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DUAL Pavilion by Pininfarina
DUAL Pavilion by Pininfarina
Miami, FL, United States
Special Mention, 2026 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Learning
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DUAL Pavilion by Pininfarina
Miami, FL, United States
Special Mention, 2026 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Learning
DUAL Pavilion by Pininfarina is a large-format 3D-printed architectural sculpture installed at Florida International University's Miami campus for ACADIA 2025: Computing for Resilience. The result of a collaboration between Pininfarina and American manufacturing innovator Alpha Additive, DUAL sits at the intersection of computational design, robotic fabrication, and material sustainability.
Measuring 4m (L) x 3.5m (W) x 3m (H), the tunnel-like structure was sited along an active circulation path adjacent to FIU's Paul Cejas Architecture Building, transforming a moment of transit into a moment of spatial awareness. Its monocoque form reflects Pininfarina's precision-driven design language applied at architectural scale, where aerodynamic geometry provides structural support without additional framework,
What makes DUAL distinctive is how it embeds its research agenda directly into its form. The pavilion was fabricated using recycled thermoplastic blended with rubber sourced from used tires, demonstrating how waste streams can be redirected into high-design, high-performance applications. Sustainability functions here as a generative design constraint: the material's composition, the monocoque logic, and the robotic fabrication process are inseparable from the final form.
Its placement at FIU is central to its impact. The pavilion serves as a hands-on research tool: students engage with the full design-to-fabrication workflow, analyze the recycled material's structural properties, study Pininfarina's computational methods, and develop their own design responses in FIU's Robotics and Digital Fabrication lab. It gives students direct, embodied exposure to the idea that upcycled materials can produce spaces of genuine beauty and innovation, making the case for sustainable design not through argument, but through experience.
Measuring 4m (L) x 3.5m (W) x 3m (H), the tunnel-like structure was sited along an active circulation path adjacent to FIU's Paul Cejas Architecture Building, transforming a moment of transit into a moment of spatial awareness. Its monocoque form reflects Pininfarina's precision-driven design language applied at architectural scale, where aerodynamic geometry provides structural support without additional framework,
What makes DUAL distinctive is how it embeds its research agenda directly into its form. The pavilion was fabricated using recycled thermoplastic blended with rubber sourced from used tires, demonstrating how waste streams can be redirected into high-design, high-performance applications. Sustainability functions here as a generative design constraint: the material's composition, the monocoque logic, and the robotic fabrication process are inseparable from the final form.
Its placement at FIU is central to its impact. The pavilion serves as a hands-on research tool: students engage with the full design-to-fabrication workflow, analyze the recycled material's structural properties, study Pininfarina's computational methods, and develop their own design responses in FIU's Robotics and Digital Fabrication lab. It gives students direct, embodied exposure to the idea that upcycled materials can produce spaces of genuine beauty and innovation, making the case for sustainable design not through argument, but through experience.
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