Viaduct 53 is a club that combines unique experiences and business accommodations for its local and international members and guests.
Nightlife always played an economic and cultural factor in both regional and social growth. From Speakeasies to the iconic Studio 54 and the contemporary night scene, peculiar places have served as unique spectacles that embraced the desire for inclusivity, self-expression, and social standing. In 2040 pervasive sedentary and digitalized lifestyles inflate the fragmentation of reality through images, Viaduct 53 satisfies that image obsession and the thrill of escapism to a converted reality.
The club is located in Zurich’s industrial district in one of the most visited shopping streets of the city, developed in 2004. Taking advantage of the area’s characteristics and being certified by Fashion House with the Growing the Scene certification the club is designed for the spectator to explore it from the entrance to each room of the premises. Under the arches, the club stands hidden by a hill of greeneries. Once inside, through the food vendor at the tip of the shopping street, the ambient of the spaces, the arches, and the various levels cause a feeling of detachment from daily life leaving the spectator free to fulfill all his desires.

Crafting Heritage is a made-to-order textile workshop dedicated to the perpetuation of Provence’s ancestral know-how on the textile block printing technique used for Provencal or indienne prints.
Located in the former industrial and artisanal district of Les Crottes, the workshop recovers and adapts seven warehouses by rethinking the traditional assembly line of a factory decomposing it into a set of specialized production and workshop spaces combined with learning and break areas.

This contribution—the design of a fur farm sited in Berlin’s southwestern rural landscape—reimagines a fur farm that alters the notion of fur farming to restore the unrivaled luxury, warmth and longevity of fur as a responsible product in the fashion industry. The captive industrial farming and preventative culling of minks following the COVID-19 outbreak and the mass-production of fur leading to decentralized efficiencies, lack of animal welfare, and poor labor practices probes the unrestrained extraction of animal-origin virgin materials for the production of fashion goods. This contribution argues that in the world of fast fashion, where duration and sustainability are symbiotic, the dignified status of fur—due to its biodegradability, longevity, and sourcing transparency—must be restored so that it can emerge as a responsible commodity in the fashion industry.

Scale to feet is a small, vertical sneaker factory in Zurich’s “Culture Mile.” It uses zero-waste production techniques and is designed to have a relationship with customers and its surroundings through testing facilities and a public program. The production process starts on the ground floor and moves upward. The factory becomes a destination in a scenario where online shopping dominates fashion consumption.

The Non-Fungible Cult is an exclusive data center designed for luxury fashion NFTs. It is located on a fortified island and serves as a secure space for digital fashion assets. Fashion brands use the data center as a space of mediation between virtual and physical realities, granting selected NFT holders access as a part of their loyalty plan. The underground facility is a nod to Marseille’s past limestone industry and aims to create a sense of mystery and exclusivity.

This contribution is part of Fashion House, a collective project on the spatial implications of a decentralized and more tightly regulated fashion industry across Europe that reimagines the function and design for a fashion house.

The ideal wedding is a social construct that has changed through history according to the needs of society. By changing the wedding from a product to a process, this contribution aims to transform the whole wedding experience into a more efficient, technological, and sustainable event. The project is located at the spectacular Calanques National Park, one hour drive from the city of Marseille. The Quarry garden is a wedding venue composed of a series of pavilions and garden spaces that provide all the stages of getting ready. The certification “Perfect Match” certifies ceremonial processes, events, and public functions that are situated in forgotten landscapes for their protection and locational rejuvenation after its completion. The Journey of your Life is a full- service experience that offers all the stages and services of the wedding in one place and one day; allowing a more practical, less-stressful and more affordable experience. By 2040, the construct of the ideal wedding is an experience and ceremonial process rather than a final product. The paths and stages of getting ready are more valuable in a society that is more environmentally conscious and that prefers the symbolism of marriage with the least footprint possible.

The Establishment imagines a tailor shop that provides a range of certified made-to-measure suits, jackets, trousers, overcoats, shirts, and accessories - sited in Rotterdam’s new fashion district inside an old trade office and portside warehouse – accommodating a slower-paced fashion industry, in which use of the daily workers suit is restored.

