Jordi Truco is a graduated architect by Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona ETSAB. At 2003 received MAarch Distinction in “Emergent Technologies and Design” at The Architectural Association of London AA. UK. He is also the recipient of the first price of the Royal Academy of the Arts of London in Architecture, student’s category, 2003.

 

TEACHING
From 2004 to 2007 He has been teaching at Masters of Biodigital Architecture at ESARQ, Universitat internacional de Catalunya.

During 2006 He has been visiting instructor of the Advanced Design Studio at PRATT School of Architecture in New York. At 2007 has directed the Simposium Internacional d’Arquitectura Emergent SIMAE.

From 2008 to 2018 he has been the director of ADDA, Masters in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture at ELISAVA Escola Superior de Disseny i Ingenieria de Barcelona.

From 2009 to 2011 he has been lecturing and giving workshops at Hyperbody Research Group, TU Delft.

At 2011 he held the Esherick Visiting Professor Chare at College for Environmental Design at University of Berkeley. California.
From 2011 he has been contributing regularly at Architectural Association Emergent Technologies and Design March, by lecturing, assisting to Thesis Final Reviews and giving desk critics.

He has lectured in international symposiums like Far East International Digital Architecture FEIDAD at Taipei 2004, Computer Architectural Design and Computer-Aided Manufacturing Processes in Architecture at ETH ZURICH 2005, Subtle Technologies: Responsive Architectures at University of Toronto 2006, Simposium Internacional d’ Arquitectura Emergent at Esarq Universitat Internacional de Catalunya 2007.

Also has lectured in several national and international universities like: Pratt school of Architecture New York, Architectural Association of London, LA SALLE Barcelona, ESARQ-UIC Barcelona, ETSAB Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, IaaC Institut d’Arquitectura Avançada De Catalunya, Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm KTH, Technische Universiteit of Delft (Hyperbody research group), College for Environmental Design at UC Berkeley, EAA Estonian academy of the arts EAA, Research Melbourne Institute of technology RMIT.

At 2019 Jordi takes a brake as director of ELISAVA, Masters in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture to renew the program.
From 2022 he is professor of first year of graduate of design at EINA Escola d’Art I Disseny de Barcelona.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITI / RESEARCH
At 2003 he founded HYBRIDa, with Sylvia Felipe. An Architecture design studio involved in the development of an integrated design strategy that intersects computation, parametric design, biomimetic engineering and digital fabrication, in order to create and design objects, spaces or architectural systems that respond and adapt to their environment.

At 2004 he won a grant from the British Council (Arts and Humanities Research Council AHRB) to research on new materials at the Department of Biommimetics, University Of Reading. UK.

In 2009 he has directed a research project focusing on mechatronics applied to architecture funded by the Catalonian government (GENESIS-CIDEM)

During 2010 has directed the project PARA-Site at the ADDA, ELISAVA BioDesign Reserch Lab, an interactive adaptable structure, on the field of the responsive architecture.

At 2012 he is hired by CIMNE to be the project leader of the Seventh European Research Program, CAPACITIES HYPERMEMBRANE. HYPERMEMBRANE is to be an adaptable system to produce an immense variety of complex structural morphologies for architectonical proposals through a modular standardized driven by a software system.

During 2015 / 2017 He was also the project leader and coordinator of the FP7 European Research program DEMOPREOJECT HYPERMEMBRANE.

At 2018 he has received founding from Spanish government CDTI, within NEOTEC program, to continue developing Dynamic Envelopes for the HYPERMEMBRANE

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He has been combining Research, Academics with his Professional work at HYBRIDa, where over the last eighteen years has developed projects of various scales, and topics, from a single-family houses, mixed use buildings, Research Projects to their last won competition (with Azcon Architects) a 23,000 m2 hotel Tembo Suites and Apartments, at Port Forum Barcelona, already under construction.

PUBLICATIONS
2021 Via Construccìon 153. Monografia HYBRIDa. Ed. Silvia Puig
2019 AV arquitectura 86. Project HYPERMEMBRANE Demo 2.
2017 Prototyping Architecture. Mark Burry, Jane Burry. Thames and Hudson.
2013 Parametric Design for Architecture. Editado por Wassim Javi
2010 PARA-Site: Time Based Formations through Material Intelligence. Editado por Jordi Truco. ELISAVA
2008 Construcciones Patentes: Nueva Arquitectura Hecha en Cataluña. Editado por Albert Ferrer – ACTAR
2007 Morpho-Ecologies – Towards Heterogeneous Space in Architectural Design
Ed Michael Hensel and Achim Menges. AA Publications.
2006 Responsive Architectures: Subtle technologies 2006.
Ed. Philip Beesley, Sachiko Hirosue, Jim Ruxton, Marion Tränkle, Camille Turner. Riverside Architectural Press.
2004 AD Architectural Design.
Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies. Form Generation and Form Finding of Adaptable Structures. Willey and Sons Ltd.
2004 Quaderns de Arquitectura y Urbanismo.
Edición Junio 2004, 242:Q2.0. Técnica. HybGrid. Ediciones COAC.
2003 Diversifying Digital Architecture.
2003 FEIDAD Award Yearbook. From Form Generation To Form Adaptation Ed: Yu-Tung Liu, AleppoZONE, NCTU, BIRKHÄUSER-Publishers for Architecture.

AWARDS
2003 Royal Academy of the Arts, First price in architecture student’s category. The British Institution Awards.

2003 Best project of the year at Architectural Association by the project HYPERMEMBRANE.

2003 Second prize, advanced architecture competition FEIDAD. Far East International Digital Architecture. Taipei.

2004 Triennial Architecture of l’Ebre
24 Houses in Amposta. Best housing project built in the 2003 Coac, Demarcacio de l Ebre. Spain.

2004 Grant from the British Council (Arts and Humanities Research Council AHRB) to investigate architectural adaptive systems.

2009 Research funds for the mechatronics for adaptable architecture, project financed by the Generalitat de Catalunya (GENESIS-CIDEM)

2013 Grant for research funds from the European research program FP7 CAPACITIES HYPERMEMBRANE.

2017 Grant for research funds from the European research program FP7 DEMOPREOJECT HYPERMEMBRANE.

2018 First prize (with aZCON Architects) the restricted competition organized by Stahler Real State, for the TEMBO SUITES hotel in the Port Fórum Barcelona. Currently under construction.

2022 winners (with C63 STUDIO) of the competition for design and construction of the new residence and day center for the elderly in Terrassa, by infrastructures de Catalunya with Next Generation EU funds.Under developement.

2023 winners (with C63 STUDIO) of the competition for design and construction of the new Primary Care Center in Santa Margarida I els Monjos, by infrastructures de Catalunya.

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HYBRIDA Syilvia Felipe/Jordi Truco

www.hybridarch.net