The 50SR team

  • Founder

    Ruxandra Iancu Bratosin is a spatial designer and computational researcher, as well as a professor in the Bachelor in Design at IE University. She is a co-founder of 50(Super(Real)), a studio focused on multi-scalar spatial strategies, driven by the harmonious marriage of human values with technological innovation. At the core, her work explores ecology, social impact and the process of design and it has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale of 2016, Rotterdam Design Biennale of 2017, London Design Biennale of 2021 and published in several books with a digital ecology focus.

    Her tangent focus explores the aesthetics of computation, algorithmic driven design, and the quest of expanding the notion of collaborating with technology in the process of design in order to address contemporary social or sustainability issues.

  • Founder

    Alessandro is a co-founder of 50SuperReal studio, where he focuses on applying coding to the automatisation of design and technical processes, as well as playing the role of BIM Manager and computational expert.

    Alessandro spends a lot of his time in educational processes and he is currently an adjunct professor at IE School of Architecture and Design. Previously, he has been teaching in ETSAM as part of the Masters in Advanced Infographics, and you can find his online classes on several different educational and profesional platforms.

    Currently he is focusing his career in pushing the boundaries of the Building Information Modelling methodology. Processes as advanced modelling, automatisation and data informed geometry are his main topics of research, mixing programming and drafting to explore the digital capabilities of architecture and design.

  • founder

    Rodrigo Rubio is an architect, designer and researcher focused on fabrication, ecology and computation. He holds a MArch with Honors from the UPM-ETSAM and a post-professional MAA from the UPC-IAAC.

    He is co-founder of the Madrid-based design collaborative practice 50(Super(Real)). He has served more than ten years researching on digital fabrication, self-sufficiency and domesticity, teaching and lecturing at national and international institutions such as IAAC in Barcelona and TSA in New Orleans, and he has been directing research projects such as the Fab Lab House (SDE, Madrid, 2010), and the BCN Circular Economy (Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2016). His research and academic work have been widely published in national and international platforms such as PLAT, REIA, Wired and Mark.

    Rodrigo is currently Adjunct Professor of Fabrication Technologies at IE University (Madrid), PhD candidate at the Design Department of the UPM-ETSAM (Madrid) and Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley.

Current and past collaborators:

Antonio Mendez Martin

Juan Ignacio Buendia Peláez

Jesus Perucho Alcalde

Mikhail Frantsusov

Rodrigo Lopez Sobreviela

Asmaa Elbaz

Moira Burela

Dario Castellari

Filippo Iardella

Alessio Verdolino