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

By admin | Published: May 24, 2015

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

By admin | Published: May 24, 2015
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Pavilion of Innovation 2015 – Symposium

By admin | Published: May 23, 2015
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Digital Matter | Intelligent Constructions // mid term with Skylar Tibbits

By admin | Published: May 22, 2015

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

By admin | Published: May 21, 2015

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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S12 – Bifurcation Seminar // Mark Burry // Final Presentations

By admin | Published: May 18, 2015

Today were the final presentations for the Bifurcation seminar led by Mark Burry, Senior Architect of the Sagrada Familia. Inspired by Gaudi´s columns in Sagrada familia, the workshop explored firstly the possibilities linked to the description and representation of columns and the creation of a potentially underlying geometrical guide, and secondly, how to branch columns and [...]

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Oscar Tomico // Close to the body

By admin | Published: May 14, 2015

Tonight our guest lecturer Oscar Tomico, invited as part of the spring Lecture Series 2015, discussed innovation in the form of the combination of soft materials with high technology with us, and which has led to the development of so-called Smart Textiles. These are of strategic importance for the European textile industry to sustain their [...]

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