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The contemporary art world finds itself in a strange situation nowadays. On one hand, contemporary art stands for the new; on the other, it’s become an old and saturated place. Galleries aren’t investing in the sustainable creation of art or motivating the artists to push in this direction. My project bio pigments atelier aims to change this paradigm. Bio pigments atelier is a project that revolves around creating your own paints and a collection of paintings with micro-algae pigments.

IMAGO project relies on the design, construction, rehabilitation, and operation of a student housing prototype in Bordeaux, destined to host six students as an extension over a pre-existing housing unit, before future up-scaling. Using a Living Lab framework, the main goals are : Involving the students from various fields in the design process. Improving the living lab through the users’ feedback. Engaging students in sustainable and resilient practices, providing innovative student housing.

Our purpose is to create a safer and more environmentally friendly building design through natural inspiration and innovation. By harnessing readily available 'waste' materials from various industries, we bio-manufacture affordable, high-performing, and carbon-negative alternatives to environmentally harmful construction materials. Our panels, available in various sizes, offer superior insulation properties while being environmentally friendly, biodegradable, and competitively priced.

The “Eco4UA” project aims to empower Ukrainian communities to regain their natural heritage and socio-environmental wellbeing. By bringing communities in the centre of post-conflict environmental recovery, the project unfolds in a series of co-designed citizen science actions with university students, experts and communities, that transform Ukrainian citizens into advocates of environmental justice and post-war preservation in their country.

The Lent stolp is a wandering pavilion designed for the city of Maribor and the Lens festival. The aim has its roots in creating the relationship between the pavilion and the heritage of the city, which partially match with its architecture and its fluvial tradition. The project is made of two distinct architectural archetypes revised in a contemporary way: the pitched roof and
the raft. Therefore, the architecture of the pavilion is found in the cultural shape of the context.

Heatwaves are scorching Earth's surface and there is an alarming need to cool down the cities. Our integrated solution provides efficient cooling that also covers peak demands and predicts the future cooling demand for urban environment using machine learning techniques. We integrate a chilling unit with a state-of-the-art PCM-based thermal energy storage into a local district cooling network. Basically, we are a futuristic integrated cooling system aiming to cool communities efficiently.

Osnova - a project of a multifunctional facility. It can be adapted and serve as a kindergarten, school, village council, cultural center, workshops, and even a church. Because there are many villages and many needs, and they will certainly change over time.
At its essence, it is a constructor. It consists of a core. And a set of blocks that differ in both function and size. A sufficient variety of different functional schemes is achieved due to the variability of planning solutions.

The design of the flowerbeds composition is based on the plan analogy of the historical block structure of the city of Trnava.

Three thematic blocks are designed around the Holy Trinity statue.
- Lawn with an emphasis on landscaping. The whole area of this block has a stay-and-play character.
- Flower planting with seating at its edge.
- Plateau with lawn and informal seating.

We are completing the square into a vibrant place where residents and visitors will spend their leisure time.

COMUNITARIA is conceived as an alternative, open-air school based on the principles of “affordable design”, “grassroot governance” and “ludic pedagogy”, focusing mainly on establishing a permanent building workshop of a particular kind of kites called Eteria and the foundation of a community-led school that will offer flight courses for kites pilots.

The essence of this project is to integrate the three inseparable values: sustainability, inclusiveness and aesthetics and quality experience.
The mission of the project is a green city, providing a sense of belonging and mobility to the people who need it most.
The vision of the project is cleaner air; reintegration of ex-convicts and integration of disabled persons and inclusion of the specified categories of persons in the final design of the vehicles.