OCHAP works at the intersection of architecture, humanity, and nature to foster the built environment’s relational and sustainable character by investigating architecture’s limits, potentialities, and roles. Shape, tectonics, program, and processuality become devices to explore possible cohabitation counter-typologies and strategies between different natural and artificial systems at multiple scales.
OCHAP develops architecture’s cohabitation potential to oppose individualistic, exploitative, colonial, discriminatory, and extractive approaches by understanding the ecological, cultural, social, economic, technological, and political processes involved. OCHAP rethinks architecture’s status quo to tackle the urgencies of societies and ecosystems and envision other possible futures.
Architecture is an interdisciplinary and interpractice action, not just representation.
Valerio Franzone, Ph.D., is an architect licensed in the UK (RIBA, ARB) and Italy (OAR), as well as a researcher and educator. Through design and research projects, he addresses issues of cohabitation between complex environmental and societal systems and explores architecture to nurture the built environment’s relational and sustainable character.
He is curating a series of interdisciplinary and interpractice conversations with designers, scholars, activists, and curators, including The Architecture Lobby, Architensions, Tatiana Bilbao, Carson Chan, Eduardo Cadava, Emanuele Coccia, Beatriz Colomina, Hal Foster, Yona Friedman, f.Roche_S/he, Stefanie Hessler, Elisa Iturbe, Lydia Kallipoliti, Marcelo López-Dinardi, Paul B. Preciado, Philippe Rahm, Mark Wigley, and Feifei Zhou, on architecture’s role in tackling the current societal and environmental urgencies through research, pedagogy, and professional practice.
Valerio teaches design studios at Columbia University GSAPP and at Kean University, Michael Graves College School of Public Architecture, and previously at the Facoltà di Architettura di Ascoli Piceno. He has been invited as a guest critic at several schools.
He has lectured at various institutions, including TU Delft, GAM in Turin, Università IUAV di Venezia, and the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona.
His projects have received awards in international competitions and have been presented in several exhibitions, including the 7th, 11th, and 14th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
His projects and texts appear in international magazines such as AD Architectural Design, A+U, Detail, Domus, PIN–UP Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper, and Volume.
Valerio holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the “Villard d’Honnecourt” International Doctorate in Architecture (Università IUAV di Venezia) and a Master’s in Architecture (Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Facoltà di Architettura di Valle Giulia).
He co-founded the design groups 2A+P and nicole_fvr, the office 2A+P Architettura, and served as Managing Editor of the architecture magazine KoozArch.
He is curating a series of interdisciplinary and interpractice conversations with designers, scholars, activists, and curators, including The Architecture Lobby, Architensions, Tatiana Bilbao, Carson Chan, Eduardo Cadava, Emanuele Coccia, Beatriz Colomina, Hal Foster, Yona Friedman, f.Roche_S/he, Stefanie Hessler, Elisa Iturbe, Lydia Kallipoliti, Marcelo López-Dinardi, Paul B. Preciado, Philippe Rahm, Mark Wigley, and Feifei Zhou, on architecture’s role in tackling the current societal and environmental urgencies through research, pedagogy, and professional practice.
Valerio teaches design studios at Columbia University GSAPP and at Kean University, Michael Graves College School of Public Architecture, and previously at the Facoltà di Architettura di Ascoli Piceno. He has been invited as a guest critic at several schools.
He has lectured at various institutions, including TU Delft, GAM in Turin, Università IUAV di Venezia, and the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona.
His projects have received awards in international competitions and have been presented in several exhibitions, including the 7th, 11th, and 14th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
His projects and texts appear in international magazines such as AD Architectural Design, A+U, Detail, Domus, PIN–UP Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper, and Volume.
Valerio holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the “Villard d’Honnecourt” International Doctorate in Architecture (Università IUAV di Venezia) and a Master’s in Architecture (Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Facoltà di Architettura di Valle Giulia).
He co-founded the design groups 2A+P and nicole_fvr, the office 2A+P Architettura, and served as Managing Editor of the architecture magazine KoozArch.