JAVIER VILLARROEL
B.ARCH Graduate at Philadelphia University
Javier Villarroel is an architectural designer, a visual artist, and a multidisciplinary collaborator. He finds passion in intertwining technology, parametricism, and fabrication with traditional visually stimulating elements creating interactive, kinetic, and elegant projects, produced digitally and physically. Currently Javier is an architectural designer in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 2018 Javier co-founded Lucid Motion, a biotech multidisciplinary startup focused on treating muscle loss and allowing people to enjoy more independent, social, and healthy lives. The startup was a semifinalist in the Kaylie Hardware track of the 2018 Zahn Center Venture Competition. Javier and his core team have also participated in the Make/Model Hackathon hosted by A/D/O in 2018 and placed first for proposing an alternative strategy to enhance snow management methods in cities.
Between work as an architectural designer in offices in Philadelphia and Boston, Javier has taken a leadership role in design and day-to-day visualization efforts for presentations, often providing schemes, renderings, and live model exports to present to clients and design teams alike to show ongoing process and completed works. Javier’s knowledge of parametric scripting and digital fabrication has facilitated the design of façade, furniture and signage designs.
Previously Javier has experience working with a team coordinating construction documents for several large scale residential projects, such as the Apthorp and the Astor buildings in New York City. In Javier's last semester studying in Philadelphia University, he worked as a research assistant in the College of Architecture and the Built environment by organizing a digital library of various scripting methods for generating 3d model representations of textiles and well as documenting the stages of development of participants in the 3d Textiles studio.
Academically, Javier is interested in and has studied experimental materials, experimental modeling, ethnographic research methods and current topics in biology; all intended to use as a platform for architectural design and fabrication. This has allowed him to collaborate with various disciplines including interior design, industrial design, fashion design and textile design; all of which aided tremendously in helping translate digital projects into physical prototypes.
Javier is a graduate from Thomas Jefferson University with a bachelor of Architecture and a minor in digital design and fabrication interested in architectural design, installations, research, and sustainability.
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology '21
School of Architecture and Planning
Certificate: Entrepreneurship in the Built Environment
Philadelphia University '16
Center of Architecture and the Built Environment
Bachelor of Architecture
Minor in Digital Design and Fabrication
University of Arkansas: Rome Center '14
Study Abroad
Urban Design and Historic Preservation
Adelphi University
Art Foundations Program
HONORS
Zahn Center Venture Competition:
Kaylie Hardware Prize for Entrepreneurship
Zahn Innovation Center - New York, NY
Semi Finalist
2018
Make/Model Hackathon Competition
A/D/O - Brooklyn, NY
First Place
2018
International Contemporary Furniture Festival
Javits Convention Center - New York, NY
Work Exhibited | Malleable Sculpture
2016
Spacework: State of the Union
CABE Press - Philadelphia, PA
Work Published | Issue No.3 | 05.16
2016
Design Informatics Lab: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ACM XRDS | Vol.22 | No.3 | 04.16
Article Published
2016
Philadelphia Science Festival: Energy Generating Art
Penn's Landing - Philadelphia, PA
Work Exhibited | VISTOSA
2016
Javier Villarroel is an architectural designer,
a visual artist, and a multidisciplinary collaborator based in Boston Massachusetts.
Finding passion in intertwining technology, parametricism, and fabrication with traditional visually stimulating elements creating interactive, kinetic, and elegant projects, produced digitally and physically.
Background
Javier Villarroel studied architecture at Philadelphia University (now a part of Thomas Jefferson University), exploring robotics, installations, and collaborations between multidisciplinary projects, often involving ethnographic research methods, experimental modeling and materials as well as prototype building. This increased Javier's interest in digital modeling and fabrication, as well as his curiosity in creating responsive creations.
Javier Villarroel exploring flip milling for a series of digitally fabricated joints.
Javier's collaborative efforts coalesced in an hybridization of architectural robotics and an experimental 3D Textiles program, which inspired him to intertwine techniques and materials for unique creations. Javier's installations were ultimately exhibited in Philadelphia and New York City in 2016. VISTOSA was exhibited in the Philadelphia Science Festival and Malleable Sculpture was exhibited in the International Contemporary Furniture Fair.
