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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...
Postgraduate degree
Scholarships for the first year of the BAI Program
Starting 15 September, the BAI Institute offers scholarships for students of the BAI Program, covering the total cost of the first year of the postgraduate program. For more information on the scholarships and to apply, please e-mail us at programabai@bai-institute.es
BAI Postgraduate program will be held at Leyre
Robotic arms under Romanesque vaults: the Monastery of Leyre, a treasure of the Middle Ages in Spain and one of the most important monuments of Navarre, will harbor the first year of the BAI Postgraduate program...
Events
BAI Program of Activities
This program of activities includes a series of masterclasses, workshops, brief seminars in Madrid and Barcelona, and the 1st BAI Symposium, as well as the official presentation of the BAI Institute at the Casa de la Arquitectura...
M-ZERO BAI Workshops
M-Zero is BAI’s first workshop aimed at architects, industrial engineers, and other professionals in related fields, who believe that technology is not an end in itself, but a means to promote architectural excellence. During M-Zero...
News
The M-Zero BAI workshop has begun!
Over the coming weeks, the first workshop of the BAI training program will take place in the Sala de Armas at the Ciudadela in Pamplona. Eighteen students from various backgrounds...
Industrialized construction as game changer in the real estate and building sectors
This was the main theme under discussion on the afternoon of 16 October at Espacio Arquia in Madrid, with the participation...
Summary of the BAI masterclass at ETSAUNAV
The masterclass about the BAI Institute and its training program took place on 19 September at the School of Architecture of the University of Navarre. The masterclass was given...
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 Benhamu...
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,’...
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...