Diana Saul Studio Architecture + Design + Fabrication

Sustainable agricultural practices
3D Printed Ceramics
Future Tower
Convergence Dome
Porcelain Tower Vase
Sustainable agricultural practices
Sustainable agricultural practices

The sketches embark on an architectural exploration of residential buildings, leveraging the capabilities of Midjourney AI. This endeavor seeks to reconceptualize the application of biomaterials such as Mycelium (a special blend of mushroom roots and crop waste, that could grow and self-assemble in 3D-printed PLA molds), transforming it, from a mere structural element, to a […]

3D Printed Ceramics
3D Printed Ceramics

                            The blue and green vases will be displayed at the annual Art Association Members’ Exhibition from April 26 to May 27. They were designed using generative systems in computational design and then digitally crafted using a clay 3D printer. The finishes […]

Future Tower
Future Tower

Future Tower  | Design competition Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 2019 | type: mix use. Retail, offices, hotel and residential  | Area site: 2261 sq. M | Total area: 85,000 sq. M approx. These are some of the design concepts developed during the second stage of the Dubai Future Tower competition. The studio, chosen by the Future Tower […]

Convergence Dome
Convergence Dome

  This is the proposal for the international design competition Winter Stations 2019 and its theme Migration. The design explores the concept of migration from a physical point of view, understanding this as the change in position of an object over time which could be drawn as the traces left behind by the entity or object in motion. The […]

Porcelain Tower Vase
Porcelain Tower Vase

  This vase was designed using one of my parametric systems for building design. It consists of a continuous porous surface adapted to the base morphology. The resulting vase skin gives intricate terraced aesthetics. This design is part of a series of studies of differentiated gyroids. Available for order in five different colors here Size Cm: 10.826 x / 12.078 y / 19.748 z  | In:4.262 x / 4.755 y / 7.775 z Material […]

Generative systems 2011 | 2017
Generative systems 2011 | 2017

“Generative Design is a morphogenetic process using algorithms structured as non-linear systems for endless unique and un-repeatable results performed by an idea-code, as in Nature” _ Celestino Soddu “Logic has interests in abstract forms. Science investigates exact forms. Design initiates novel forms. A scientific hypothesis is not the same thing as a design hypothesis. A […]

Bamiyan Cultural Center
Bamiyan Cultural Center

  Bamiyan Cultural Center  | Design competition Bamiyan, Afghanistan | 2015 | Client: UNESCO | type: cultural | Area: 2,220 sq. M | Area site: 26,000 sq. M approx. Project team: project design: Diana Quintero de Saul, rendering: Escobarte  

Collider Activity Center’s proposal
Collider Activity Center's proposal

  Our proposed Collider Activity Center is generated in a hexagonal forcefield from which park and buildings emerge as a result of requisite collisions between program activities. Project morphology is continually expanding and contracting in catalyzing the various hosted activities: it enables convergence at the Center Hall attractor point and subsequent expansion toward park and landscape. […]

Shell Structures 02
Shell Structures 02

Studio Hadid, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna 2012   Adaptive Grids and Semiotic Shells, The design consists of an urban field whose main parameters are density programs and environmental inputs. From this parametric interaction, four shell typologies emerge as the non-linear product of different structure gradients, from thin concrete shells to grid shell structures. Efficient […]

Continuous Shells
Continuous Shells

Continuous Shells_Triple Periodic  Minimal Surfaces This research investigates the application of Triple periodic continuous minimal surfaces in the design of shell structures. It presents different formal outcomes derived from the implementation of a computational algorithm which generates Minimal surfaces having a Quadri-rectangular Tetrahedron as a kaleidoscopic cell, as well as derived from the inclusion of […]

Busan Opera House
Busan Opera House

The proposal consists of an organic building-scape which allows for a variety of recreational and educational activities while creating a cultural icon for Busan. The building is organized around three principal wavelengths generated parametrically based on the pre-existing local tensions: a stunning ocean view to the west, a bustling city to the east, and a […]

Pushinsky Cinema Moscow
Pushinsky Cinema Moscow

This project deals with, on the one hand, preservation of the ¨snow clad¨ character of the “White City”, and on the other, the complex dynamics that the new material gives expression to. In bringing back the Pushkinsky cinema to the city, this proposal establishes a continuation of the “White City”; analogically, of the material and […]

Elizabeth st. Building
Elizabeth st. Building

The facade of this residential building was generated from the system designed in Smart Geometry in SF 2009. It consists of the integration of a growth algorithm with different variables and the application of external forces as driving factors in the generation of the overall form. The initial geometry of this project was generated in […]

Blues Point House
Blues Point House

This is a concept for a house that I designed at Tony Owen Partners. The house was generated using a system which consists of the use of control points in responsive manners according to local tensions; the sub-location of the control points allows for manipulation of the overall form which is on a spline surface […]

Experimental surfaces
Experimental surfaces