Oases
PROJECT NAME:
Artificial Urban Slope
LOCATION:
Jebel Hafeet, UAE
TUTORS:
Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero
DESCRIPTION
The project is located on Jebel Hafeet, the only mountain topography found in the UAE. The mountain is an important symbol of the country, but now it remains static. The challenge was to propose a rather more sustainable and ecological project for the mountain, which in fact is making the most use of the natural landscape, instead of destroying it completely.
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Self-Organising City
PROJECT NAME:
The Slope City
LOCATION:
UAE
TUTORS:
Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero
DESCRIPTION
The project’s aim is to create an interconnected city, situated in the transitional landscape in-between the desert and mountain environment, between the UAE and Oman. Thus, proposing a system of units which descends from the mountains into the desert areas and changes form to represent the type of topography that they are based on....
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The Nomadic Way of Life
PROJECT NAME:
Macro Climate & Bedouins Behaviour
LOCATION:
UAE
TUTORS:
Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero
DESCRIPTION
This research is a speculation on contemporary nomadic cities and self-organising trading hubs for the 21st century, as proposals for new models of urbanization. It focuses on new ecological urban and architectural design strategies and solutions for the systemic development of the region, roughly defined within the large triangular stretch of land between Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Liwa...
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NEW BABYLON RELOADED
PROJECT NAME:
LAYERING URBAN TOPOGRAPHIES: EVOLUTION OF THE ENDLESS
LOCATION:
UAE
TUTORS:
Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero
DESCRIPTION
This project seeks to redefine New Babylon in relation to contemporary, endlessly shifting desert environment in the UAE. The ultimate goal of the project is to create geometries as fluctuating as the dunes surrounding them, and to provide a passage of creative expression for its inhabitants.
SUPERBLOCK
PROJECT NAME:
COMPUTATIONAL ORGANIZATION: SUPER BLOCK PROJECT
LOCATION:
N/A
TUTOR:
Eugene Han
DESCRIPTION
This project is focusing on the manipulation of digital geometry using scripted techniques within a NURBS modelling environment, using Python for Rhino. Covering the basics behind the theory of computation and processing as a means to establish intelligent geometrical systems, the project’s aim is to generate a “Super Block“ with various spatial organizations on a plan level, hence, providing different types of units within the dwelling. The rather chaotic interior of the super block is combined with facade components allowing different openings and entrances to the building.
MECHANICAL LANDSCAPES
PROJECT NAME:
BEER ROLLERCOASTER
LOCATION:
N/A
TUTOR:
Alex Kaiser
DESCRIPTION
Whilst recognising the value of contemporary software, I argue that the lust for line is not dead, that a basic understanding of traditional drawing and painting methods can be fused with contemporary 3D packages to quickly and efficiently create new and innovative spatial ideas, sequences and large scale narratives. Ideas are siphoned through various software, techniques and projections - gradually aggregating into the final vision, though experimental brushwork, orthographic painting, 3D modelling, value sketching, and digital overlaying.
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