UN/Necessarily Poetic Approaches to Basic

We understand the MUSEUM as a place of inspiration. This inviting building signals openness toward the community. Transparency and welcoming spaces create a gathering place where people connect. We propose a building that promotes interaction between people and art. The park, views, external spaces, and exhibition areas create a lively public and cultural gathering zone. Diversity is represented by upper-level exhibition rooms oriented in different directions like fingers reaching out. Unity is anchored in a central platform tying everything together. The building serves as an interface between park scale and urban fabric.

The Curtain Call is a temporary exhibition facade designed for the grand reveal of the Hongqi S9 hypercar within a post-industrial courtyard. The project translates sustainable luxury into a monumental second skin inspired by silk and Kirigami. A modular scaffolding structure supports recycled textile curtains draping over the existing roof, subtly imprinting the car’s illuminated silhouette. Beneath the canopy, a flexible threshold guides visitors through an interior landscape evoking Emilia-Romagna’s Motor Valley, seamlessly merging automotive innovation with ecological architecture.

Evacuated following progressive landslides in the 1960s and the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, the medieval settlement of Craco stands atop an unstable ridge of yellow clay ravines in Southern Italy. Operating under strict heritage and geological constraints—zero demolition, minimal excavation, and a 5m height limit—the project treats the ruin as a layered historic site. Independent, dry-assembled structural boxes nest inside compromised masonry shells without imposing loads, while translucent perforated meshes retrace missing volumetric profiles. A central gallery spine links a 700 m² public cultural center with dispersed trekker shelters and wellness suites.

Situated along Via Masaccio in Rome’s Flaminio district, the project establishes a spatial and ecological continuum with Zaha Hadid’s existing MAXXI campus. Resting on a reinforced concrete podium that liberates a covered public plaza at ground level, the upper volume employs a prefabricated 6x6m X-LAM (CLT) and glulam timber grid. An overhead technical ceiling matrix allows rapid reconfiguration of restoration laboratories, classrooms, and art storage depots. Enveloped by a ventilated double-skin facade with darkening louvers and indoor green corridors, the building connects to an “archipelago landscape” of seasonal gardens and hydroponic rooftop terraces fed by rainwater harvesting.

Developed within the Almada Poente Masterplan (PIA.09) on a sloped 16,780 m² site near Pragal Station, the 20,881 m² scheme proposes 180 affordable rental units above a 2,895 m² commercial ground plinth. Organized on a rigorous 6.30m structural concrete grid combining waffle slabs and seismic perimeter frames, three stepped volumes bridge the steep grade between Avenida Torrado da Silva and the eastern valley. A continuous vaulted arcade carves transverse pedestrian passages linking the street to naturalized courtyards, SUDS rainwater bioswales, and terraced playscapes.