Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Today the MAA students of the Introductory Studio “Wind energy machines” Tutored by Javier Peña, Rodrigo Rubio, Oriol Carrasco and Stefanos Levidis have visited the experimental wind labs of TechnoWind, located in Sant Guim de Freixenet (Lleida). Alvaro Ibañez and Josep Maria Pujol showed us the instalations that Technowind use to test their windmills, Technowind by [...]
IAAC was invited to be part of the Nuqat, Platform for Creatives in the Middle East, represented by IAAC MAA Director Areti Markopoulou, Fab Lab Bcn Coordinator Anastasia Pistofidou and Yousef Alnafisi, IAAC Alumni from Kuwait. Areti and Anastasia are speakers at the Conference, as well as heading a workshop on 3D Printing. Have a [...]
Today the MAA students of the Introductory Studio “When Energy Becomes Form” directed by Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto and Carmelo Zappulla, visited, with professor Silvia Bures, the algae bioreactor and constructed wetlands of the GEMMA- Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology at the Dept. of Hydraulics, Maritime and Environmental Engineering of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona. [...]
Today the Introductory Studio Tutored by Javier Peña, Rodrigo Rubio, Oriol Carrasco and Stefanos Levidis, Presented their prototypes and project advancement for the mid-term review, before the Studio tutors, as well as IAAC Academic Coordinator Silvia Brandi, Antonio Sanmartin, and Claudia Pasquero. Check out their progress!
Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting IAAC Faculty Claudia Pasquero, representing ecoLogicStudio, that she co-fouded with MArco Poletto, also IAAC Faculty. The lecture illustrated bio-inspired algorithmic design methods at the core of ecoLogicStudio’s works and academic research. Computation, both analogue, biologic and digital, is deployed to enable the study of iterative, adaptive and resilient [...]
Today the Digital Fabrication Seminar, tutored by Edouard Cabay, Alexandre Dubor, Anastasia Pistofidou and Chirag Rangholia, presented their Laser Cutting works before the Seminar tutors, IAAC MAA Director Areti Markopoulou and IAAC Academic Coordinator Silvia Brandi, as well as special guest Juan Pablo Quintero from MedioDesign Barcelona, presenting 1:1 scale tower installations in the IAAC Courtyard, [...]