Alam / Profeta

Last week we shared some work in progress from our collaboration with @osservatoriosantanna - a multimedia thick-mapping archive for the Sant’Anna complex. We’re grateful for @_lemonot invite to contribute to the project, and to @scuolapiccolazattere for having us as part of their public program. We’re looking forward to working more on this collaborative piece, one that overlays digital traces and collective memories to begin reimagining a future for this site. #wip #moresoon

Following the closing of the 2025 Biennale, the project Amid the Elements, curated by Sylvia Lavin, was presented in the double portico of Palazzo Gravina, in Naples. The exhibition and its materials, developed for the Stirling Pavilion, were adapted to engage the new context and extend the research through a shared seminar between the Università “Federico II” and the Syracuse University School of Architecture @syr_arch_florence . It has been inspiring to think about the ways in which the elements invoked by the show ended up leaving their traces on all the pieces during their permanence at the Stirling Pavilion; water, air (and a little bit of earth) have worked their way into our paper apparatus. When meeting a new environment in Naples, we worked to mend the exhibition and care for the elements without shying away from their unintended transformations. If, like the pop-up books, the Stirling pavilion and its design ambitions were framed as ‘in the process of becoming something else,’ we hope you’ll enjoy the way in which we let environmental conditions, material logistics, and economies of production inform the work once more. The exhibition was followed by a presentation by Sylvia Lavin, interim Dean of Princeton University School of Architecture @princetonarchitecture , who presented the theoretical framework of elementality underpinning the project, with a conversation with Maya Alam @maaaalam , Marianna Ascolese @_manias_____ , Alberto Calderoni, Benedetta Di Donato, Daniele Profeta @daniele_profeta and Vincenzo Moschetti @vince.msc The traveling exhibition showcases reformatted works by AD—WO: Emanuel Admassu & Jen Wood @ad__wo , A/P Practice: Maya Alam & Daniele Profeta, Besler & Sons: Erin Besler @beslerandsons , First Office: Andrew Atwood & Anna Neimark @first_office_architecture , Low Design Office: DK Osseo-Asare @yosseo , MOS: Michael Meredith & Hilary Sample @mmmosarchitects . Thank you again for all your availability and flexibility in sharing the work to extend the life of the project. Finally, many thanks to @albrt_cldrn for welcoming us at @uninait - hoping this will be only the first of many :) Photos by the amazing @deepbluestudio_

Sterling meets Palazzo Gravina. We are excited to extend the life of ‘The Perimeter of Architecture: Amid the Elements’ bringing the exhibition curated by Sylvia Lavin from Venice to Naples. Together with @albrt_cldrn we have organized a seminar and a re-assemblage of the exhibition at the @uninait Following the closing of the 2025 Biennale, the project Amid the Elements, curated by Sylvia Lavin, will be presented in the double portico of Palazzo Gravina. The exhibition and its materials, developed for the Stirling Pavilion, are adapted to engage the new context and extend the research through a shared seminar between the Università Federico II and the Syracuse University School of Architecture @syr_arch @syr_arch_florence   Borrowing from the curatorial prompt, this seminar will question the shifting forms of architecture’s engagement with what the field once considered its perimeter: matters of environmental concern. If the exhibition draws out the potential of the elemental interactions typically relegated to architecture’s edge, we are interested in unpacking the manifold ways in which the definition of ‘environment’ itself has helped shape different forms of design practice. Sylvia Lavin, Interim Dean at Princeton University School of Architecture, will present the theoretical framework of elementality underpinning the project, and it will be followed by a conversation with Maya Alam, Marianna Ascolese @_manias_____ , Alberto Calderoni, Benedetta Di Donato, Daniele Profeta and Vincenzo Moschetti @vince.msc With works of @beslerandsons @first_office_architecture @ad__wo @mmmosarchitects @yosseo Come join us!

Coming soon - Sterling meets Palazzo Gravina. We are excited to extend the life of ‘The Perimeter of Architecture: Amid the Elements’ bringing the exhibition curated by Sylvia Lavin from Venice to Naples. Together with @albrt_cldrn we have organized a seminar and a re-assemblage of the exhibition at the @uninait More info coming soon! With works of @beslerandsons @first_office_architecture @ad__wo @mmmosarchitects @yosseo

Zatterone e Isola is our site-specific installation for “The Perimeter of Architecture: Amid the Elements” at the Stirling Pavilion curated by Sylvia Lavin at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Our installation, responding to the curatorial focus on Carta Azzurra, builds up the site using exclusively paper-based elements, creating a cellulose-infrastructure able to accommodate more than one inhabitant. Following a detailed survey of the Stirling Pavilion, our installation reacts with mm precision to the existing structure, bracing the vertical columns with a hovering plinth (Zatterone) and floating in the interior space, multiplying its archipelagic condition (Isola) The top layer is treated with a high-resolution print, mediating its raw materiality with Stirling’s environmental sketching techniques: an evershifting entanglement of elements from ‘natural’ to ‘synthetic’. The Pavilion hosts contributions by: Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood (AD—WO) @ad__wo Erin Besler (Besler & Sons) @beslerandsons Rachaporn Choochuey [all(zone)] @allzone.official Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy (DESIGN EARTH) @_designearth Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample (MOS Architects) @mmmosarchitects Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood (First Office) @first_office_architecture DK Osseo-Asare @yosseo Graphic Design Christina Huang @cxlhuang Research Coordinator Tairan An @antairman Research Team (PhD Candidates at Princeton University School of Architecture @princetonarchitecture ) Foivos Geralis @_phebus , Dimitris Hartonas @dhartonas , Maxwell Smith-Holmes @global_brooklyn , Chenchen Yan @chenchen_yan @labiennale

