Construction is a fundamental step in architecture. For this reason, Yacademy offers its students the opportunity to participate in the process of realizing their own ideas. Students will gain practical experience on the construction site and, above all, the authorship of projects built for excellent clients, destined for a major media echo and capable of defining a turning point in their professional career.
During the Summer 2026 Construction Workshop, students designed and built a temporary exhibition for an event held within the marble quarries of Carrara. Conceived in direct relation to the extraordinary setting of the quarry, the installation combined exhibition design and hands-on construction, transforming the site into a temporary space for display and gathering.
On the occasion of the exhibition celebrating 30 years of social architecture, students from the winter 2025/2026 courses created the furniture system for the TAMassociati exhibition.
Developed during the Summer 2025 Construction Workshop, this project investigates a system of modular elements combining seating and planters into a flexible spatial device. Defined by bold geometries and vibrant, pop-inspired colors, the components can be freely arranged to generate different configurations and uses. The intervention was installed at the Giardini di Sigurtà, where the pieces introduce a contemporary and playful layer within a highly curated landscape, encouraging informal occupation and interaction.
The Spring 2025 Construction Workshop focused on the restoration and enhancement of the school’s courtyard. Existing stepped seating and platforms were repaired and reactivated, while new green areas were introduced through the redesign of planted beds and the addition of a central modular planter. Alongside these spatial interventions, students developed a series of small-scale design objects as part of the Wood Design class. The project combines maintenance, landscape integration, and prototyping, reinforcing the courtyard as a shared and evolving space.
This Construction Workshop project explores modular seating through a combination of structural clarity and material flexibility. A series of curved, green-painted wooden frames support seats made of ash slats, connected by ropes to allow disassembly and compact storage. The system balances solidity and lightness, enabling adaptability across different uses and configurations. Installed and inaugurated at the Almo Collegio Borromeo in Pavia, the intervention engages with a site of historical significance through a discreet yet contemporary design language.
Developed during the Construction Workshop in collaboration with Orizzontale, this project focuses on the design and fabrication of a modular seating structure defined by a refined yet efficient construction logic. The system is based on interlocking wooden elements arranged in layered sequences, enhancing both structural rigidity and formal articulation. The charred timber finish gives the piece a deep, tactile quality. Installed at Eremo delle Carceri in Assisi, the intervention establishes a quiet dialogue with its historical and natural surroundings.
Developed as part of the Construction Workshop, this project explores lightweight, foldable seating solutions designed for flexibility and ease of transport. Students produced a series of modular stools and chairs in wood, characterized by simple construction logic and bold color accents. The outcome was tested in a real urban setting: Piazza Santo Stefano, where the pieces were arranged to host a small public performance. The intervention reflects an approach to design rooted in immediacy, adaptability, and direct engagement with
Following the winter sessions of the 2023 courses, the students collaborated to the creation of an installation in the institute courtyard.
Following the 2023 Landscape Architecture course, the students had the opportunity to create a temporary installation at the Carrara marble quarries.
After attending the 2020 editions of the YACademy courses, some students had the opportunity to collaborate with Mario Cucinella Architects on a renovation project of the historic headquarters of Cesare Roversi Arredamenti. The students made a research and developed various proposals which gave life, in 2023, to an iconic intervention located in the heart of the countryside in Lombardia (North Italy).
As part of the “Architecture for the Landscape” ed. 2019 course, students had the opportunity to work on the design of an alpine bivouac for the Brédy family. Sky Sturm, Facundo Arboit and Chiara Tessarollo, who were selected by the family as the authors of the best design proposal, were awarded a commission for the subsequent design of the bivouac until its construction in the summer of 2021.
After the Architecture for Landscape course, 2021 edition, some students had the opportunity to work on an architectural installation to be set in Arte Sella park, followed by Martina Ruini from Mario Cucinella Architects studio. Their work has been chosen by the artistic direction of the park and Anna Collatuzzo, Arezoo Mohebpour, Paula Strieder had the opportunity to refine their project that has been installed in the park between the works of Michele De Lucchi and Stefano Boeri, in autumn 2021.
After the Architecture for Exhibition course, 2021 edition, some students had the opportunity to work, under the tutorship of Nicolas Bewick from Michele De Lucchi Studio, AMDL Circle. Together with the studio, the students worked on some design proposals to be used in the space of via Tortona 35, on the occasion of Fuorisalone 2021, for the prestigious brand of automotive Silk-FAW. The project has been selected by the company and the work done by Claudio Araya, Yahya Abdullah and Iga Majorek has been realized and it has also been the object of numerous publications during the Milano Design Week.
After attending the Architecture for Humanity course, 2020 edition, some students had the opportunity to collaborate with Michele De Lucchi AMDL Circle studio on a project for the requalification of Milan's suburbs, promoted by Unipol. Together with the studio, the students created different proposals that have been presented to the real estate management board of the same group in the same year. The board chose the proposal of Giulia Lodetti, David Villegas e Paride Zambelli that it has been realized and opened to the public twice in 2021.
In 2022, in line with the initiative "Design Attitude" promoted by "Fashion Research Italy Foundation", Maab Abdulrahman, Yasminehad Aboueldahab, Alice Cole, Anna Dragone, Emilia Peresson, Elizabeth Frias Martinez, had the opportunity to work on an installation with UNStudio that has been exhibited on the occasion of Milan Design Week. The aim of this installation was to reflect on the "circularity" topic (both material and creative) using and reinterpreting the precious textile heritage of the Foundation.
Concurrently with the Architecture for Heritage course, 2022 edition, Ana-Luiza Simion-Dămășaru, Mariya Romanosova, Pedro Hurtado, Gianluca Gravina, Michela D'Angelo, had the opportunity to develop a design installation for the ruins of Athassel Priory, in Ireland. Through a refined alternation of mirrors, the installation allows, in an original way, to enjoy and discover the amazing ruins of Ireland.
Concurrently with the Architecture for Landscape course, 2022 edition, Sara Bottiglieri, Maryam Folath, Ruth-Aldagiza Iacob, Leona Mijic, Kritika Nema, Olga Romanova, had the opportunity to develop some observation points for WWF oasis in Bussento. The workshop has been carried on under the tutorship of SANAA, the works done generated complex and fluid geometries to be successfully included in the amazing natural context of Morigerati.
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