Malleable sculpture exhibited at the 2016 International Contemporary Furniture Fair, in the Javits Center.
Javier Villarroel exploring flip milling for a series of digitally fabricated joints.
In 2018 Javier joined biomedical engineers Daniel Villarroel and Anuoluwapo Bolarinwa to participate in a series of startup incubator completions. Our proposals placed first in the A/D/O Make/Model competition and qualified into semifinals in the Zahn innovation center.
Javier Villarroel studied architecture at Philadelphia University (now a part of Thomas Jefferson University), exploring robotics, installations, and collaborations between multidisciplinary projects, often involving ethnographic research methods, experimental modeling and materials as well as prototype building. This increased Javier's interest in digital modeling and fabrication, as well as his curiosity in creating responsive creations.
Javier Villarroel exploring flip milling for a series of digitally fabricated joints.
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology '21
School of Architecture and Planning
Certificate: Entrepreneurship in the Built Environment
Philadelphia University '16
Center of Architecture and the Built Environment
Bachelor of Architecture
Minor in Digital Design and Fabrication
University of Arkansas: Rome Center '14
Study Abroad
Urban Design and Historic Preservation
Adelphi University
Art Foundations Program
HONORS
Zahn Center Venture Competition:
Kaylie Hardware Prize for Entrepreneurship
Zahn Innovation Center - New York, NY
Semi Finalist
2018
Make/Model Hackathon Competition
A/D/O - Brooklyn, NY
First Place
2018
International Contemporary Furniture Festival
Javits Convention Center - New York, NY
Work Exhibited | Malleable Sculpture
2016
Spacework: State of the Union
CABE Press - Philadelphia, PA
Work Published | Issue No.3 | 05.16
2016
Design Informatics Lab: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ACM XRDS | Vol.22 | No.3 | 04.16
Article Published
2016
Philadelphia Science Festival: Energy Generating Art
Penn's Landing - Philadelphia, PA
Work Exhibited | VISTOSA
2016
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology '21
School of Architecture and Planning
Certificate: Entrepreneurship in the Built Environment
Philadelphia University '16
Center of Architecture and the Built Environment
Bachelor of Architecture
Minor in Digital Design and Fabrication
University of Arkansas: Rome Center '14
Study Abroad
Urban Design and Historic Preservation
Adelphi University
Art Foundations Program
Javier Villarroel is an architectural designer, a visual artist, and a multidisciplinary collaborator. He finds passion in intertwining technology, parametricism, and fabrication with traditional visually stimulating elements creating interactive, kinetic, and elegant projects, produced digitally and physically. Currently Javier is an architectural designer in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 2018 Javier co-founded Lucid Motion, a biotech multidisciplinary startup focused on treating muscle loss and allowing people to enjoy more independent, social, and healthy lives. The startup was a semifinalist in the Kaylie Hardware track of the 2018 Zahn Center Venture Competition. Javier and his core team have also participated in the Make/Model Hackathon hosted by A/D/O in 2018 and placed first for proposing an alternative strategy to enhance snow management methods in cities.
Between work as an architectural designer in offices in Philadelphia and Boston, Javier has taken a leadership role in design and day-to-day visualization efforts for presentations, often providing schemes, renderings, and live model exports to present to clients and design teams alike to show ongoing process and completed works. Javier’s knowledge of parametric scripting and digital fabrication has facilitated the design of façade, furniture and signage designs.
Previously Javier has experience working with a team coordinating construction documents for several large scale residential projects, such as the Apthorp and the Astor buildings in New York City. In Javier's last semester studying in Philadelphia University, he worked as a research assistant in the College of Architecture and the Built environment by organizing a digital library of various scripting methods for generating 3d model representations of textiles and well as documenting the stages of development of participants in the 3d Textiles studio.
Academically, Javier is interested in and has studied experimental materials, experimental modeling, ethnographic research methods and current topics in biology; all intended to use as a platform for architectural design and fabrication. This has allowed him to collaborate with various disciplines including interior design, industrial design, fashion design and textile design; all of which aided tremendously in helping translate digital projects into physical prototypes.
Javier is a graduate from Thomas Jefferson University with a bachelor of Architecture and a minor in digital design and fabrication interested in architectural design, installations, research, and sustainability.