Future Assemblies

A digital material bank for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Developed for Future Assemblies @future_assemblies in collaboration with the MIT Digital Structures Lab @digitalstructuresmit , we built a digital material passport system for Pixelframe, a modular precast construction technology that rethinks how buildings can be disassembled and reassembled over time. The application serves as Pixelframe’s digital twin, linking each physical element to a living inventory. Every component can be scanned through an embedded RFID tag to reveal its full record— location, performance, condition, and carbon footprint over time. Users can explore assemblies, trace provenance, and follow materials as they move between prototypes, active structures, and reuse. By linking each module to its material history, the system makes reuse practical, allowing for reconfiguration across building sites through digital traceability. @labiennale @mitarchitecture “From Liquid to Stone” #venicebiennale #intelligens

A digital material bank for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Developed for Future Assemblies @future_assemblies in collaboration with the MIT Digital Structures Lab @digitalstructuresmit , we built a digital material passport system for Pixelframe, a modular precast construction technology that rethinks how buildings can be disassembled and reassembled over time. The application serves as Pixelframe’s digital twin, linking each physical element to a living inventory. Every component can be scanned through an embedded RFID tag to reveal its full record— location, performance, condition, and carbon footprint over time. Users can explore assemblies, trace provenance, and follow materials as they move between prototypes, active structures, and reuse. By linking each module to its material history, the system makes reuse practical, allowing for reconfiguration across building sites through digital traceability. @labiennale @mitarchitecture “From Liquid to Stone” #venicebiennale #intelligens

A material bank for the future of construction and circularity. Can we use digital infrastructure to surface new material intelligences and enable circular economies at scale?  As part of From Liquid to Stone at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale @labiennale , we were invited to contribute a digital material passport system for Pixelframe, a modular precast construction system developed by @future_assemblies and @digitalstructuresmit at @mitarchitecture . We created a mobile platform that catalogs each Pixelframe component through tagged RFID chips. Visitors can scan any element in the installation to access its full material record, revealing its carbon emissions, fabrication history, and movement across sites and assemblies. #biennalearchitettura2025 #intelligens

We’re excited to share the opening of “From Liquid to Stone” an exhibit at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Carlo Ratti @labiennale @crassociati The exhibit is centered around a prototype of Pixelframe, featuring (re)assemblies and scale models demonstrating the new concrete tectonic possibilities of the system. This work has been made possible by the generous support of MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium, MIT School of Architecture and Planning @mitarchitecture , and MassCEC @masscec . Participants: Inge Donovan @ingedonovan @future_assemblies Jenna Schnitzler @j_schnitz Caitlin Mueller Keith J Lee @keith_j_l Pitipat Wongsittikan @pitiwongs An interface to track the concrete modules was developed in collaboration with @spolialab - more on the digital Material Bank coming soon! #BiennaleArchitettura2025 #IntelliGens

Bits of the Venice Architecture Biennale. It is always difficult to read the contents of the Biennale organically with regard to the theme. I personally have been guided by a meta-serendipity, as an instinct to research themes closely to me. I was pleased to notice some projects (always too few, unfortunately) focused on the theme of circularity. A special mention goes to Centauroos (@centauroos ) who with his team occupies a little piece of my heart. Good luck my friends, for this great milestone and for what is to come. . . @robertocognoli @daniele.berdini @simonalococo @gio_marinelli @_a.ceru_ @crassociati @labiennale #biennalearchitettura2025 #biennalevenezia #venicebiennale #architecture #architectura #architettura #design #circularity #circulareconomy #circular #cdw #upcycling #recycling #digital #digitalfabrication #3dprints #3dprinting #intelligens #artificial #natural #collective #research