ENDESA Condenser

The ENDESA WORLD FAB CONDENSER is a thermodynamic prototype, a bioclimatic dome installed at the fast-changing Plaça de Glories, within the framework of the BCN FAB10 Congress (the 10th international congress on digital fabrication).

The prototype explores connections between parametric design, passive environmental strategies and local digital fabrication. It was designed globally (Margen-Lab in collaboration with the Fab Lab Network), sourced locally (using only local organic materials, grown with the sun, linen and wood) and produced in proximity industries and Barcelona laboratories.

The prototype was designed (coded) in 2 months, fabricated in 5 days and assembled in 4 days, with the help of volunteers coming from Fab Labs all over the world.

Digital technologies are transforming the old ways of understanding prefabrication. They are changing the ways in wich industry manage production. And most importantly, they are changing the interrelations between designers, industries and raw material sourcing.
The pavilion is composed by triangular 20 components. Components are all different but they share identical constructive and material logics. Parametric design bring us the possibility to work with such geometrical variation, while the identical component logics and digital fabrication tecnologies speed up comunications (design-machine) and production process.

ENDESA World Fab Condenser
Project: Margen-Lab
In collaboration with: Fab Lab Network
Promoted by: IAAC
Supported by: ENDESA
Year: 2014