Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
For the last three days, Research Studio II students have been taking lectures and discussing their projects on the workshop with Ignasi Pérez Arnal -Ignasi Pérez Arnal profile -faculty Willy Muller and assistant Maite Bravo.Lectures taken included ; design as critical factor for efficiency & sustainable tourism, energy, water and material solutions, ecoproducts and waste. [...]
The Fab Lab program is part of the MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) which broadly explores how the content of information relates to its physical representation, fab.cba.mit.edu. FabLab Barcelona is part of the FabLab central where students from Peru, Ethiopia, Italy and Spain are learning. With the future FabLabs under formation in both Ethiopia [...]
Students with faculty Victor Viña have been working on their projects for Internet 0. Their modules are now on one to one scale and ready for trial. They are now working on each prototype – electronics, installation ,programming and also development of the concept idea are involved. These will also be applied in various architectural [...]
The classes in Environmental Performance Modelling continued with a detailed lecture on thermal analysis and what the back ground concept lays up on. This software not only takes data visually but also analytically, so students have to learn how to apply their basic knowledge of Heat and ventilation systems, and how they work. They also [...]
After a four day workshop designing and fabricating parts of the Solar house participants (project directors, researchers, Fab Labbers and students) of the seminar were off to Collserola Park – Cerdanyoa de Valles- where the House of Can Vallaura is located. Here is a place where experimentations like green architecture, nature, sustainability, energy and social activitis such as Green Fab [...]
“The Future is (Self) Sufficient” Architect Dr. Joseph Cory Founder of GEOTECTURA www.geotectura.com Specializing in innovative design, and committed to sustainability, Dr. Cory is the founder of GEOTECTURA office that provides creative and practical architectural solutions to social and environmental challenges, using multidisciplinary research methods and open source design. Dr. Cory received his diploma from [...]
Students have been working intensively on their Self-Sufficient agenda where they are now going further into their structures. Concept, site, function, efficiency, sustainability, environment, culture, tourism, citizen,…. all these are discussed with faculty Willy Muller and assistant Maite Bravo. They will be developing further more, with the upcoming self-sufficient workshop to be held during the [...]