The Venice Pavillon
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           Speaker        
 
        
          
    
        
           A sculptural speaker rendered with GLSL signed distance functions.
(C) Mario Gagliardi 2018        
 
       
    
       
           Rudolf Belling        
 
        
          
    
        
           Rudolf Belling was sculptor, designer, architect and stage designer. In 1908, he founded a studio fo...        
 
       
    
       
           Calatrava : Sculptures        
 
        
          
    
        
           Sculptures by architect Santiago Calatrava.        
 
       
    
       
           Streampal        
 
        
          
    
        
           Streampal is a lifestream robot for Youtubers, Instagrammers and others who want to record passages ...        
 
       
    
       
           PIXelated Cube        
 
        
          
    
        
           experiment idea materialmatters architecture        
 
       
    
       
           CAMOUFLAGE ARCHITECTURE        
 
        
          
    
        
           My thesis gallery  about camouflage and architecture        
 
       
    
       
           The e-scooter Boom        
 
        
          
    
        
           The German Ministry of Transport announced that it will legalize e-scooters as road vehicles. All Ge...        
 
       
    
       
           Jonathan Ive leaves Apple        
 
        
          
    
        
           On June 28, Apple´s chief designer Jonathan Ive (born 1967) announced that he would leave Apple lat...        
 
       
    
       
           Abstract Form        
 
        
          
    
        
           Click 4 times on the canvas and watch how an abstract form is generated: https://www.mariogagliardi....        
 
       
    
       
           Essential Water        
 
        
          
    
        
           In many regions of the planet, water is increasingly becoming rare. Our understanding of water, refl...        
 
       
    
       
           Collaborative City Planning        
 
        
          
    
        
           The result of the Zero Carbon project: a collaborative scale model of the prototype site, close to t...        
 
       
    
       
           Generative Botany        
 
        
          
    
        
           An early app for generative graphics, realized in 2000 in the (now deprecated) Adobe Flash. To use t...        
 
       
    
       
           Cognition        
 
        
          
    
        
           This experiment looks at the process of human cognition. Letters get progressively filled with color...        
 
       
    
       
           Creative Changemakers & Future City        
 
        
          
    
        
           Promotional sites for the initiative Creative Changemakers and the event Future City. (C) 2018 MGD M...        
 
       
    
       
           The Persona Project        
 
        
          
    
        
           Social media are powerful because humans use the same parts of the brain to interact with machines a...        
 
       
    
       
           Structures        
 
        
          
    
        
           Architectural studies, Mario Gagliardi 2002-2004.        
 
       
    
       
           Dreaming of Skyscrapers        
 
        
          
    
        
           Mario Gagliardi 2006.        
 
       
    
       
           Blacker Box        
 
        
          
    
        
           Blacker Box is a design expression for an Intelligent Speaker. (C) Mario Gagliardi Design 2017        
 
       
    
       
           Stories of the Future        
 
        
          
    
        
           A random generator for news headlines of the future. Every 9 seconds, a new story is generated.        
 
       
    
       
           Oilspill, Carpet, Camouflage        
 
        
          
    
        
           Pattern generators for interesting surface patterns and backgrounds. Click "Start" to start, "Change...        
 
       
    
       
           Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019        
 
        
          
    
        
           For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...        
 
       
    
       
           VAW        
 
        
          
    
        
           In late 2018, we proposed a strategic repositioning of Vienna Art Week. 
We suggested a fundamental...        
 
       
    
       
           Terror Architecture -18th Century Prisons        
 
        
          
    
        
           In the late 1770s, there was a particular interest in the development of not only scientific and rhe...        
 
       
    
       
           Kunio Makaewa        
 
        
          
    
        
           Kunio Maekawa was a master of Japanese modernist architecture. He learned under Le Corbusier and was...        
 
       
    
       
           Typography        
 
        
          
    
        
           Collection of beautiful typography and graphic design.        
 
       
    
       
           Digital Biology        
 
        
          
    
        
           Interior studies for public indoor spaces merging digital and biological environments. Wall modules ...        
 
       
    
       
           Podchain        
 
        
          
    
        
           Podchain is an integrated design concept for on-demand autonomous transport. To optimize kinetic ene...        
 
