Areti Markopoulou
Areti Markopoulou is a Greek PhD architect, researcher and urban technologist working at the intersection between architecture and digital technologies. Her research and practice focus on redefining the architecture of cities through an ecological and technological spectrum combining design with biotechnologies, new materials, digital fabrication and big data.
She currently holds the position of Academic Direc¬tor at IAAC in Barcelona, and she leads the Advanced Architecture Group, a multidisciplinary research group exploring how design and science can positively impact and transform the present and future of our built environment.
Markopoulou is the co-founder of the art/tech gallery StudioP52 and the co-founder of a consultancy company on urban technologies, established in Barcelona. She has been the project coordinator of a number of European Research funded Projects on topics including ecological and circular design for construction, urban regeneration though data science, and multidisciplinary education in the digital age.
Markopoulou is the editor of IAAC Bits Journal, co-editor of the “Black Ecologies” , editor and co-author of the “Learning Cities” journal issue and she is currently chairing the Responsive Cities International Symposium in Barcelona. She is author of numerous scientific papers, projects and articles that have been published internationally as well as the co-editor of : “ Urbanism in the Expe-rience Age”, “Active Pubic Space” and “Disrupting through Circular Design”. In 2022 she has been appointed the Head Co-Curator for the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022 under the theme “Edible, Or, The Architecture of Metabolism”.
She currently holds the position of Academic Direc¬tor at IAAC in Barcelona, and she leads the Advanced Architecture Group, a multidisciplinary research group exploring how design and science can positively impact and transform the present and future of our built environment.
Markopoulou is the co-founder of the art/tech gallery StudioP52 and the co-founder of a consultancy company on urban technologies, established in Barcelona. She has been the project coordinator of a number of European Research funded Projects on topics including ecological and circular design for construction, urban regeneration though data science, and multidisciplinary education in the digital age.
Markopoulou is the editor of IAAC Bits Journal, co-editor of the “Black Ecologies” , editor and co-author of the “Learning Cities” journal issue and she is currently chairing the Responsive Cities International Symposium in Barcelona. She is author of numerous scientific papers, projects and articles that have been published internationally as well as the co-editor of : “ Urbanism in the Expe-rience Age”, “Active Pubic Space” and “Disrupting through Circular Design”. In 2022 she has been appointed the Head Co-Curator for the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022 under the theme “Edible, Or, The Architecture of Metabolism”.
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been directly embedded within the computational design process and expressed through the robotic fabrication. The first phase of the project, the wooden structure, combines this process together with the in-situ manual assembly. Within the final cocoon-shape each stick performs a function between main truss, structural stiffener, aquaponics system support, skin support, furniture and platform beam.
In the light of the working prototype, Fusta Robòtica Pavilion 2015, the robotic manufacturing loop process (picking, cutting and placing) also reduced the scrap length and waste production. According to the final position of each stick, these are selected from one of the three starting stick lengths, provided through a custom made feeder. The end edges are shaped according to diverse 3-dimensional angled
cuts, thus each stick, varying each time the fabrication loop, informs the robotic fabrication code. The pavilion embodies a habitable and productive urban rooftop, combining soilless aquaponics, parametric design and robotic fabrication processes.
Papers by Areti Markopoulou
The research calls for agents involved in design, planning and construction to shift their focus to the anthroposphere as a source of, rather than just a destination for, processed goods. The concept of “urban mining” is revisited to manage the material stock in urban systems and the use of anthropogenic resources in new production cycles.
Through a multi-scalar approach, the outcome challenges the foundation of our material practices, presenting the potential to disrupt linear patterns of design and making in the built environment.
How can architecture produce food, and be eaten away? How can we define the architecture of metabolism? This paper seeks to reveal how architecture constructs, distributes, and leverages power via material upcycling, interspecies alliances, biopolitics and excremental processes. It maps and redraws the affinities of the built environment as a product of many forces, translated in the tensions between products and by-products, production, and consumption and, finally, creation and decomposition.
been directly embedded within the computational design process and expressed through the robotic fabrication. The first phase of the project, the wooden structure, combines this process together with the in-situ manual assembly. Within the final cocoon-shape each stick performs a function between main truss, structural stiffener, aquaponics system support, skin support, furniture and platform beam.
In the light of the working prototype, Fusta Robòtica Pavilion 2015, the robotic manufacturing loop process (picking, cutting and placing) also reduced the scrap length and waste production. According to the final position of each stick, these are selected from one of the three starting stick lengths, provided through a custom made feeder. The end edges are shaped according to diverse 3-dimensional angled
cuts, thus each stick, varying each time the fabrication loop, informs the robotic fabrication code. The pavilion embodies a habitable and productive urban rooftop, combining soilless aquaponics, parametric design and robotic fabrication processes.
The research calls for agents involved in design, planning and construction to shift their focus to the anthroposphere as a source of, rather than just a destination for, processed goods. The concept of “urban mining” is revisited to manage the material stock in urban systems and the use of anthropogenic resources in new production cycles.
Through a multi-scalar approach, the outcome challenges the foundation of our material practices, presenting the potential to disrupt linear patterns of design and making in the built environment.
How can architecture produce food, and be eaten away? How can we define the architecture of metabolism? This paper seeks to reveal how architecture constructs, distributes, and leverages power via material upcycling, interspecies alliances, biopolitics and excremental processes. It maps and redraws the affinities of the built environment as a product of many forces, translated in the tensions between products and by-products, production, and consumption and, finally, creation and decomposition.
Las temáticas planteadas y las propuestas presentadas, ofrecen la oportunidad de iniciar un debate más amplio sobre
el diseño urbano y el paisaje, sobre las herramientas que disponemos y los objetivos para mejorar la calidad de la ciudad contemporánea: ¿Cómo incluir actividades productivas sostenibles en nuestros espacios cotidianos? ¿Es posible preservar los recursos ambientales, perfeccionarlos a lo largo del tiempo y dar forma a las ecologías que surgen en el territorio?
Los ensayos de destacados académicos internacionales y los proyectos ganadores del concurso publicados en este libro intentan cuestionar estos interrogantes.