Inspirations.  

CAMOUFLAGE ARCHITECTURE

My thesis gallery about camouflage and architecture

Street Life

Photographic impressions in the streets of Tokyo and Kyoto. (C) Mario Gagliardi

Energy

Every photo has an energy, a direction, and a story. I do not own this story.

Essential Water

In many regions of the planet, water is increasingly becoming rare. Our understanding of water, refl...

The Venice Pavillon

The Venice Pavillon interprets the history of Venice as a point of contact between West and East. Sh...

Collaborative City Planning

The result of the Zero Carbon project: a collaborative scale model of the prototype site, close to t...

DC Tower

Photography and image manipulation of the DC Tower by Dominique Perrault in Vienna as part of a proj...

Structures

Architectural studies, Mario Gagliardi 2002-2004.

Dreaming of Skyscrapers

Mario Gagliardi 2006.

Blacker Box

Blacker Box is a design expression for an Intelligent Speaker. (C) Mario Gagliardi Design 2017

Bones, Stones, Sticks, & Stones

Digital photography and manipulation on paper.

Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019

For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...

Terror Architecture -18th Century Prisons

In the late 1770s, there was a particular interest in the development of not only scientific and rhe...

Kunio Makaewa

Kunio Maekawa was a master of Japanese modernist architecture. He learned under Le Corbusier and was...

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...

Dawson

Yukon Territory, Canada

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.

Writing & Design

Romantic Modern: The California Architecture of Harwell Hamilton Harris. Writer and Designer, Ted We...

Writing & Design

Casting Shadows, Auguste Rodin. Writer and Designer.

Hoi An

Ancient Town in Vietnam and South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century 2...

worlds of planet earth

A set of photos from different places on Earth. 2018

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...

Painted by Time

Inricate patterns created by lichens, made over time around the tiny cracks of ceramic tiles. (C) Ma...

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...

Wayne Sorce: Urban Color

"Wayne Sorce: Urban Color" is on view from October 21st through November 30th at Joseph Bellows Gall...

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

The wall

photography and theoretical project about the The seperation wall between Israel and the west bank

Swiernalis

Polish alternative musician Swiernalis

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.

Vico Magistretti

Vico Magistretti (1920 - 2006) studied in Lausanne and Milano. He was one of the main protagonists o...

Brand

Brand and product development project for a series of Korean premium specialty food products. (C) Ma...

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...

Lattice

Architectural structures. Mario Gagliardi 2006

Gaetano Pesce: Abstraction is boring

"Abstraction is boring and limited as a mode of expression. Reducing and reducing designs means that...

Chromatic seating

3 colorful seats by 3 Italian designers: Giancarlo Zema graduated from the Faculty of Architecture o...

Kenzo Tange

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

American Food

Davide Luciano is a New York based conceptual food and beverage photographer and motion artist. His ...

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...

The art of improvising art

The recently abandoned administrative headquarters of Austrian Post, an imposing turn of the century...

Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni

Gianpaolo Pagni creates unique, printed, painted or stamped books. His work focuses around memory an...