Alumni

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MARTIN DETOEUF 

Graduated in January 2016

Martin has graduated in January 2016 in Confluence. For his degree, he wondered how vitalism could be relevant for the creation of contemporary architecture. He was therefore interested in the culture of death in Mexico and proposed a project of cemetery reproducing the idea of the vital force of vitalism in order to depollute Mexico City. With former graduates, he founded nodd collective and pursued his various researches.
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GEROLAMO GNECCHI

Graduated in January 2016

His thesis investigates the role of architecture in recording, preserving and protecting information of cultures that are disappearing with the creation of a new data center. He then worked between Paris and Milan as Junior Architect following an industrial complex in the north of France and continued his own research by creating art installations. He now works as an Architect for Carlo Ratti Associati in Turin.
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NHAILA CHIN FOO 

Graduated in January 2016 

Her Tahitian origins led her to develop a diploma on the mobility of culture in French Polynesia, a territory composed of 99% water. Since then she has been pursuing her research in Tahiti and questioning the traditional Tahitian habitat by confronting new technologies and ecology within the network of a young collective of architects, nodd. She now founded Anupama studio of design and architecture 
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CHARLES OBER

Graduated in January 2016

For his diploma, he explored the relationship between cinema and architecture in Bollywood. He is interested in new technologies of image and vision that recondition our way of seeing and living. Since then, he continues his research within the young architectural group nodd by participating in projects related to the world of the spectacle. In parallel, he has developed and manages the Confluence Institute’s FAB LAB.
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FRANCESCO MESSINA

Graduated in January 2016

For his diploma, he was very interested in the cities in decline like Detroit and Athens. He decided to rethink the urban fabric of Athens in order to create a new architecture system in addition to the existing one. He now works in Cameroon as an architect assistant to the project manager in the subsidiary of an Italian office in connection with the construction of the Douala stadium for the African Cup of Nations in 2019.
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PIERRE DE PINGON 

Graduated in January 2017

During his graduation, he became interested in the world of video games and collaborative systems in order to rethink how to design the city of tomorrow. Working on new 3D printing techniques and artificial intelligence systems he defined a new scenario of city construction. Following his diploma, he decided to work at Studio Odile Decq in Paris and he is currently working on various architectural competitions.
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DOMITILLE ROY

Graduated in January 2016

During her graduation, she developed research on textile architecture printed in 3D. Today she pursues her research for 3D printing cement architecture as part of a research program between Ital’cementi, an Italian cement manufacturer and the Confluence Institute. She has also founder with other former Confluence students an architecture collective nodd that adopt a prospective vision of architecture and design.