Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Antoni Brey explaining about the different types of sensors that are available and the data that you can collect form them to improve the management and user experience of urban spaces, offering advanced functionality for the city.
OPTIMIZATION WORKSHOP A group of the MAA students had the chance to participate in the workshop tutored by Sam Conrad Joyce (Buro Happold) aimed to employ metrics to quantitatively evaluate the performance of a design and to use Genetic Algorithms to optimize a design, in general. The session was divided in two parts: a theoretic [...]
CTrus is the first airless soccer ball with position detection technology created by AGENT, it’s functional principle is based on the mechanical properties of its materials. Composed by an inner structure and outer net-embedded shell, made out reinforced elastomers.
In today’s session, Alberto Villarreal explained how sometimes we get opportunities for design in things that we do every day and we have to be aware of this, and not take for granted just what you are able to see.
The week long Research Studio workshop, conducted by guest lecturers Michel Rojkind and Alberto Villarreal of AGENT, has begun. In the first session they talked about mobility and the way different elements in a city should co-exist.
The MAA Students of the Emergent Territories studio explored Walden 7 accompanied by Willy Muller and Maite Bravo. Signed by Ricardo Bofill and located in the west side of Barcelona, Walden 7 is an urban scale experiment of the seventies, a masterpiece of apartment blocks in Spain. Before the visit at Walden 7 the group had the [...]
Tomas Diez lecture for the Emergent Territories Studio on the future Network City. The lecture was investigating the development of urbanization since the emergence of the modern network city while focusing on conditions in contemporary urbanism. Tomas Diez referred to the challenge of the future in redesigning cities using data and information coming from transportation infrastructures and telecommunication systems.