Alternative Skies

Alternative Skies is an invitation to rethink how we build, a space where design and fabrication technologies draw on the intelligences of craft, culture, and nature. Focusing on roofs and floor systems, Alternative Skies features an arcade and an archive. The arcade is a seven-meter-long structure featuring a patchwork of new techniques for roof and floor systems, including modular brick vaults, timber ceilings with gridshells, and woven roofs crafted with augmented reality. The archive is a space framed by two cabinets displaying vernacular roof structures from across the Mediterranean, highlighting the richness of traditional techniques in an era of environmental decline.