       
    
       
           Fashion, Food, Transport        
 
        
          
    
        
           FUTURE CITY premiered at Vienna Art Week 2018 on November 20, 2018, at MAK Museum of Applied Arts in...        
 
       
    
       
           Architecture        
 
        
          
    
        
           Designed by Ted Wells. Architecture. Corten steel and glass.        
 
       
    
       
           Carlo Scarpa        
 
        
          
    
        
           jardin des sculptures. C Scarpa        
 
       
    
       
           WRECK--Regeneration Experiment of Wasted Daily-use Ceramics from Chaozhou, China        
 
        
          
    
        
           WRECK, the destruction of decorum, the ruin of culture. BENTU went deep into daily-use ceramics indu...        
 
       
    
       
           Time        
 
        
          
    
        
           How do you express time without numbers or watch hands? 
Clocks abstract time into a measurable, un...        
 
       
    
       
           The loft bar        
 
        
          
    
        
           Concept project of loft bar.        
 
       
    
       
           Low cost urban transport        
 
        
          
    
        
           Combining contemporary technology with a focus on low cost and reliability, this neighborhood transp...        
 
       
    
       
           AI assistant        
 
        
          
    
        
           With the advance of digitalisation, items which once had a central position in households have disap...        
 
       
    
       
           Hybrid urban scooter        
 
        
          
    
        
           A low-cost hybrid urban scooter for developing countries running either on electric battery or on bi...        
 
       
    
       
           Omnidirectional Speaker        
 
        
          
    
        
           Sculptural ominidirectional speakers, projecting sound recorded from an omnidirectional microphone i...        
 
       
    
       
           An organic structure for bikes        
 
        
          
    
        
           A sports bike for urban and mountain environments. The aluminium frame provides for increased stabil...        
 
       
    
       
           S tables        
 
        
          
    
        
           modul for table        
 
       
    
       
           Mechanical Suprematist        
 
        
          
    
        
           Experience interesting architectural compositions being created as you look around. This generator w...        
 
       
    
       
           Immersive sketch        
 
        
          
    
        
           Travel through an animated architectural sketch (move mouse to look around): http://mariogagliardi.c...        
 
       
    
       
           One Hundred Thousand Games        
 
        
          
    
        
           One Hundred Thousand Games  is an online game with unlimited levels. It takes the genre of first-per...        
 
       
    
       
           Emotibots        
 
        
          
    
        
           Emotibots are shape-shifting social home robots interacting with humans. Robots will in the future i...        
 
       
    
       
           Black Box. A Cabinet of Robotic Curiosities        
 
        
          
    
        
           The Vitra Campus has a new exhibition space: in one of the houses at the southern entrance, a Black ...        
 
       
    
       
           Breathe        
 
        
          
    
        
           The determined breaths of a glassblower are seldom included in the finished product of their labour,...        
 
       
    
       
           City Garden II ´Spaces´        
 
        
          
    
        
           Family garden for 5: spacy rooms        
 
       
    
       
           Charles Tassin        
 
        
          
    
        
           Interior designer Charles Tassin has developed a very personal approach to decoration. Merging the s...        
 
       
    
       
           penccil: This was 2017        
 
        
          
    
        
           The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...        
 
       
    
       
           Cutting the edges        
 
        
          
    
        
           Arctic Paper launches new swatch books for the brands Arctic, Amber and G-Print, as well as the two ...        
 
       
    
       
           Mugs        
 
        
          
    
        
           Intentionally on the very edge of usability, this project takes ubiquitous objects - in this case co...        
 
       
    
       
           serpentine 2017        
 
        
          
    
        
           exhibition, schauspiel köln, cologne. steelobjects, ceramic reliefs.        
 
       
    
       
           BS1        
 
        
          
    
        
           temporary accessible sculpture.        
 
       
    
       
           Functional Pasta        
 
        
          
    
        
           Pasta based on the geometry of a Möbius strip, a geometric surface with the distinction of having o...        
 
       
    
       
           We Ar        
 
        
          
    
        
           University of Sunderland MA Glass and Ceramics Show        
 
       
    
       
           Coffee maker        
 
        
          
    
        
           Visualization of the process of coffee making. 
The aim was not to use words.        
 
