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Research Studio I – Emergent Territories Final presentations

By iaac | Published: May 14, 2010

With the model of the projects they have worked upon, students presented their proposal for Mumbai to invited guests Trilochan Chhaya( Dean of  BSSA, Mumbai) ,  Ethel Baraona Pohl (Editor), Marc García Duran ( Working with Ferrer Foundation, India & Housing Projects in Barcelona),  François Guisan  (Environment Engineer for Sustainability), Faculty Luis Falcon and Hemant Purohit and to their fellow [...]

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RSIII. Digital Tectonics (FAB)BOTS – Final Presenations

By iaac | Published: May 14, 2010

   The final presentations for the design research studio ended with MAA students presenting their works, to invited guest Mara Balestrini (Communicator / Microsoft),  Borja Martinez(Art Director,www.losiento.net),  Olaf Gipser( Architect,www.olafgipser.com), Jordi Truco(Architect / hybrid-a.blogspot.com), Carme Romero(Research Director www.hangar.org  Jorge Velazquez (Robotic Engineer  www.pal-robotics.com),  Olga Subiros(Architect / www.programcollective.com), Catalina Pollack (Architect), Esteban Colmenares (Architect), Faculty Marta Malé-Alemany , Victor Vina, [...]

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Solar House Under construction In IAAC

By iaac | Published: May 14, 2010

The FabLab House Project (www.fablabhouse.com) is now undertaking construction phase in IAAC main hall. The pieces are being constructed in IaaC and will be transported to Madrid grouped together. The major structure (the machine room and first floor ground areas) have already been constructed, including the roof top sections, making it easier to make the [...]

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Multiple Results

By iaac | Published: May 11, 2010

MULTIPLE RESULTS  Or the exuberant world of possibilities In the current paradigm of architectural design, scripting and parametric control, the idea of multiplicity takes a new momentum. Operating within this paradigm architects claim total control over their process-based designs, they claim total control over their creative material. A bigger importance is given to the projects [...]

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Contextualizing

By iaac | Published: May 11, 2010

Contextualizing :digital fabrication methods, devices, and emergent material formations This master course framework aims at identifying project-specifi c, theoretical key concepts that lure behind individual approaches and scrutinize and clarify their critical agenda within the projects’ specifi c cultural milieus of to-be-defi ned social and environmental contexts. Our group will address projects that have constructed [...]

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Fab House

By iaac | Published: May 11, 2010

The objective of the module IV thesis project is the development, implementation and support of prototype self-suffi cient solar house for the Solar Decathlon ‘FabLabHouse’ Europe. The prototype will be constructed entirely in IaaC premises, pre-assembled here in 20 modules to be transported and assembled in Madrid, where it will compete from 18th – 28th [...]

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The eco-Machinic Apparatus

By iaac | Published: May 11, 2010

While systemic thinking provides the cultural substratum for an understanding of the relationship between cause and effect in the realm of complexity, the discipline of architecture still lacks operational instruments for the organization of complex material transformations [artificial ecologies]. This thesis framework will therefore concentrate on the development of such instrument, the “eco-Machinic Apparatus”, an [...]

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