M.Sc. Eng. Arch. Marcelo Sagot-Better [Faculty of Architecture, PUT, Poznan]
Marcelo Sagot-Better is an architect, urban planner, and built-environment consultant from Costa Rica. His current research work focuses on the desing and evaluation of Non-Park Urban Greenery and the application of AI-driven methodologies to understand cognitive and mental affect. He is also a teaching assistant of Urban Design in both the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes at PUT.
Marcelo holds a Bachelor’s and Licenciate’s degree in Architecture from University of Costa Rica. His research project focused the impact of technology on kinesthetic proprioception as a means to reinterpreting architectural space. As a recipient of the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship of the European Union, Marcelo Cardiff University in Wales and Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands where he received with distinction a double master's degree in European Environmental Policy and Spatial Planning. His graduation project focused on revitalization strategies for railway areas in satellite towns of Wroclaw Metropolitan Area. He is currently a PhD student in the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at Poznań University of Technology (PUT).
Marcelo has conducted research in the historiography of urban planning, permanent housing exhibitions, ecological urban development, history of architecture and post-growth urban development. He has recently published works on topics such as urban shrinkage, circular economy, urban greenery and salutogenesis, as well as historiographical contributions on the housing exhibitions during inter-war modernism in Central Europe and, ecological design in Berlin and Malmo, as an early-stage researcher for the Institute for European Urban Studies (IfEU) at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar back in 2020.
As a consultant, Marcelo has extensive experience in tropical architecture and passive environmental design. He has led the design and construction of several residential, intitutional and urban development projects. Marcelo also has credentials from the U.S. Green Building Council for both LEED BD+C and Core as well as the Living Building Challenge International certification methodology to evaluate regenerative projects. Outside of work Marcelo is an avid badminton and chess player, an enthhusiatic fan of F1 and science fiction.
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