Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto co-founded ecoLogicStudio in 2004; the office's work focuses on the development and application of a design method capable of exploiting the latest innovations in digital computational design. The work deploys digital technologies as a means of developing hyper-realities, regimes of intense exchange between the artificial and the natural, the designed and the accidental. Ecology is seen as a conceptual as well as a material paradigm; it is a generative force capable of re-describing current paradigms of inhabitation and manipulation of the environment; methodologically it thrives to develop a new design equation where technological progress equals an intensified symbiotic engagement with natural forces, processes and ecosystems.
Intermediate Unit 10 (Claudia's and Marco's unit at the Architectural Association) has used this as a brief to explore architecture as the art of managing material processes unfolding in space and time, and to seek to channel the creative forces latent in this to re-describe common design paradigms. The direct and continuous feedback between the office's work and the academic research is a fundamental force in the development of ecoLogicStudio's potential for innovation.
The innovative nature of ecoLogic's work has allowed the office to practice internationally and to cooperate within a multidisciplinary network of highly regarded teams. Our clients include a variety of actors from art critics and curators, to academic institutions, to the private and public sector, both in the construction industry and the design realm.
Marco Poletto
Bio_ graduated with honours from Turin Polytechnic in 1999. Studied at the AA master course in environment and energy, and worked at Battle McCarthy as environmental designer. In 2002 he directed a research group on a six months project in Caracas, working on the subject of urban ecology in the informal city. Marco has been design tutor of the MA on sustainable design at the UEL London and is currently Unit Master of Inter10 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture London and Unit Tutor of Diploma8 at the London Metropolitan University; he co-directed the Fibrous Structures Workshop (AA/ITU exchange workshop). His recent publications include articles for the books "Space Craft: developments in architectural computing" - RIBA Publishing, and "Environmental tectonics" - AA Publishing as well as for various international magazines including "World Architecture - China" and the "AArchitecture – London".
Claudia Pasquero
Bio_ graduated from Turin Polytechnic in 2000, and consequently completed the AA EE Master Programme, she is co-founder of ecoLogicStudio. She has working experience as architect in international offices such as Ushida Findlay Partnership and Erick Van Egerat Architects. She took part to the London and Venice Architectural Biennale with an installation called STEM and is codirecotr of Fibrous Structures Project. Claudia has been teaching and lecturing internationally including East London University, Turin Polytechnic, The Kingston University (London), UDLA (Puebla, Mexico City), IAAC (Barcelona), ITU (Istanbul), Bilgi University (Istanbul) and others; she is currently Unit Master of Inter10 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture London.
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Gianluca Santosuosso (internship)
Giulio Castorina (architect)
Teodoro Fumi (internship)
Johanna Brewer (interaction designer - collaborator)
Emanueala Cappellini (architect)
Fabio Capello (Intern)
Giancarlo Moi (Intern)
Pierluigi Percoco (architect)
Francesco Brenta (collaborator - Milan)
Laura Micalilzzi (collaborator - Milan)
Mark Trent (architect)
Federica Tonaldo (architect)
Eduardo Rico (urbanism)
Federico Rossi (architect)
Slider Studio (computational designer)
Nilufer Kozikoglu (research partner - Fibrous Structures)
Jorge Godoy (academic partner - ICAMP)
Ivan Valdez (academic partner - ecoMachinic Bolivia)
Cesare Griffa (academic partner - Prototyping the City)
Caterina Tiazzoldi (academic partner - Prototyping the City)