DIGITAL & ANALOG NOISE – Design e ricerca Project Credits: Alberto Alfonso ( formeaning ), Danny Massaro Advisor: Marcelyn Gow Institution: ESTm, The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles // This project seeks to overcome the paradigm based on platonic geometries with the aggregation of points in space and the use of lines…
COMPOSITE SKIN – Design dei materiali Project Credits: Alberto Alfonso (formeaning), Brian Harms, Haejun Jung, Al ataide, Cheng Gong Advisor: Tom Wiscombe, Brandon Kruysman, Jonathan Proto Institution: ESTm, The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles // Conventional 20th century assembly logic was questioned in favor of polymer-based meta-assemblies produced through squishing, sedimenting, embedding, and inlaying. The…
SHATTERED – Architettura e ricerca Project Credits: Alberto Alfonso, Juan Gabriel Benavides Advisor: Marcelo Spina, Andrew Atwood Institution: ESTm, The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles // While taking on the combination of the seemingly disparate notions of MONOLITHICITY and MOTION, the project purposefully creates (mis)perceptions and (mis)representations of solidity, joinery, texture and…
EMBEDDED SUPERCOMPONENT – Studio dei pattern Project By: Alberto Alfonso ( formeaning ) Advisor: Tom Wiscombe Institution: ESTm Post-Graduate Program, SCI-Arch, Los Angeles // “Strong figures are embedded in a bigger Form “The Sack”, advancing the “Box in the Box “ and the “Sectional Object” typology and leading to the definition of SuperComponents that establish,…
THE AESTHETIC IMPLICATION OF COMPOSITE THINKING Project Credits: Alberto Alfonso ( formeaning ), Danny Massaro Advisor: Marcelyn Gow Institution: ESTm, The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles // This is the Final Production regards a Research conducted by Alberto Alfonso ( formeaning ) started at the Southern California Institute of Architecture ( sci-arc ), Los Angeles in 2012.…
