Whispers from a summer nest - Milano 2024

The use of sustainable construction materials is crucial for a more sustainable future. Reusing existing materials is at the core of circular construction and is fundamental to our future architecture. As availability-based design leads to a broader notion of materiality, we must explore how to u...
Published on June 06, 2024 | 1 min read

Offsite Construction

The UK government set a target of building one million new homes by 2020. This was a policy response to long-term structural problems in housing supply, including at the affordable level. At the same time, the housing construction sector was reported to be simultaneously facing post-Brexit skills...
Published on December 14, 2018 | 1 min read

SAFESUST 2 - SURECON Workshops

The Joint Research Centre is contributing to the formulation, implementation and promotion of European policies on strengthening the internal market for buildings and building products. This includes the development and adoption of innovative materials, construction technologies and design method...
Published on October 24, 2018 | 0 min read

Material Ecosystems: Digital, Physical, and Cultural Assemblies

On the occasion of the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2023 and at the invitation of the New York Institute of Technology, Professor Ornella Iuorio together with Professor Juan José Castellón from Rice University cocurated an exhibition and co-organized the symposium titled “Material Ecosystems: ...
Published on November 23, 2023 | 1 min read

Post Disaster Infrastructures for long-term social wellbeing: Dialogue with Ecuador

The Post-Disaster Infrastructure for Long-Term Social Wellbeing Symposium took place at the University of Leeds as part of the ongoing activities of the NOVA VIDA research project, funded by the British Academy and led by the University of Leeds. This initiative explores novel approaches to the d...
Published on September 24, 2020 | 1 min read

Digital Design and Fabrication

Two weeks of intensive summer school in Digital Design & Fabrication University of Leeds. We covered historical shells, form finding, tessellation, planarization & lot of prototyping. Excellent international students from Singapore, Mexico, USA & China!Module LeaderOrnella Iuorio...
Published on July 28, 2022 | 0 min read