Inspirations.  

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...

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...

Architectural sculptures

Architectural sculptures by K. Kegelmann as part of "Future City" curated by Mario Gagliardi at the ...

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...

HYFY

HYFY is a project to rethink the functions, structures and formal expressions of audio hardware.

The gilded castle

Besides castle Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, Peles is the most remarkable turn-of-the-century castle i...

The Heavy Palace

The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest was built in the nineteen-eighties after a design by Anca ...

Reactive Space

Inspired by Plato´s allegory of the cave, this is an architectural study for spaces reacting to its...

Omnidirectional microphone

Design for an omnidirectional microphone, recording sound from all spatial directions. Recorded soun...

Speaker

A sculptural speaker rendered with GLSL signed distance functions. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2018

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

Essential Water

In many regions of the planet, water is increasingly becoming rare. Our understanding of water, refl...

The Venice Pavillon

The Venice Pavillon interprets the history of Venice as a point of contact between West and East. Sh...

Collaborative City Planning

The result of the Zero Carbon project: a collaborative scale model of the prototype site, close to t...

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

Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019

For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...

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...

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

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...

Stories of You

REVOIR is an interactive mirror, activated by emotion detection to create stories through visual lan...

Cooking with myth

IOTAO is a series of IoT - enabled domestic cooking devices for the Chinese market which reinterpret...

Emotional drones

タマ tama : ball, sphere; also jewel, spirit, soul タマタマ tamatama : by chance Balloon drone...

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...

Unfolding sound spaces

Conventional audio speakers require the listener to sit in a certain spot to get the best audio expe...

Shape-shifting robotic structures

Simulations for a research on shape-shifting robotic structures. Shape memory alloy sticks are linke...

Emotibots

Emotibots are shape-shifting social home robots interacting with humans. Robots will in the future i...

Cellular Letters

An algorithm applies regular growth patterns to a basic font, thereby creating a great range of diff...

Cellular Automata: A design language for industrial silk

Handmade Mudmee silk is part of the cultural heritage of Thailand and Laos with a tradition reaching...

Flow

Flow simulations on car designs. Surfaces in red show the highest resistance. (C) MGD 2010.

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...

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...

An evolutionary algorithm for bike design

A learning algorithm randomly creates simplified body designs for bikes. As they race along the test...

BKM/Barozzi/Veiga

The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise o...

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...