The MAA is a visionary master program with an innovative and open structure, mixing diverse disciplines, shaping professionals capable of producing theoretical & practical solutions towards responsive cities, architecture & technology.
Portfolio Enhancer
Our portfolios are dynamic records that show not only our completed projects but also the changing methods styles and visual languages we use as designers and architects. However as visualization trends change—from stylized schematics to photorealistic renderings—our older images may begin to seem out of place. With the Portfolio Enhancer a proof-of-concept interface that uses … Read more
The Palace of Trash
This project reclaims abandoned silos in Rio de Janeiro as neighborhood-scale infrastructures for ecological justice. It builds a circular system where waste is not only recycled, but revalued through community collaboration. Organic and material waste become part of urban greening and pollination strategies, empowering catadores and youth as co-creators. Through reuse, education, and biodiversity enhancement, … Read more
ReGen.Ai
ReGen.Ai is a data-driven design project that reconnects fragmented urban green spaces in Bangalore through multifunctional green corridors, using AI tools to guide nature-based, regenerative urban transformation.
TENSH: From Trash To Tension
Reconfigurable Soft Tensile membrane for Set Design from Upcycled Fishing Nets
Càlid Terra
Project’s research explores how material behaviour—specifically heat transmission through clay—can inform architectural design. The goal is to generate thermally responsive environments that support the physiological needs of the human body through passive systems.
AIA25 – Theory / Living Codes
Architecture through the Semiotics of Biological and Artificial Intelligence
AQUA.NEST
AQUA.NEST: An AI-Powered Decision Support Toolbox for Adaptive Urban Design Using Nature-Based Solutions in Flood-Exposed Coastal Cities Coastal urban flooding is emerging as one of the most urgent climate challenges of our time. Without strong adaptation, annual flood damages could reach €930 billion globally by 2050, even with improved infrastructure (OECD, 2020). Rising sea levels and … Read more
Neo-textura
A metamorphosis from textile waste to circular furnishing systems Fast fashion generates over 92 million tonnes of textile waste per year, contributing to environmental pollution, while the construction industry is facing escalating costs and a massive carbon footprint.Raising the question of how post-consumer textile waste can be transformed into panels suitable for various interiors without … Read more
Predicting Microclimatic Comfort (UTCI) in Courtyard via Data-Driven Regression Models
Our team developed a simple, data-driven process that predicts courtyard thermal comfort in real time. Our method gives designers immediate feedback on how their decisions impact the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), a standard measure of outdoor comfort. In this post, we’ll take you through our approach, from dataset creation to deployment in Grasshopper, and … Read more
The Red String – Improvisational Machines
Course Overview: The MRAC01- WORKSHOP 3.2 course focuses on dynamic and improvisational workflows that are used on real-time control of Industrial Robots. Therefore in this course students learned how to use Industrial robots through experimentation of rapid trial and error, hands-on discovery, and real-time problem-solving .uring this workshop, students engaged in a series of exercises … Read more
ReVive_Second Life
Abstract As part of the New Narratives for Circularity seminar at IAAC, the TMDC site in Barcelona—scheduled for demolition—was selected as the project focus. The program offered the opportunity to redesign the site for housing, sports, or service use; housing was chosen as the proposed function. The seminar emphasized strategies for material reuse and carbon … Read more
The Echoes We Buried
Construction fractured an ecosystem, and listening began to heal it The Echoes We Buried is a speculative eco-fiction set in a fractured Barcelona, where construction noise disrupts not just human life but the deep, vibrating language of ecosystems. As species falter and signals blur, one person begins to listen—to the pressure, the silence, the unraveling. … Read more
