PlugIn Weekly

May 10th, 2024

1. Design VitrA designs the first ceramic washbasin made of 100% waste materials, being its first product with circular design principles. Read full here
2. Digital Fabrication ICON-CODEX is the first publicly available digital catalog with hundreds of ready-to-build on-site 3D printed concrete housing options. The building footprint ranges from 147 to the 760 square meters. The catalog was produced by ICON Build, a leading print construction company that aims to make housing more affordable in the United States. Read full here
3. Tourism Airbnb is offering for this summer eleven themed stays as a lodging experience, ranging from the house of the movie ‘Up’ to the Ferrari Gallery in Maranello, Italy. Read full here
4. Research The Carapacks pavilion is a project developed by the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Biberach in Germany. This innovative project allows the fabrication of lightweight canopies based on free-form curved shapes, using digital fabrication tools such as 2.5-axis CNC or waterjet cutting. Read full here
5. A.I. AlphaFold 3, an intelligence model created by Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, can predict and visualize the structure of proteins and other molecules. Read full here