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National Center for Industrialization and Construction Robotics

Funded by the Government of Navarre, the Spanish Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, and the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, the BAI Institute is a National Reference Center for Industrialization, Robotization, and Innovation in Construction and Architecture. Its main objective is the research in innovative technological systems applied to architecture and engineering, and the training of architects, engineers, and construction professionals through cutting-edge design and construction methods...

Events

Navarra Innovation Week

The first edition of Navarre Innovation Week included the session ‘Innovate in Construction’, with the presentation of the BAI Institute as National Reference Center for Industrialization and Robotization in Architecture...

Another industrialization. Visit to the ETH Zürich

Eduardo Prieto What do we talk about when we talk about ‘industrialization’ today? That is the question posed by the BAI Institute in its project to bring new technologies closer to the world of construction...

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News

The Swiss refuge on Monte Rosa that inspires the BAI

Diana de Miguel Carlos Lipúzcoa ‘When a building looks like a flower vase, it's because we've done it upside down,’ argued architect Jonathan Benhamu...

The future of construction is going to be more with industrialists

Marisa Lacabe In the radio show ‘Más de uno Pamplona’ we had the opportunity to share a few minutes with the architect Patxi Mangado, academic director of BAI...

Navarre invests 9 million euros in the future Center for Industrialization and Robotics

The Government of Navarre has agreed to authorize the Director General of the University to entrust the public company...

Nasuvinsa to build and launch the Building & Architecture Institute

The regional government gives the green light to an investment of nine million euros in the building that will house the Center for Industrialization and Robotics applied...

Thought

BAI, an Optimistic Response to Reality

Francisco Mangado The BAI Institute aspires to be a response and an instrument of action that combines the reality of the practice of architecture today – at least in the countries we include under the heading of ‘developed’...

Mangado and Deplazes: Learning by Doing

Eduardo Prieto Modern architecture wanted to be industrial; today's architecture also wants to be industrial. But in a different way. In the convulsive and promising times of the Modern Movement, the ‘factory,’...

Works

Monte Rosa Hut in Zermatt

Bearth & Deplazes ETH Zürich Switzerland Contemporary version of a medieval donjon: Five-story wood construction made from prefabricated frame elements. The isolated mountain location mandates the greatest possible self-sufficiency...

Bernina Pass Maintenance Base in Grisons

Bearth & Deplazes Switzerland The Maintenance Base at the Bernina Pass is used for clearing snow from the road during the winter season. Architecturally, it is one of the “functional buildings” of the Cantonal Civil Engineering Office of the Canton of Grisons...

Residential and Studio House Lind in Urmein

Bearth & Deplazes Switzerland It all starts with a triple conflict of objectives: the plot in the municipality of Urmein, in the Heinzenberg area, is large, and only an equally large and voluminous building will be able to fill the void in the town's urban structure...

Liug Innovation Center in Coira

Bearth & Deplazes Switzerland In Coira, a meeting point for innovation is being created. On an area of 11,200 square meters, more than 300 jobs are being created for innovative companies, start-ups and spin-offs...

Industrialized Housing

85 social housing units in Cornellá de Llobregat

Peris + Toral arquitectes Spain The project consists of 85 social housingunits on a plot previously occupied by the emblematic Cinema Pisa in the city of Cornellà de Llobregat. It is a five-story freestanding building with a wood structure...

6x6 block in Girona

bosch.capdeferro arquitectures Spain In a part of the city that creates a transition between the built-up fabric and the open urban expansion area characterized by the imposing presence of public facilites, the project proposes 35 apartments...

14 dwellings in the heart of a Parisian block

MARS Architectes France The project is located in the twelfths district of Paris, completed in October 2020 for the real estate company GECINA, enclosed at the heart of a block, surrounded by an apartment complex built in the 1970s...

San Crescente Housing, Las Condes

Cristián Izquierdo Chile This block of five houses is located in a garden neighborhood near Santiago’s financial center, on a corner lot with a 50-meter front, purchased by a group of friends to develop a housing format that strays...

3D Printing

Living Prototype carried out with earth and a 3D printer

IAAC Spain The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and the Italian company WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project), which specializes in 3D printers, present TOVA, a prototype built with earth and a Crane WASP...

TECLA House, Massa Lombarda

Mario Cucinella Architects Italy A fruit of the collaboration between Mario Cucinella Arquitectos – based in Bologna and New York – and WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project), the Italian company specialized in 3D printing, this circular housing...

A hundred 3D-printed houses in Austin, Texas

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group United States Lennar, the homebuilding giant, and Icon, wose specialty is large-scale 3D printing, have together announced that a project for a hundred single-familiy houses in Austin, Texas, designed in collaboration with BIG...

Habitable Lunar Settlements Study, South Pole

Norman Foster Foster Partners is part of a consortium set up by the European Space Agency (ESA)to explore the possibilities of 3D printing to construct lunar habitations. Addressing the challenges of transporting materials to the moon...