GABRIEL PAYANT
Captivated by the effects of the digital transformation in design, Gabriel Payant works as an Architect and automation specialist for DMA Architects, as well as a Guest Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Montreal. Since he first grasped the disruptive nature of computational design in his master’s thesis on the parametric planning of the redevelopment of ailing malls at the regional scale, he has furthered his research by tutoring architecture master students for their thesis project in workshops on territory and technology.
For his thesis, he has been awarded the RAIC Student Medal and the Collège des Présidents de l’OAQ grant which allowed him to travel in order to meet digital fabrication specialists working on cutting-edge research in Europe and on the North American East Coast. He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the Université du Québec à Montréal as well as a Master of Architecture from the University of Montreal.