GOMMAdesign

Projects
GOMMAdesign: CORAL CITY – Energy Award winner at DAtE competition
GOMMAdesign: CORAL CITY – Energy Award winner at DAtE competition

Design Against the Elements was a global architectural design competition meant to find a solution to the problems presented by climate change. Spurred by the devastation wreaked in the Philippines by tropical storm Ondoy (Ketsana) and driven by a powerhouse multidisciplinary group of organizations from the private, institutional, and government sectors, the project aimed to [...]

GOMMAdesign: FOLDSC(R)APE – entry for Evolo2011 competition
GOMMAdesign: FOLDSC(R)APE - entry for Evolo2011 competition

eVolo’s Skyscraper Competition, organized yearly by eVolo Magazine, seeks for new ideas to redefine skyscraper design “through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution”. Highly conceptual proposals investigate how this building typology can gain a renewed positive relation with both [...]

GOMMAdesign: a parametric pine tree for PontèPigneto competition
GOMMAdesign: a parametric pine tree for PontèPigneto competition

One of the main elements of our proposal for PontèPigneto competition was a solar-paneled canopy inspired by the shape of the Maritime Pine tree, a very common landmark here in Rome (for detailed info and images about our proposal please read this post). Hence we started looking at the beautiful structures created by recursive branching [...]

GOMMAdesign: Poster design for local based events communication
GOMMAdesign: Poster design for local based events communication

Poster design for the communication of a serie of events that has been held in Roma (Garbatella), on the subject of public space usability. Local inhabitants were called to participate to a night of public space ‘invasion’ where, toghether with the help of a number of teams of urban creatives, photographers, urban writers, guerrilla gardeners, [...]

GOMMAdesign: PINI@PIGNETO – a square on the railroad for PontèPigneto competition
GOMMAdesign: PINI@PIGNETO - a square on the railroad for PontèPigneto competition

The goal of the PontèPigneto competition was to gather ideas for a public space which could be energetically self-sufficient (through an intelligent use of form and technology) and elastic (capable to respond to fast urban transformations). The pedestrian bridge in Pigneto neighborhood – Rome, already an important node for the area, was chosen as the [...]

GOMMAdesign: Eco-Displays – reusing crates as signage system
GOMMAdesign: Eco-Displays - reusing crates as signage system

During the last year the Antù was a sustainability focused venue, promoting activites and associations with a Green mind. When they asked us to have a tailored made low budget, easily updatable, signage system, to comunicate informations to costumers during all the different events they had scheduled, of course the main keywords had to be [...]