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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
Events
"Robotics Applied to Construction" Workshop – Pamplona
Do you want to learn how to apply robotics in the construction process? Registration is now open for the workshop “Basic Robotics Applied to Construction,” which will take place from June 22–26 at the Arrosadia Campus of the Public University of Navarra (UPNA). Free registration. Deadline: April 30!
“Computational Design” Workshop – Pamplona
Do you want to learn more about the ins and outs of computational design? Registration is now open for the “Computational Design” workshop, which will take place from May 12–15 at the School of Architecture (ETSA) of the University of Navarra. Free registration. Deadline: April 15.
Rafael Argullol Opens FORO BAI 2026
FORO BAI 2026 opens with Rafael Argullol, one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Hispanic thought. Under the title “Between Faust and Mephistopheles: A New Humanism,” the session will take the form of a conversation with Eduardo Prieto and Francisco Mangado...
BAI FORUM March–June 2026
BAI presents FORO BAI 2026, a lecture series that will bring together in Pamplona some of the most relevant voices in contemporary thought, architecture, and innovation. Between March and June 2026, Rafael Argullol, Marc Angélil, Manuel Bouzas, and Fabio Gramazio...
Digital Crafts: Stone Construction Workshop – Lugo
Do you want to learn about how technology can enhance traditional stonemasonry without replacing it? Registration is open for the “Digital Crafts: Stone Construction” workshop, which will take place from April 13–17 at the factory of PAUDEPEDRA in Lugo. Free registration. Deadline: March 16!
"IA & Arquitectura" Workshop - Granada
Do you want to learn more about how to implement AI in the architectural profession? Last days to register for the upcoming “AI & Architecture” workshop, which will take place from March 16–20 at the School of Architecture of the University of Granada. Free registration. Deadline extended until March 8!
Construction works on the BAI headquarters are progressing.
The images taken during the site visit on February 19 show the different rehabilitation works currently being carried out in the two buildings that will host the future headquarters of the Institute. These structures are located on the campus of the Public University of Navarra...
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 Barcelona on March 10, 2026, participants had the opportunity to learn about the work of Bosch-Capdeferro...
A New Agent to Rebuild the Sector
On January 20, 2026, the exchange forum “A New Agent to Rebuild the Sector” was held at the Rubber Factory in Pamplona, bringing together companies...
The first BAI symposium
The First BAI Symposium aims to raise awareness of the principles that structure the National Center for Robotization and Innovation in Architecture.
M-INDUSTRY
M-INDUSTRY is conceived as a meeting between architects and industrial engineers to discuss the implementation of robotics in design.
M-ZERO BAI Workshops
M-Zero is an introductory course to Workshop 1 of BAI’s Postgraduate Program, the objective of which is to create a research and practice environment that favors a creative interact...
News
The M-ZERO BAI workshop has come to an end
Over the past few weeks, students participating in the workshop were trained in computational design and learned how to apply parametric knowledge...
Construction of the BAI Institute headquarters is already underway
Last September, renovation work began on the buildings that will house the National Institute of Industrialization...
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...
The first year of the BAI Postgraduate program could be held at the Monastery of 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...
The BAI Institute launches a series of scholarships for the first year of the BAI Program
For more information about the scholarship and how to apply, please email us at the following address: programabai@bai-institute.es
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.
Nasuvinsa to build and launch the Building & Architecture Institute in Pamplona
The regional government gives the green light to an investment of nine million euros in the building that will house the Center for Industrialization...
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 Benhamu. What he intended with this statement was to emphasize the importance of...
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 share a few minutes with the architect Patxi Mangado, academic director of BAI...
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 to the world of construction, from a...
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...