Martin
Ignacio
Fernandez
design, research, technology
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Hi !
I am a designer and technologist with a background in architectural design and web development. I produce code, images, and narratives that examine the intersection between digital culture and the built environment.

Martin Fernandez

is an architectural designer
is a creative technologist
is a computational designer
is an exhibition designer
is a web developer
is a gis specialist
is an architectural designer
is a creative technologist
is a computational designer
is an exhibition designer
is a web developer
is a gis specialist
is an architectural designer
is a creative technologist
is a computational designer
is an exhibition designer
is a web developer
is a gis specialist
Hi !
I am a designer and technologist with a background in architectural design and web development. I produce code, images, and narratives that examine the intersection between digital culture and the built environment.
Working On
BITS + BRICKS, an architectural pedagogical website that documents the impact of disrupting technologies on architectural typologies. Visit it to learn about new typologies, methodology, syllabuses, and case studies.

ZERENGETY, a portfolio of website for architects, artists, designers, furniture designers, interior designers, researchers, and creative studios. Visit to view the latest project have deployed and I am currently designing and developing.
Currently
Certain Measures
Architectural Designer
Creative Technologist
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Professor
Monday fdt Tech School
Lead Instructor
Curriculum Developer
Zerengety
Web Developer
Spatially Obvious
Architectural Designer
Side Projects
Spatially Obvious
Academic Arch Projects
Bits n Bricks
Academia Tech Impact
Plants n Poems
3D Scanning Archive
Fachades
Elevation Archive
MAM
Collaborative
Exhibitions
nda
Recombinant Room
Centre Pompidou
Liquid Structure
Ingram Institute
Drought Interface
Cooper Union
Mine the Scrap
AIIII Center
Mine the Scrap
Clark Pacific
Parking Lot Configurator
Museum of the Future
Nursery & Geoscope
Barbican Centre
Machine View of Cities
Centre Pompidou
Aerosphere
Research
Bits n Ashes
Adjunct Professor
Deathscape
Architectural Designer
Public Water
Technical Designer
Robots i/o Bldg
Design Researcher
Corrosion
Architectural Designer
Previously
Syracuse University
Adjunct Professor
Arquitectonica
Architectural Designer
Gensler
Technical Designer
Invivia
Design Researcher
Harvard Campus Planning
Architectural Designer
Education
Harvard University
Master of Architecture
University of Florida
Bachelor of Design
Florida Atlantic University
Bachelor of Architecture
Transient
Broward College
Associate of Arts
GEOscope
client
Museum of the Future
year
2019-2023
Role
Project Manager
Design Researcher
Product Designer
Scientific Illustrator
Installation Coordinator
Graphic Animator
Tools
Rhino 3D
After Effect
Photoshop
Illustrator
Figma
With
Certain Measures
Geoscope
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.
NURSERY
client
Museum of the Future
Role
Project Manager
Design Researcher
Product Designer
Scientific Illustrator
Installation Coordinator
Graphic Animator
Tools
Rhino 3D
After Effect
Photoshop
Illustrator
Figma
With
Certain Measures
NURSERY
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.
Shipshop
client
Responsive Environments
year
Fall 2017
Role
Product Designer
User Experience
User Interface
Tools
Adobe XD
Photoshop
Illustrator
With
Nada AlQallaf
Danielle Rose
Karen Mata
shipshop
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.
Aerosphere
client
Research
year
2020
Role
Animator
Cartographer
Computation Designer
Tools
ArcMap
Rhino3D
Grasshopper
AfterEffects
With
Certain Measures
Aerosphere
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.
Web app
client
Clark Pacific
year
2022
Role
Product Designer
User Experience
User Interface
Web Developer
Tools
Figma
Unity3D
Javascript
MERN
Heroku App
with
Certain Measures
Spatial Optioneering
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
client
Geosimulation II
year
Fall 2017
Role
Researcher
Developer
Animator
Tools
ArcGIS Desktop
Processing P3
After Effect
Photoshop

with
Aaron Hill
cafeina
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.
suitcase
client
Competition
year
Summer 2019
Role
3d Modeling
Tools
Rhino 3D
After Effect
with
Alex Vilcu
Morgan Starkey
Atlas
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.
Mine the Scrap
client
AIIIII Center
year
2021
Role
Project Manager
Computational Designer
Fabrication Coordinator
Tools
Rhino 3D
Grasshopper
With
Certain Measures
mine the scrap
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.
House Zero
client
Green Building and Cities
year
2016-2017
Role
Architectural Designer
Fabrication Coordinator
Tools
Rhino 3D
Grasshopper
With
Caleb Marhoover
house zero
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
client
Research
year
2018
Role
Animator
Cartographer
Tools
ArcMap
Rhino3D
Grasshopper
AfterEffects
With
Certain Measures
Machine View of Cities
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.
Architag
client
Architag
year
2023
Role
Web Designer
Web Developer
Tools
Figma
Webflow
Model Viewer
architag
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.
Certain
measures
client
Certain Measures
year
2023
Role
Web Designer
Web Developer
Tools
Figma
Webflow
With
Elisa Ngan
certain measures
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.
Zerengety
client
Company
year
2023
Role
Web Designer
Web Developer
Tools
Figma
Webflow
Zerengety
Zerengety is a digital ecosystem of websites designed and developed by Martin Fernandez (de Leon) for architects, artists, creative studios, furniture designers, interior designers, fashion designers, and research labs.
Bits + Bricks
client
Research
year
2023-24
Role
Web Designer
Web Developer
Tools
Figma
Webflow
Bits + Bricks
Bits + Bricks is a depository for Martin Fernandez. Where he curates research on the impact of disruptive technologies on architectural typologies. He is an argentine architectural educator with a background in design and technology. Below, you can learn about pedagogy, methodology, inquiries, syllabuses, case studies, and timeline.
Architecture
Topics
Digital Memories
Domestic Robotics
Extreme Climates
Community Events
Agricultural Housing
Programs
Data Center
Housing
Office
Chapel
Masterplan
Cemetery
Playground
Library
“What you should try to accomplish is built meaning.  So get close to the meaning and build.” – Aldo Van Eyck
Technology
Outcomes
Building Research
Configurators
Applications
Products
Tools
Processing
WebGL
Unity
React
Mongo
Node
Express
Roles
Creative Technologist
Unity Developer
Web Developer
Web Designer

Languages
HTML / CSS
Javascripts
Java
C#
Fabrication
TOpics
Complex Geometries
Material Research
Tectonic Designs
Installations
Roles
Exhibition Designer
Creative Technologist
Computational Designer
Systems
Joints
Analysis
Assemblies
Materials
Paper
Metals
Wood
Brick
House Zero
"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins." - Mies
Biology
Scientific Illustrations
Agricultural Analysis
Biology Art
Science fiction doesn’t predict the future. It inspires or prevents the future.
Cartography
Cartographic Analysis
Typology Research
Narratives
"In this empire, the art of cartography was taken to such a peak of perfection that the map of a single province took up an entire city and the map of the empire, an entire province." - Jorge Luis Borges