Welcome to Pentaura where building your ideal space becomes simple, affordable, and eco-friendly.
Our easy-to-use 3D configurator helps you effortlessly design unique timber shell structures, making personalized architecture accessible to everyone.Whether you're dreaming of a cozy shelter for intimate gatherings or envisioning a grand pavilion for memorable events, PENTAURA has you covered. Easily adjust the size, choose the number of supports, and position them exactly where you need them.Our cutting-edge technology ensures your timber structure is not only stylish but also highly sustainable. Through innovative digital fabrication, we minimize waste, use fewer resources, and significantly lower the environmental footprint, all while keeping costs affordable.Discover the beauty of customized architecture with PENTAURA—simplifying sustainable spaces, crafted just for you.
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Begin by selecting your desired structure size and determining the number of supports needed. You can freely position these supports to perfectly adapt your design to the specific needs of your site and intended use. With each adjustment, the shell dynamically reshapes in real-time, driven by our advanced internal form-finding algorithm, ensuring your structure remains aesthetically pleasing, efficient, and structurally stable.
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Our intuitive configurator offers two user-friendly modes. In the default mode, you can rapidly select from pre-defined options including size, number of supports, and preferred materials. If you desire deeper customization, switch to our advanced settings mode, unlocking detailed controls that allow precise adjustments to every aspect of your design.
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Once you’ve created your ideal structure, you can save your progress and easily share your design with colleagues by simply sending them a web link. When ready to finalize your project, just enter your email and click "Send Email." Our system instantly creates a personalized PDF brochure along with a comprehensive quotation, which our sales team conveniently sends directly to your inbox.
Pentaura
This project has indirectly received funding from the European Innovation Council and EISMEA, European Commission COSME-SMP-2021-CLUSTER through the FRIEND CCI PROJECT, under the 2nd Call for proposals dedicated to SMEs. The grant supported the development of the PENTAURA configurator, a digital service aimed at fostering innovation in sustainable timber structures, providing climate-resilient shelters and playgrounds through parametric design and digital fabrication technologies.
The PENTAURA configurator emerges from an innovative research project initially developed by Master's students specializing in computational design at UPCSchool. The original Pentaura Shell, a digitally fabricated segmented timber structure, demonstrated remarkable ease of construction, material efficiency, and minimal ecological footprint. This pioneering project employed computational form-finding methods inspired by Antoni Gaudí's iconic inverted models, and advanced structural analysis via Rhinoceros Grasshopper, Kangaroo2, and Karamba3D.
CODA Computational Design Affairs led the project's architectural design and technological integration, alongside ShapeDiver, which developed the technical framework for the web-based configurator. Karamba3D provided specialized software and structural analysis expertise, ensuring rigorous structural stability and performance.
This project has indirectly received funding from the European Innovation Council and EISMEA, European Commission COSME-SMP-2021-CLUSTER. FRIEND CCI PROJECT.
Special thanks are extended to all contributors involved, including:
Student Team Xavier Almanza, Bindhuja Ameerpet, Imma Bigas, Cristian Cabezas, Miguel Cruz, André Almeida, Robert Fuse, Nerea Gardner Egusquizaga, Shylesh Kumar, Adriana Moreno, Anna Nasrallah, Nayib Perez, Vijithendra Thejaswi R V, Arshita Ravindranathan, Mariona Rodríguez Majoral, Abiodun Afolabi Shonibare.
Faculty Gerard Bertomeu, Dragos Naicu, Marc Serra, Alex Solà, Enrique Soriano, Pep Tornabell, and guest international experts Julian Lienhard, Almudena Majano, Antonio Lara.
External partners and colaborators Escola Turó de Can Mates, ETSAV Architecture School, Daniel Piker (Kangaroo2), Karamba3D team, Spirafix, Manxa, Sumeplast, and Laser Penta.
PhotoCredit Andrés Flajszer
The project aligns with the principles of the New European Bauhaus, emphasizing sustainability, inclusivity, and aesthetic quality, and significantly contributes to Europe's twin digital and green transition.