Zatterone e Isola is our site-specific installation for “The Perimeter of Architecture: Amid the Elements” at the Stirling Pavilion curated by Sylvia Lavin at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Our installation, Zatterone e Isola, roots itself in Venice, thickening a collective ground in the Stirling Book Pavilion. Walking in Venice requires an acknowledgment of the ossified forest lying beneath our feet. Our intervention foregrounds this distinct terraforming strategy to stitch together the architecture of the Pavilion with the elemental grounds of the lagoon. Layering Stirling’s own environmental sketching techniques, the curatorial attention to Carta Azzurra as a fundamental ingredient for architecture’s knowledge production, as well as our point cloud of the Pavilion’s perimeter, our Zatterone begins to operate as a mediating device across books, models, and architecture. The Pavilion hosts contributions by: Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood @ad__wo Erin Besler @beslerandsons Rachaporn Choochuey @allzone.official Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy @_designearth Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample @mmmosarchitects Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood @first_office_architecture DK Osseo-Asare @yosseo Graphic Design Christina Huang @cxlhuang Research Coordinator Tairan An @antairman Research Team (PhD Candidates at Princeton University School of Architecture) Foivos Geralis @_phebus , Dimitris Hartonas @dhartonas , Maxwell Smith-Holmes @global_brooklyn , Chenchen Yan @chenchen_yan @labiennale

As we put together some of the materials for House W8, we wanted to look back at the initial LiDAR scan of the site. More than simply visualizing what was built, it acted as a design tool to engage with the multiple material layers of the building. #digitalsurveying #designresearch #architecturalreuse #lidar #existingconditions

House W8 is approaching the finish line. Over the past 1.5 years, we’ve had the chance to work directly with this building — translating dense point clouds into design decisions, adapting to the complexities of a pre-war structure, and seeing it all take shape on site—a project rooted in precision, patience, and the messy beauty of existing conditions. #digitalsurveying #designresearch #architecturalreuse #materialfriction #lidar #existingconditions @daniele_profeta @maaaalam

Il disegno dei Punti: drawing from points Excited to share some of our latest work at @ubuffaloarchplan this coming Friday- thank you @jules.cz for the invite! I will be fun!

The new facade is coming up soon in our house renovation project in Wuppertal - here some snapshots of our site survey from neighborhood to old windows’ hinges hidden below the previous facade. We’re excited to share more in the coming weeks! #ThickAesthetics #MaterialFriction #ArchitecturalReuse #DigitalSurveying #BuildingLifecycle #ArchitecturalDiscourse #ReclaimedArchitecture #DesignResearch #lidar #photogrammetry #architecture #reuse #digitalart #archilovers #design #dezeen #next @daniele_profeta @maaaalam

WIP of a project and paper we are currently working on: Building in existing conditions can be considered one of the most relevant design tasks in the current environmental crisis; beyond the age-old discourse on contextualism and architecture’s role in the historical palimpsest of the city, interventions focused on extending buildings’ lifecycle and material reuse dominate contemporary discourse. This project expands our research around digital surveying techniques to enhance our engagement with such contexts. Using a housing project in Wuppertal, Germany, as a case study, we explore workflows and design strategies that merge planning with the existing site’s granular surfaces. The survey acts as an active agent, transforming data acquisition and visualization into collaborative design processes. #ThickAesthetics #MaterialFriction #ArchitecturalReuse #DigitalSurveying #BuildingLifecycle #MachinicVision #ArchitecturalDiscourse #ReclaimedArchitecture #DesignResearch #lidar #photogram #photogrammetry @daniele_profeta @maaaalam

Decolonize Wuppertal & der Lehrstuhl für Theorie & Diskurs im Entwurf laden euch zu einer Diskussion und Pop-Up Ausstellung von StudentInnen der Architektur zum Thema Geschichte der architektonischen Visualisierung im Allgemeinen und der Bausubstanz Wuppertals im Zusammenhang mit der Kolonialgeschichte im Einzelnen ein. Studentische Arbeiten von: Hannah Radke @hannah_lzbth Luna Emembolu @luna.emembolu Filip Daust @filip.dst Mehran Scherzad David Erdinc Wissenschaftlicher Lehrstuhl Team: Richard Haverland @ririririmaro Hannah Radke @hannah_lzbth