Co-Founder and Creative Director
Armand Terruli is a fully qualified architect of twenty years and video artist who has diversified his design output through interactive exhibition design, audio/visual work and into responsive environments.
Over the years Armand has notably designed and project managed galleries at the National Maritime Museum, the Science Museum, the Saudi Arabian Pavilion at the Seville Expo in 1992 and the Lisbon Expo 1998, to the Faith Zone at the Millennium Dome with Eva Jiricna Architects. Armand has been working for Vector Foiltec since 2000 designing and managing lightweight inflatable ETFE projects such as the Eden Project, Magna Science Centre, Kingsdale School, Manchester Piccadilly Station, Gatwick Airport Transport Interchange and the Water Cube for the Beijing Olympics. He has recently become Associate Director at Vector Foiltec.
Armand has collaborated and project managed many complex multi-disciplinary teams and handled projects up to several millions pounds on site using well structured partnering and collaborative initiatives.
Armand became associated with the Raya multi-media collective in 1997, the Soxan collective in 2002 and is Creative Director of body>data>space since 2004, which extends his creative focus on interactive creative user generation in large scale installations. This creative outlet has allowed Armand to have fruitful artistic collaborations with a range of international artists and clients such as Big Chill, Future Physical, UVA, Coldcut, NESTA, the Arts Council of England and the British Council. He has performed live at most of the large scale arts and music festivals in the UK and internationally as an active member of the veejay and video-art scene.
His primary architectural interests are with lightweight large scale pneumatic structures and sustainable design through intelligent permaculture based solutions.