Mikadoo architecture office was founded in 2005 in Dessau, Germany by Architect Maximiliano Piperno, under the influence of his Bauhaus experience and driven by a multidisciplinary approach to design.
Unleash your Potential
Like people, projects have a potential below the surface. This imperceptible potential singularize the intervention. Can be given by the type of project, by the location, by the client or even by constraints conditions to its development. The first step in the beginning of a project is to visualize this potential.
Lao-Tzu said “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Unleash the potential is the first one for us.
Glo-Cal
Traveling is the most stimulating way to understand that a project must be the permanent sum of global values with local situations.
The global references must converge consistently in a space of a neighborhood with its own smells, colors and spirit.
Plug-in
We are an open source studio. We look for the permanent value transfer with collaborators and the development of proposals with other teams. Our success comes from our willingness to embrace teams with a positive state-of-mind, open attitude and excellent communication skills. This results in built works of an interdisciplinary effort that enrich our clients.
Practice
We are great believers in a multidisciplinary approach, where specialists from all the various fields (and the clients) share ideas right from the start and inspire one another to unleash the potential of all of us and come up with a nutritive process and fresh and unexpected projects.
Founder/Principal Architect
Maximiliano Piperno founded MIKADOO –in 2005 after doing Transit Spaces Master Course in the Bauhaus Kolleg in Dessau.
Alongside his architectural practice he won the Faculty Research Award ( 2002) by the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affaires, he took part in exhibitions such as the Architecture Beijing Biennale (collective exhibition ) and Spektakel Stadt by the Stuttgart Kunstverein , participated in diverse competitions , taught at Universidad de la Republica, and collaborate with other offices in Barcelona, Berlin, Murcia and New York.
Maximiliano has his architecture degree from Universidad de la Republica , Uruguay ( 2001) and from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Sevilla (2007).
In 2008 was accepted to be member of Colegio de Arquitectos de Barcelona (Spain).
Since 2009 is member of Architektenkammer of Nordrhein- Westfalen, Germany.
Partners
Since 2010 we are proudly to have a partnership in Düsseldorf, with Arch.Rodrigo Silva Schaffner (DaSilva Architekten) located in Mendelweg 102, 40591, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Maximiliano Piperno
Founder/Principal Architect
Lab Topics
Border city
Contemporary perspective analysis about the daily drama of border cities in particular the ones between two systems.
Flipbook produced in the Bauhaus Kolleg.
Tax Free Game
Application of John Nash Game Theory in Urban development
Tax Free Game produced as a board game
Spektakel Stadt
Project based on Muntada’s conceptual project and workshop organized by Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart and the application in the city of Stuttgart.
Experimental Situationist City
Based on the Situationist movement and the Urban Derive, a city based on the uncertainty of discover new places at every detour.
Theatre in Prague : Seduction versus Fascination
Using the Theater International Competition in Prague as a pretext we based on Guy Debord book The Society of the Spectacle and the conceptual magnet differences of seduction and fascination.
Uber Architecture
Based on RIBA report (2011) about the future rol of architects
Press / World / Links
Sugar-Stuttgart
Wkv Stuttgart
Transit Spaces
Reference in Article «Las Vegas»
Architektenkammer Nordrhein-Westfalen
Architects Association Nordrhein Westfalen