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Fablab Kids-Fablab Barcelona

By iaac | Published: May 10, 2010

Invented to grow and learn Motivated to promote reflective thinking, analytical and critical thought to children between 10-16 years old, FabLab Kids is a creative laboratory that nurtures them to develop their intellingence, creativity and imagination alongside technological aspects.The major issues concern improving the future, energy, self-sufficiency, the use of resources,The use of resources, non-consumption, [...]

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IAAC Lecture Series_May 7th

By iaac | Published: May 10, 2010

Andrew Kudless Founder of Matsys matsysdesign.com Andrew Kudless is a designer based in San Francisco where he is an assistant professor at the California College of the Arts. In 2004, he founded Matsys, a design studio exploring the emergent relationships between architecture, engineering, biology, and computation. Andrew has taught at The Ohio State University, the [...]

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RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings-with Reventós Manuel Rovira

By iaac | Published: May 10, 2010

The last class of reasearch studio II ended with students working on the structure of their buildings.  Invited structural engineer Reventós Manuel Rovira www.ereventos.comand faculty Willy Muller and assistant Maite Bravo consulted students on these structures, Students are currently preparing for their final presentations.

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Internet 0

By iaac | Published: May 5, 2010

The final presentations of students in Internet 0 included prototypes which react according to movement, sound, vibration and light. Students presented their projects with a technical description of their system, its behavior and its architectural application. There have also been an On-Site demonstrations of their systems working. With Faculty Victor Viña and invited guest jury [...]

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Environmental Performance Modelling

By iaac | Published: May 5, 2010

The last class of Phase III in Environmental Performance Modelling ended with Faculty giving outlines to students projects on how to solve problems they have encountered while doing their projects for the seminar. They have been asked to design and test a single space building in a location of their choice. Their design should be [...]

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IaaC Lecture Series_Apr 30 < Maria Voyatzaki

By iaac | Published: May 1, 2010

‘(Re)thinking architectural education for a non-standard architecture’ Maria Voyatzaki Associate Professor of Architectural Design and Building TechnologyMaria Voyatzaki is associate professor of architectural design and building technology at the School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) since 2001. Her PhD at the University of Bath, School of Architecture (1996) supervised by Dr. Chris [...]

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RSIII. Digital Tectonics (FAB)BOTS

By iaac | Published: May 1, 2010

Students had a Pre-final review this friday, with their projects already developing with the thesis, concept, machine behaviour and development, their computational design tools, on-site deployment strategies, project applications, and their conclusions presented. With Faculty Marta Malé-Alemany , Victor Viña, assistant Cesar Cruz cazares and guest invites like Maria Voyatzaki, students discussed their points to develop their [...]

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