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Noumena is a multidisciplinary tech company implementing innovative solutions in the fields of Robotics, 3D printing and Wearable Tech.

Founded by Aldo Sollazzo (CEO), Efilena Baseta, Chirag Rangholia, in collaboration with Starsk Lara, Noumena is based in Spain and operates worldwide.
Specialized in 3d scanning, additive manufacturing, computational design, Noumena offers custom services to leverage existing solutions and support the digital transformation of agriculture and construction, manufacturing, and fashion sectors.

In Robotics, Noumena is specialized in 3d scanning, digital measurements, photogrammetry, point cloud segmentation, computer vision, and machine learning. Collaborating with Sony CSL, IaaC, Inria, Noumena is participating in the RO-MI project for Robotics in Microfarming.
For the Department of Urban Development of Barcelona, Noumena is developing urban analysis of the environmental condition of public spaces and energy consumption of buildings.

Noumena is offering 3d manufacturing services, as an international reference in 3d printing and rapid prototyping as WASP HUB Barcelona, equipped with large to small scale 3d printers for pellet and filament fabrication. Specialized in 3d furniture, and product manufacturer, Noumena is official Wasp machine reseller, 3d filament provider, mentoring and training center for Companies in Catalonia.

With a dynamic team of computational and fashion designers, Noumena is active in developing innovative and sustainable solutions for textiles applications, promoting digital and analog material explorations. Since 2013, Noumena leads the Reshape Platform, a talent accelerator program in partnership with Fira Barcelona, Industry, Adidas, Luxxottica, and the participation of ITmakES, Materfad, and Textile Academy among the others.

In Noumena, our goal is to Make Technology Meaningful.

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ALDO SOLLAZZO
founder

Aldo is a technologist, with expertise in robotics, manufacturing, and computational design. Master in Architectonic Design in 2007, Master in Advanced Architecture at IAAC [Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya] in 2012, Fab Academy diploma in 2014 in the Fab Lab Barcelona, Aldo is an expert in computational design and digital fabrication. Since 2011, he is the director of Noumena, leading a multidisciplinary team towards the definition of new design strategies informed by tech-driven applications. He is also the Director of Reshape – digital craft community, a distributed platform promoting cutting-edge ideas merging design and manufacturing. Since 2015 he is Director of IaaC Global Summer School and faculty at Design by Data master in Paris. He is director of the IaaC Master in Robotics and Advanced Construction, focused on the emerging design and market opportunities arising from novel robotic and advanced manufacturing systems. Aldo has been part of the Fab Academy program as a mentor of Fab Academy Paris and Frosinone from 2015 to 2017.

CHIRAG RANGHOLIA
partner

Chirag is an architect with major in computational design and digital fabrication tools. After Studying architecture from CEPT University, India, he furthered his interest through researching and developing interdisciplinary skills of architectural and parametric design at IAAC (Institute for Advanced architecture of Catalonia), Barcelona, Spain. As well he excelled in digital fabrication tools and advanced manufacturing technologies by graduating Fab Academy (Course by MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms) from Fab lab Barcelona. Meanwhile, He has also been involved in teaching at IAAC, Fab Academy and design workshops. Currently, he is setting up D3LAB | Digital Design Dimensions; an applied innovation design lab curated by Noumena in India.

EFILENA BASETA
partner

Efilena is an architect engineer, studied in the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), with a Master degree in Advanced Architecture from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). Her interest lies in exploring material behaviors, physically and digitally, in order to create real time responsive architectural structures. Efilena has led several workshops internationally and during 2014-2015 she collaborated with IAAC as the coordinator of the Visiting Programs. Since 2016 she is a Marie Curie researcher at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2018, her research on ‘Construction system for reversible self-formation of gridshells’ was awarded as the best ”Emerging Research” paper by ACADIA and Autodesk.

STARSK LARA
partner

Starsky Lara product development Engineer, with experience in manufacturing, computer science, VR and IoT, Master of Advanced Architecture (M.Arch) at IaaC and Master in Product Engineering and Manufacturing Processes (M.ENG) at UPC. In 2013, he became part of Noumena by developing NERO Gh . Currently he is the software and hardware developer of Noumena. He lead the VR-Edge, which is a Virtual reality tool for Web, The Robotic implementation for data collecting and as well Is the project Manager of Wasp-Hup Barcelona.

COLLABORATORS

DJORDJE STANOJEVIC
senior architect – italy

EUGENIO BETTUCCHI
architect engineer – italy

DORI SADAN
senior architect – israel

FABIO CIOCCA
business advisor – italy

ECE TANKAL
senior architect – turkey

RODRIGO AGUIRRE
senior architect – nicaragua

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