Category Archives: MAA 2012-2013

Master in Advanced Architecture 2012-2013

IAAC 2 days Workshop in Intensive Networking Games Strategies Playground Positions

That’s thirty minutes away, I’ll be there in ten

Pulp fiction

The concept of the workshop was to develop 6 fields of play directed by 6 teams so as to produce a reflection around and on the new lines of thought in contemporary architecture and the contemporary position of the architect in this socio-cultural scenario. A mix between reflection and playing games, thought and action. A hybrid that mixes critics and actions. Finally, a critical action.

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Robotic Fabrication Workshop – Teach the robot to use a chainsaw

This workshop with Tom Pawlofsky gives an introduction to robotic fabrication, implementing the processing of log wood and the realization of timber joints using a robot equiped with a chainsaw.
The workshop started with an introduction to the Kuka-robot and its programming. The main challenge is be the setup of an 25sqm shelter at Valldaura, using log wood. The design is based on scanned log-geometry, the construction uses adequate timber joints, that are developed in 1:1 prototypes. The design is tested in 1:10 models. Furthermore the workshop focuses on material issues, scripting and logistics.

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Advanced Structures Workshop

During the last weekend, IAAC students participated in the Advanced Structures Workshop, leaded by Manja van de Worp and framed in the Advanced Structures Seminar. The workshop consisted in applying all the mechanisms and tools (Karamba) learned in the four days in which the Advanced Structures Seminar took place. The whole Saturday and Sunday, the students developed different research studies, in which the main aim was to clearly understand the behavior of an Advanced Structures. To reach this goal, students applied a  constantly switching methodology between a physical model approach and a virtual model approach. On Sunday night students presented the results of their research in front of a jury composed by several teachers and specialists in the Advanced Structures field.

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Theory Duet: Axel Sowa + Ricardo Devesa at IAAC tomorrow at 18:30

Theory Duet: Axel Sowa + Ricardo Devesa at IAACTomorrow (14th of May) at 18.30 there will be a Duet lecture with Axel Sowa (Candide, http://www.candidejournal.net/) and Ricardo Devesa (DC Papers, http://upcommons.upc.edu/revistes/handle/2099/1800).

Candide and DC Papers are both online journals revolving around the concept of questioning and communicating architectural knowledge.

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Bill Hillier Lecturing at the IAAC on the 7th of May

 

BILL HILLIERlecturing at the IAAC

Bill Hillier at the IaaC
Lecture Spatial sustainability in cities: or, do cities really have neighbourhoods?
7th of May // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA

Bill Hillier is Professor of Architectural and Urban Morphology in the University of London, Chairman of the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, Director of the Space SyntaxLaboratory in University College London and a director of Space Syntax Limited. He was the pioneer of ‘space syntax’ in the nineteen seventies, and authored The Social Logic of Space (Cambridge University Press, 1984, 1990) with Julienne Hanson, Space is the Machine’ (CUP 1996), and over a hundred and fifty publications on space and other aspects of architectural and urban theory. Current research interests are in space syntax as a theory of the city, the relation between cities and urban societies, the syntax of generative buildings, the links between objective spatial laws and spatial cognition, the aesthetics of space, and the space syntax paradigm as a philosophical position.

 

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