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19th DECEMBER – OTF FINAL PRESENTATION

By admin | Published: December 15, 2012

Image by: Liv Grete Strømme Framgard |  OTF 2012
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Tutors:
Fabian Scheurer (Designtoproduction Director)
Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (CITA Director)
Javier Peña (Xpiral Director)
Luís Fraguada (IAAC Computational Expert)
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Jury Board:
Manuel Gausa (IAAC Dean)
Areti Markopoulou (MAA Master program Director)
Enric Ruiz Geli + Mireia Luzárraga (Cloud9 Architects)
Marco Poletto (EcoLogic Studio)
Curro Claret (Designer)
Claudia Carrasco (Du Pont Ibérica)
Tomas Diez  (FabLab BCN Director)
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Program Partners:
KUKA- Robotics
Cricursa
DuPont – Corian
Fupicsa
Imar S.A.
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Presentation Schedule:
03:00 pm  Introduction
03:15 pm   Presentation Session
07:45 pm  Closing Speach
08:00 pm  Drink
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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: JULIUS POPP

By admin | Published: December 12, 2012

Tonight Julius Popp, an interdisciplinary artist, gave us a lecture focusing on the process of thought and the creation of meaning in an social environment.. The talk covered different works – for example bit.fall a word writing waterfall, bit.flow a letter creating chaotic tube machine, macro.spheres an inverted world model and micro.adam a machine questioning the relation between body, environment and thought – and gave a perspective on the theoretical background of the works.

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IAAC Valldaura Inauguration

By admin | Published: December 4, 2012

Valldaura is IAAC’s countryside campus and self-sufficiency research center, situated in the wonderful Collserola Natural Park. Yesterday, December 4th, 2012 has been named Valldaura Day in IAAC’s history.  On this day, we celebrated the 862nd anniversary of the first settlement in Valldaura (1150), when a group of Cistercian monks built their ancient Monastery on the site. In order to commemorate this occasion, the IAAC Community (students, faculty and collaborators) were called to create the first IAAC Forest Garden, planting 100 trees.  It was a very special day for the IAAC community, and the future of the institute.

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: JAVIER PEÑA

By admin | Published: December 3, 2012

Tonight IAAC had the pleasure to welcome Javier Peña, founder of the architecture office XPIRAL, who gave us a lecture explaining through different XPIRAL designs how the low and the traditional materials can work together with the digital technologies: understanding this material-technique connection as the chance to generate a wide range of innovative possibilities, and rethinking how architectural projects are the bridge which links social and economic behaviour in an efficient network. He also exposed how we will be able to apply this connection methodologies in several scales, programmes and fields of the innovative process as an heterogeneous creative mechanism.

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25N – making up VALLDAURA!

By admin | Published: November 28, 2012

On the 4th of December we are going to open a new research center of IAAC, situated in the countryside campus of Valldaura. On this day we will celebrate the 852nd anniversary of the first settlement in Valldaura, when a group of Cistercian monks built an ancient Monastery, and to remember this event IAAC Community is going to create the first forest garden! To make possible this event we had a very pleasant day of shared work in Valldaura, on the 25th of November, with a group of 15 volunteers students,  preparing the ground to plant the 100 trees of the FOREST GARDEN.

25N: shared nature, shared work, shared paella, shared emotions.

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: GONZALO DELACÁMARA

By admin | Published: November 27, 2012

Tonight at IAAC Gonzalo Delacámara, expert on Economic Ambiental Science, gave us a lecture challenging the current dogmas about the energy and economic crisis. During the first part of the lecture Gonzalo Delacámara analysed some of the economical main aspects that are related to the future of our energy, specially in terms of people and goods transportation. In the second part Gonzalo answered many questions asked by the students, some of them connected to their research works.

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Final Presentation of the 2nd Digital Fabrication exercise

By admin | Published: November 25, 2012

Today the MAA students presented the work of the 2nd Digital Fabrication exercise. The aim of this project was to explore 3 dimensional manufacturing processes by the use of the CNC milling machine, and the development of molds for casting pieces. The work has been focused in the design of a construction brick module, the fabrication of its mild, and the process of casting the parts to construct a three dimensional wall, which has generated a spatial installation in the IAAC building.

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