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GSS 2013_Graduation
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GSS 2013_Final Presentation
The GSS 2013 concluded today with the Final Presentation of the 6 projects developed throughout the 2 weeks of work. The Global School programme seeks to investigate common agendas in global localities. The 2013 edition included the participation from institutes in Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, and North America, in particular: Mumbai, Tehran, Istanbul, Barcelona, New York and Lima.
The projects developed aimed to generate a new strategy to understand and facilitate the Production of the City in various aspects: Production of Knowledge, Prodution of Food, Production of Objects, and the Production of Energy, key elements which establish the basic necessities to create self-sufficient habitats, and allowing the Summer School to serve as the testing ground for the generation of project ideas. Concepts included sharing energy, sharing working experience, adaptable structures that combines data and visual illusions, sunshine sterilization installation, etc.
The projects were developed through a 3 phase process: Analysis, both on a global and a local scale, Digital Design, generating a programme and concept for the Project, and, finally, a Fabrication phase, in which a vision, through the generation of a prototype, and the project process were elaborated.
Each Group worked on a different square in the centre of Barcelona, generating interactive tools, through the elaboration of 1:1 scale prototype for each square. These facilitated the incremention of knowledge and facilities for the square in question, thanks to the use of the Smart Citizen kit and Arduino, that is associative tools that allow to relate the projects to various internal and external dynamics of the site.
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Benedetta Tagliabue
Tonight IAAC welcomed the italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue, chief architect of the EMBT office. During the session, Benedetta explained her main idea of architecture through several projects that she did, some of them in collaboration with the catalan architect Enric Miralles.
The session concluded with some questions of the students related to different aspects of the EMBT projects, ranging from the urban scale doubts until the most detailed issues.
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Benedetta Tagliabue lecturing at IAAC
Benedetta Tabliabue at IaaC
Lecture EMBT PROJECTS
22th of July // 18:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA
Benedetta Tagliabue was born in Milan, Italy. In 1963 she graduated in Venice from the “Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia” in Italy.
Presently Benedetta Tagliabue teaches at the University of Architecture ETSAB (Escola Técnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona) in Barcelona and lectures regularly in architectural forums. In 2004 she received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Napier University and she is a member of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.
Tagliabue began her collaboration with Enric Miralles in 1991, with whom she founded the studio Miralles Tagliabue EMBT. Together their work includes iconic buildings and public spaces in Barcelona such as the Gas Natural tower, Santa Caterina market, and Diagonal Mar park. Buildings in other European cities include the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, Utrecht’s town council, and a music school in Hamburg. Under Tagliabue’s direction, the studio currently works not only within the scope of architecture, but also within that of landscape, public space, building restoration, temporary installations, and design.
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Global Summer School Lectures
During these days at IAAC it’s taking place the Globar Summer School Workshop, an activity in which students are working with 6 different squares of Barcelona. Within this frame, IAAC is proposing several lectures that will complement the aim of the workshop.
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Global Summer School now on!!
Today GSS BCN has been launched at the beautiful IaaC’s Valldaura Campus in Collserola Park, which is an investigation center focused on the production of food, energy ,knowledge, and objects. We meet each other, have an amazing lunch, discuss the coming days, and understand the topic of “productive City”.
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