Selected work

The former railway lands of Porta Genova cut a hard fragment through the city. The question: could that scar become a continuous civic landscape — mobility, housing, culture, water, and biodiversity in one regenerative framework?

International Urban Design Studio (HKU, MUDP1002), Milan — Semester II 2026. Instructor: Ian Ralph. Tools: QGIS · Rhino · Adobe.

The analysis resolved into six new districts — Corta Studentesca, Oasi Urbana, Passage della Arti, Bosco del Benessere, Corta della Stazione, Corta Creativa — and twenty spatial episodes that stitch the corridor back into the surrounding fabric.

Oyama Happy Road is a 560-metre covered arcade in Itabashi, Tokyo — a socio-spatial spine that has served its neighbourhood for generations. It is now being cut in two: Road 26 is driven through the middle of it, and City Towers Itabashi Oyama adds more than 4,000 m² of commercial floorspace beside it. The typology is not dead, but it is dissolving. The studio brief asked whether architecture can restore life to what is not yet dead — whether design can regenerate the spirit of a place without over-writing the very thing that gives it identity.

Rather than redesign or preserve the market laneway, we designed for change. M.O.V.E. turns a dissolving shotengai street into an adaptable archipelago that binds individuals and interests together — and, for the passer-by, brings the feeling of finding an unexpected treasure in a monotonous urban fabric.

Macro: a light timber module with perforated textile that spans the laneway and gives it a roof, a shadow, and a threshold. Micro: street furniture drawn from the street's own vernacular — the beer crates stacked outside izakaya, the green fencing of Shinjuku Station — reusable, adaptable, moveable, stackable, and held by the community rather than the developer.