罗辰浩 CHENHAO LUO


ACADEMIC PROJECT
Urban Design +
       Suburb Rehub
       Soft Urbanism
       Grabhub
       Tetravoltaics
       Future Collective        

Architecture +
       Soft Urbanism       
       Grabhub
       La Bonifica
       The Complete Map of Beijing              

Research +
       Rewriting Exurbia
       Tetravoltaics


PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Internship +
        Nomadic Territory
        Crystallization


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Chenhao Luo is a designer raised in China and currently a master’s candidate in Urban Design at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He received his Bachelor’s degree with distinction from Syracuse University School of Architecture, where his graduation thesis won Jury Prize of the James Britton Memorial Awards.

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La Bonifica


2021 Fall
Orbetello, Italy



Coexisting landscapes between nature and nurture

The project employs fragmentation as a strategy for destabilizing the anachronistic dichotomy between manmade technologies and natural ecologies. This dichotomy in Bonificare is directly related to land reclamation along the coast. The intent is to rectify land reclamation projects that peaked during the Fascist regime in Italy during the 1930s. Through a contemporary landscape of geology, human activities, and technology, this project seeks to uncover and reimagine current regional needs. The temporal scale of this project orchestrates the site's short- and long-term reintegration with the surrounding landscape and community. Another crucial aspect is the utilization of digital technologies, specifically drone-scanning photogrammetry, for mapping and understanding the site and intentionally intervening upon it.

The strategy includes surgical interventions in an abandoned chemical factory. These fragmented prosthetics serve as an apparatus for bioremediation on the historically contaminated site while simultaneously activating the space through user experiences. When entering the fragmented space, visitors are anticipated to reveal their relationship with domesticated nature. Therefore, the boundary between researcher and visitors is deconstructed.

Collaborate with Angelina Zhang, Muwen Li






With this understanding, even if each bonification brought some benefits whether economically or politically, none of them really think about the way to bonifica the ecological system in the area and now it becomes an abandoned land. The project ambition is to re-imagine the toxic post-industrial super block, the site with a rich history of constant fluctuation and human manipulation.


A Contaminated Territory and History 

Retracing the transformation of wild nature into "productive" nature that is today abandoned

The project does not propose a traditional ecology lab that involves white-coat lab workers to conduct research only through test tubes and petri dishes. Instead, the goal is to liberate the researchers from the role of inscription devices and instead transform them to the participants of the remediation process by magnifying the experimental grounds to a typology scale.







The goal is not only to remediate the immediate site, but also to provide spaces to regenerate minds through spatial experiences.