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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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Events
“Computational Design” & “Applied Robotics” Workshops – Pamplona
Deadline extended until April 30 to register for the Computational Design and Basic Applied Robotics workshops in Pamplona. Open to final-year undergraduate and Master’s students in Architecture and/or...
Second Lecture – I FORO BAI 2026: Marc Angélil
FORO BAI 2026 will feature Marc Angélil, architect, researcher, and Professor Emeritus at ETH Zurich, with a lecture focused on the relationship between technology, sustainability, and architecture. Under the title “HVAC + W & S + E & IT. High Tech, Lean Tech, Low Tech...
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. This new activity, part of the Design–Innovation–Digital Technologies area, is aimed at exploring the potential of augmented...
TECH TALKS BAI dedicates its next session to innovation and industrialization
TECH TALKS BAI continues in Pamplona with a new lecture aimed at addressing, from a technical and institutional perspective, some of the key challenges currently shaping territorial development, housing, and the transformation of the construction sector through Nasuvinsa.
TECH TALKS BAI dedicates its next session to innovation and industrialization
TECH TALKS BAI continues in Pamplona with a new lecture aimed at addressing, from a technical and institutional...
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...
TECH TALKS BAI addresses the impact of AI on design and digital fabrication with Javier Zaratiegui
In this new session, the series focuses on one of the most rapidly evolving fields of our...
Final Lecture – I FORO BAI 2026: Fabio Gramazio
FORO BAI 2026 will close its first edition with Fabio Gramazio...
News
This has been the first technical lecture of TECH TALKS BAI in Pamplona.
BAI held in Pamplona the first session of TECH TALKS BAI, a new series of technical lectures promoted within #BAIforma and #BAIacademy to create...
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...
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...
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.
BAI hosts the “AI & Architecture” workshop in Granada, featuring lectures, intensive work sessions, and a final reflection
BAI held “AI & Architecture”...
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...
The first BAI symposium
The First BAI Symposium aims to raise awareness of the principles that structure the National Center for Robotization and...
M-INDUSTRY
M-INDUSTRY is conceived as a meeting between architects and industrial engineers to discuss the implementation of robotics in design.
Construction works on the BAI headquarters are progressing.
The images taken during the site visit on February 19 show the different rehabilitation...
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...