Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Gonzalo Delacamara, professor of Economic Analysis and researcher at the IMDEA Water Foundation, has co-ordinated a number of research projects over the last few years: the economic valuation of ecosystem services in Spain; the economic analysis of environmental external (marginal) costs of electricity generation in Spain or the economic valuation of water resources in Latin [...]
The students presented their analyses of different parts of Barcelona. In approach to the final proposal for a zero emission Barcelona, they have studied and analyzed different aspects of the city. Vicente Guallart, Willy Muller, Marta Malé, Lluis Viu, Jordi Pages, Areti Markopoulou and Tomas Diez reviewed the projects and discussed about them with the students. [...]
The MAA students with Lucas Cappelli and Nota Tsekoura visited the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010, ¨People Meet in Architecture¨, directed by Kazuyo Sejima. It was the 12th International Architecture Exhibition and IAAC participated with the model of the Fablab House project, exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion at the Giardini.
Neil Leach, architect and theorist, hosted three days of lectures at IaaC.
Bloon 1:1 Prototype The goal of this fabrication project is to build a portion of the Bloon capsule at 1:1. The toroidal shape of the capsule has been sliced into a series of ribs which will be milled, then glued together (using resin and fiberglass) into the final geometry. The ribs are being milled from [...]
Site model in progress for the Barcelona Zero Emissions project. Students keep working and organizing sites for the working prototype model.
Following the Barcelona Zero Emissions project, the MAA students are working on digital modeling and production of a 1:2000 model of the entire Barcelona city. This model is a working prototype for proposals on a Zero emissions city, as well as the base physical model for the development of an interactive interface of Barcelona that [...]