Architecture — SCI-Arc BArch 2027
Los Angeles, CA
A performance hall that breaks its container, making structure and movement part of the performance. A cultural center in the heart of Vienna designed to host performance, exhibition, and communal gathering redefining urban presence through layered transparency, circulation, and spatial performance.
View Project →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.
View Project →A proposal for a SCI-Arc Extension based on conceptual understanding of program assemblies. The proposal is not an addition but a duplication the spaces at SCI-Arc that actually work were identified and reproduced as a mirrored twin typology connecting through Keck Hall.
View Project →A self-healing building powered by algae that adapts to its environment. Fitness and data infrastructure share the same metabolic logic: both generate heat, require controlled atmosphere, and depend on continuous circulatory flow. The section forces them into a single structural frame where their shared biology becomes the architecture.
View Project →A short film depicting a hypothetical post-apocalyptic environment focused on the MASP museum in Sao 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.
View Project →Emanuele Di Paola is an architecture student at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, pursuing a BArch degree (2022–2027). His work spans cultural centers, institutional buildings, speculative structures, and short films always exploring the relationship between structure, movement, and spatial experience.
He brings a multidisciplinary approach combining computational design, physical model-making, and digital fabrication. His practice bridges rigorous technical development with conceptual depth.