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.
Bedrock
Prefabricated Slabs Embedding Structure and Finish Through Stress-Driven Geometry and Waste Aggregate Distribution This thesis challenges the conventional separation of structure and finish in floor systems, typically resolved through multilayer assemblies that increase thickness, material redundancy, and construction complexity. While such systems allow formal and technical flexibility, they externalize performance into discrete layers rather than … Read more
GranuLith
Reassembling matter. Rethinking structures. The construction industry generates billions of tones of construction and demolition waste every year, yet most of this material remains excluded from structural applications due to its irregularity, unpredictability, and incompatibility with conventional building systems. Granulith investigates an alternative approach, asking whether demolition waste can be transformed from a discarded by-product … Read more
ruins reversed
a methodology integrating artificial intelligence, geometry, structure, material, and assembly for heritage restoration. Historic buildings around the world are disappearing due to conflict, climate change, material degradation, urbanisation, and limited resources available for conservation. While digital documentation technologies have rapidly evolved over the past decade, restoration itself remains a fragmented process requiring specialists from multiple … Read more
Living Fibers: Robotic Needle Felting as an Architectural Construction System
MAA/MRAC Studio Term 3 — 2025/2026 | Robotics for Ecological Building When you think of wool, construction probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But wool has a longer history as a building material than most people realize, and it carries inherent properties that make it genuinely compelling for architecture: moisture regulation, thermal … Read more
Non-Standard Circularity
A Digital Fabrication Pipeline for Upcycling Reclaimed Timber into Low Rise Vernacular housing The construction industry remains locked in a linear model of consumption that relies on virgin materials, often ignoring the structural potential of irregular reclaimed timber. “Non-standard circularity” challenges this rigidity by proposing a computational workflow that embraces material heterogeneity as a design … Read more
casting the in-between
Dynamic Casting of Functionally-Graded Geopolymers Using Urban Excavation Waste Thesis Abstract It is estimated that in the next 15 years, the world will generate over 3 billion tonnes of waste; in the European Union alone, 35% originates from the construction sector due to demolition, excavation, and dredging (“28 Incredible Statistics About Waste Generation,” 2021). These … Read more
Urban Dustprints
Urban Dustprints investigates how spontaneous vegetation reveals hidden ecological conditions within urban voids. Through field observation in La Verneda i La Pau (Barcelona), the research identifies recurring relationships between plant communities, moisture, shade, disturbance, and substrate conditions. These observations are translated into environmental filters, species profiles, and patch-based spatial rules. A computational workflow is developed … Read more
Policy to Algorithm 2.0
Between Ritual and River
Ecological Renewal of Ghats Website Link: https://aria-final.vercel.app/ Statement “While industrial and sewage pollution receive significant attention in river conservation efforts. Ritual pollution stemming from religious and cultural practices remains largely unaddressed due to its sensitive nature. But it contributes substantially to river degradation and requires culturally respectful solutions.” Sacred Sites Across every continent and culture, rivers … Read more
NEURO-ADAPTIVE INTERFACE
This thesis explores how biosignals can transform artificial light into an adaptive architectural interface. While light strongly affects human emotions, cognition, and well-being, most lighting systems still rely on manual control and cannot respond to users in real time. The research investigates how EEG, ECG, and GSR data can be used to create dynamic lighting … Read more
