Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Last night, for the MAA CLOSING LECTURE, IAAC welcomed Sir Peter Cook, a part of Architectural history. One of the six revolutionist of 60′s, when Archigram created history with their futuristic architectural magazines. When Peter Cook, Greene and Webb met in 1961, the first Archigram magazine was issued. After that Peter Cook, David Greene, Mike [...]
MAA Students: Gamze Gunduz (Turkey) , Virat Kumar (India), Diego López Ibarra (Mexico) Studio: Digital Tectonics Studio Instructor: Marta Malé-Alemany, MAA Co-Director Project: Catenary with Crystals Student Summary: The aim of the project is to exceed the catenary principle, the ideal form of architecture, with the help of bouyancy and flexibility of threads while using [...]
MAA Students: Saiqa Iqbal (Bangladesh), Vittal Sridharan (India), Amay Gurkar (India), Harshad Sutar (India) Studio: Digital Tectonics Studio Instructor: Marta Malé-Alemany, MAA Co-Director Project: Recycled FaBric(k) Student Summary: Recycled FaBric(k) is a project targeting recently demolished sites or disaster hit areas and re-instating the site-found broken bricks as potent design components. The project utilizes the [...]
On Friday, IAAC welcomed Fernando de Porras-Isla for an open lecture in the IAAC Auditorium. Porras-Isla discussed the “River Manzanares Project” which is a big scale project for the people of Madrid which increases the quality of everyday life by connecting natural landscape with the urban environment. Fernando de Porras-Isla graduated from the Escuela Tecnica Superior [...]
MAA Student: Maria Marghariti (Greece) Research Studio: Self- Sufficient Buildings Studio Instructor: Vicente Guallart, IAAC Director, and Javier Peña Project: Algae Farm Block Student’s Summary: Basic element of the project is the algae and its cultivation, that consists a powerful source of energy, an effective water cleaning system and captures great amounts of CO2 (essential [...]
MAA Students: Jordi Portell i Torres (Spain), Martin Firera Alessandri (Italy), Ohad Yaacov Meyuhas (Israel), Julian Hildebrand (Germany) Studio: Digital Tectonics Studio Instructor: Marta Malé-Alemany, MAA Co-Director Project: Material Networks Student Summary: Material networks is about the development of a site-conscious multi-material additive deposition process combined with a subtractive material recycling strategy. With this process [...]
Last week, MAA students in the three Development Studios (Emergent Territories, Self Sufficient Buildings, and Digital Tectonics) had their final projects reviewed by the MAA co-directors as well as the studio assistants. The Emergent Territories Studio had their projects reviewed by outside guest, and IAAC Alum, Francisco Villeda from JDS Architects in Copenhagen. Students will [...]