Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
On Friday, IAAC welcomed Fernando de Porras-Isla for an open lecture in the IAAC Auditorium. Porras-Isla discussed the “River Manzanares Project” which is a big scale project for the people of Madrid which increases the quality of everyday life by connecting natural landscape with the urban environment. Fernando de Porras-Isla graduated from the Escuela Tecnica Superior [...]
MAA Student: Maria Marghariti (Greece) Research Studio: Self- Sufficient Buildings Studio Instructor: Vicente Guallart, IAAC Director, and Javier Peña Project: Algae Farm Block Student’s Summary: Basic element of the project is the algae and its cultivation, that consists a powerful source of energy, an effective water cleaning system and captures great amounts of CO2 (essential [...]
MAA Students: Jordi Portell i Torres (Spain), Martin Firera Alessandri (Italy), Ohad Yaacov Meyuhas (Israel), Julian Hildebrand (Germany) Studio: Digital Tectonics Studio Instructor: Marta Malé-Alemany, MAA Co-Director Project: Material Networks Student Summary: Material networks is about the development of a site-conscious multi-material additive deposition process combined with a subtractive material recycling strategy. With this process [...]
Last week, MAA students in the three Development Studios (Emergent Territories, Self Sufficient Buildings, and Digital Tectonics) had their final projects reviewed by the MAA co-directors as well as the studio assistants. The Emergent Territories Studio had their projects reviewed by outside guest, and IAAC Alum, Francisco Villeda from JDS Architects in Copenhagen. Students will [...]
On Thursday, June 9, IAAC and Santa & Cole opened the exhibition Humanizar la Ciudad. Arquitecturas de Madrid y Barcelona. The exhibition brings together 30 proposals by architects from Barcelona and Madrid which propose a new paradigm for the twenty-first century where the needs of citizens take precedence over arbitrary urban growth and where sustainable [...]
MAA students are working hard in preparation for their final presentations at the end of the month. This year final presentations will be held the week of June 27. All presentations are open to the public. We invite you to come to see the students present. More information will be provided closer to the week [...]
MAA Students in the Multidisiplinar Optimization seminar have finished the course and are now finalizing their projects. This seminar was led by Santiago Marin (Vortica). You can learn more about this seminar in our Seminar Preview post from last month. You can find more MAA Student projects from the seminar in the Multidisiplinar Optimization Student [...]