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Lead Instructor Experience

2024

“3D Printed Earth – HACKATHON” Columbia GSAPP Master’s students.

At Columbia Engineering, Carleton Laboratory.

With Prof. Dr. Lola Ben-Alon and Prof. Dr. Shiho Kawashima.

Role: Lead Instructor during five days workshop:

  • Supervised and trained master students in digital fabrication and during the 3D printing sessions
  • Supervised students during the design phase to assure the printability of 3D models
  • Defined the extrudable material mixtures (in terms of earth, natural fibers and biopolymers) used during the workshop
  • Prepared the Grasshopper script to generate the GCODE for 3D-printing with the SCARA Elite v2 robotic arm.

2023

“Circular Materials scouting”. MRAC students.

At Politecnico di Milano, Master Material Balance Design: Digital techniques and circular innovations in architecture.

Role: Faculty member

  • Prepared lectures on the most used construction materials in terms of their origin, processes, sustainability and availability
  • Advised on the material selection phase of the students’ annual project

2022

”Material stories - between metrics and narrative” MRAC01 students

At IAAC- Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.

Role: Faculty member

  • Prepared lectures on the most used construction materials in terms of their origin, processes, sustainability metrics and availability
  • Moderate on the “material debate” among students

2022

“Material Balance Design and Sustainable Products” MRAC students.

At SOS School of Sustainability

Role: Faculty member

  • Prepared lectures on materiality and textures of construction materials

Teaching Assistant

2021-2022

Scale-up! DASTU Department Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Simone Giostra

2019

PSCE_Design of subsystems and building components, ABC Department Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Enrico De Angelis

Retrofit and conservation of buildings + Laboratory ABC Department Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Laura Elisabetta Malighetti

Invited Studio Critic

The New School- Parsons School of Design

Construction Tech: Contemporary vernacular | Gustavo Lopez Mendoza 2024

Columbia University

Material Kitchens: Mix Designs, Recipes, and Erroneous Imitations | Lola Ben-Alon 2024

Tech 5 Construction + Life Cycle Systems | Lola Ben-Alon and Tommy Schaperkotter 2023

Architecture Studio V | Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano 2023

Pratt Institute

Projected Form Bodies - Materialities – Environments first year project| Kyriaki Goti 2023

University of Minho

Additive manufacturing and construction automation | Bruno Figueiredo 2022

Invited Guest Lecturer

  1. “Additive manufacturing of Natural Materials” Construction Technology 2. Resource: The Contemporary Vernacular. Prof. Gustavo Lopez Mendoza, The New School- Parsons School of Design, USA, October 2024

  2. “Digitally fabricated Earth and fiber-based materials” Inquiry into Biomaterial Architectures, Prof. Laia Mogas Soldevila, University of Pennsylvania, USA, September 2024

  3. “Mycelium-based composites: How to bond with Nature” CAS in Regenerative Materials - Essentials, Prof. Guillaume Habert, ETH Zurich, CH, April 2024

  4. “Material diets for climate-neutral construction” Material Kitchens: Mix Designs, Recipes, and Erroneous Imitation, Prof. Lola Ben-Alon, Columbia GSAPP, USA, February 2024

  5. “Newtech for sustainability” Architecture for Landscape, Alessandro Terranova, YAC Academy, Bologna, IT, October 2023

  6. “Mycelium-based composites: How to bond with Nature” CAS in Regenerative Materials - Essentials, Prof. Guillaume Habert, ETH Zurich, CH, April 2023

  7. “Concevoir et construire avec la nature” DPEA Architecture Post-Carbon, Prof. Jean-Francois Blasses, École de l’architecture et du territoires paris-est Paris, FR, May 2022

  8. “Designing with nature” Retrofit and conservation of buildings ABC Department Politecnico di Milano, October 2021

  9. “Biodesign in contemporary architecture” SOS School of Sustainability master’s in Design for Sustainability, Arch. Mario Cucinella, Bologna, IT, May 2021

  10. “Biodesign in contemporary architecture” Design and construction studio , Prof. Ingrid Paoletti, ABC Department Politecnico di Milano, IT, February 2021 Olga Beatrice Carcassi CV | 5

  11. “Fast-growing bio-based materials for construction” PSCE_ Design of subsystems and building components, Prof. Andrea Mainini, ABC Department Politecnico di Milano, IT, September2020

  12. “Biobased materials for climate-neutral construction” RIGENERA, Ordine degli Architetti di Reggio Emilia, IT, September 2022

Graduate Student Advisory

2022

Castellanos Salamanca, Laura Giovanna; Ibrahim, Fatima, MYC-CET: Bio-fabrication, a negotiation of materiality between alive and inert ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti

Natalia Ramos Montilla, Architectured materials: Development of a 3D printable mycelium-based paste and the related extruder Mechanical Department, Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Serena Graziosi & Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti

Burgess, Zoe Alexandra, Urban Microalgae Cultivations: An Ecologic Revitalization of the Abandoned Porta Genova Railyard ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti

Pradella, Federica Designing architectural technology for circularity : holistic approach for bio-based materials towards a retrofit of the existing building stock ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti

2021

Pietro Minotti, Carbon footprint assessment of a novel bamboo-mycelium composite for building insulation Chair of Sustainable Construction, ETH Zurich, CH. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert & Dr. Francesco Pittau

Marco Lenzi, Luca Ficocelli, A novel bioinspired material: growing Mycelium for tissue engineering, Chemestry Department, Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Sara Mantero & Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti

Bektas, Yagmu, Bio-Skin: Mycelium based facade panel system for circularity in architecture. ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti

Servalli, Maddalena;Dal Verme, Laura Mora;Pellegrini, Sara. Nymphaea. Rigenerazione climate neutral dell’area ex-industriale delle Fornaci di Caldè., ABC Departement, Politecnico di Milano, Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr.Francesco Pittau

2020

Marco Lolli, Toni Maksan, Pietro Minotti, Dario Quaglia, Climate-neutral building strategies Chair of Sustainable Construction, ETH Zurich, CH, Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert & Dr. Francesco Pittau

2018

Livorno Marco. The veil. Rise of a green skyscraper in Beijing, ABC Departement, Politecnico di Milano, Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr.Ingrid Paoletti