Category: Portfolio

May 2, 2025

‘Material Perception’ Exhibition @ Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

‘Material Perception’ Exhibition @ Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 Cairns are markers on land – across cultures, across time, across languages. […]

perception research

April 16, 2025

Venice Biennale Exhibition: Catalog Description

‘Material Perception’ Exhibition @ Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 Globally, approximately 16 billion square meters of ceramic tiles are installed annually! […]

ceramics perception research

Photo of the “LAND NARRATIVES | FANTASTIC FUTURES” installation

May 24, 2023

Urban American City La Biennale Architettura 2023

The installation exposes the lost histories and unrecognized imaginations of creativity born in spite of the segregation and land vacancy found in ‘Black Belt’ neighborhoods of Chicago’s South Side.

ceramics

Cover of the recording of the talk about digital technology and future

May 17, 2023

Inside Harvard GSD – MaP+S @ Digital Futures

Inside Harvard GSD – MaP+S @ Digital Futures.

Processing steps involved in the manufacturing of hierarchical porous ceramics via extrusion-based 3D printing of wet foams

October 24, 2022

3D Printing of Porous Ceramic Foams

This project discusses the development of a 3D printing process to manufacture porous ceramic materials from clay for thermal insulation and passive cooling in buildings.

ceramics

January 26, 2022

Inclined Auxetic Metamaterials: Buckling

This work was an opportunistic approach which arose when the hinges were oriented at an angle (inclined) to the base surface. Based on the nature of the hinges, Inclined Auxetic structures can be further sub-categorized into buckling based and kinematic based.

adaptive systems

Photo of the Kiriform, which is able to transform from 2D to 3D shapes

June 29, 2021

Kiriform: Deployable Flexures

Kiriform allows for axisymmetric sheet assemblies to transform from 2D to 3D shapes through a carefully engineered buckling of curvilinear struts or fins.

adaptive systems

Photo of prototypes from the Nano Micro Macro student projects

August 10, 2020

Nano Micro Macro 2019: Selected Projects

Selected projects from course “Nano Micro Macro 2019” by Jonathan Grinham, Joanna Aizenberg and Dan Tish.

adaptive systems

Picture from a student project, Morpho, of the Nano Micro Macro course

August 10, 2020

Nano Micro Macro 2018: Selected Projects

Selected projects from course “Nano Micro Macro 2018” by Jonathan Grinham, Joanna Aizenberg and Pamela Cabrera

adaptive systems

June 3, 2020

Apollo3 Patient Isolation Hood

The Apollo Patient Isolation Hood (PIH) is a localized negative-pressure ventilation system for hospital beds to help contain the droplet spread of COVID-19, including during aerosol-generating medical procedures such as intubation and extubation.