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Material Discipline is a research series developed across several design studios to systematically explore the latent potentials that the work of key engineering practices from the XX century (Pier Luigi Nervi, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Robert Le Ricolais, Felix Candela, and Eladio Dieste, among others) has for architecture, in terms of the revision of its dominant conventions in the understanding of materials, organizations, and techniques, and the construction of new design models.

Fulleristic Augmentations, the forth investigation in the series, takes the techniques and models present in Buckminster Fuller’s isotropic vector matrices into an abstract machine defined as a differential manifold, a variable and responsive matrix where external determinations and contingent conditions are absorbed and integrated in a malleable yet consistent spatial-material compound that overcomes the limitations of the sterile split between ubiquitous geometric models and the real.