Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
The last Class before Easter Break was on the Site Proposal and Master planning of the self-sufficient buildings. Students were divided into groups and were deciding on where their location site which will be in Mumbai, India, Each group was involved in the master planning of their Neighbourhood. There were intense discussions with Faculty willy [...]
Faculty Marta Malé-Alemany, Luis Fraguada and Assistant Cesar Cruz Cazares discussed with all student groups on how to proceed with their robots, with six weeks left for thier finals – computation, machining and application on site are fundamental issues which were talked about thoroughly. After these consultations IaaC masters students were joined by Students and professors [...]
Designing BIG buildings [parametrically] LARS HESSELGREN, AA Dip, RIBA, MSc (UCL) ,Senior Associate Partner, Director PLP Research Lars Hesselgren is the Director of PLP Research and a Senior Associate Partner at PLP since October 2007. Previous to that he occupied the same position at KPF and before 2005 he was the IT Director at KPF [...]
Yesterdays Smart Geometry Reception at IAAC saw the unveiling of what has been remark as some of the best prototypes yet! It´s obvious that the Fablab and the actual space played a very important role in fabrication. Every prototype so intricately fabricated and assembled made for a beautiful exhibition of successful work. All particpants IAAC [...]
This video is on quick statistics on how your food travels etc! The neighborhoods in 3 hectares can consider Mat Buildings. While you are targeting a density of approx. 33,000 people / sq.km. this website says that Manhattan is 27,485 people / sq.km. And the Kowloon Walled city in HongKong has a density of 1,923,077 [...]
VEMA Vema, is a theoretical project, a city between Verona and Mantua, in coincidence of the intersection between the two European corridors Lisbon-Kiev and Berlin-Palermo. Proposals are from twenty architectural firms under 40 (Italian) (Avatar, Dogma | Office / Pier Vittorio Aureli, Lorenzo Capobianco, elastic spa +3, Joseph Fallacara, Santi Giunta, Iotti and Pavarani, Moreno-Santamaría-Laezza, [...]