Monthly Archives: May 2015

Prof. Bob Sheil // Design through Production: Perform/The Scan

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Bob Sheil, Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), as part of the IAAC Spring Lecture Series 2015. Bob took us through a few of his experiences developing design through production, leading to diverse approaches and outcomes. In particular, the lecture addressed recent experimental work in developed [...]

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Thursday 28th of May 2015 // Prof. Bob Sheil // Design through Production: Perform/The Scan

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Pavilion of Innovation 2015 by IAAC|FabLabBarcelona @Beyond Building Barcelona

Last May 19th to 23rd, Barcelona hosted the 19th edition of Construmat, the International Construction Faire. Within this new edition, and with the suggestive change of name to“Beyond Building Barcelona – Reengineering Construmat”, Fira de Barcelona set the challenge of including the Innovation Area to the traditional features of the Faire. For this reason assigned IaaC | Fab Lab Barcelona the mission to design and execute [...]

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ROME 20-25 // WORKSHOP // 28-30-31 May 2015

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Pavilion of Innovation 2015 – Symposium

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Digital Matter | Intelligent Constructions // mid term with Skylar Tibbits

Today the Digital Matter | Intelligent Constructions Research Line, led by Areti Markopoulou (IAAC Academic Director), had their Mid-Term Reviews with an all-star guest jury. The jury included Skylar Tibbits, Director of the MIT Self-Assembly Lab, Manja van der Worp, NOUS Engineering and IAAC Faculty, Moritz Begle, ETH and IAAC Alumni, Eduard Cabay, Appareil and [...]

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S10 – Experimental Structures // Final Presentations

On Thursday, the projects of the Experimental Structures seminar (Lightweight Structures 1:1 3rd edition) were exhibited at IAAC. Groups of students explored the applications of composite textiles and other lightweight materials in the fabrication of a large sphere, using the principals active tension, tensegrity, and expansion/contraction. Through the designing of a sphere, or its components, [...]

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