Riva Expo Typology: Temporary architecture Type of intervention: Installation for expo Client: Public Size: 2000 square meters Location: Riva del Garda Riva Expo from the town Riva sul Garda is the protagonist of an exclusive footwear fashion event. The exhibition pavilion was designed to exhibit and enhance the design of the products on display. With…
DIGITAL & ANALOG NOISE 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 as displacement forces. It…
COMPOSITE SKIN 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 focus was to create…
SHATTERED 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 building typology. Through the…
EMBEDDED SUPERCOMPONENT – Pattern reserch 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, thanks…
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.…
