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BIO FLOW


MAA-01 2025-2026 by
MAA-01 2025-2026

“ An AR-Driven Biomimetic Pavilion Generated Through Environmental Field Behavior “ Architectural pavilion design and fabrication often require complex digital workflows, technical expertise, and multiple visualization tools, making the process difficult for rapid concept development and real-world understanding. Designers also face challenges in translating organic, nature-inspired forms into fabrication-friendly structures.  BIOMIMICRY PAVILIONS Organic Geometry Biomimicry … Read more

Encoding Urban Risk: Spatial Feature Analysis and Assessment


MaCAD 2025-2026 by
MaCAD 2025-2026

Can Street Geometry Predict Urban Safety Risk? A machine-learning pipeline that classifies street morphology into risk typologies — from OpenStreetMap features to multi-city deployment, dead ends included. This post documents the full arc of our Urban Safety project — not just the results, but the reasoning, the wrong turns, and what we learned from them. … Read more

Reclaiming the streets


MaAI 2025-2026 by
MaAI 2025-2026

In contemporary urban planning, we often focus on the best parts of a city. However, true transformation begins by identifying the most vulnerable areas. We have recently developed a parametric model in Grasshopper to analyse the Gràcia District in Barcelona, utilizing a worst-case scenario routing logic to pinpoint exactly where new Green Axes should be … Read more

IsleVibe


MaCAD 2025-2026 by
MaCAD 2025-2026

Mediterranean islands are crushed by tourism in July and August, and almost empty the rest of the year. So we asked what if generative AI could show people the ten months that already exist beyond those two? The goal was to make the off-season feel desirable, not as data, but as images you’d actually want … Read more

lEgoarCh: Behind the Sets


MaCAD 2025-2026 by
MaCAD 2025-2026

How a sentence becomes a buildable LEGO set, and the engineering that makes it stand up. We named the project lEgoarCh. The capital E and C are us, Emilie and Charles, smuggled into the wordmark like a hidden stud. The demo is the fun part: you type a building, and a minute later a real LEGO set is sitting on a shelf. … Read more

NoiseXcape: Can Open Data Help Us Predict Urban Noise?


MaCAD 2025-2026 by
MaCAD 2025-2026

Introduction Noise is one of the most pervasive environmental stressors in cities. Long-term exposure has been linked to sleep disturbance, cardiovascular disease, reduced cognitive performance, and lower overall quality of life. Yet despite its importance, detailed noise maps are surprisingly difficult to obtain. Producing official noise maps requires measurements, traffic models, and considerable technical effort. … Read more

BioSpatial-Intelligence:


MaCAD 2025-2026 by
MaCAD 2025-2026

ML-Driven Plant Placement for Adaptive Architecture BioSpatial Intelligence explores how machine learning can support planting decisions in architectural spaces. The project starts from a simple design question: when we design a building, how can we decide which plants belong to which environmental conditions? Instead of relying only on intuition, we developed a workflow that reads … Read more

SAND MATTERS


MaCT-02 2025-2026 by
MaCT-02 2025-2026

– A satellite based platform for detecting sand mining across India Sand is the most extracted solid material on Earth, yet it remains one of the least regulated. In India, where rapid urbanisation drives relentless construction demand, river sand extraction has escalated into a crisis of ecological damage, governance failure, and organised crime. Riverbeds are … Read more

FloodPrint


MaCAD 2025-2026 by
MaCAD 2025-2026

Objective Traditional flood risk maps take months to produce, are updated only every few years, and are too coarse, they might say a whole district is at risk without telling you which specific street or field will actually be underwater. “We are going to predict whether any given location in Thessaly, Greece is Flood-Prone or … Read more

Project Michigan


MAA-01 2025-2026 by
MAA-01 2025-2026

Using climate clustering, vernacular precedent research, and evolutionary optimisation to create climate-responsive design typologies when no established local precedent exists Overview Lovingly named after the very first test location, Project Michigan is a tool that provides climate-responsive design guidelines when no local vernacular precedent exists. Through scraping climate data and global vernacular information, it helps … Read more

Co-RESPIRA


3DPA 2025-2026 by
3DPA 2025-2026
co-respira

Co-Respira focuses on the home’s most important space—a place to gather, relax, share moments, or spend time alone—while creating opportunities for different generations to coexist within the same environment. Responding to today’s housing challenges, including increasing density, social isolation, and the need for more sustainable living models, the project proposes a co-living approach that balances privacy … Read more

Workshop 3.1_Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) in metal fabrication


MRAC-01 2025-2026 by
MRAC-01 2025-2026

Introduction This workshop explores new modes of architectural production through active collaboration between humans and robots, shifting away from traditional models of automation toward hybrid systems of shared decision-making. Rather than understanding the robot as a fully autonomous tool, it is framed as an agent that cooperates with the human in real time, creating a … Read more

Morphological Adaptation


MAA-01 2025-2026 by
MAA-01 2025-2026

“How can a real-time parametric system effectively optimize architectural truss geometry when constrained by a limited, randomized inventory of salvaged timber? “ Geometry vs. Inventory Standard architectural forms assume infinite material. When constrained by random, reclaimed timber offcuts, the geometry itself must adapt to survive. “Shifting the structural burden from material continuity to joint frequency.”  Standard … Read more

After Gaudi – Facade ll


MAA-01 2025-2026 by
MAA-01 2025-2026

Site and Key Viewpoint Site and Key Viewpoint Core Project Keywords References FORM FINDING Final Form – Sketch Form Logic Variations and Catalog – Side Profile Form Finding Catalog Base Variation Catalog Convex concave Variation Catalogue Final Form – Levels OPENING & PLANTERS Opening’s Logic – Diamond Shape Opening’s Logics Catalog of Opening Opening Logic … Read more

Augmented Robotic Production Systems for Adaptive and Resilient Architecture


MaCAD 2025-2026 by
MaCAD 2025-2026

Abstract Construction is responsible for a substantial share of global material waste and carbon emissions, and one of the reasons is structural: design, fabrication, and assembly are still treated as separate phases with fragmented handoffs between them. This podcast episode explores what changes when those phases are linked into a single, feedback-driven workflow where parametric … Read more