Nagami, exploring the design of the future with new technologies

Nagami is a design studio based in Ávila, Spain that has become known worldwide in recent months for the presentation of Zaha Hadid Architects chairs at the Milan Design Fair or the Voxel Chair v1.0 in the Georges Pompidou Museum in Paris. The studio has made a big bet for the future: manufacture with 3D printing and robotics.

After these great developments we’ve had a growing interest in the company and we got the chance to talked with Manuel Jiménez García training architect and co-founder of Nagami. Here he talked about the main developments of the study and gave us his opinion on the evolution of design and architecture in the hand of 3D technologies.

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3DN: Can you tell us how the idea of ​​Nagami came about and what were its first developments?

Manuel Jiménez García co-founder of Nagami

I have been working in architecture research in London for 9 years, mainly linked to the academic field. For the last 5 years, the research laboratory that I direct at UCL The Bartlett School of Architecture, has specialised in methods of automation, one of these methods is 3D printing of large format. At the same time, Ignacio and Miki, also with a background in Architecture, were already working on the creation of a 3D printing company in Spain.