Monthly Archives: May 2014

AFRODITI PSARRA // Presentation & Demo

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Afroditi Psarra for a Demo and Presentation of her latest works. Afroditi has been at IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona for the past 10 days undertaking a residency as part of the European Arts Science and Technology Network development. Afroditi Psarra (Athens, 1982) is a multidisciplinary artist and [...]

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IAAC @ Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier

This year IaaC was invited to participate in the Festival des Architectures Vives (FAV), an ephimeral architecture festival that takes place in the historical centre of Montpellier. FAV occupies squares and spaces that are not usually open to the city for one week, allowing people to discover these spaces through the paralell discovery of ephimeral architectures proposed [...]

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JOHN PALMESINO // Fathoms

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting John Palmesino, and his Territorial Agency partner Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, as part of the IaaC Spring Lecture Series 2014 discussing “Fathoms”, an excursus through theoretical and practical experiences of the Territorial Agency. Fathoms, a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 metres), chiefly used in reference to the depth of [...]

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Soundtouch // Tangibility Workshop with EASTN

This week the Master in Advanced Architecture Advanced Interaction research line students participated in a workshop with the European Arts, Science and Technology Network, held at the Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs, and focussing on Tangibility, the Network’s focus theme for this year’s research program. The main purpose of the European Art Science and Technology Network [...]

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PRACTISE FABRICATION // LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES 1:1 // Final Presentation

A collapsible modular tensile structure that allows you to set up a seating and a shelter wherever you want, a rolling cocoon in which you can rest in several different positions before rolling away again and again, a green parametric pavilion formed by a performance-specific components capable to build up a structure out of sawdust [...]

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PRACTISE FABRICATION // LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES 1:1 // day 4 to 6

Practise Fabrication // Lightweight Structures 1:1 Seminar, development continues….

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PRACTISE FABRICATION // BRICK WORKS THIN-TILE VAULT // day 6 & 7

On the last scheduled day on the site, a big effort was made to finish the first layer of bricks, in order for the pavilion to obtain structural integrity and the steel rods to be removed. The weather slowed things down, as varying humidity conditions affected with the behaviour of the fast-setting concrete mixture, while [...]

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