Portfolio 2026

EMANUELE DI PAOLA

Architecture, SCI-Arc B.Arch 2027

Los Angeles, CA

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01

"Yovie" Cultural Center

Vienna, Austria, 2025

A performance hall that breaks its container, making structure and movement part of the show. A cultural center in the heart of Vienna, designed to host performance, exhibition, and communal gathering, and to hold its ground on the Ringstrasse through layered transparency and circulation.

Cultural Performance Hall
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02

Panel Mirror

Los Angeles, CA, 2025

A kinetic self-portrait machine. A camera reads the viewer’s face in real time, collapses it to an 8 × 8 binary grid, and hands the 64 values to 64 hand-wired stepper panels. At that resolution you are not recognizable, only present. The wall reports movement, not likeness.

Kinetic Physical Computing Arduino
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03

Spiral Staircase

Los Angeles, CA, 2025

A study in structure and flow. A diagonally cut eggcrate system creates this sculptural staircase, revealing structure through sectional geometry. Explores the relationship between load transfer and spatial rhythm through a continuous folded steel spine and suspended acrylic treads.

Fabrication Structure
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04

Lymphtonic

Downtown Los Angeles, 2024

A speculative tower where fitness floors and a data center make similar demands: heat rejection, controlled air, continuous circulation. So the section stacks them in one structural frame instead of separating them. The pool becomes the data hall’s ceiling.

Speculative Mixed-Use Unreal Engine
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05

Civic Quarry

Quito, Ecuador, 2026

A museum and national archive extending Parque La Carolina, Quito. The existing city block is treated as raw material, and civic program as the exposed seam within. Competition proposal, vertical studio.

Museum Competition
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06

SCI-Arc Extension

Los Angeles, CA, 2025

A proposal for a SCI-Arc extension built from the program assemblies the school already has. It is not an addition but a duplication: the spaces that actually work were identified and reproduced as a mirrored twin, joined to the original bar through Keck Hall.

Institutional Program Parametric
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07

The Archive

Interactive Web Experience, 2026

The last paper archive, explored in first person in the browser. After the takeover, one candlelit room of paper survives: sixteen records on theory, simulation, and the archive itself, attended by the Keeper. A museum that exists only online, blurring curation, atmosphere, and game space.

Web App Three.js Interactive
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08

Future Ruins

São Paulo, 2024

A short film depicting a hypothetical post-apocalyptic environment focused on the MASP museum in São Paulo. The ruin is not accidental but designed: every element of decay was choreographed to reveal how the building would fail. The structural skeleton remains partially intact, reclaimed by overgrowth.

Film Visualization
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09

Diagrammatic Formation

Los Angeles, 2026

Three rocks scanned with a phone and redrawn as point clouds, set on interlocking pedestals of rammed earth mixed after Roman concrete. The pedestals were rammed layer by layer in a tapered plywood formwork, each layer a different colour and grain.

Rammed Earth Point Cloud
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10

The Green Labs

Group project · SCI-Arc · Fall 2025

An expansion for SCI-Arc built around one shaft cut through the plan. The shaft ventilates the building by the Venturi effect and carries daylight to the deep core. Bamboo façade, LEED Platinum, 98 of 110.

Environmental Systems Passive Ventilation
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11

From Scan to Panel

Workshop · SCI-Arc · Fall 2024

A weekend in scripted making. Image data sampled in Grasshopper became 40 mm spheres and a ping-pong ball panel, built through a HoloLens. Our group of three built five of its ten subpanels.

Grasshopper Augmented Reality
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SCI-Arc · Los Angeles · Est. 2022

I'm an architecture student at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, working toward a B.Arch, expected May 2027. My projects move across cultural centers, institutional buildings, speculative structures, and short films, always looking at how structure, movement, and space relate to each other.

I work across computational design, physical model-making, and digital fabrication, trying to keep the technical and the conceptual in conversation.

Experience

  • Summer Intern, full time Jun to Aug 2026 · TIGHE Architecture
  • Teaching Assistant, Design Development (Revit) Fall 2026 · SCI-Arc
  • Teaching Assistant, studio with Herwig Baumgartner Spring 2026 · SCI-Arc
  • Summer Internship, scholarship program Summer 2025 · Roto Architects

Exhibitions + Service

  • Helped install and curate the exhibition 2026 · Planet City by Liam Young, SCI-Arc
  • Helped curate the models 2025 · SCI-Arc Spring Show, curated by Damjan Jovanovic
  • Exhibited multiple projects, SCI-Arc Spring Show Every year since 2022
  • Yovie model selected for display as student work 2025 · SCI-Arc Gala, honoring Thomas Heatherwick
  • Class Representative, Student Union (STUN) 2023 to present

Education

  • B.Arch Expected May 2027 · SCI-Arc, Los Angeles
  • Thesis: Form Follows Force (working title) 2026 to 2027 · Advisor Russell Thomsen · Studio led by Maxi Spina
  • Business and Management 2021 to 2022 · American University School of Rome

Languages

  • Italian Native
  • English C2
  • Spanish B2
  • French B1

Tools

Modeling & BIM
Rhino Grasshopper Revit SketchUp Blender ZBrush Houdini AutoCAD (basic)
Visualization
V-Ray Enscape D5 Render KeyShot Twinmotion Unreal Engine Adobe Creative Suite Photography Video editing
Computation & Interaction
TouchDesigner Arduino GitHub Web and app development
Fabrication
3D Printing Woodshop Welding certificate

Posted.

Where the work has shown up outside this site. Two architecture accounts that picked up projects, and the school's own channels.

Get in
touch.

Based in Los Angeles, finishing a B.Arch at SCI-Arc in 2027. Email is the fastest way to reach me for studio work, internships, or questions about any of the projects above.