December 2020
Alicia Nahmad invited keynote speaker at ATRICA 2020 organised by LINEA Mexico, the national organisation of architecture students. 16 of December 2020
June – December 2020
R-Ex collaborates with Rogue product on the generative design of a Custom Fit Insert for PPE masks to improve comfort for our front line workers.
Funded by InnovateUK
W in C October 2020
Alicia Nahmad invited to present R-Ex vision and work during the Women in Construction Festival in October 2020. She will talk about ‘Digital Construction: Moving Towards a Human-Machine Partnership’
Best Project 2020 Award
Knit Candela received the Digital Futures award for best project 2020
Announced during the closing ceremony of this year conference & workshops hosted by Tongji university
18 November 2019
R-Ex was invited by Women Leading in AI to make a robotic drawing installation during their annual conference at the Microsoft Reactor. Our robot Nachito was drawing during the WLinAI annual conference based on participants input. User semantic input is mediated by two interconnected machine learning models using. Predictions are then translated into robotic motion.
24 – 26 October 2019
Alicia Nahmad, will be part of the team running the workshop ‘Architectural Geometry and Machine Learning Mashup’ during ACADIA 2019 with Vishu Bhooshan, Shajay Bhooshan and Federico Borello (ZHACODE). The workshop explores the synergies between geometry based reasoning – friendly to the designers- and reasoning based on observed ground truths – friendly to machine learning and AI technologies.
October 2019
R-Ex collaborates with MOBIE and the Construction Innovation Hub to prototype the Future of Housing. The designed and fabricated furniture will be exhibited during UK Construction Week @ NEC Birmingham 6-7 October 2019.
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March 2019
Very excited to be have been handpicked with 10 other companies by Innovate UK and Enterprise Europe Network London for the upcoming Global Business Innovation visit to the Netherlands on AI and Robotics from the 9th-12th April.
KnitCandela
Our project KnitCandela at the MUAC has been extensively covered in different digital media focusing on its design, engineering and fabrication innovations at the intersection of the most innovative digital fabrication techniques and traditional building manual craft.
BRG & ZHCODE with R-Ex
18 October 2018
Alicia Nahmad, founder of R-Ex invited to ACADIA 2018 Conference Inaugural Panel Discussion on Recalibration. The Inaugural Panel Discussion directly engages the theme of Recalibration, and also features Monica Ponce de Leon, Dana Cupkova, Gerardo Oliva, Benjamin Romano, and Paloma Gonzales, and will be moderated by Pablo Kobayashi.
30 September 2018
Our Robotic Hotwire Cut POD, a collaboration between R-Ex and ZHACODE, will be exhibited as part of the ‘Digital Craft in Semi-Peripheral Nations’ poster exhibition during ACADIA in Mexico City.
15 August 2018
Alicia Nahmad, from R-Ex will be running the ‘Talk to a Wall’ workshop during ACADIA 2018 with Vishu Bhooshan (ZHACODE), Cristobal Valenzuela (RunwayML) and Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo y Lopez (AUTODESK). The workshop will explore the intersubjectivities of human and machine within architectural design methods.
24 April 2018
Alicia Nahmad, founder of R-Ex, talks with Autodesk Redshift about the future of living: Co-Living, Custom-Order Homes, and Creative Economies: Is This the Future of High-Density Housing?
02 December 2017
Alicia Nahmad, invited guest critic for final reviews of Studio One ‘Bio-Inspired Design and Fabrication’ at UC Berkeley.
01 November 2017
Alicia Nahmad, will be part of the team running ‘Print Fast Pile High’ during ACADIA 2017 with Vishu Bhooshan, Shajay Bhooshan and David Reeves (ZHACODE). The workshop will be a collaborative design-build exercise which seeks synergies between computational masonry and 3D printing with soft-rigid materials.
02 September 2017
Alicia Nahmad delivered a lecture at Museu Do Amanha, Rio de Janeiro on ‘Design in the Age of Intelligent Machines’.
15 August 2017
R-Ex latest prototype showcasing our research in topology optimisation and advanced composites in architecture KALLA to be exhibited at the 26th International Union of Architects World Congress. Seoul, Korea from the 03 – 10 Sep 2017.
01 August 2017
Alicia Nahmad, to be part of the Fall 2017 artist in residence (AiR) cohort at Autodesk Pier 9 in San Francisco.
25 October 2016
R-Ex to collaborate with Rodney Bender at innovativeglass to develop the design and fabrication of a robotic glass sculptures for CASS sculpture park using kilolux glass bricks
04 – 13 July 2016
R-Ex with ZHCODE to run hyperthreads 2016 a design and fabrication workshop at Belas Artes School of Architecture in Sao Paulo, Brasil.
25 May 2016
Alicia Nahmad invited as external advisor and tutor to the Phriends for Shells robotic clay shell building seminar at IAAC school of architecture.
28 April 2016
Alicia Nahmad to present the work and research of R-Ex at Plexus 23: Alliance at the Bartlett School of Architecture.
05 November 2015
Alicia Nahmad will be participating in the TxA Emerging Design and Technology conference in Dallas Texas alongside a stellar lineup of young practitioners pushing the applications of technology in design. She will be presenting our latest research in Pop-Up concrete structures.
September 2014
TopOpt Shell
R-Ex + ZHCODE
A journal paper describing the project was successfully submitted and presented at the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures conference in 2014 that took place in Brasilia.
03 September 2013
Alicia Nahmad gave a lecture at UDEM, Centro Roberto Garza Sada de Arquitectura y Diseno, Monterrey about R-Ex research and work on Generative Structures explaining both the knowledge and practicalities required for their successful design and fabrication.
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Learning from Candela
R-Ex + ZHCODE + Kreysler Associates at Tec de Monterrey Santa Fe
