Marcelo López–Dinardi

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  • US PAVILION 2016 PROMISED L-A-N-D AIR

    US PAVILION 2016 PROMISED L-A-N-D AIR

    Promised L-a-n-d Air, the A(n) Office proposal for Mexicantown/Southwest Detroit, engages the consequences of North American infrastructure for urban housing, industrial plants, international institutions, and air quality. The program for the almost 10-acre site is conceived as layers of remediation–remediating the displacement of nearby residents, remediating the proliferation of trucks in residential neighborhoods, and remediating the air pollution emitted by industry and diesel engines. Exhibited in the U.S. Pavilion for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. Researcher, Designer, 2016.  

  • CMU I

    CMU I

    A complement to the 2nd year studios at the New Jersey Institute of Technology students work on a masonry build-mock-up, a competition based project in which students create a masonry construction with the help of masons, typical solid CMU blocks were cut in order to create the space of “staged interactions” within the school environment. The inquiry of the concrete masonry unit, the most typical construction element, offered the opportunity to reconsider a usually overlooked material and its capacities. First prize. Studio Instructor, 2014.  

  • SYSTEMS AND TECTONICS

    SYSTEMS AND TECTONICS

    The core 2nd year studio at the New Jersey Institute of Technology aim to discuss and develop design strategies for the concepts of tectonics and buildings’ systems. The studio was given with an emphasis in experimenting with the tools of geometric and ordering systems and their networked capacity.  Studio Instructor, 2014.      

  • VALPARAISO OR AN ANAMNESTIC MEMORY

    VALPARAISO OR AN ANAMNESTIC MEMORY

    Memory is a vital resource for trying to explain cities. Valparaíso in Chile has been no exception as evidenced by the efforts that made the city a World Heritage Site (UNESCO) after this project began in 2002. Therefore, critical analysis of heritage-related memory could present operational and architectural alternatives in the exercise of articulating historical value. With this premise, the project proposes an alternative for the staging of the city through its “documents of the past,” with a scenery dominated by the transient and imagination as a tool of memory. The city’s geographic amphitheater-like formation strengthens the relationship with the…