Martí Vera Marsal

Architecture After the Fires: LA in Progress

This project explores the act of scanning as a spatial and perceptual operation rather than a purely technical one. Built from three-dimensional scans of houses destroyed by the Eaton Fire (Los Angeles, 2025), the project captures what remains after the event: collapsed walls, voids, warped geometries. Rendered as point clouds, these fragments suspend architecture between presence and absence, transforming destruction into a legible yet unstable landscape.

Developed in Collaboration with Altadena Residents  ·  Produced by SCI-Arc Resilient Futures Task Force  ·  With Support from LACMA Art + Technology Lab

LACasa per la teulada / The House through the Roof

This project explores the potential of integrating inflatable architectural structures to revitalize abandoned rural homes and forgotten villages in the Catalan Pyrenees. By addressing the challenge of reactivating these underutilized spaces, the proposal aims to create a seamless dialogue between traditional architecture and innovative design. The intervention envisions a lightweight, portable solution that leverages existing structures without altering them, adapting to the specific needs of rural communities. The core concept focuses on designing inflatable modules that harmonize with the architectural character of deserted homes while preserving their original forms. These modules fit within the preexisting constructions, creating an interesting and respectful link between the past and present.

Marc Busquets Gallagher  ·  Adrià Mas Baurier  ·  Martí Vera Marsal

LACantera / The Quarry

This project aims to challenge the scale of landscape architecture and create a proposal based on data analysis with a focus on wind and erosion. Located in the Coma Roja Quarry, the proposal speculates on the possible evolution of the site. Due to the site's hindrance to natural growth, the intervention aims to aid vegetation increase by leveraging existing features. The main concept is to control erosion by excavating certain paths determined by terrain and climate factors, guiding rainfall and wind to deposit sediments in key areas. The result is a series of "particle accelerators" that help channel the wind to push particles to points with higher growth probability and help the quarry renaturalize.

Marc Busquets Gallagher  ·  Javier Marcos Gonzalez  ·  Martí Vera Marsal

m³ - Portable Architecture

This project intends to push the boundaries of portable architecture and create a proposal for social clothing. This innovative concept revolves around the interactive dynamics of individual space, in a time after COVID, where each garment adapts and transforms in response to its exchange with neighboring pieces. Picture a dynamic symphony of clothing that creates a protective "bubble" shielding users from the elements, seamlessly adapting to both sun and rain. When combined with air, this transformative ensemble unveils a visible personal space, beautifully merging individuality and connectivity, redefining the boundaries of personal and shared experiences. Our social clothing proposal envisions a future where garments transcend mere aesthetics, forging a new era of collaborative and adaptive wearable art.

In 1799, Francisco Goya cut a caption into the plate of his own etching. A man slumps at his desk as owls and bats rise from the dark behind him. The title reads El sueño de la razón produce monstruos; the sleep of reason produces monsters. Except sueño means both sleep and dream. Read one way, the monsters arrive because reason has nodded off: absent, it leaves a vacancy, and they fill it. Read the other, reason is dreaming them into being: present, it is their author. A caption is meant to settle such a thing; this one refuses. The plate never says whether what rules the picture is missing from it, or making it.

My research is about the parts of an image, or a building, we never look at directly: the ones we look through, or past, or over. The frame that decides what appears; the ground a figure is read against; the basement a discipline is built on and taught to trust. Each does the work, and none is meant to be seen. And like the caption, none of them will settle. Each comes forward, authors what it carries, withholds, and refuses to resolve. It is less an argument than a way of looking, written as much as it is drawn, and more willing to hold a question open than to close it.