Architectural Association School of Architecture, London
September 2007
to June 2014
Details and Extracurriculars
Fifth Year: Studio tutored by Shin Egashira The project proposes alternatives to the city's water network in terms of circulation, collection and filtration, re-activating unused underground structures and turning infrastructure into urban interiors. A vertical narrative is created, enabling today’s occupation of London to echo the city’s past stories
Fourth Year: Studio tutored by Natasha Sandmeier Project aiming to re-attach and re-engage a space for the dead within the city of the living and conceived as a big paradox: so monumental yet so intimate, so present yet so absent, London becomes both dead and immortal.
Third Year: Unit studio tutored by Takero Shimazaki and Ana Araujo Crafting poetic and humane architectures guided by concepts of inhabitation and adaptability Discovery of Tokyo Proposal for a herbal clinic in South Kensington, blurring boundaries between house and garden to investigate relationships between built elements and natural growth
Second Year: Unit studio tutored by Ricardo de Ostos and Nannette Jackowsky Interdisciplinary project about water in India: the effective and the poetic, architectural spaces and infrastructure fields Exploratory travels to Varanasi Developing an architectural proposal based on the seasonal cycles of the Ganges, amphibious environments and mud
First Year: Open studio tutored by Valentin Bontjes van Beek, Maria Fedorchenko, David Greene, Samantha Hardingham, Tobias Klein, Nicholas Puckett, and Martina Schafer Introduction to architectural design, critical thinking and experimental ways of working
Foundation: Tutored by Miraj Ahmed, Saskia Lewis, and Theo Lorenz Understanding of different modes of representation in order to investigate, create and communicate both spaces and situations
Unique, dynamic, independent and international, the Architectural Association School of Architecture offers a five-year course accredited by the RIBA/ARB. It is divided in three parts: Foundation/First Year, Intermediate School (Second and Third years, and Diploma School (Fourth and Fifth years), dedicated mainly to Project work, and completed by History and Theories, Technical and Media studies, and Professional Practice