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2019-20 // Fibre Tangled

|Fibre Tangled Chitosan as the future of water filtration system |Team Saurabh Singla, Aditya Mandlik, Nareh Khaloian, Akshay  Mhamunkar. |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, David Andres Leon, Raimund Krenmueller, Nikol Kirova |Project year 2019-20 The project, Fiber Tangled addresses the environmental impact of permanent structures by focusing on the non-reuse of materials and their contribution to carbon footprint. It …

2019-20 // Terra Preta

|Terra Preta Upcycling cork to build a better landscape |Team Chim Meng ,Chaitanya Kumar , Dinesh Kumar |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, David Andres Leon, Raimund Krenmueller, Nikol Kirova |Project year 2021-22 The project Terra Preta takes a radical approach to curbing the carbon footprint in construction industries. It advocates for the replacement of conventional high-carbon materials like Lime, Cement, …

2020-21 // Rocinha- Cantha

|Rocinha-Cantha Chitosan as the future of water filtration system |Team Amandeep Sasan, Jose Levy Rodriguez Suarez, Ziyad Wassef Abdelkader Youssef  |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, David Andres Leon, Raimund Krenmueller, Nikol Kirova |Project year 2021-22 The project Rocinha-Cantha emerges as a response to the pressing global issue of informal settlements and slum living conditions, particularly focusing on Rocinha, …

2020-21 // Coraal 1.0

|Coraal 1.0 Modular Housing |Team  Elena Petruzzi, Aqeel Sourjah, Laukik Lad & Matvey Genne |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, David Andres Leon, Raimund Krenmueller, Nikol Kirova |Project year 2021-22 Climate change poses a multitude of unpredictable threats to human habitation. CORAAL 1.0 is an effort in developing an adaptive system of protocols to analyze, evaluate and intervene in …

2020-21 // Infinite3

|Infinite3 Modular Housing |Team  Ziying Zeng, Victoria Fedorova Christos Trompoukis, Iulia Maria Lichwar |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, David Andres Leon, Raimund Krenmueller, Nikol Kirova |Project year 2021-22 Infinite3 attempts to create a system that can rapidly increase the housing stock, while operating within the confines of circular materialities and Design for Disassembly. The emporement of people to take …

2020-21 // Drip.Drop

|Drip.Drop Chitosan as the future of water filtration system |Team  Abhishek Sharma, Ibrahim Kukner, Zackary Bryson |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, David Andres Leon, Raimund Krenmueller, Nikol Kirova |Project year 2021-22 Out of the 70 percent of Earth’s entire water, only 3 percent of that is freshwater. Making up that 3 percent there is less than 0.3 percent of …

2020-21 // Carbon Copies

|Carbon Copies Upcycling cork to build a better landscape |Team Elizaveta Veretilnaya, Liang Mayuqi Stefanie Eleonore Thaller, Lekha Gajbhiye   |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, David Andres Leon, Raimund Krenmueller, Nikol Kirova |Project year 2021-22 The Carbon Copies project is a response to the building industry’s outsized environmental impact, responsible for 40% of industrial emissions. Concrete, a primary …

2021-22 // F2F

|F2F Field to Facade |Team Mira Housen, Alex Ferragu, Taimur Mian, Mara Muller-de Ahna |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, David Andres Leon, Nikol Kirova |Project year 2021-22 The project, titled Field to Facade (F2F) seeks to revolutionize the construction industry by repurposing barley straw, a widely available agricultural by-product. Barley, a vital global crop, produces substantial amounts …

2021-22 // NetZERO

|NETZero A Performative Facade System Using Upcycled Fishing Nets |Team Aishwarya Arun, Aishwarya SR, Akshay Madapura, Luca Wenzel |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, David Andres Leon, Nikol Kirova |Project year 2021-22 Circular economy encompasses challenging and rethinking the way we use and reuse resources in the building industry, and ultimately eliminate the concept of waste. The aim …

2021-22 // Suro/Myco

|Suro//Myco Upcycling cork to build a better landscape |Team Furio Magaraggia, Michael Groth, Miran Calmanovici   |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, David Andres Leon, Nikol Kirova |Project year 2021-22 Suro // myco is an innovative urban architectural intervention designed to enhance the well-being of collective spaces by addressing the issue of urban noise pollution. By repurposing up …

2021-22 // Beeyond Anthropocene

|Beeyond Anthropocene Reimagining Urban Landscapes for Bee Thriving |Team Aleyna Gultekin, Pragati Patilkulkarni, Neha Pattanshetti,Arunima Kalra |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, David Andres Leon, Nikol Kirova,  |Project year 2021-22 Bee-yond Anthropocene strives to mitigate the impact of segregation of bees from the Urban context of Barcelona and remedy their habitat loss through a temporal yet forceful insemination …

2022-23 // Cork Block

|Cork Block Matter | Object | Space |Team Anish Hatekar, Shrey Kapur and Michael Sinzinger |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, Nikol Kirova |Project year 2022-23 The research Cork Block aims to broaden the domain of application for cork products in the architectural industry and further reduce their environmental impact by developing a material that is load bearing, …

2022-23 // Urban Cascade

|Urban Cascade Grey water filtration with upcycled mussel shells for irrigation |Team Miti Shah, Yasmin Jaskulski, Vishesh Narola and Junaid Khan |Faculty Areti Markopoulou, Nikol Kirova |Project year 2022-23 Urban Cascade introduces a cutting-edge grey water filtration system optimized for irrigation in regions experiencing water scarcity. By harnessing a bio-based material derived from upcycled mussel …