Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
During the final presentations the students presented a video with the process of their work during the last week of the intensive workshop with Gregory Epps. Many ideas and many prototypes were developed by paper while one piece of the selected project was fabricated in 1:1 scale by metal. The selected project is going to [...]
How we can envision Barcelona for the next 8, 16, 32, 64 and 128 years? How new space optimization could generate opportunities for the densification of Barcelona Can we transform Barcelona (built and non built) into a networked city? Can our city model be responsive to our behavioral changes over time? Follow the link to [...]
This week, the master students are working together with Gregory Epps from RoboFold in the prototyping and fabrication of a folded component façade system. Starting from the paper model and going through the design and fabrication process developed during the last years by Epps and his colleagues, the workshop will go until the fabrication and [...]
Last weekend MAA 2011-12 students along with IAAC faculty and staff visited south Spain (Gandia,Valencia, Benidorm) For 4 intensive days students visited building and masterplan projects, debated on architectural concepts and enjoyed local traditions. The group had the chance to visit Sociopolis (Valencia) an under construction project fomented by the Generalitat Valenciana for the construction [...]
¨Let material dictate you and find out how creative material could be¨ Theo Jansen Atari was the tool of Theo when we he first started working with his idea on the ¨new forms of life¨, when he first started generating the codes for his animals. Now Theo is wondering if he will be able to achieve [...]
IAAC is happy to announce the entrance of KUKA robot at the institute. KUKA is added to the list of machinery of the fablab amplifying the limits of fabrication process and opening the way to new experiments and possibilities from design to production.
The Director of Cittaslow, Pier Giorgio Oliveti, shared with us the concepts of the Cittaslow movement. he talked about the first modernity, the period between the 18th to late 20th century and the second modernity or reflexive modernization were the transformation of the basic institutions of modernity happens. Pier Giorgio Oliveti listed the differences between [...]