Rolando Rodríguez-Leal and Natalia Wrzask met in London in 2006. Earlier than establishing their very own observe, Aidia Studio, in 2018, the Mexican-Polish couple labored at main worldwide companies, together with Zaha Hadid Architects and Ateliers Jean Nouvel. Now, their designs goal to mix environmental issues with form-finding exploration, balancing bold, eye-catching appears to be like with sustainability issues and a contextual take.
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Meet Aidia Studio, and its mind-bending architectural types
‘Aidia’s method is rooted in innovation and adaptableness, knowledgeable by a way of place,’ say the duo. ‘This ethos is mirrored in a various portfolio that features the Rifat Chadirji Prize-winning Barjeel Museum for Trendy Arab Artwork in Sharjah, Pyeongchang Information Hub in South Korea, and Rub’al Khali Oculus eco resort in Abu Dhabi.’
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Rodríguez-Leal and Wrzask describe themselves as ‘pure researchers’. This feels apt whenever you take a look at their work, which regularly combines imaginative methods of constructing and materials sourcing, daring computational design and biophilic references. One in all their newest works, Mercado Nicolás Bravo, a crafts market in Yucatán, displays this properly.
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‘We targeted on tackling important challenges like overheating by implementing a double roofing system that enhances air circulation and cross air flow. The roof ’s design options an inverted umbrella system, resulting in a dynamic association of double curvature hyperbolic vaults. The result displays the motion and rhythm of the encompassing pure setting.’
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Newer work contains the Tulum prepare station with its placing grid-shell construction; the Parque Quintana Roo, a collection of pavilions that turned a former fairground right into a year-round public area; explorations on different redevelopment fashions for the historic hutong typology, displayed at Beijing Design Week 2012; and the aforementioned successful undertaking for the Museum of Trendy Arab Artwork in Sharjah in 2019, the place they beat 190 entries submitted by 44 nations.
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The pair contemplate the final two tasks specifically as landmarks for his or her studio’s progress. A number of public area works, in addition to a spread of ‘bare luxurious’ hospitality constructions in Mexico and the Center East are at present within the pipeline.
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When requested what they wish to see extra of within the structure world, they are saying: ‘The capability to leverage expertise for the advantage of a brand new biophilic design agenda. We have to overcome the fatigue across the idea of sustainable structure. We’re advocating for the design of complicated responsive techniques at each the architectural and concrete scales that convey us nearer to nature, enhance the standard of life, significantly in underdeveloped city centres, and mend the injury completed to the setting.’
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