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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...
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Third Lecture – I FORO BAI 2026: Manuel Bouzas
Manuel Bouzas will take part in FORO BAI 2026 with the lecture “Architectures for Territorial Balance,” a session focused on the relationship between architecture, ecology, materials, and territory. Drawing on his experience as an architect, researcher, and curator...
TECH TALKS BAI addresses the impact of AI on design and digital fabrication
In this new session, the series focuses on one of the most rapidly evolving fields of our time: the convergence of artificial intelligence, digital design, and advanced fabrication.
Workshop “Computational Design Applied to Robotic Timber Construction” – Pamplona
June 22–26, Pamplona. Registration deadline extended until May 15. Open to final-year undergraduate and Master’s students in Architecture and/or Engineering, young architects or engineers who have already graduated, and students or recent graduates from higher-level vocational training programs (Levels D and E) related to the subject.
Workshop “Augmented Reality Applied to Architecture” – Donostia
BAI will hold the workshop “Augmented Reality Applied to Architecture” from June 8 to 12, 2026, at the School of Architecture of Donostia / San Sebastián. The workshop is open to final-year undergraduate and Master’s students in Architecture and Engineering, young architects and engineers who have alr
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TECH TALKS BAI addresses with Nasuvinsa the new challenges of territory and housing
TECH TALKS BAI held a new session in Pamplona on Monday, May 11, 2026, focused on some of the key challenges currently shaping territorial development, housing, and the transformation of the construction sector.
BAI takes part in IEEE CAI with a panel on AI, architecture, and the city
BAI participated in the IEEE CAI Congress held in Granada from May 8 to 10, reinforcing a line of work the institute has been developing around artificial intelligence and its implications for architecture, the city, and the contemporary project.
Construction works on the future headquarters of BAI continue to progress
A particularly significant milestone has now been reached with the completion of the structural reinforcement, a key step in the building’s refurbishment process that will allow further development of the space set to host the institute’s academic, research, and design activities in the coming years.
LATAM TOUR BAI'26: ARGENTINA
BAI shares how the LATAM TOUR’26 ARGENTINA unfolded, a week of academic and institutional activity held from April 13 to 17, 2026, across five leading universities in the country...
Marc Angélil leads the second session of FORO BAI 2026 with an urgent call to rethink sustainability in architecture
Marc Angélil, architect, researcher, and Professor Emeritus at ETH Zurich, delivered a lecture focused on the relationship between architecture, technology, sustainability, and climate.
BAI hosts in Lugo the workshop “Digital Crafts. Stone Construction”.
BAI held in Lugo the workshop “Digital Crafts. Stone Construction,” an intensive program developed from April 13 to 17, 2026, at the quarry...
BAI hosts the “AI & Architecture” workshop in Granada, featuring lectures, intensive work sessions, and a final reflection
BAI held “AI & Architecture”...
Thought, Technique, and Culture: Rafael Argullol Opens FORO BAI 2026
FORO BAI 2026 was inaugurated with the participation of Rafael Argullol, one of the most prominent voices in contemporary thought in the Spanish-speaking world. Titled “Between Faust and Mephistopheles: A New Humanism,” the session took place on March 26, 2026, at the Salón Pinaquy in Pamplona, in a conversational format alongside Eduardo Prieto and Francisco Mangado.
Signing of Collaboration Agreements between UPNA, Universidad de Navarra, and ETH Zurich
BAI held the signing and presentation ceremony of the collaboration agreements between the Public University of Navarra (UPNA), the...
BAI leads two round tables at REBUILD 2026
BAI took part in REBUILD 2026, one of the leading international events in the fields of building, industrialisation and innovation in construction, with a double participation that reinforces its role in the debates shaping...
BAI in the PERTE Alliance for Construction Industrialization
Eduardo Prieto, Technical Director of BAI, took part on March 12, 2026, in the...
1st BAI ON SITE
BAI ON SITE is a new masterclass format that continues previous editions, this time presenting BAI on-site. In this first session, held in...
Thought
BAI, an Optimistic Response to Reality
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
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,’...
The most modern school of architecture in the world, in Pamplona
Patxi Mangado and Andrea Deplazes have launched BAI in Navarre, a demanding postgraduate program for architects adapted to robotic construction...
The Swiss refuge on Monte Rosa that inspires the BAI
‘When a building looks like a flower vase, it's because we've done it upside down,’ argued architect Jonathan...
Patxi Mangado: "The future of construction is going to be more with industrialists than with builders, and many people don't like this"
In the radio show ‘Más de uno Pamplona’ we had the opportunity to...
Another industrialization. Visit to the ITA of ETH Zürich
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...
Works
Tor Alva, the world’s tallest 3D-printed tower
Rising almost 30 meters, Tor Alva is the tallest 3D-printed tower in the world. Located in Mulegns, a small Swiss village with only eleven inhabitants, it has been built by Nova Fundaziun Origen with ETH Zürich...
Monte Rosa Hut in Zermatt
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
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
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...
Industrialized Housing
85 social housing units in Cornellá de Llobregat
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...