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PRACTISE FABRICATION // Brick Works Thin-Tile Vault Seminar // BOVEDA

admin — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:00:05 +0000

IaaC, in collaboration with Map13 Architects: Marta Domenech, David Lopez, Mariana Palumbo, and BLOCK Research Group, ETH Zurich, have finalized the Parametrized Catalan Vault, fruit of a 2 week-long workshop where a team of 27 Students designed and constructed a thin-tile vault in our forest campus in Valldaura.

Advanced digital tools along with traditional century-old Catalan masonry techniques will be deployed in the process, with students seeking to re-engineer, compute, and eventually construct a Vault in the forest.

IaaC is also furthering this research investigating in the field of advanced robotic fabrication techniques towards the implementation and automization of these complex catalan vault forms.

Special thanks to Areti Markopoulou, Lucas Cappelli and Ioan Pribagu for the final outcome!

Photos by: Filippo Poli

PRACTISE FABRICATION // LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES 1:1 // day 1 to 3

admin — Sat, 10 May 2014 13:28:05 +0000

The Practise Fabrication // Lightweight Structures 1:1 Seminar, led by Silvia Brandi and Rodrigo Rubio, with the collaboration of Pepe Ballesteros (Prototipolab) and Maria Kupstova, is focused on the digital fabrication of lightweight 1:1 scale spatial installations, based on the expertise of Experimental Structures, and the further development of some concepts proposed in Public Space Capsules Seminar from Term 2.

The aim of the Seminar is to realize lightweight spatial installations (embedding textile materials) that are demountable, digitally fabricated, and eventually performative.

The students have formed 4 different groups, each one working on a different structural prototype implementation. In these first 3 days of the seminar each group worked their concept design, testing the structural capacities through the production of small scale prototypes.

The course counts on the collaboration of the company SERGE FERRARI, an international producer of flexible composite materials and membranes of high performances for architecture, who will provide the material for the construction.

Viernes 04 de abril: Presentaciones Plazo Segunda // Materia digitales

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:00:09 +0000

Miércoles 02 de abril: Segundo Presentaciones Plazo // autosuficientes Edificios

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:40:51 +0000

Presentaciones Segundo Plazo // Estudios de Investigación

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:35:50 +0000

The 2nd Term Presentations for the Research Studios will be taking place next week in IaaC. Each Studio will present to a select international jury on the following dates:

01.04.2014 // ADVANCED INTERACTION

02.04.2014 // SELF SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS

03.04.2014 // EMERGENT TERRITORIES – INTELLIGENT CITIES

04.04.2014 // DIGITAL MATTER – INTELLIGENT CONSTRUCTIONS

For more information, contact: info@iaac.net