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I am an architect and researcher exploring the intersection between built environments, ecology, and material life.

My work combines methods from architecture, microbiology, ecology and physiology to investigate how materials, organisms, humans and spatial practices interact. Through experimental and applied projects, I study architecture as a living interface capable of sensing, adapting, and coexisting with both macro- and microbial life.

I currently carry out my research at the Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design, Technical University of Munich and collaborate as a Guest Scientist with the Institute of Comparative Microbiome Analysis (COMI) at Helmholtz Center Munich.

I have previously been a Research Fellow at the Energy Research Institute (ERI@N), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a Guest Scientist at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU.

Before fully dedicating myself to research, I practiced architecture for over a decade as Co-founder of Luigi Pardo Architetti (now Studio PD’A). In 2020, I decided to fully focus on my research, to pursue independent inquiry aimed at meaningful and impactful change.

My goal is to reframe architecture as part of a larger ecological continuum, shifting from designing static objects to cultivating dynamic relationships among humans, materials, and microbes.

“Architecture is not a shelter from nature, but a participant within it.”

I believe in the power of crossing disciplines to foster innovation and growth. Architecture, as an extension of ourselves, has much to learn from biology – and through this dialogue, we can open new ways of thinking about growth, waste, and coexistence in the built environment.