Architensions

03/14/2025

Project Sangha, Yangon. WIP. Inspired by the history of collective housing in South Asia, the project proposes collective functions to improve people relationships, promote culture, and preserve heritage while simultaneously implementing accessibility to resources and services. Sharing resources is at the center of an environmental strategy that allows the community living in the units to recycle materials and water, promoting a community-led housing practice. The construction of this project focuses on renewable local resources such as Pyinkado (Xylia Dolabriformis) timber, a dense and strong hardwood grown in large quantities in the region for the structure, locally sourced bricks for the envelope, metal for the roofing material, and the cladding of the collective modules.
The project is a collaboration with client Ivan Pun and architect’s agent model by .regan Structure Consultants :

07/17/2024

We are thrilled and honored to be included in Wallpaper* USA 400, “the people defining America’s creative landscape in 2024.” For the second year we are part of the New Guard: the rising stars getting us excited for the future. Big Thanks to Architecture Editor Ellie Stathaki and Wallpaper* team and many more for recognizing our work.
Thanks to for their continuous support. Thanks to everyone at Architensions, past and present.

04/17/2024

The Playground, Coachella Music and Art Festival 2022. A fragment of a city and its public spaces to interact, perform and play.
Location: Indio, California
Design: Architensions
Client:
Curation:
Building & Fabrication:
Structure: Kyle Morris
Photo 1: .gerber , Photo 2 : /

02/14/2024

Townhouse of Seven Stories, London , UK, 2022. A transparent ribbon staircase made of micro-perforated steel mesh allow for the light to pe*****te through the different floors. Photograph /

12/18/2023

Head to KoozArch to read the interviews to Alessandro Orsini, the organizer, and the participants of the "Rethinking Practice Symposium" held at Columbia GSAPP the past November 10th.
Thanks to Valerio Franzone and the KoozArch team.

KoozArch interviews the organiser and the speakers of the symposium ‘Rethinking Practice: Climate, Equity, Labor’ at Columbia GSAPP.

10/04/2023

Writing Pavillion, Brooklyn 2015. A garden shed for writing as a part of a three pavilions alternative domesticity.

09/25/2023

Architecture as Commoning Practice.
Alessandro Orsini and Nick Roseboro will lecture tomorrow at Syracuse New York City presenting their research and projects.
If you are in New York don't forget to RSVP in the link below.

Alessandro Orsini & Nick Roseboro Co-founders, Architensions Columbia GSAPP, Sarah Lawrence College faculty Architecture as Commoning Practice...

09/13/2023

Reconfiguring the traditional organization of domesticity is central to unpacking and transgressing the social and political form of the space that protects our life. In the middle of the current housing crisis, new configurations emerge that break the physical barriers of the room subdivisions, private and public, historically symbolizing the regime of accumulation, wealth, and gender segregation. Eliminating these physical boundaries allow one to find other forms of collective living, opposing the individualization of life promoted by capitalism. In the Knolls co-living project, the external circulation and ground level become a living space for the community as an extension of the units and a respite from the sun. Architensions + Andy Bruno

09/06/2023

Our entry for the Museum of Science in Rome. A collaboration between three practices.
Architensions + Gico Studio + Valerio Franzone

07/06/2023

Honored to be included in this incredible list of creatives. Thank you Wallpaper* magazine . Alessandro Orsini & Nick Roseboro are included in the New Guard of creatives in the field of architecture. Read more on the link below.

Discover the Wallpaper* USA 300, celebrating the people defining America’s creative landscape, from design business leaders through celebrity shapeshifters and the new guard

07/05/2023

Townhouse of Seven Stories, 2023. Two sets of stairs in perforated metal mesh stitches the entrance foyer with the dining and kitchen downstairs and the living and private areas upstairs. Structure: Acoustics: Sounds Matters, Fabrizio Filippi, Photo: /

06/22/2023

Work in Progress. Collective Housing. Study model.