Urbanites +
A'osis Falesie is an episode in the Alve0sis research series, presented in the Experimental Works category at the 4th International Architecture Biennial Antalya (IABA 4.5) in November 2025. The Alveosis series began with Nilüfer Kozikoğlu's balloon experiments in 2009 and has been developed by different teams at Urban Atölye since 2013, investigating the structural, spatial and production possibilities of a tubular rhizome model: self-standing minimal surface constructions derived through generative design techniques, with hollowed interiors that can host organic or living matter within continuous skin formations.
A'osis Falesie distinguished itself from previous episodes in the series through two specific characteristics. The model approaches the "cıdar," the wall condition of the tubular structure, as a loose pattern in plan rather than a resolved surface, then plays with the vertical pull and horizontal flow of the "falez," or cliff, configuration in its layering. These two moves together produce a form that reads simultaneously as geological deposit and spatial membrane, accumulating upward through a logic closer to sedimentation than construction. The work was 3D printed in concrete by a local company using robotic concrete printing technology, with various parametric models tested through the process.
Concrete printing, understood as a derivation of the massive modality of mineral construction, makes possible an expansion from a 2-ton, 1 m3 block of rock to a 2-ton, 4 m3 volumetric spatial construct. The structure was designed to be printed as a single uninterrupted line, calibrated to fit within the reach of the extruder's robotic arm. This constraint became generative: the continuity of the print path and the behavior of the material as it was deposited layer by layer shaped the form as much as the parametric model did. A'osis Falesie extends a line of inquiry that has run through the Alveosis series since its first installation at the 4th International Architecture Biennial Antalya in 2017, asking how structure can emerge from the properties of a process rather than be imposed upon it.
In collaboration with
3D CONCRETE PRINTING
FALCO3D, Adem Şahin, Begüm Şahin, Oktay Şahin
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Burhan Kaplan
RENDERS
Ludvig Holmen
IABA TEAM
Can Gök, Furkan Toru, Doğa Onat, Mithat Yılmaz, Batuhan Efe Şahin
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