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Excited to share that construction of Punkshell starts today!

Punkshell is a pavilion built from 3mm plywood, cut flat and bent into shape. The panels are joined with zip ties alone — no frame, no adhesive. Forcing a flat sheet into a curve introduces internal stresses that the material resists, and that resistance is the structure. It stands without external support and carries the weight of a person.

Over the past months we ran a series of one-to-one scale mockups at the Fabrication Center at the IIT School of Architecture @fabricationcenter whose support has been immense and is deeply appreciated. Today, with our local fabricator @izmade , assembly of the full structure begins.
Punkshell is one of the pavilions selected for exhibition at the IASS-IWSS 2026 @iass.iwss.2026 International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, held in Torino, Italy, September 15–18.

This research project was made possible through funding from the IIT School of Architecture @illinoistecharchitecture and the Huckabee College of Architecture at Texas Tech University @ttuhcoa

Thrilled to be bringing this to life alongside my life friends and stellar architects @catwilmes and @arkiv.kim (I wish I can be there for the tilt-up)

Deeply grateful to all who helped, advise and supported us!

If you're in Torino, swing by!

#architecture #iass #torino #turin #pavilion

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sewn plywood_ver 1,
questioning false promise of flatness of plywood. applying a tension to form a structural element with thin plywood.

work of Catherine Wilmes, Eduardo Teran, Kim Il Hwan
@plastic__practice @catwilmes @eduardo____teran @eduardo____cilleruelo____teran @naive_practice

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sewn plywood,
questioning false promise of flatness of plywood. applying a tension to form a structural element with thin plywood.

work of Catherine Wilmes, Eduardo Teran, Kim Il Hwan
@plastic__practice @catwilmes @eduardo____teran @eduardo____cilleruelo____teran @naive_practice

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Small scale category Honorable mention winners #BuildnersUnbuiltAward2025 competition #ArchitectureCompetition Catherine Marielle Wilmes and Eduardo Cilleruelo Teran from United States!
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Why do you enter architecture competition?
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Competitions offer space for speculation—a chance to test ideas without the immediate constraints of client approval or regulatory frameworks. They allow us to explore material behaviors and construction methods that might seem unconventional within typical practice. For Playwood specifically, the competition format provided an opportunity to challenge the industry's relationship with "defective" materials. The project asks: what if we built with what's discarded rather than perfected? Competitions let designers ask these questions publicly and materially, turning propositions into tangible prototypes that can circulate, provoke, and inform future work.
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More: https://architecturecompetitions.com/unbuilt2025/

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