The architect and engineer have traditionally occupied a realm of absolute rationality, grounded in the impersonal truths of physics. Yet, in today’s fragmented reality, objectivity dissolves into ambiguity. Necto responds to this dissonance, capturing the tension between opposing realities in a single gesture. Oscillating between orientability and non-orientability, it stands at the edge of instability, embracing paradox and finding equilibrium. Hoisted into place, shaped by tension, and selectively stiffened, Necto enacts a form-finding exercise that speculates on the future of temporary structures—flexible, efficient, and reconfigurable.
Participants
SO – IL NEW YORK, USA; THE NETHERLANDS Florian Idenburg, Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1975. Lives and works in Brooklyn, USA, and The Netherlands. Jing Liu, Nanjing, China, 1980. Lives and works in Brooklyn, USA.
MARIANA POPESCU, Timisoara, Romania, 1986. Lives and works in Delft, The Netherlands.
THEGREENEYL NEW YORK, USA; BERLIN, GERMANY Richard The, Heidelberg, Germany, 1980. Lives and works in New York, USA.
RILEY WATTS, Bangor, USA, 1985. Lives and works in New York and Northampton, USA.
Team
SO – IL: Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu, Marlena Fauer, Demetri Lampris (Design); Tailored Materiality Research, TU Delft: Mariana Popescu, Niclas Brandt, Valentin Lorenzen da Silva, Nikoletta Christidi (Design, Membrane Design and Engineering, Membrane Fabrication and Construction); TheGreenEyl: Richard The (Design), Noah Feehan, Ben Bojko, Saralee Sittigaroon, and Arden Schager (Experience design); Professorship of Structural Design, Technical University of Munich: Pierluigi D’Acunto, Anass Kariouh (Structural Engineering); Steiger Participation: Jean-Luc Lepieszko, Jean-Francois Cochez (Membrane fabrication and construction); Shaping Matter Lab, TU Delft: Kunal Masania, Jasper Groen (Bio-coating and DNA data embedding and error correction); Functional Materials Laboratory, ETH: Robert Grass, Francesca Granito (Bio-coating and DNA data embedding and error correction); Professorship of Machine Learning, Technical University of Munich: Reinhard Heckel, Maria Abu Sini (Bio-coating and DNA data embedding and error correction); Tim Teven Studio (Furniture); Design for Sustainability, TU Delft: Jelle Joustra, Jesse Pupping (Structural Reuse column supports); Marian Mentrup (Sound Design); Riley Watts (Opening performance)
Supporters
EIC FlexiForm; Steiger Participation S.A.; Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis; Creative Industries Fund NL; Consigli Construction Co., Inc.; EIC DIDAX; TU Delft Climate Action programme; Fraunhofer IWES; Jakob AG
