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RS2 goes to Boston. Visits started at MIT’s Media Lab new Building, by Fumihiko Maki, where CBA (Center for Bits and Atoms) Fab Lab is settled. Researchers like Kenny Cheung or Nadia Peak where presenting their works. Group also visited Carlo Ratti’s Senseable City Lab where Copenhague Wheel prototype was being tested. At MIT architecture department [...]

Object 3D print test of a plastic origami RS2 visits the WYSS Institute with Benjamin Hutton, the nanotechnology and micro-robotics research center associated to Harvard Engineering University. There, researchers presented their advances on intelligent surfaces, adaptive transparency engineered polymers, and flying or inflatable micro-robotics. Areti Markopoulou presented last research and academic projects of IAAC. Afterwards, [...]

RS2 visits last architectural icons at New York before going to Princeton and Boston. After checking in F.Ll.Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, group crossed Central Park going to Soho, where Sanaa’s New Museum and Steven Holl’s StoreFront art gallery stands.

RS1 at Arata Isozaki Office in Japan with Arata Isozaki. RS1 at Prada, by Herzog y de Meuron Rs1 at Kurokawa´s Capsule Hotel in Tokio.

RS2 at Dillier&Scofidio’s high-line intervention, Neil Denari’s mini-tower at background. RS2 continues at NYC visiting the new developments of the High Line intervention by Dillier&Scofidio. The reactivation of the old railway infrastructure changed completely West district. Housing buildings of Neil Denari, Jean Nouvel or Frank Ghery add density to this new hybrid public space. After [...]

First days of the research trip were focused on the academic and professional scene of  New York City. At Columbia University RS2 Self-Sufficient Buildings Group visited the Philip’s Anzalome FabLab and David Benjamin’s Living Lab. A contradictory visit followed at the low-tech hand–craft fabrication workshops of the Cooper Union.

Rs3 Research trip finished and only great memories and experiences are left.  Chased by time the RS3 students  visited 2 countries, 12 cities and passed from: 7 Exhibitions, 3 Universities/Labs, 15 Buildings/Sites, 5 Companies and  5 Designers/Professionals in 1 WEEK. RS3 group at TGV Station, Liège, by Santiago Calatrava – Liège Guillemins