       
    
       
           Mapping Reality        
 
        
          
    
        
           During a walk through Berlin Moabit I sketched my perception of the surrounding streets. The result ...        
 
       
    
       
           BKM/Barozzi/Veiga        
 
        
          
    
        
           The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise o...        
 
       
    
       
           TYPOGRAPHY        
 
        
          
    
        
           RESEARCH        
 
       
    
       
           Fallingwater        
 
        
          
    
        
           Modernist Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright        
 
       
    
       
           Green Architecture…. Is it blessing or curse!!        
 
        
          
    
        
           GREEN ARCHITECTURE….IT IS GOOD FOR THE NATURAL WORLD OR MAYBE IT WILL BE A MESS OF THE TREES AND P...        
 
       
    
       
           Library        
 
        
          
    
        
           A library in the center of Moscow, study project.        
 
       
    
       
           Vico Magistretti        
 
        
          
    
        
           Vico Magistretti (1920 - 2006) studied in Lausanne and Milano. He was one of the main protagonists o...        
 
       
    
       
           Glowscape        
 
        
          
    
        
           Study for a LED light installation. LED diodes are installed on a net of wires and placed over the l...        
 
       
    
       
           Structured Reflection        
 
        
          
    
        
           These 3D-printed vases feature finely faceted surface structures which create intriguing light refle...        
 
       
    
       
           Lattice        
 
        
          
    
        
           Architectural structures. Mario Gagliardi 2006        
 
       
    
       
           Gaetano Pesce: Abstraction is boring        
 
        
          
    
        
           "Abstraction is boring and limited as a mode of expression. Reducing and reducing designs means that...        
 
       
    
       
           Chromatic seating        
 
        
          
    
        
           3 colorful seats by 3 Italian designers: Giancarlo Zema graduated from the Faculty of Architecture o...        
 
       
    
       
           Jeff Zimmerman        
 
        
          
    
        
           Jeff Zimmermann is a Chicago based artist. Born in Kentucky, Zimmerman spent his childhood among nat...        
 
       
    
       
           Kenzo Tange        
 
        
          
    
        
           Kenzo Tange was born September 4, 1913 in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from the University of Toky...        
 
       
    
       
           Home Patterns        
 
        
          
    
        
           “Home Patterns” is a new series of patterns by Longstory, designed for printing on textiles, wal...        
 
       
also:
 my first design        
 
        
  
 exhibition        
      
        
       
 
 Earth Works        
 
        
  
 Multi-collage research, between objects, land art and drawing.        
      
        
       
 
 Field of Notion        
 
        
  
 Field of Notion delves into the dichotomies of light and shadows, life and death, creating a series ...        
      
        
       
 
 Whiskey Bay Press Merc        
 
        
  
 Merch        
      
        
       
 
 Bookcover mockup        
 
        
  
 book cover design idea        
      
        
       
 
 Alpina        
 
        
  
 Chair "Alpina" designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Pianeti        
 
        
  
 Rug set "Pianeti", designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa. Handcrafted in 100% New Zealand M...        
      
        
       
 
 Flow        
 
        
  
 Dining Table "Flow" designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Gran Turismo        
 
        
  
 Lounge chair Gran Turismo, Design Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 String Theory: Architecture of Connections        
 
        
  
 This  speculative project starts with the idea that space is not defined by volume, but by connectio...        
      
        
       
 
 Printed textures        
 
        
  
 3D printing has become a viable production method enabling the rapid production of small and medium-...        
      
        
       
 
 The painted house        
 
        
  
 These experimental structures have been created by combining design processes of architecture and gr...        
      
        
       
 
 Candy Morandi        
 
        
  
 Giorgio Morandi's ceramic vessels have been the inspiration for this project. Morandi´s objects are...        
      
        
       
 
 Casa Sperimentale        
 
        
  
 One of the most visionary built experiments of 20th century architecture was created through the per...        
      
        
       
 
 SCARABOOK        
 
        
  
 SCARABOOK is the combination of Scarabottolo and the English word book (but perhaps we ought to say ...        
      
        
       
 
 My calendar        
 
        
  
 I start to make it in 2000, the year in which the future has passed, at the request of Adriano Mei G...        
      
