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EPFL is taking a textile-reinforced concrete and LC3 prototype to a new Nairobi case study. The point is not to copy the object, but to see what context forces it to change.
A Billboard Alphabet turns Module Festival into raw material: observe, draw, print, display, then repeat in public.
In Sinu treats site, nearby resources and furniture as one project. The material’s provenance remains visible all the way down to the objects inside.
Jia CURATED brings together 25 models to make air, water, vegetation and site legible. Shrinking a building can enlarge what we understand about it.
More than 4,000 documents show how the Department of Tropical Architecture turned sun, wind and resources into design inputs. The archive also exposes the colonial system through which that method travelled.
Cobre Estudio starts with a 2 mm steel sheet, laser cutting and a handful of folds. Structure and visual identity come from the same operations.
Clean, lubricate, replace belts, adjust azimuth: the work can be fiddly, but the maintenance path remains legible and local.
Under the ice, an elegant dual-echo sonar method collided with real signal noise. The ETH team changed measurement method instead of defending the first diagram.
Two printable mechanisms replace the guitarist’s hands: one frets, the other plucks six strings. A digital score ends as acoustic vibration.
An ESP32-S3, brass rods, transparent PETG and even a tape-measure wristband: nearly every fabrication choice ends up becoming part of the controls.