Know how things are made

Código Materia was founded by Martino Degasperi and Rocio Sagastegui. Martino trained as an architectural engineer at Politecnico di Milano and Rocio as an architect at Universidad de Monterrey. Both pursued a Master in Advanced Architecture at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia where Barcelona became the place where their paths converged.

Before founding Código Materia, they worked across Europe and Saudi Arabia on luxury residential and retail projects, developing a precision for material detail and spatial quality that now drives everything they make.

The studio was born from a specific problem: the gap between the algorithmic design tools architects use daily and the objects that end up in the spaces they design. Código Materia closes that gap — taking the same computational methods used to design a building façade and applying them at the scale of an object you can hold.

Every piece starts as code. It ends as fired ceramic, hand glazed in Barcelona.

We use parametric and generative design tools to develop forms that are geometrically impossible to produce by hand. The printer deposits clay layer by layer, leaving traces of its logic visible on the surface. After printing, each piece is sanded and glazed by hand a step that gives every object its final, unrepeatable character.

The result is work that is simultaneously precise and imperfect: the machine’s grammar, the maker’s hand.