Projects
Location: Städtchenstrasse 28, 7320 Sargans, Switzerland | Studio: AAM Atelier Grafton
Sargans is a landscape of massive alpine weight and imposing valleys. This project is defined by an act of disenchantment, dismantling the St. Gallen mountains' scale at the bottom of the hill to reveal a reclaimed space for youth.
Within the shell of a preserved semi-detached house, referencing Märkli's Russian-doll typology in Walenstadt, a continuous interior landscape is formed. The playground itself is created by stripping back the domestic core, transforming a conventional dwelling into a climbable topography.
Between the existing walls, tactile thresholds are inserted to mediate the valley's vastness, providing intimate niches for exploration, movement, and play. The architecture ceases to fight the mountain, instead translating its geological weight down to the street level, grounding the massive cantonal context in the exact scale of a child.
By working from the inside out rather than adding mass, the design creates an internalised terrain that functions as a spatial vessel, allowing children to finally master the topography.
Location: ul. K. Gierdziejewskiego / ul. Warszawska, 02-495 Warszawa, Poland | Recognition: Ecopark Stage 3 — Honorable Mention | Co-authors: Eda Altındağ, Jan Przedpełski, Franciszek Wąsowski
The heavy industrial heritage of the Ursus Factory, the idyllic suburban traditions, and the historic urban fabric.
Conceived as an ode to depaving, the masterplan unearths the district’s hydrological memory by reviving its forgotten lakes and clay pits. Instead of relying on hidden infrastructure, the project transforms water management into a highly visible, sensory experience through an integrated system of micro-retention basins, rain gardens, and a central water garden.
Rooted in strict material circularity, the design reclaims the existing concrete pavement of the former market as a raw structural resource. Sliced and reassembled, these heavy fragments form the pathways and structural columns of new community pavilions, turning physical remnants of the past into a tactile architectural language found in Ursus's industrial history.
Location: Aristomenous 29, 104 40 Athina, Greece | Studio: AAM Atelier Waldrap | Co-author: Eda Altındağ
Athens is a landscape of hidden water and abandoned domesticity. The intervention is defined by an act of excavation, carving into the footprints of derelict houses to reveal a new public realm.
Behind the preserved abandoned facades, which are reinforced by new bearing columns, a series of public living rooms are formed. The pools themselves are created by the negative imprints of the original foundations, transforming private voids into shared water.
Within the internal walls, lightweight roofs are inserted to accentuate specific niches, providing essential shade for play, conversation, and rest.
The pavement is composed of reused rocks, bricks and marbles salvaged from the walls of the excavated houses, grounding the site in its own history.
By extruding the existing fabric rather than adding mass, the design creates a collective water park that functions as a subterranean vessel, allowing the city to finally meet its water through the poetry of subtraction.
Location: Località Ourty, 11020 Champorcher AO, Italy | Context: New Ruralities Competition Entry
Valle d'Aosta is shaped by rhythms of movement - pastures in summer, snow in winter, and paths that fold across altitude and time. In this landscape, every alpine structure acts like a crystalline node: anchoring, refracting, and marking presence.
Currently a dispersed ensemble of small volumes for storage, stables, sleeping, and production. Built from necessity, they form a loose constellation around an unresolved courtyard.
The new addition acts as the missing piece. It stabilises the spatial reading of the ensemble and gives coherence to a site already shaped by labour and memory.
The refuge is organised around a central spiral stair. From this core, rooms radiate in a compact symmetric plan: storage below, common room and kitchen at ground, dormitories above. Movable partitions allow seasonal adjustments in sleeping capacity. This project proposes a dialogue between two distinct architectural voices, unified by a strict, rational grid that serves as a common alphabet.
Location: ul. Kraszewskiego 12, 16, 60-518 Poznań, Poland | Context: Competition Entry | Co-authors: Jan Binzer, Franciszek Wąsowski
The infill building acts as a spatial vessel that draws history inward. By reorganising the standard domestic core, the design exposes the adjacent, preserved half-timbered wall directly within an illuminated interior atrium. This transforms conventional circulation into a vertical plaza, integrating the site's materiality into the daily life of the residents.
The corner building represents an act of spatial resistance, recalling the site's history of local markets and informal public life. Instead of aggressively capturing the plot, the volume steps back axially from the street to yield an open urban living room and active ground-floor functions. This deliberate withdrawal preserves existing trees and introduces a gallery-access typology in the rear, prioritising the civic realm over maximum density.
Location: Viale Antonio Gramsci 1, 20091 Bresso MI, Italy | Studio: PoliMi Final Design Studio | Co-authors: Eda Altındağ, Defne Dengizek
The approach is based on three principles: repurposing Bresso Airport, connecting the community to Parco Nord, and implementing vertical mobility across Milan.
Conceived as a radical extension of the modernist park, a newly constructed topography rises above the infrastructure. This terraforming acts as a massive spatial divider, anchoring the exposition pavilion on one side and the vertiport terminal on the other, while creating a continuous spatial connection through the formerly divided Parco Nord.
Buried beneath this artificial hill lies the underground metro station, serving as the subterranean infrastructural link between the two primary structures. On the surface, the vertiport terminal anchors the composition, hosting the air traffic control facilities above.
Location: Fenghuangzui Cun, 629114 Suining, Sichuan, China | Studio: PoliMi Design Studio 3 | Co-authors: Eda Altındağ, Defne Dengizek
The canopy is the village joint. Its rotating walls open directly to the cultivation fields, allowing stalls and daily life to spill into the land. When closed, the concrete roof shelters the market; when open, it becomes part of the field. Skylights puncture the roof, marking the hours and animating the market with shafts of daylight.
Under the roof, a fountain becomes a meeting place, and the tea house offers a pause between labour and exchange. The public space is slow and multipurpose: meant for buying, storing, chatting, rest, and seasonal trade.
From the canopy, a simple wooden path stretches across the village, linking the market to the neighbouring guesthouses and a local lake. At the water's edge sits a quiet shelter for fishermen that grounds the project in the everyday rhythm of rural life.
Location: Ponta do Buraco, 9200-043 Caniçal, Madeira, Portugal | Context: The Home of Shadows Competition Entry
Light divides space, defining the functional zones, sometimes marking the circulation. Each room receives illumination differently, shaped by openings, materials, and orientation.