Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
IaaC will be Welcoming the MAA 2013-2014 Students on the 2nd of October.
Stay Tuned for more information on the Inauguration Ceremony featuring a Lecture with ERIC OWEN MOSS, to be held on the 16th of October.
Today was the final day for the visiting workshop programme in Environmental Design and Planning of Urban Spaces, hosted in the IaaC facilities, with the participation of a group of students from Greece and Cyprus. The workshop was completed with outstanding results, and many happy faces!
Today the IAAC OTF researchers presented their research proposals to the partner companies (KUKA, CRICURSA, SANTA&COLE, DUPONT, STORA ENSO, BREINCO and CERAMICA CUMELLA), as well as the research line advisors, to discuss the next possible steps towards the development of their experimental prototypes.
9 projects, presented by 10 OTF researchers, in total were presented inside the research lines of INTELLIGENT BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS, and SMART URBAN ELEMENTS, bringing forth great interest on behalf of the partner companies, and an interesting discussion in general.
The research proposals presented various aspects and themes of interest:
_How can buildings meet the needs of public space, adapting continuously to the changing conditions posed by the environment and the interaction between public and private space? What is the potential of a building to interact and adjust to its physical, environmental and social context?
_What are the potentialities of embedding responsive technologies into various materials to generate smart materials, and dynamic products, finally a dynamic and responsive city, potentially generating constant evolution in the spatial context of these material applications, according to the real time needs of these contexts?
_What is the potential of parasite architecture towards the rehabilitation of obsolete infrastructure in the dense urban scape?
_How can invisible elements, such as pollutants and sound, become the basis for the interaction with space, creating new spatiality, according to urban and social needs, and potentially generating energy for these?
The Oslo Architecture Triennale, curated by Rotor, opened yesterday.
‘Behind the Green Door – Architecture and the desire for sustainability’ explores how architecture, city planning, scientific practice, business opportunity and political power shifted their focus and discourse, during the last 30 years, under the umbrella of the term ‘sustainable’.
The exhibition seeks to build an a-critical landscape of the contemporary culture of design for selfsufficiency through an impressive selection of 600 material samples, models, games, photographs, videos and prototypes.
The Endesa Pavilion multiscalar prototype, façade system and generative process will be exhibited there during the next months.
Today the visiting workshop programme in Environmental Design and Planning of Urban Spaces, hosted in the IaaC facilities, with the participation of a group of students from Greece and Cyprus, went to visit the Endesa Pavilion.
The Students were given a tour of the Pavilion during which the concept, design and fabrication of the Pavilion were explained.