Three buildings accommodate the re-popularized sartorial significance of the suit: A tailor shop, an employment agency, and a more discrete Longshoreman’s business club. Reigniting interest in the craft of tailoring, formal wear and long-lasting garments and reconvening the collective bargaining power of people in an ever more fragmented world of work.

This contribution is part of Fashion House, a collective project on the spatial implications of a decentralized and more tightly regulated fashion industry across Europe that reimagines the function and design for a fashion house.
The Unmentionables envisions a new clinic that substitutes surgical procedures with non-permanent and risk-free body enhancements, that allow for periodic modifications of the body. Therefore, this contribution positions the consumer’s body as the product and the clinic as a space of Fashion retail.

This contribution is part of Fashion House, a collective architecture project that anticipates an alternative future for the fashion industry in five emerging European fashion centers in and around Berlin, Marseille, Rotterdam, Valencia, and Zurich, creating a pan-European cooperative and regulatory body that intensifies regional production and increases conscientious consumption patterns by granting product certifications, providing industry services, and offering brand consultancy.
Aporia envisions a generalized curriculum fashion atelier for students from regions without crafts heritage. This fashion atelier directly adjoins Fashion House Berlin, near Alexanderplatz, in the German capital of Berlin.
Aporia proposes a fashion atelier in Haus D of the DDR government Haus der Statistik in Berlin. This atelier offers a generalized curriculum teaching multidisciplinary skills competency. Atelier workers train in at least five of forty-four Red Thread artisanal disciplines, from wool artistry to patternmaking. These disciplines occupy enfilade studios under one roof, with minimized spatial and organizational hierarchies, altogether facilitating interdisciplinary knowledge exchange.
An increasingly regionalized fashion industry intrinsically entails the proliferation of skills and knowledge to support regional manufacturing. Regional artisanal manufacturing declined as a result of brain drains to centralized Taylorist production—which strives for peak productivity via production process atomization—emblematic of the previous fashion paradigm. Specialized workers of this previous paradigm are susceptible to economic volatility, and to a self-deceptive conflation of specialized knowledge mastery with growth.
Generalist ateliers fill that knowledge gap as centralized sites of education and knowledge exchange. Workers learn and share knowhow through collaboration and mentorship, all within shared work and evaluative spaces. Mastery is traded for inexperience each time the worker begins a new discipline, dispelling self-deceptive overvaluing of mere knowledge.
These atelier workers become professionally autonomous generalist artisans—certified “Know it All”, or proficient in at least five fashion artisanal disciplines—upholding geographically and organizationally decentralized manufacturing required for the regionalized fashion industry.

"Whole Milk" is a contribution to the "Supermarket", a collective project on the spatial implications of the food industry in the Netherlands and beyond, reflating the notion of reshoring—the act of bringing food production back into the dense urban context. The separating zoning of the 20th century along with the global chain of the food industry, led to a lack of the manufacturing sector in the city. New covid-19 economical consequences, the latest technological advancements, and environmental regulations provoke the reshoring of the food manufacture industry back to the consumer territory, bringing the manufacturing sector back into the city, while opening the question of the relationship between food production and the urban fabric.

The Whole Milk farm-factory— a new dairy complex — amidst the dense urban context of The Hague is aiming to break the existing monopolised milk system, make farmers and manufacturers the protagonists of their industry, and set a close production-consumption cycle, reducing the quantity of production and therefore its environmental footprint. This contribution repositions the vanished pastoral image of the Netherlands’ landscape within the city, providing a balanced daily routine for livestock.

This contribution is a wholesale market that reintroduces the face-to-face interaction within the trading process, catalyzing a paradigm shift in the Dutch potato production mode quantitatively and qualitatively.