        
       
 
 71 views of the magic mountain        
 
        
  
 In the days of the first lockdown I started making these drawings, remotely inspired by Hokusai´s "...        
      
        
       
 
 on paper books and e-books        
 
        
  
 these drawings were made thinking about what is happening to the books through various titles of cla...        
      
        
       
 
 Haribo Centennial        
 
        
  
 Haribo, the company behind the bear-shaped fruit-flavored jelly candy from Germany, is 100 years old...        
      
        
       
 
 Last and First Men        
 
        
  
 The first and last movie by iconic Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969 - 2018). With his mu...        
      
        
       
 
 el cairel II        
 
        
  
 turistic housing complex buit in reinforced concret        
      
        
       
 
 No.5 Warehouse Museum of Fossil        
 
        
  
 A space in the headquarter of a stone manufacturer in China. With its monochromatic walls, oddly sla...        
      
        
       
 
 Pulp architecture        
 
        
  
 The need to stand out in a hyper-commercialized market results in remarkable examples of contemporar...        
      
        
       
 
 Dovecote-Granary        
 
        
  
 Tiago Do Vale took on the admirable task of restoring two maize granaries as examples for disappeari...        
      
        
       
 
 Core Agora        
 
        
  
 These shop pavillions in an area of a hotel complex in Greece, designed by Not a Number Architects, ...        
      
        
       
 
 Sonata        
 
        
  
 Sonata, a multi-housing project in Merida, Mexico, was designed by Mexican practice Arkham. Partly e...        
      
        
       
 
 K11 Musea        
 
        
  
 Westworld meets Surrealism in the interior design of K11 Musea, a new shopping mall in Hong Kong, a ...        
      
        
       
 
 Lotus Zen House        
 
        
  
 The Lotus Zen House hotel is located in Mount Jiuhua, an important Buddhist site in China. Hong Kong...        
      
        
       
 
 Laurel Hills Residence        
 
        
  
 A beautiful example of a contemporary Californian residence, designed by Assembledge architects. The...        
      
        
       
 
 House 33        
 
        
  
 House No 33 by Uemori Masaaki and Uemori Kokutou: A fantastic example on how contemporary architectu...        
      
        
       
 
 Spring 2020 - Project 2 - MassArt        
 
        
  
 A school project in which we had to redesign a small triangle shape park near Harvard Square in Camb...        
      
        
       
 
 Architectural sculptures        
 
        
  
 Architectural sculptures by K. Kegelmann as part of "Future City" curated by Mario Gagliardi at the ...        
      
        
       
 
 Objects of Desire        
 
        
  
 »Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today«
28.09.2019 – 19.01.2020 at Vitra Design Museum
Surrealis...        
      
        
       
 
 Marqueterie        
 
        
  
 A contemporary marqueterie effect for a combined side table/console with hidden drawers. © Mario Ga...        
      
        
       
 
 Chromaglass        
 
        
  
 Chromaglass is a cocktail glass displaying its ingredients through colors. An inner insulating conta...        
      
        
       
 
 Nature morte/Nature vivante        
 
        
  
 Until recently, artists, designers and architects were used to working with inert, non-living materi...        
      
        
       
 
 The gilded castle        
 
        
  
 Besides castle Neuschwanstein in Bavaria,  Peles is the most remarkable turn-of-the-century castle i...        
      
        
       
 
 Upcycled        
 
        
  
 Furniture design from upcycled materials: Stools from old rubber tyres, oil barrels and washing mach...        
      
        
       
 
 The Heavy Palace        
 
        
  
 The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest was built in the nineteen-eighties after a design by Anca ...        
      
        
       
 
 chair_ONE        
 
        
  
 chair_ONE is the best known design by Konstantin Grcic, a German furniture designer whose work is eq...        
      
        
       
 
 Cazal        
 
        
  
 Glasses by German manufacturer Cazal were considered a sought-after accessory in New York's hip-hop ...        
      
        
       
 
 Reactive Space        
 
        
  
 Inspired by Plato´s allegory of the cave, this is an architectural study for spaces reacting to its...        
      
        
       
 
      
      
    
      
      
        Good design is in all the things you notice. Great design is in all the things you don’t.
— Wim Hovens
        
       
     
       
        — Wim Hovens
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