Monthly Archives: October 2011

The students of the MAA presented their first assignment of the Digital Fabrication class. The Digital Fabrication introductory course is intended to initiate students in the use of advanced digital design methods and fabrication processes in an integrated way, to make physical things from virtual data. It will focus on the design, development of construction [...]

Andreu Ulied, CEO of MCRIT S.L., had a special session with the MAA students, as part of the Energy class seminar, concerning the mobility systems, as an introduction to environmental impacts and resources consumption related with mobility in buildings and cities. The session had the carecter of an open debade with the students.

On Monday Michael Knauss from DFAB ARCH ETHZ during his lecture ¨Designing Processes¨, presented the research that is being developed at Gramazio & kohler DFAB ARCH and the projects that thay have constructed. Materiality is one of the key points of their research and throughout their processes one could tell that the complexity of the [...]

Last Friday Abha joshi Ghani that heads the Urban Development and Local Governement Practice in the World bank´s Sustainable Development network had a lecture at IAAC under the title : ¨Urbanization- a developmental perspective on equitable, inclusive and green growth¨. During her Lecture Abha underlined the need for a sustainable urbanism in our times. Abha [...]

The GIS ( Geographic Information System)  class is part of the Many Slow Cities into a Smart City Research Studio of the first term. GIS is the merging of cartography, statistical analysis, and database technology  and is tutored by Ioanna Spanou (Landscape Architect) and Margerita Neri (Landscape Architect). Through the GIS analysis tool, students are [...]

The Open Thesis Fabrication group had a visit this week at Media-TIC by Cloud9. The tour at the building was made by  Mireia Luzárraga (cloud9). The general context of the area and how Media Tic is standing next to its surroundings as well as the facades systems and the electronic control that responces to the [...]

Ramón Sagarra gave a lecture class about the concept of Smart Cities in Barcelona and he explained the work being done within this field in 22@. Ramón Sagarra Rius is an industrial engineer by the High Technical School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona, MBA by ESADE and Master in industrial automatization and robotics by UPC. [...]