2021 - ongoing - RESEARCH
Fantastic MATERIALS
As the planet faces enormous challenges — from housing shortages to dwindling resources and environmental degradation — the motivations, actors, technologies, and speed of the search for smart, carbon-free, healthy, circular, durable and/or affordable materials are dramatically changing. Through a series of lectures and hands-on experiments, this seminar intends to introduce novel resources for architects, designers, engineers, and users to support a much needed paradigm shift in the way we design, build, and live.
2021 - RESEARCH
MycoBuilt
MycoBuilt represents a cross-disciplinary research collaboration leveraging the expertise of biologists, engineers, architects and economists from Cornell University and external industry partners to develop both new technologies and a new architectural language combining the specific qualities and potential of urban (construction) and rural (agricultural) waste streams with the incredible potential of fungal mycelium.
2013 - ongoing - RESEARCH
Building from Waste
This research tries to unfold the possibility of understanding waste as integral part of what we define as a resource. The metabolic thinking conceives of our built environment as an interim stage of material storage, or to say it in the words of Mitchel Joachim: “The future city makes no distinction between waste and supply”.