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RS2 had a workshop with an special guest, Oriol Carrasco. The workshop is considered as a laboratory for experimentation,  in an effort to discover new ideas, materials and resources towards a more efficient and sustainable architercture. Another aspect of this workshop is about learning how to produce performative prototypes in limited period of time that [...]

RS1 Emergent Territories Studio went to visit “The old Port of Barcelona”, the chosen site where they will develop their projects. The students took an impressive boat ride along the port facilities to obtain a different understanding of the site from the water, in order to analyze the site dynamics and to identify relevant flows [...]

During the final presentations the students presented a video with the process of their work during the last week of the intensive workshop with Gregory Epps. Many ideas and many prototypes were developed by paper while one piece of the selected project was fabricated in 1:1 scale by metal. The selected project is going to [...]

How we can envision Barcelona for the next 8, 16, 32, 64 and 128 years? How new space optimization could generate opportunities for the densification of Barcelona Can we transform Barcelona (built and non built) into a networked city? Can our city model be responsive to our behavioral changes over time? Follow the link to [...]

This week, the master students are working together with Gregory Epps from RoboFold in the prototyping and fabrication of a folded component façade system. Starting from the paper model and going through the design and fabrication process developed during the last years by Epps and his colleagues, the workshop will go until the fabrication and [...]

Last weekend MAA 2011-12 students along with IAAC faculty and staff visited south Spain (Gandia,Valencia, Benidorm) For 4 intensive days students visited building and masterplan projects, debated on architectural concepts and enjoyed local traditions. The group had the chance to visit Sociopolis (Valencia) an under construction project fomented by the Generalitat Valenciana for the construction [...]

¨Let material dictate you and find out how creative material could be¨ Theo Jansen Atari was the tool of Theo when we he first started working with his idea on the ¨new forms of life¨, when he first started generating the codes for his animals. Now Theo is wondering if he will be able to achieve [...]