Martin Fernandez

The Geoscope is a global monitoring system that visualizes the progress of bespoke species after they have been deployed to aid threatened biomes. Through immersive projection mapping the Geoscope offers a trans-scalar view of the planet from global to microscopic, while weaving a web of interconnections among the physical specimens of the speculative species repopulating the planet. A benevolent artificial intelligence and network of human scientists and bionic droids carefully tend to the regeneration of the planet and report on their efforts to bring the world back from the brink.

In the Nursery, visitors peer into incubators nurturing dozens of species that could revitalize a struggling planet. In collaboration with a geneticist, we designed over 80 species of plant, insect, and animal, each with special characteristics designed to combat the environmental challenges of today and the future. Through meticulous physical models and hologram-like transparent LCD displays, visitors get a glimpse of optimistic applications of genetic engineering toward the re-greening of Earth.

How do I know what I order online will fit me? Ship shop is an application which connects small retailers which can’t afford a brick and mortar store with clients which would like to try an item before committing to a purchase. In the era of online shopping, returns are becoming an normality, as the constant digital confusion of digital rendition which are unable to provide the certainty that brick and mortar store use to provide.

With approximately 8000 worldwide, airports present a unique architectural category for exhaustive cataloging, comparison, and mapping. The future of air transit, encompassing not only major hubs but also remote airstrips, shapes the Aerosphere. We propose leveraging machine vision, including satellite photography, to analyze, map, and classify airports automatically. Our research findings examine terminal morphology and landscape characteristics of airstrips, offering insights into the global air travel network.

Finding the best floor plan layout for a team, organization, or process can be daunting. How can you objectively balance square footages requirements, plan constraints, and organization targets to create the perfect plan?
Our Spatial Optioneering tools allow users to quickly test a large array of design scenarios based on key target metrics, programmatic layouts, modular systems, and constraints of various types. They provide resources for early decision-making, such as 3d models and rough-order-of-magnitude cost estimates. Combining them with our Spatial Analysis tools creates an exceptional suite for space planning.

Cafeina is a three channel simulation of the effects of climate change on coffee plant growth, epidemiology, and path to market. Coffee bean production makes up to ten percent of Ethiopia’s GDP (881 million in 2016). Forty-one percent of Ethiopia’s coffee is grown in wild forest and semi-forest, rather than plantation monucultures. This wild genetic stock also holds importance for the future of the beverage: genetic diversity safeguards against the spread of pest and disease epidemics, and directly relates to a diversity of future flavor profiles, which in turns effects future markets.

The rise of smartphones promised a simple digital future, but reality demands a complex ecosystem of devices tailored to our dynamic lives—watches, phones, headsets, controllers, pens, and earbuds—all requiring mobility, power, and wireless syncing. Enter the Atlas: a single, portable case akin to the Titan, designed to house the entire Galaxy ecosystem. It serves as a contemporary briefcase, housing all devices, with a smart battery managing power distribution and doubling as a Bluetooth-syncing portable hard drive—the central hub for our expanding array of gadgets.

Commissioned by the Aiiiii Art Center (Shanghai) for its opening exhibition, MTS_004 scales up the geometric methods of Mine the Scrap to the realm of architecture. The piece presents an enigmatic cube in partial transformation, assembled from a swarm of irregular fragments. The project negotiates between the perfect precision of computational methods and the imperfect figure of a form assembled from misfits.

Working with a team;  designed the structural system, fabricated all the parts and pre-assembled a hexagon panel system inside The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) headquarter, House Zero. The project involves coordinating with Snohetta, the Architect. Designing and fabricating the panels with the use of CNC Routing, coordinating with supplier for recyclable cotton insulation and non-petroleum base hardware attachment, and pre-assembling each panel before coordinating it installation inside the House Zero.

Machine View of Cities presents an AI categorising and mapping the shapes of millions of buildings of cities around the world, shown as large-scale projection in various exhibitions. This project is one in a series in FormMaps, an ongoing architectural research project that aims to compare and create a complete catalog of building patterns of all cities.

Website commission for ArchiTAG.
Established by George Guida and Tatjana Crossley in 2019, ArchiTAG is an international architecture and design innovation firm. We work between practice, research, and academia on projects that use technologies to augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception.

Website commission for Certain Measures.
Certain Measures (CM) is a creative studio that designs spaces, experiences, and products that connect physical and digital realities. We partner with forward-thinking people from across cultural, industrial, and government sectors to realize data-driven projects that fuse imagination and systems thinking. We work between physical structure and bespoke software, bridging across mediums and scales to envision a brighter and more hopeful planetary future.