Practitioners Interview Series | Marta M Roy Torrecilla

Marta M Roy Torrecilla, a Spanish-born architect residing in Rotterdam since 2006, boasts a diverse career spanning practice, research, and teaching. She gained extensive experience at renowned firms such as West 8 and Mecanoo, leading international projects in the USA, Norway, Chile, and France. As a senior architect at RAU since 2017, she is responsible for the design of circular architecture projects. Marta has led the design of winning projects such as the Dutch pavilion for the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, two primary schools, the adaptive reuse of several heritage buildings, and a maritime & cultural centre in the Netherlands. Additionally, with her research-by-design practice, Kartonkraft, Marta addresses global challenges such as climate adaptation, circular economy, and city densification in the Dutch built environment. Marta maintains an active academic activity. She has been a lecturer at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, and the Faculty of Architecture in TU Delft.

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Julia Gospodinova
Julia Gospodinova
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Ir. Julia Gospodinova holds an M.Sc. in Architecture, Urbanism, and Building Sciences from TU Delft. Specializing in Building Technology, she graduated cum laude in 2023. Being passionate about circularity and humanitarian architecture, she combined those topics in her thesis, titled: “Circular Transitional Housing for Displaced People in Extreme Conditions: The Case of Pakistan.” The project won the Circularity in the Built Environment Graduation Award in the category of Buildings & Neighborhoods. Currently, she is the secretary at Project Safe Refuge, a foundation dedicated to providing architectural aid to displaced communities.

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The platform is intended to provide with content on either circularity or pedagogy for and about circularity. It is one of the outcomes of the Circular Impulse Initiative (CII), a project intending to enhance the integration of circularity in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment education. The platform mainly aims to help tutors get better acquainted with circularity in the built environment by providing a series of resources on this subject that they can either view to get better informed or directly share with their students in class or online. A large number of the Faculty's professors and researchers have contributed substantially both in creating a coherent narrative for circularity in the built environment as well as further elaborating on different aspects of it. Besides this one, a new platform for interaction and direct exchange was also established in parallel that we call ‘Educators for Circularity‘. This one offers the opportunity for all of us to meet and share our experiences and learn from one another.

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