Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
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 [...]
IAAC will be visiting Russia next week in a series of conferences with Areti Markopoulou, IAAC Master Program Director, on Advaneced Architecture, Towards the next city. This tour was made possible thanks to Sreda (www.sredadesign.org), general organisation partner for the Global Summer School in St. Petersburg, Simplex Noise (www.simplex-noise.com), lecture co-organisation in Russia, and Daniyar [...]
Friday 23rd of May 2014 John Palmesino Lecture: Fathoms @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public JOHN PALMESINO John Palmesino is an architect and urbanist. He has established Territorial Agency together with Ann-Sofi Rönnskog. Territorial Agency is an independent organisation that innovatively promotes and works for sustainable territorial transformations. Territorial Agency works to strengthen [...]
Days four and five of the Brick Works Thin-Tile Vault Seminar – both days on the site at the Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs – kicked off with a collective effort to finish mounting the Laser-cut cardboard pieces that were used as guides for the construction process. These were attached to the wooden formwork. The steel [...]
The Practise Fabrication // Robotic Micro Carpentry Seminar, led by Tom Pawlofsky – ETH – with Alexandre Dubor and Sofoklis Giannakopoulos, explores the KUKA robot as a multi-tool, micro factory. The aim is to give an introduction to robotic fabrication, focusing on setting up processes and tools to be used with the robot. The students [...]
IAAC Advanced Interaction students along with ESDi students and Estruch artists participated in the Close to the Body workshop, with Oscar Tomico from the Designing Quality in Interaction Research Group at the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, in order to research the design wearable’s, the material, the body and performativity Close To The [...]