The Team
Cristina Nan
Cristina is Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, since July 2020. Prior to this , from January 2016 til June 2020, Cristina was Assistant Professor in Design and Digital Fabrication at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh and since 2019 International Director of the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She finished her architecture studies at the Technical University of Munich in 2010 and received her PhD in architectural robotics from the HafenCity University Hamburg in 2015. Additionally she studied at the University of Bath and the Institute of Advance Architecture of Catalonia IAAC in Barcelona.
Her work has been widely published and exhibited. The project Minibuilders, a project hosted at IAAC and based on a series of mini-robots, has been covered by the international press. Her work has been exhibited at the National Museum Scotland, Ecobuild London and most recently Festival of Architecture in Montpellier 2019, winning with her team the People’s Choice Award for the parametric installation Le Papilion D’Or.
Here you can explore Cristina’s academic profile.
Mattia Zucco
Mattia is an architect and software developer, specialized in Computational Design and Digital Fabrication. Expert in digital tools for design and production with modern techniques, 3D parametric modelling and robot programming, focusing on the narrow line between architecture and engineering.
Responsible for 3D printing algorithm: analysis of topology, building algorithms for planar and non-planar slicing, and robot programming with optimized movement. Responsible for offline programming of six-axis robots with multiple programming languages including KRL (KUKA), Rapid (ABB), and Gcode.
Our Collaboration
Our collaboration as computational designers and algorithmic atelier educators has led to widely exhibited work, including presentations at Dutch Design Week, FormNext, the Venice Biennale, and beyond. Rooted in a shared passion for experimentation with computational tools and material systems, our projects operate at the boundaries between research, teaching, and practice. We see our academic design studios and collaborative work as playgrounds—spaces for creativity, critical exploration, and the unfolding of new digital and analogue processes.
Through hands-on experimentation, we continuously explore the limits of digital design and physical making, hoping to shape new possibilities in architecture and beyond.