Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
With finals coming up soon student groups are currently working on their Fabbots, to achieve their aspired research avenue. Swarm robots, weaving machines, Sand casting and molding, Solar driven fabrication techniques are a few of the types currently being developed. Students have been working and consulting with faculty Marta Malé-Alemany , Victor Viña and assistant [...]
Students have been trying to put their ideas of internet 0 into practice.They are now working on their physical prototypes for their future computational works. With faculty Victor Viña different ideas are explored and debated with different student groups. These include; monitoring and visualizing energy consumption and generation, adaptive facades to control air flow, sun radiation [...]
Machine design – part of the biweek assignment at the FabAcademy, helps students study how to assemble machines and see how they are wired, programmed and how it works. This also includes the current assembly of the ShopBot at the FabLab by the FabLab team, This robotic machine is highly calibrated to be a faster, [...]
Students have been working in groups on their master plan for their chosen sites which include the Bollywood area, the Port and the Centers of Mumbai. They are now in the details of their capsules where they are working on their site, environment and energy source. Faculty Willy Muller and assistant Maite Bravo were consulting [...]
Philippe Morel Co-Founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research A Few Remarks on Seven Contemporary Concepts Philippe Morel, Architect DPLG (Summa cum Laude, 2004), is co-founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais where he leads, together with Pr. Christian Girard, the Digital [...]
Presentation of the workshop by Philippe Morel Discussion with each student groups Students finishing up with their work Presentations and discussions This week started with Phillipe morel’s workshop on the issue of the ‘End of Theory‘ – going back to the idea of experiment in drawings. This will question the nature of contemporary drawings, beyond [...]
IaaC’s work in Mumbai explored current conditions and dynamics of the territory. Changing coastal conditions, learning from slums as the largest housing type, critiquing the unjustified escalation of land value and the various actors that work within this mechanism were part of the study as well. Rapid growth in the population of cities and hurried [...]