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/IAAC GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2012 Barcelona, 13-25 July Key words: interactive structures, energy optimization, ecology, metabolism, artificial intelligence, open data, digital fabrication, parametric design, DIY tools SMART itSELF is an agenda with research and education goals that combines science and technology with architecture and urban planning. Smart Cities, Smart Citizens, Self-Sufficiency, Self-Fabrication, Self-Organization, Self- Design [...]

Josep Miás during his lecture presented some of the projects that his office has been developing while he explained why drawing is the basic element to measure the potential of each proposal.  Every new sketch must produce a new possibility, to be formalized in a three-dimensional construction, a model. As far as the drawings create [...]

¨We do not force a form, we search for a form¨ said Christine Otto. Christine Otto talked about the importance of the physical model experimentation for the structural security apart from others. Digital models on the other hand do not offer that! Her lecture included information on projects of her father Frei Otto as well as different projects that [...]

The Emergent Territories studio just finished an intense 2 week workshop with Edouard Cabay. The aim of the workshop was to study, design and fabricate a responsive prototype of a component developed within their studio projects located in the Port of Barcelona. Students were able to study detailed diagrams of the systems proposed explaining the [...]

Image above: Critics discussion around a wind prototype. MIT and IAAC´s  Self Sufficient Building studio has developed a common agenda of work during the last months. They had conducted a common workshop with both groups, at IAAC on April and 2 months later they conclude their projects in Boston in MIT.

During the seminar Form Finding the MAA students disconnected  themselves from  digital modeling and worked on physical models that they could help them find form and structure at the same time.

The students presented their outcomes out of the experimentation that they had with clay and Kuka Robot from the MAA seminar with Michael Knauss and Mirjan Ammar. Most of the teams were working with compression techniques  to form their clay mold so as to cast concrete.  Each group fabricated their own tool that they adjusted with the [...]