Collective minds in
dynamic spaces.
Designers, researchers, and makers working at the intersection of material innovation, modular architecture, and environmental engagement.
SARA - From origami to orbit
A design system inspired by bionics, soft robotics, and origami-logic engineering.
Developed for space and adaptable to Earth, it redefines how we build in extreme or shifting environments.
SARA’s modular surface systems use auxetic geometries and topologically interlocking components to fold, expand, and dynamically respond to external forces. These lightweight structures behave like muscle—flexible, compressible, and spatially efficient.
Funded and supported by ESA BIC Czech Republic, SARA advances through rapid prototyping, pushing the frontier of deployable space architecture while generating terrestrial applications like emergency shelters and adaptive climate façades.
Partners:
Funded and supported by ESA BIC Czech Republic, SARA advances through rapid prototyping, pushing the frontier of deployable space architecture while generating terrestrial applications like emergency shelters and adaptive climate façades.
Partners:
An open-source urban design system that uses your neighbours' old furniture.
VIDA transforms public waste into architectural potential, offering a hands-on, low-cost way to shape public space, empowering citizens to become designers and builders of their own environments.
Piloted in Berlin, VIDA is a modular building system that transforms urban waste and by-products – such as wood offcuts, recycled plastics, or fiber-based composite materials – into reusable building blocks.
These modules are now being tested by building a real-world laboratory on Fasanenstraße in Berlin, after winning a place in the 100m Zukunft project. The goal is to test how urban innovations can make public spaces more livable, sustainable, and future-proof.
KACADU is participating in the ESA Business Incubation Centre Czech Republic.
This project was implemented with financial support from the Technology Incubation program.
Adam Urban
David Hick
Yasumasa Hayashi
Jann Hawker
Don Anh-Tuan Nguyen
Jan Urban