Andrea Kondziela

My name is Andrea Kondziela, I am a design researcher and architect working at the intersection of computational design, creative robotics, and material exploration. My work focuses on design as a process of inquiry — bridging theory, experimentation, and practice across architectural, pedagogical, and technological contexts. How does design intelligence and knowledge emerge through experiential teaching, technological mediation, and embodied material interaction? Featured below is a curated selection of projects from my research and teaching practice, spanning analogue and computational design methodologies, digital processes, and human-machine-material interaction.

Robotic Harmonograph

Robotic Harmonograph investigates the translation of oscillatory motion into material traces through industrial robotic systems. Grounded in the mathematical principles of Lissajous figures, the project explores how computational parametrisation transforms robotic movement into emergent physical processes across diverse material conditions.

IN_Space

IN_Space investigates the translation of algorithmic data structures into spatial configurations through robotic procedures. Positioning the robot not as a mechanical tool but as a cognitive interface between data, perception and materialisation, the project develops rule-based systems that transform external information sources into modular spatial systems across diverse materialisation methods.

Material Exploration

Material Exploration investigates the generative potential of materials as active agents in spatial and architectural formation. Working with biological and chemical processes the project develops material-driven procedures that replace conventional form-finding with emergent, process-dependent outcomes. Analogue material experiments are translated into digitally controlled sequences through digitally controlled systems, tracing a path from material behaviour to spatial configuration.