University of Melbourne
MIT xPRO, AI Driven Computational Design
AS+GG
2024 - 2025
Perkins Eastman
2022-2023
SOM
2021-2022 & 2013-2016
SCB
2020-2021
HOK
2016-2019
CHB(L)
2011-2012 & 2008
Hunan University, Visiting Professor
2012
Epic Metals Corporation 2009: Pittsburgh Water Research Station Competition
Lewis Alderhof Award 2008: National Concrete and Masonry Association 2008, Concrete Block Competition
Visiting Professor
‘Parametric Urban Design’, Melbourne GSD 702-606
Teaching Fellow
Descriptive Geometry Carnegie Mellon SOA 62-175
Teaching Assistant
Robotic Programming Digital Fabrication Laboratory Carnegie Mellon: 2008 . 2010
U Melb - The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture | A Treaty Needs a House: Emplacing First Peoples’ A Priori Rights in Wurundjeri Country, Metropolitan Melbourne, 2018
Editors: Elizabeth Grant, Kelly Greenop, Albert Refiti, Daniel Glenn. Creative Work Contribution
CMU - Input_Output | Performative Materials in Architecture and Design, 2013 Editors: Rashida Ng, Sneha Patel. Creative Work Contribution
CMU - Matter | Material Processes in Architecture, Routlege, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012 Editors: Gail Borden and Michael Meredith. Creative Work Contribution: “Material Resistance”
Revitalizing Washington Dulles Airport
Collaboration - Celeste Tinari
This submission is intended to contribute constructively to the U.S. Department of Transporation’s information-gathering process by identifying a feasible planning strategy that enhances operational efficiency, improves passenger experience, and supports long-term phasing while respecting the historic significance of the existing Main Terminal. It addresses key aspects of the RFI related to terminal accessibility and passenger processing, airside operational efficiency and gate utilization, construction phasing and operational continuity, and the preservation and integration of existing facilities.
The current Dulles configuration, while architecturally iconic, has historically produced a functional separation between the Main Terminal and active boarding operations due to concourse separation and reliance on mobile lounges, limiting passenger connection to aircraft activity, introducing additional transfer steps, and constraining overall throughput. Increasing aircraft-stand accommodation directly adjacent to the Main Terminal could help resolve these issues by re-establishing a closer functional and visual relationship between departures processing and aircraft boarding. International precedents demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach; for example, Heathrow Terminal 5 operates as an integrated terminal processor with an attached contact-gate concourse, along with airside satellite concourses, forming a pier–satellite layout optimized for hub operations and high transfer efficiency.
A multiple aircraft ramp system (MARS) capable of accommodating both narrow-body and wide-body aircrafts adjacent to the Main Terminal would offer several advantages consistent with the RFI objectives, including increased gate capacity, reduced dependence on mobile lounges, and improved passenger throughput. Such a configuration also provides enhanced phasing potential, allowing adjacent stands to function as enabling works for future terminal modernization while maintaining operational continuity. This approach further presents opportunities for consolidation of administrative spaces, modernization of building systems, and refreshed CBP facilities and office spaces within adjacent program areas.
This is an opportunity to enhance passenger experience, streamline operations, and serve as an enabling step toward comprehensive modernization. Offering greater gate flexibility, reduced reliance on mobile lounges, and targeted facility upgrades; this proposal preserves the historic and architectural significance of the Main Terminal while bringing it up to speed with global benchmarks.
Green Lung
Collaboration - Luis Muniz, Sergio Gonzales, Stephan Sobl, Giacomo Tinari
Our proposal for a new central library of Helsinki has no threshold only a periphery- an invitation. The gentle slope of the Makasiinipuisto park promenade leads to the heart of the design, an eighteen meter high glass roofed central courtyard, the green lung.
Connecting to all major program areas and behaving as a pedestrian distributor, the courtyard & hanging gardens allude to a lively urban piazza. The children’s space, offices, workrooms and restaurants reside to the north of the green lung.
The library on the southern end is illuminated through a system of skylights and redirection lighting systems. The restaurant has been elevated from the ground floor in order to take full advantage of the picturesque views. An independent service entrance is used for back of house operations even when the library is closed.
A delicate interplay between collective public spaces and private alcoves, engages the visitor and ensures equality and access to the buildings services.
Indigenous Place-Making
The indigenous studies center for the Wurundjeri people creates a space for engaging displays which explore the process of making, not observing. Narrative learning engages sequential, action oriented thought, much like the process of storytelling; this process allows for an architecture to be constituted by its culture.
The structure emerges capable of entwining diverse elements while representing the identity of each. The program offers a place where indigenous people are able to define who they are. Materially, the kevlar canvas walls encourage the occupants to alter the space by painting upon it themselves. The botanic garden further develops the idea, in its planning as a seasonal garden, care taken by residences of the facility; the garden achieves a sense of environmental adaptability and personalization. This project is included in The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture.
Screen
Collaboration - Arthur Azoulai, Nelly Dacic, Jared Friedman, Christopher Gallot, Spencer Gregson, Matthew Huber, Jaclyn Paceley, Puja Patel, Craig Rosman, Eddie Wong. Jury - Fabio Gramazio, Kostas Terzidis
The wall is composed of unique hexagonal modules that nestle within each other, thereby eliminating any adhesives or fasteners. Each component is formed by two separate molds that are milled on a 7-axis robot. The molds are then lined-up, held together, and cast in plaster concrete.
Collaborative Innovation Center
Drop on the Rise
Collaboration - Celeste Tinari
Winter Stations 20206 - Toronto, Canada
The mirage of water on the horizon takes a new form in a sculptural droplet that at first glance appears impossibly afloat on the frozen shoreline. On further investigation, however, passersby will see a structure woven entirely from coarse, weather-worn rope that is tantalizingly tactile.
The structure evokes a duality of solid sculpture juxtaposed with dynamism as cascades of rope flow with the wind. Our goal is to invoke curiosity and wonder while distorting our sense of fluidity by presenting it at as standstill. Whether the first look evokes a water droplet, ice sculpture, or sand storm - the onlooker is invited to take a closer look and unveil the reality beneath illusion.
Opaque
Collaboration - Celeste Tinari
Winter Stations 20206 - Toronto, Canada
Offering fleeting glimpses but never full clarity of whats within — a play between understanding and illusion similar to the synthetic knowledge offered by AI. A moment suspended between impact and meaning, OPAQUE stands out against the shoreline- inviting visitors to become a part of the illusion.
Constructed of wood, the exterior is treated with a charred Shou Sugi Ban finish