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Ezio Blasetti is an architect tee/tcg, academic, programmer, and computational designer.
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cyber-material hybrids | a marketplace in buttonwood, philadelphia
Weitzman School of Design
- Core Graduate Design Studio University of Pennsylvania
Dept of Architecture
instructor: Ezio Blasetti
students: Bao Ruiqi, Chen Kai, Fang Shea, Han Tianqi, Lam Phoebe, Li Ruoxi, Seemungal Ethan Matthew, Sojo Andreina S, White Austin, Yan Qinjunkai, Zhang Song, Atwood Andrew, Huang Jing, Huang Jinyi, Lang Bohan, Mackenzie Ross, Puri Ravina, Qin Wen, Shao Chenxin, Song Xiaojie, Su Chen, Tse Hei Wai Valerie, Yang Jie
The project this semester will be the design of a hybrid market building program in the Callowhill neighborhood in Philadelphia. The project will be concerned with the relationship of the city and architecture, generative formation and social dynamics. We approach computational design as a generative framework for urban morphology and as an embodied infrastructure within the city itself. As such, beyond the correlation of simulation, this studio positions different mediums onto a flat ontology and mines the collateral effects of the synchronicities and divergences between them. We seek novel forms of organization, structure and articulation as architectural expressions within the emergent properties of data and algorithmic design.
The studio will research and generate a multi-dimensional terrain of data, which will attempt to capture and compress the various infrastructural, environmental and architectural parameters of the site. This abstract construction will be our conceptual and literal site of intervention. Design will operate as a feedback tool of navigation and adaptation. Students will research and create multi-dimensional representations of the metropolitan area of Philadelphia and the Callowhill neighborhood. situation. Our attempt will be to map spatial and temporal patterns and speculate on the potential urban future infrastructure that would allow for real-time sensing and processing its data. The Urban Market is itself a hyper object which operates on a multiplicity of dimensions with different ways and degrees of access.