The sensatorium is a 3,500m2 healing clinic for the six senses—taste, touch, sight, smell, sound, and atmosphere—within the historic healthcare city of Geel, BE. Located adjacent to Sint-Dimpnakerk—a fourteenth century Catholic church dedicated to the resident saint of mental illness—the sensatorium consists of five courtyards—two within the existing Gasthuis—a seventeenth century monastic hospice— across the street from four courtyards within the main structure . Containing sixty—twelve representative apostles for each of the five senses—boarding rooms borders are encouraged to interact with the other senses, residents of Geel, and city. The taste courtyard within the Gasthuis—that previously used land for food production— grows the holyberry—a white strawberry that tastes unrecognizable—along with companion plants within the month of October. The public beholds the holy site where the holyberry can be tasted within one for the five taste bud rooms—sweet, sour, salt, unami, and bitter—along with four other produce cultivated to heighten the taste buds within the Blue Banana. Individuals walk through the taste bud enfilade black rooms highlighting the food with palette cleansing rooms in between. Within the second courtyard of the Gasthuis, white liliesthe symbol of the patron Saint Dymna and purity—and its pairing notes are surrounded by four smell therapy rooms—clove, rose, eucalyptus, and lemon—that infuse each of the black enfilade rooms. Across in the main building, the brick simple facade shows no indication of the three crystal shaped courtyards to intensify the emphasis of the senses. Three entrance doorways lead to the courtyards where the public can meander to the other courtyards and healing rooms. The sight court is surrounded by mirrored columns reflecting colorful plants and refracting a perimeter of water. The three sight healing rooms—red light, dim light, and low contrasting colors that blur—are turned on by a switch by the individual. The touch courtyard opens directly to the borders where everyone can walk around the garden of different tactile plants—exaggerated during abscission—and encouraged to interact and touch. The sound courtyard has interior space that separates the access to border rooms from the zen courtyard where individuals listen to the sound of raking and fountain surrounded by sound barrier composite panels to remove the noise of the city and focus within the sensatorium. The sound healing rooms—nature sounds, white noises, fractal sounds, and multi-sonic—are connected to the sight and touch healing rooms by smooth stone space for a moment of silence. At the end of their day, all sixty borders come together for a multi-sensorial meal in the dining room looking out to the sixth sense garden—an extension of Sint-Dimpnakerk’s forest cemetery.

Fresh Forward is the contribution for the collective project on the food industry in the Netherland and beyond, reflating on the notion of automation and its spatial implication.

This contribution proposed a design for a new kind of restaurant that utilizes contemporary technology to achieve a fully automated process, from production space to sales floor; while, at the same time,– adopting modernist cooking techniques to provide a new dining experience to the customer.

Located in a hectare of land in the Hundewiese of Frankfurt. This contribution reconstructs the conventional restaurant layout, provides an aesthetic experience—from the uniformity and repetition provided by the automated machine to the contrasting organic beauty of nature—to the customer.

Inside its production facility, Fresh Forward collaborates with chefs and culinary artists to innovate on new recipes - through the adaptation of the modernist cooking techniques - to serve freshly made, sustainable, and tasty meals that highlight the uniqueness of each raw ingredient’s flavors.

Moreover, automat can extend the reach of its service by distributing pre-cook ingredients and seasonings to supermarkets or automat points throughout the Blue Banana network.

By 2050, when the world’s population is expected to increase by two billion people, “scarce” crops—from the massively consumed Arabica coffee bean to the popular avocado—will be genetically modified in laboratories to endure market pressure and environmental challenges to provide solutions to the impending food scarcity crisis in a post-pandemic society. The Lab Oratory envisions a highly curated agricultural landscape that converges the unviable industrial and the exclusive organic production of crops into a reconstructed future of farming. This novel “modus operandi” endeavors to reintroduce the building type of the laboratory in regards to the food industry and thus the boundaries of natural and artificial by creating a space of multidisciplinary experimentation that brings together growers and scientists.
Sited in the Netherlands, in the Wageningen, is co-located with the Food Valley NL, cooperation that attempts to offer food security and enhances the existing food innovation network that expands beyond the limits of Europe. At the same time, the Lab Oratory is located in the Rhine river’s floodplain, offering the possibility to discover solutions in regards to the flooding risks that the Netherlands is facing due to climate change.
The dike that surrounds the plot detaches it from the city by creating a 7-meter height difference. The laboratory’s functions are condensed across a half kilometer infrastructural line that connects the city with the river and generates different multileveled routes. Bookended by public spaces, an amphitheater and library respectively, and elevated as a pier, the infrastructural line is open to the public offering views into the experimental landscape, highlighting the transparency of different uses, to re-establish public trust in lab experimentation. The biosafety laboratories, the tissue culture rooms, the open labs, the microscopy, the botanical garden, the controlled growth facilities, the offices and meeting rooms, the grower’s spaces and finally the greenhouses are placed accordingly to allow the efficient function of the spaces. Following the Köppen Climate classification, the greenhouses are divided into five main volumes that mimic different climate groups; temperate, polar, dry, continental, and tropical climates.
From the lab to the land, multiple multidisciplinary experiments take place. An experiment on three different methods of farming; monoculture, strip cropping, and pixel farming based on a collection of data in regards to crop yield, pest control, biodiversity, pollination, nutrient cycling, water regulation, and soil fertility and an experiment on flood-tolerant crops that mimic the traits of rice consist the main occupation of the land.
The expertise is exported across the world, while crops of the patented seeds arrive daily in the supermarket. As an essential service, the supermarket’s design incorporates integrated agriculture strategies, accentuating the new civic presence within the supermarket in an attempt to rethink the controversial subject of GMOs in aid of combating food scarcity.

