Architectural Pipeline - Pipeline Architecture: An experiment into the role of topological graphs in the early stages of architectural design in the era of machine learning

The realm of architectural design and conceptualization, despite witnessing advancements in design complexity facilitated by technological tools and fabrication techniques, appears to have experienced limited transformative change over time in the way we begin our design process. But is there an alternative way to look at architecture ? Perhaps...

Tiber Waterscapes: Tracing, intercepting, nurturing urban water lines

In our effort to control it, water in our cities has progressively been confined between lines, canalised or culverted underground, resulting in its gradual isolation and erasure from our sight and collective imagination. As freshwater availability and water-related hazards are brought to the forefront of sustainable development goals, the long...

Continuing Rome

Rome is a city that has always been described as an eternal city. This eternal character can be found through the many traces that Rome contains of former states within its physical environment. When researching these traces, an interesting conclusion can be drawn; almost all physical elements have either fallen into decay or have continuously...

Re_Claiming Rome, Papal Arsenal: Tiberinus Brewery

This project seeks to reclame the Tiber for the City of Rome and in doing so will create a physical interface which blurs the boundaries between the river and land. The water of the river and a piece of the City's industrial heritage will be re_appropriated within this project for the creation of; a brewery, a performance venue, a social hub and...

Re_Claiming Rome: Mira Lanza: Framing the experience

In this project the theme of the studio "Reclaiming Rome" was interpreted with different research and design methods, which resulted in an elaborate design of not only architecture but the environment. One of the leitmotifs of the project was taking inspiration from historical evidence of Rome, implementing the arches of ancient Roman viaducts...

VERSO TEVERE: reconnecting Rome to the Tiber

On an old industrial site along the Tiber river, a extreme sport campus will reasteblish the interaction between city and river. By using inundation, the site will be activated and act as a entrance towards the Tiber.

Contested heritage, memory and metamorphoses: Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana

The Italian fashion brand Fendi moved their headquarters to the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in the end of 2015. This iconic building, also known as the square Colosseum, is not only famous for its frequent appearance in movies, but also as one of the most important examples of architecture during the Italian fascist regime. The building was...

Interstices of Farmland

Rehabilitation program for homeless people with temporary housing, a work/learn place in the accompanying urban farm, at a former brownfield location.

Condition of Temporary Modernities: The Roman Harbour

Egyptian sculptures from Imperial Rome: Non-destructive characterization of granitoid statues through macroscopic methodologies and in situ XRF analysis

Aegyptiaca-like Domitian’s obelisk is now decorating Bernini’s fountain on Piazza Navona or the Egyptian lions flanking Michelangelo’s stairs towards the Capitol figure prominently amidst Rome’s cultural heritage. Motivations for the import, contextualization, and copying of these objects during the Imperial Roman period are as heavily debated...

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Benefits of Enterprise Ontology in Governing Complex Enterprise Transformations

Enterprises increasingly execute complex transformations, such as mergers and splits, chain redesign, sharing and sourcing, and the rationalization of products, processes and applications. Its consequences are seldom sufficiently timely and completely discerned, while this is essential for governing such a transformation. Already in a small...

Rome Periphery

Research Booklet Studio Border Conditions

Soft edges, Hard edges: A spatial experiment on framing