Material Science Research Facility
OSSATURA
tectonic
A research facility and archive at Cosanti advancing the ancient practice of casting into the future through freeze casting, porous ceramics, metals, composites, and experimental material fabrication.
Ossatura Tectonic bridges historical craft with material innovation. Located at Cosanti, the project extends Paolo Soleri’s experimental legacy by treating casting not as a finished technique, but as a living research method.
The facility operates between archive, laboratory, and fabrication space. Freeze casting becomes both a material process and an architectural logic, producing a project organized around transformation, porosity, structure, and the future of architectural material systems.