This contribution envisions a new land-based aquaponic shrimp farm that replaces the practice of traditional fishing, reflecting on the planet extinction of marine species. It is sited next to the existing Borth salt mine located in Rheinberg, North Rhine-Westphali, Germany.

Sited in the Liège city center, this contribution proposes an urban winery that blends terroir fragments across the Blue Banana, exploring protection regulations that can build upon the knowledge, tradition, and novel techniques of winemaking.

Closely related to the idea of protectionism, and dictated by various regulation policies, wine production and its associated terroir are currently tied to the soil, and, therefore, to a greater rural territory. This contribution posits that due to climate change and technological advancement, the political notion of the “terroir”—as a spatial and conceptual entity that has shaped viticulture—will be revisited in the near future, introducing a new set of qualities and architectural ideas related to wine production.

A belief in the winery’s urban potential drives an attempt to go beyond protectionism by bringing wine production within the architecture of the city, at a moment when Europe—the birthplace of the Old World Wine—must reimagine the future of viticulture.

Crafted with Care imagines a small-batch bean-to-bar artisanal chocolaterie producing luxury craft chocolate, sited within a space of 1000 square meters on a sloped terrain in the medieval town of Gruyères in Switzerland, located at the top of an 82 meter-high hill overlooking the Saane valley. The rural town of Gruyères specializing in milk production and cattle breeding remains a popular tourist destination for the traditional precision craftsmanship of the infamous cheese and chocolate production. The existing family-owned chocolaterie, Chocolaterie de Gruyères, producing artisanal craft chocolate is integrated with the existing fortification at the entrance of Gruyères with proximity to regional products—such as double cream, Friborg milk, Morello cherries, Swiss kirsch, and Swiss cane beets—for their dark or milk "bean to bar" chocolate products. However, the new engagement of the chocolaterie with Hermès, a family-owned French house recognized for its luxury crafted goods, to preserve the craft of chocolate-making from its forthcoming extinction requires a new development of Chocolaterie de Gruyères to express the luxury and craft of chocolate-making and is thus sited in an exclusive heritage monument of the fort tower, offering a parallel exclusivity that compliments the product identity. The chocolaterie—committed to the tenets of traceability—is redesigned to additionally function as a gallery, educating the visitors on the transparency of chocolate processing and the value of craft production through the implicit connection with the maker. Through the disintegration of chocolate production into its layers of programmatic elements, the chocolaterie tends to highlight the precision at each level of chocolate-making, while providing different transitional routes for the varying consumer flux. The integration of the new intervention with the existing fortifications creates visual and transitional vistas overlooking the chocolate production, thus connecting the preservation of the building with the preservation of the craft of the inherently luxurious chocolates.
The site in the car-free village has proximity to parking areas, is located at a distance of 800 meters from the railway station, and at a distance of 90 meters from the bus stop with excellent connectivity for the transport of these chocolates into the major Swiss trade routes in Europe. A resultant modified supply chain will allow Swiss local experts to introduce a new distribution network of real chocolate across the Blue Banana, under a premium brand, eventually customizing the consumer experience in Albert in Delft through a branded shop-in-a-shop to reach a target demography with its artisanal opulence.