Following a River to Draw a Forest | Bologna, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 Cineteca del Fiume is a cinematheque, café, film archive, and outdoor cinema sited on the Po River floodplain in Northern Italy, within an ongoing ecological restoration of a reconnected oxbow lake. The building’s geometry is generated by a parametric drawing tool built from satellite data along the entire river: the Po draws the architecture. A

Fragments of Wandering | Bologna, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 How does movement through uncertainty become a tool for architectural production? Beginning with the figure of the wanderer, perception becomes a design method where lines of sight and fragments of spatial encounters are materialised. By acknowledging uncertainty as part of the design process, the unstable condition of moving through and remembering space defines the architectural conditions – routes, pauses,

Learning to Draw, Again | Bologna, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 Learning to Draw, Again translates hand drawing into architectural form through machine vision, point clouds, and physical modelling. The project asks how drawing changes when it is made for a visual system trained on photographs, where line, tone, density, erasure, and blank paper are read as spatial evidence. Depth-estimation software converts marks on paper into unstable digital terrains. Through

Nuove Nuvole | Bologna, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 Nuove Nuvole investigates how cloud formations emerge from a system: the weather. Systems like these produce emergent patterns out of unintelligible complexity. Turner and Constable both approached the cloud through distance; this project goes further, drawing parallels between cloud science, complex systems, and a method for generating architecture.The project proposes a botanical garden at the Tecnopolo di Bologna, Italy’s supercomputing

THE SYSTEMS BENEATH | Bologna, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 This project proposes architecture as atmospheric governance. Where digital platforms reduce every environment to the same curated warmth, the same extracted behaviour, the same erased locality, sDOP governs back as a counter-platform that applies DOP food certification logic to space itself, protecting light, sound, heat, and scent as the conditions that make a place irreducibly itself.The site is Mercato

From Fragments to Folded Forms | Bologna, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 Beside the Teatro Comunale, the theatre’s own architectural fragments are deconstructed and remodeled into a Performing Arts Playground. What was once decoration and structure becomes a stage, pool and playground. Here, a new life of playfulness and art is moulded from the memory of the old. Drawn from the site’s layering of performing arts culture and leisure,

 Autocheiromorph; Using skeletal joint tracking via computer vision as an intuitive drawing medium | Bologna, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 This project proposes that motion tracking via computer vision can function as an active form-making instrument in architectural design: not as a means of recording the body, but of drawing with it. A design pipeline spanning skeletal joint tracking, computational geometry. The designer does not pre-specify form and then

L’architettura dipende | Bologna, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 Architecture Depends begins with Jeremy Till’s argument that architecture is fundamentally contingent: shaped not only by the architect, but by forces outside direct control — people, occupation, regulation, climate, institutional systems, memory, construction, and repair. Rather than treating this dependency as a weakness, the project uses AI as a method to expose and work with it.The research starts with a

Wave Field  | London, United Kingdom | Unit 21 | 2026 WAVE FIELD proposes a new extension to the Laban Theatre in Deptford, London, using EEG data as a form of design agency to generate a more open, dynamic and responsive environment for performance and rehearsal. The existing theatre has a strong architectural rhythm: its reflective facade and curved form absorb the surrounding context, while its interior provides enclosed rehearsal

Catching Fog | Bologna, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 How do we design for a boundaryless environment? Set in the fog-dense Po River Valley, “Catching Fog” translates fluid atmospheric phenomena into permanent architectural mass. It abandons rigid Cartesian intrusion for boundaries derived directly from environmental fluidity.A custom Arduino ultrasonic apparatus generates real water vapour, which is captured and analyzed by a YOLO computer-vision AI. The algorithm’s struggle to define

The Monomodal Assemblie | Berlin, Germany | Unit 21 | 2026 The Berlin-Staaken Regional Museum seasonally repositions itself within the imperceptibly entwined landscape of historical, political, industrial and regenerative significance of the former Berlin-Staaken airfield, where heritage now only remains in faint, almost indiscernible traces. The scheme has been conceived as a scenographic kit of Monomodal Assemblies that operate within this invisible ‘field’ of forces as a conscientious arrangement of

A Silva | Bologna, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 This year, my project has developed from an interest in live information streams into a system for translating speech and text into architectural form. This led me to question how large language models process language and how their hidden operations might be made visible. The project now investigates LLMs not as tools for producing images, but as probabilistic language systems.

Campo Incompiuto ‘Unfinished Field | Modena, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 Campo Incompiuto ‘Unfinished Field’ reinterprets Aldo Rossi’s unfinished field of San Cataldo Cemetery through weaving, machine learning, environmental data, and Modena’s identity as an internationally recognised city of media arts. The project begins with craft as a form of inherited intelligence, using weaving to explore interlacing, repetition, deformation, and variation. These logics are translated into a Pix2Pix GAN

Holding Conditions | Bologna, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026 Holding Conditions explores how architecture can be generated through balance, tolerance, and material constraints rather than predetermined form. Using a functional object as a behavioural datum, the project develops a methodology based on centre of mass, fabrication feedback, and equilibrium. This approach is then applied to the Po Valley floodplain, where materials recovered from the decommissioning of the Caorso Nuclear