Founded in Cagliari by Marco Verde in January 2012, ALO is an Engineering company specializing in contemporary and experimental architectural design for high-quality experiential spaces dedicated to residence, work, city, and museums, with a particular focus on individual products, parametric design, and digital fabrication.
The name “ALO” draws inspiration from the Greek “àllos,” meaning “another, of a different quality, but of the same type.” From the conception of large-scale architectural projects to interventions in interior spaces, up to the design of individual products, we pursue the creation of contemporary productions with alternative spatial, material, and structural qualities, derived from advanced design approaches.
Space design is based on morphogenetic strategies to enhance perception with non-uniform spatial formations, develop multifunctional systems, and create new architectures whose quality emerges from the same generative process. With a systemic and empirical approach, we consider form as the materialization of an intrinsic dynamic process within the material’s inherent capacities.
Simultaneously, research allows us to offer our clients fresh, durable productions with a high perceived value, distancing ourselves from purely utilitarian, formalistic, rhetorical, or technocratic architecture. These approaches are now insufficient to concretely address the new social, cultural, environmental, and technical needs of our time.