Clay is an ancient material. We shape it with code.
At Código Materia every piece starts from a set of geometric rules, a logic, a few parameters that we use to build forms with a level of detail no hand could model. The printer translates them into clay. From there each piece is refined, fired and glazed by hand in Barcelona.
Algorithm and craft. Neither one works without the other. That's the whole point.
We're architects. It's where we learned to design with code, and to think of an object as part of a space rather than something placed in it. How it holds light, how it changes a room.
That's what we make: lighting and bespoke pieces, precise to the millimetre and still warm to hold.
Behind the studio.
Rocío Sagástegui
Architect, Master in Advanced Architecture. She sees material and proportion before anyone else in the room does, the difference between a piece that's finished and one that's merely complete.
Martino Degasperi
Architectural engineer, Master in Advanced Architecture. Years leading computational design teams taught him to read a form the way others read a sentence, then rewrite it in code. The translator between what the hands know and what the machine can make.
