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During an intense week workshop, IAAC students developed a small scale project (benches prototypes), developed and conducted under the supervision of Panagiotis Michalatos, using structural information as a driving factor.  The workshop explored the degree in which many models and methods used in computational structural optimization make various assumptions that render the materialization of their outcomes open to design interpretation. The students [...]

¨Interfaces are changing your intuitive understanding…¨ as Panagiotis explained in his lecture yesterday at IAAC. Originally from Athens Greece with the last 7 years leaving abroad, from Sweden to London and from London to USA and Boston, Panagiotis Michalatos is exploring the potential of software  interfaces that will optimize the design and structural possibilities while will open a much more communicative path between architects [...]

Material distributions: Computational methods in structural optimization seminar explores the use of optimization methods in the field of design and fabrication. Custom made software will be provided in order for the students to explore the potential of methods such as topology optimization, stress aligned reinforcements and perforation patterns as well as more conventional function based form finding. The workshop started with an introduction to structural information from the [...]

Sr. Josep Maria Rovira, General director of Endesa Catalonia along with Sr.Alex Fabreras, Director of distribution of the northeast area of Endesa Catalonia, visited today the IAAC installations to assist ENERGRID mid project presenation.Energid is an initiative of Endesa, developed by IAAC in collaboration with i2Cat and UPC.

Melissa Sterry started her lecture ¨Building A Bionic City: The Place Where Science Fiction Becomes Fact¨ with the question: What is the city of the future? A question that, as she says, humanity has been pondering for millennium. ” …Architects, planners and developers generally present the future city as an idyllic setting, comprised pristine buildings and [...]

Last weekend DS1 had a workshop with Francisco Villeda . Francisco Villeda is an Associate Architect at JDSA Copenhagen (Julien de Smedt Architects) and IAAC alumni.  Francisco has experience in international competitions and projects and has a high level of professionalism regarding to design, visualization, and team management. The students during the workshop were focused on their [...]

The 3rd term of the MAA 2011-12 has started. The RS3-Digital Tectonics Master Studio has started with renewed energy and two work sessions dedicated to summarize and present the state of the students work in both the technical and the conceptual fields. A new more dialectic format that encourages participation has been tested these days for the presentations [...]