EP#5 | Libny Pacheco : Architecture, Design Theory, Computation & BIM | Part II

Libny on the difficult choices that architects make when presenting project proposals to the public and what is at stake when dealing with the feedback…

“….In this project, the particular museum feasibility proposal, I used Grasshopper and produced these bridges, towers super fast and did some options and I could tweak stuff and we decided – Oh no! It looks too thick, too blah blah blah.. and then BOOM! Enscape – PrintScreen and that’s it! But the thing is Enscape then looks quite realistic. The bridge that I modelled had glass, frames, rails, really detailed. Maybe it was our fault that we detailed it too realistic so that people think this is THE THING. It’s not like an idea.

But then if we would have gone maybe even further and provided a webpage and VR, people would have bought this project! Because it is awesome! You go into this bridge and get a view of the whole city, you really understand the potentials of this project….”

Libny Pacheco is a Project Architect working at White Arkitekter based out of Uppsala, Sweden. Before arriving in Sweden, he experienced both studying and working as an architect across cultures and continents. In his own words, he describes himself as an experienced project architect, computational designer, strong researcher and problem solver. Libny’s interest in software, as he explains during our conversation, comes from his environment and the ‘Heroes’ within the discipline at the time of his education at the Unversidad de los Andes, Venezuela. From studying in Venezuela to working in London, Beijing and now Uppsala, Sweden he lays out for us, during the course of the conversation, a range of experiences – from the abstract universal notions as well the more real and local preferences across cultural boundaries.

Among other more technical and architectural pursuits, Libny is also an active writer/blogger who keeps himself constantly engaged with rethinking architectural thought. He is an avid (re)reader of philosophical, historical and theoretical works and considers these sources to be an integral part of his toolset for architectural production.

Libny’s arcticle on Medium titled, “Parametricism was born Leftish” – https://libnypacheco.medium.com/parametricism-was-born-leftish-18db51ba08dd

Libny Pacheco on Linkedin -

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