Inspirations.  

Digital Biology

Interior studies for public indoor spaces merging digital and biological environments. Wall modules ...

Podchain

Podchain is an integrated design concept for on-demand autonomous transport. To optimize kinetic ene...

Fashion, Food, Transport

FUTURE CITY premiered at Vienna Art Week 2018 on November 20, 2018, at MAK Museum of Applied Arts in...

Architecture

Designed by Ted Wells. Architecture. Corten steel and glass.

Carlo Scarpa

jardin des sculptures. C Scarpa

The loft bar

Concept project of loft bar.

Low cost urban transport

Combining contemporary technology with a focus on low cost and reliability, this neighborhood transp...

AI assistant

With the advance of digitalisation, items which once had a central position in households have disap...

Hybrid urban scooter

A low-cost hybrid urban scooter for developing countries running either on electric battery or on bi...

Omnidirectional Speaker

Sculptural ominidirectional speakers, projecting sound recorded from an omnidirectional microphone i...

An organic structure for bikes

A sports bike for urban and mountain environments. The aluminium frame provides for increased stabil...

Stories of You

REVOIR is an interactive mirror, activated by emotion detection to create stories through visual lan...

Cooking with myth

IOTAO is a series of IoT - enabled domestic cooking devices for the Chinese market which reinterpret...

Emotional drones

タマ tama : ball, sphere; also jewel, spirit, soul タマタマ tamatama : by chance Balloon drone...

Mechanical Suprematist

Experience interesting architectural compositions being created as you look around. This generator w...

Immersive sketch

Travel through an animated architectural sketch (move mouse to look around): http://mariogagliardi.c...

Unfolding sound spaces

Conventional audio speakers require the listener to sit in a certain spot to get the best audio expe...

Shape-shifting robotic structures

Simulations for a research on shape-shifting robotic structures. Shape memory alloy sticks are linke...

Emotibots

Emotibots are shape-shifting social home robots interacting with humans. Robots will in the future i...

Cellular Letters

An algorithm applies regular growth patterns to a basic font, thereby creating a great range of diff...

Cellular Automata: A design language for industrial silk

Handmade Mudmee silk is part of the cultural heritage of Thailand and Laos with a tradition reaching...

penccil: This was 2017

The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...

Mugs

Intentionally on the very edge of usability, this project takes ubiquitous objects - in this case co...

serpentine 2017

exhibition, schauspiel köln, cologne. steelobjects, ceramic reliefs.

BS1

temporary accessible sculpture.

Functional Pasta

Pasta based on the geometry of a Möbius strip, a geometric surface with the distinction of having o...

An evolutionary algorithm for bike design

A learning algorithm randomly creates simplified body designs for bikes. As they race along the test...

BKM/Barozzi/Veiga

The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise o...

Fallingwater

Modernist Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright

Green Architecture…. Is it blessing or curse!!

GREEN ARCHITECTURE….IT IS GOOD FOR THE NATURAL WORLD OR MAYBE IT WILL BE A MESS OF THE TREES AND P...

Library

A library in the center of Moscow, study project.

Glowscape

Study for a LED light installation. LED diodes are installed on a net of wires and placed over the l...

Intuitive Feedback for Human-Machine Interfaces

Tangible human-machine interfaces such as remote controls are based on a linear logic with designate...

Structured Reflection

These 3D-printed vases feature finely faceted surface structures which create intriguing light refle...

Intelligent Personal Assistants

If artificial intelligence would be personalized, what face could these personal assistants have? Th...

Mapping movement to music

This concept for a portable digital sound control device predicted a wrap-around display and intuiti...

Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange was born September 4, 1913 in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from the University of Toky...

Organic Public

Contemporary cities are in need of public spaces which work better for their citizens. This proposal...

The algorithm of fashion

Each of these scarf patterns is unique. The production workflow involves an algorithm which creates ...

Design for Disaster

"A disaster zone where everything is lost offers the perfect opportunity for us to take a fresh look...

Shared Space

To develop better urban strategies and futures for communities in desert climates, Mario Gagliardi w...

Food Architecture

Food dal cucchiaio al mondo: Works of artists and architects who deal with the global political, soc...

Sky Walk

The Dolní Morava tower Sky Walk by Zdenek Franek is a conceptual building, and it offers visitors ...

Strip

Give following instructions: Cut a strip off a piece of paper and give it one twist. Glue the ends t...

Pillars

Consisting of connected bricks whose relative position can be altered by changing underlying paramet...

Microscopes of utopia

This are some of landscapes spaces of nowhere with spaces inside

Brazil Modernism

20th century architecture in Brazil, including work by Lina Bo Bardi, Lúcio Costa, Affonso Reidy, O...

Carlo Scarpa: Sketch and Work

There is hardly another architect of the 20th century in whose work the progression from sketch to c...

Peter Zumthor: Thinking Architecture

A selection of remarkable work by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.

The Bauhaus Revolution

The Bauhaus was the most influential design school of the 20th century. See more in the new magazin...

In Orbit

"When I look at these complex layers of translucent lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of th...

Tom Ngo

"Common sense and conventional practice prohibits the evolution of architecture. Through reproducing...

Future Architecture

Future Architecture Platform is a European program which promotes talents in architecture. Future A...

Superstudio, Superproduction, Superconsumption

Superarchitecture is the architecture of superproduction, of superconsumption, of superinduction to ...

Heartbeat, Heartseat

Heartbeat consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency hear...

Swarm fabrication: Kokkugia / Roland Snooks

We have a fascination with the impact of new technologies on architecture and construction. We are f...

Spatial Clusters

"Refined nature consists of evolved technology such as robotics, artificial intelligence, cybernetic...

Une Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier

Tony Garnier designed the plans of an ideal city during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1899 to ...

The Glass House

"This house was Philip Johnson's autobiography—all of his interests were visible, and all of his a...

Julius Shulman: Visual Drama

"Julius had an eye for visual drama. With modernist buildings, he loved capturing the strong lines s...

Bird´s Nest

I am often struck by the nests that crows build using clothes hangers. Hangers are not only durable ...

Intuitive Phone

Design futures concepts for a smartphone and a portable music player (2004) by Mario Gagliardi. This...

Mimicry and Makeshift

Two future visions for urbanism and ownership: Mimicry city - where everything wants to be owned. As...

Computer Vision

Four design concepts by Mario Gagliardi on the possibilities of personal computers, designed and pub...

F zero zero d

Plates decorated with stylized prints of stereotypical food items: a hot dog, a steak, a slice of pi...

Colliding Worlds

Architectural models of small planets appear in unexpected places. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2007

Jean-Jaques Lequeu

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825) worked as a draughtsman at Rouen, and from 1779 in Paris at the Cad...

Amor Vacui

Domink von Moos, born 1990, studied architecture at ETH Zurich.

Futures

Animated GIFs illustrating speculative future scenarios. Mario Gagliardi 2004.

Archispecture

Architectural studies. Mario Gagliardi 2007-2010.