Performative design
the geometry is from-found considering fabrication constraints and material design choices.
NECTO
an homage to the great lightweight builders of the past
Project by SO-IL, Mariana Popescu and TheGreenEyl at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice 10 May – 23 November 2025
Making of video
Designed Globally built locally, reusable and biodegradable
working across borders and oceans we took inspiration from …..
Facts and Figures
90%
biodegradable
12
pieces of knit
40
hours to knit
70kg
total weight
23
programmed LED strips
Features
Fabrication-aware design
the geometry is from-found considering fabricaiton constraints and material design choices.
Material intelligence
linnen, flax, pva etc all nice materials, all locally (europe)sourced all biodigredable etc…
Circularity – Future life – Accountability
will be reused after exhibition – we use DNA etc…
Spatial lighting
LED story
Credits
Design
SO – IL: Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu, Marlena Fauer, Demetri Lampris
Tailored Materiality Research (TU Delft/incoming MIT): Mariana Popescu
TheGreenEyl: Richard The
Membrane design and engineering
Tailored Materiality Research (TU Delft/incoming MIT): Valentin Lorenzen da Silva, Niclas Brandt, Nikoletta Christidi, Mariana Popescu
Experience design
TheGreenEyl: Richard The, Noah Feehan, Ben Bojko, Saralee Sittigaroon, Arden Schager
Structural Engineering
Professorship of Structural Design (TUM): Anass Kariouh, Pierluigi D’Acunto
Membrane fabrication and construction
Tailored Materiality Research (TU Delft/incoming MIT):Mariana Popescu, Nikoletta ChristidiÂ
Steiger Participation S.A: Jean-Luc Lepieszko, Jean-Francois Cochez
Bio-coating and DNA data embedding and error correction
Shaping Matter Lab (TU Delft): Kunal Masania, Jasper Groen
Functional Materials Laboratory (ETH): Robert Grass, Francesca Granito
Professorship of Machine Learning (TUM): Reinhard Heckel, Maria Abu SiniÂ
Structural Reuse column supports
Design for Sustainability (TU Delft): Jelle Joustra, Jesse Pupping
Sound DesignÂ
Marian Mentrup
Furniture
Tim Teven Studio
Opening Performance
Riley Watts
Made possible with the support of
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
EIC FlexiForm
Creative Industries Fund NL
Consigli Construction Co., Inc.
TU Delft Climate Action programme
Fraunhofer IWES
EIC DiDAXJakob AG