Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Each year IAAC hosts various groups of students and researchers from around the world making IAAC a dynamic center for learning and innovation. Since January a group of students from the University of Texas at San Antonio have been at IAAC with their professors Maria Solé Bravo and Natali Canas working and learning about digital fabrication. [...]
Ara(e)Na (picture above) is one of the projects presented by MAA students. Marta Malé-Alemany, Luis Fraguada, Victor Viña, and Thiago Mundim were part of the jury during the Mid Review presentations.
For Designing Associativity Seminar MAA students had to fabricate a machine which responds to data collected from a source. This is one of the projects for the seminar, developed by Julian Hildebrand and Ohad Meyuhas, that is controlled by Firefly (Grasshopper) through an Arduino board.
Juan Herreros, PhD architect and Senior professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid, spoke about his recent projects. Since 2006 his firm, Herreros Arquitectos, has developed projects in Spain, Uruguay, Mexico, Panama and The Netherlands.
After Digital Tectonics studio presentations, students had a break playing with Jenga, while the rest of the group tried to brake their concentration.
Shading devices for a Façade, is a student research assignment, still under development, by IAAC MAA students Francisco Marmolejo, Marisa Margariti and Mathew Owen for the Designing Associativity seminar. These devices will open or close as they collect data from solar sensors connected to them. The goal for this assignment is to implement data flow into a [...]