Monthly Archives: February 2012

The First day of the seminar workshop Matter, Materiality and material system started. The Tutor Claudia Pasquero (Director Ecologic studio) with the assistance of Andrea Bugli (Ecologic studio) had their introductory session were they explained with details the objectives of the workshop to the MAA students. The workshop operates as a machinic protocol for the synthesis of the PALACE whose ”rooms” coagulate [...]

Last friday, february 24th, MAA students had the midterm presentations. Willy Muller, Maite Bravo and invited jury, Antonio San Martin (aSZ arquitectes and UPC professor, Barcelona), Máxim Perov (Architectural Institute of Moscow) and Enric Massip-Bosch (EMBA -Estudi Massip Bosch Arquitectes) attended the presentations, giving feedbacks to the students on their projects. The site for this studio [...]

Mike Schlaich, professor at TU Berlin and the Managing Director of schlaich bergermann and partner, was yesterday evening at IAAC. He mainly spoke about lightweight structures made with concrete. He made an overview of concrete shells through history showing Felix Candela’s work who was able to build 4 cm shells with his hyperbolic paraboloid. The thickness [...]

Students of MAG LAB from Syria visited IAAC with their workshop Tutors : Eduard Cabay and Noelle Halabi.

Usman Haque and Natalie Jeremijenko presented different projects at their lecture IAAC. Usman Haque presented one of his most relevant projects called Pachube. It is a website were the users can upload any kind of information in real-time and use it. The MAA students had been working with this platform during their first term in the research [...]

John Palmesino presented yesterday the work that it is devel0ped at the Territorial Agency, founded by him and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog. Based on theoretical background John talked about urban scale by following a rather historical path of territorial approaches, as they were thought, formed or changed by community creation and later on by city inhabitation. John also explained projects and proposals based [...]