Staff Profile

Armand is an architectural designer and research assistant based in Edinburgh. His master’s degree focused on using visual programming to emulate anatomical structures for a BioFabrication Laboratory, and to create ecologically sensitive facades for a community-owned hydroelectric project exploring energy futures. His dissertation looked at historical urbanism approaches in Metro Manila and its effect on the urban poor and informal settlements. His work has earned him Environmental and Sustainability awards from Sheffield University and Shanghai Tongji University respectively.

Armand has worked in several architectural practices across a range of project scales, during his time in industry he specialized in building information modelling and computational design. He is currently a researcher with the Responsible Interactions Research Theme at the HBBE.

Armand is currently researching in the Responsible Interactions theme at the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment. He is working with 3 multi-disciplinary teams across Newcastle and Northumbria Universities to install full scale prototypes in the _OME experimental habitat. The 3 prototypes are BioKnit Composite, Healing Masonry and BioMateriOME Microbial Surfaces.

Armand has recently been assisting with the MUD Futures project and research into the use of parametric design applications in form-finding for digital knit fabrication.