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Benedetta Tagliabue yesterday presented the most recent projects of her office EMBT. From her presentation the audience could distinguish a sentimental spectrum. Benedetta´s ¨stories¨ included information on transparency and light, comfort, crafts and artisans among others. Spanish pavillion in Shangai fullfilled a dream that she had from child to build projects in China and opened to her office, the [...]

This workshops aim is to  research the use of granular materials such as sand as a reusable molding material to fabricate unique building elements in concrete with a minimum of waste resulting from the formwork. The application and modeling of the sand is controlled through an industrial robot to guarantee sufficient precision and repeatability of the process. The 4 [...]

IAAC Faculty Areti Markopoulou (Director R+D IAAC) and Tomas Diez (FabLab Bcn Director) talked last Saturday at TEDx Thessaloniki in Greece. Under the theme The Courage to Create Areti and Tomas talked about new methods of production based on Computer Numerically Controlled machines and the idea of Personal Fabrication. Showing projects of IAAC and Fab Lab Bcn [...]

In the lecture of  Nader Tehrani  ¨DA DA A NADAAA¨ , the architecture of the classical era and the Greeks, to the Roman time or even the late 80´s and the Eiffel Tower in Paris, with a closer view on the structural and geometrical decisions, was the opening chapter.  Structural and geometrical decisions were explored [...]

The Emergent Territories Development Studio 1 had an intense review with Nader Tehrani, Department Head of the MIT School of Architecture. The IAAC Master students had the opportunity to present their projects in the Port of Barcelona aiming to integrate two seemingly disconnected disciplines: urbanism and urbiotica.  During this intense session, the students obtained valuable [...]

This week the DS3 master students are having a workshop with Santiago Martin Gonzalez from the IDEASCAD, team at University of Oviedo, on the topic ¨ Computer Vision¨ . The two day workshop is giving the students the basic knowledge that will allow them to apply image recognition techniques in their research projects. Santiago shows [...]

MAA o2 Students presented the work as it has been developed, until now,under the guidance and tutoring of Jordi Pages i Ramon and Lluis Viu Rebes (Max de Cusa Architects). The students have just finished the 1st out of the 4 parts of the Thesis development. The 1st part of the thesis was mainly focused on a [...]