Coney Island

This image was assembled for the parachute pavilion competition in Coney Island, held in 2005.

A simple search engine was used as a starting visual brain storming. The picture of Dante and Virgilio tickling the dead (1863) came out because Dante's inferno ride is one of the amusement in Astroland park. The graphic and the subjects of the two images seem to com-penetrate each other. The picture will be included in the Iontas Exhibition 2007 in Sligo Art Gallery from the 21st of June.

FIRENZE - 1998

conversion of abandoned cardboard factory along the Arno:

this is pretty much the stereotype of a design laboratory output at the faculty of architecture in Florence: nevertheless the clock is clicking toward the third millennium and the influence of dutch contemporary architecture is recognizable, there are still some strong renaissance features, specially in the radial and centripetal layout.

Obviously the brief concerned a major art museum with permanent and temporary exhibition, an auditorium, a multifunctional space, retail, cafe'+restaurant, landscape along the river....