research

Our research interest oscillates at the interface between theory and practice, navigating the ontological and epistemological dimensions of architecture as skin.

In an era increasingly constituted as a hybridized network of multimodal interfaces, we are engaged in the remodulation of architectural and urban typologies, alongside their mediative intelligence and operational dynamism. The transformative potential embedded in contemporary advancements across bioengineering, robotics, information systems, and biomedicine signifies a paradigmatic expansion of the architectural discourse – one that extends beyond static form into a domain of adaptive, responsive, and interwoven material ecologies.

Architecture, in this context, ceases to exist as an isolated discipline. It is re-conceptualized as an open, cross-disciplinary network, continuously shaped and re-shaped by emergent trajectories in computational systems, material sciences, and novel fabrication technologies. This shift demands a perpetual recalibration of architectural thought, one that transcends the deterministic constraints of mechanistic production logics while venturing into an era where material agency, self-organization, and non-linear processuality define the built environment.

However, contemporary design and fabrication systems remain entangled in a residual mechanistic-deterministic framework – a relic of modernism that partitions the world into standardized, controllable, and functionally discrete entities. While historically productive, this mode of thinking has evolved into an apparatus of systemic preservation, reinforcing a fragmented architectural paradigm of our building culture. The machinic infrastructures that govern architectural production are not neutral instruments; they encode ideological sedimentations that constrain the generative potential of matter and technology, reducing it to a static substrate rather than an active participant in design. Natural and synthetic materials alike continue to be framed as passive entities—rigid artifacts of human control (top-down) rather than dynamic, co-evolutionary agents in an emergent material intelligence (bottom-up).

Thus, our inquiry does not merely seek an expansion of epistemic horizons but rather interrogates the possibility of new spatial, material, and organizational paradigms. At the threshold between the natural sciences and architecture, we envision a pragmatic-fictional ecology wherein multimodal interfaces facilitate novel modes of material and interfacial intelligence, cultivating architectures that are not only constructed but evolved – oscillating between states of adaptation, mediation, and interactive self-actualization.