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Email

alberto.pugnale@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Associate Professor in Architectural Design
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Education
PhD
Politecnico di Torino
Masters (Coursework & Research)
Politecnico di Torino
Bachelors Degree
Politecnico di Torino
ORCID

0000-0002-4587-0208

A/Prof Alberto Pugnale

Associate Professor in Architectural Design
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

71 Scholarly works
0 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Deploying FloaTree: computational design-to-construction workflow of a low-tech tensegrity system
    DOI: 10.1007/s44223-025-00112-4
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Dante Bini: Out of the Box
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Towards study crafting in design education: A review of job crafting frameworks
    DOI: 10.65388/NTQJ3536
  • 2024

    Original Creative Work

    FloaTree Pavilion for the IASS 2024 Design Competition and Exhibition of Innovative Lightweight Structures
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Beyond the Visuals: Future Collaboration Scenarios Between Architects and Artificial Intelligence
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-62963-1_1
  • 2024

    Original Creative Work

    Hypar Up Pavilion for the IASS 2023 Design Competition and Exhibition of Innovative Lightweight Structures
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Making the Hypar Up pavilion: (in)efficiencies of upcycling surplus timber products
    DOI: 10.1007/s44223-024-00074-z
Alberto Pugnale

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2025
<p><span>2024 Best Paper award from “Architectural Intelligence” for the paper “Making the Hypar Up pavilion:(in) efficiencies of upcycling surplus timber products” by Sofia Colabella, Alberto Pugnale, Jack Halls, Michael Minghi Park, László Mangliár, Markus Hudert.</span></p>
2024
Design Competition and Exhibition of Innovative Lightweight Structures 2024 First Prize for the FloaTree Pavilion
2023
Design Competition and Exhibition of Innovative Lightweight Structures 2023 First Prize for the Hypar-Up Pavilion
2023
For the most meritorious paper published in the Journal of the IASS in the preceding calendar year. Tsuboi Award 2023

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Conference Proceedings

    FloaTree: A System for Making Artificial Habitat Structures Informed by AI-Generated Visual Abstractions of Large Old Trees
    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13622633
  • 2023

    Conference Proceedings

    Aeolus: a Grasshopper plugin for the interactive design and optimisation of acoustic shells
  • 2023

    Conference Proceedings

    Enhancing interactivity in structural optimisation through reinforcement learning: an application on shell structures

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