Material systems

Since 2012, Nacho has researched Material Systems in the Environmental and Technical Studies department in First Year at the Architectural Association. The course introduces students to systemic thinking in architecture and explores bottom-up design strategies and component-based material aggregations at 1:1 through a hierarchical understanding of the local, regional and global scales of the structures.

Adaptive piano wire structure. Students: Iro Davlanti, Hanna Fastrich and Ryan Darius

Folded polypropylene aggregation. Students: Rocky Yeh,  Carmen Bisono and Vasundhara Goyal.

Resin-hardened pre-stressed mesh. Students: Elsa Jacob, Laetitia Chaveau and Indy Sankosik

Copper and lycra structure. Students: Kin Ho Tse, Daphna Turbowicz and Malgorzata Tchorzewska

Curved folded polypropelene shell. Students: Basia Koch, Burton Lamore and Yuyi Yiang

Tensegrity latex membrane. Students: Caterina Pereira, Gianfrancesco Brivia Sforza and Sebastian Cornwell

Tensegrity rubber membrane. Students: Caterina Pereira, Gianfrancesco Brivia Sforza and Sebastian Cornwell

Piano wire structure. Students: Jumana Mahrous, Youngchae Ahn and Alison Chen.

Plaster component-based aggregation. Students: Carlo Campolo, Maciej Tomaka and Peter Roh. 

Pneumatic arches. Students: Kelly Van Homrigh, Mark Wu and Harvey Chan

Folded paper dodecahedron. Students: Bolurin Adepipe, Dongki Kang and Emre Bekisoglu

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