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IAAC participates to the Venice Biennale 2012 – Common Grounds – and the Spanish Pavilion ¨SpainLab¨ / Academic Lab / with the project: Archadapting, An evolution to the past.

Arch-adapting: An evolution to the past, is an essay on architectural phenomena of adaptation to new realities of architectural creation, from the moment of the conception of an idea until the final architectural outcome. Here, the word outcome substitutes the word construction, on a need to amplify our limit and overpass the hardware sense of constructive spaces/ objects.

The creation of the term ¨ Archadapting¨  in this essay, is trying to express a push of Architecture towards an adaptive behavior that can exist once it links closer to social, biological and natural sciences, through deeper understanding of  location, collaboration and tools.

As part of the Open Thesis Fabrication program, the collaborative industries presented to the students their projects as well as the research that they are developing.

The OTF Program is a unique research program, developed as a non-profit partnership between IAAC and a series of well-established industrial partners and companies. The objective of this collaboration is to offer participants the possibility to engage in a semi-professional environment, and develop a project with the support and expertise of individuals and institutions that are commercially involved in their field of research. In that manner, it provides a potential jumping platform into future professional opportunities, while offering companies a fresh R&D environment where to propose new design challenges and applications.

The last days the Open Thesis Fabrication students followed the presentations of some of the collaborative industries, where they explained their projects as well as the research that they are developing.

Presentation of Cricursa was made by Joan Tarrus, Oscar Perez made  a presentation about KUKA Industries, and Patxi Ruben  represented Imar Industries

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Open Thesis Fabrication 3.0  Inaugurated with the welcoming speech from the new IAAC Dean Manuel Gausa along with Areti Markopoulou, research and Development Director, that presented the program to the students.

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IAAC Global Summer school ended last week. 15 students of different nationalities, participated in this edition of IAAC Summer School : SMARTitSELF.

After 2 weeks of intense workshop, with experimentation on prototypes among others,  the team proceeded to the construction of an 1:1 prototype. ¨Heliocell¨, the project of this edition of Summer School,  is a solar pavilion that has the attribute of transforming its structure so as to follow the sun path and get the maximum advantage of the solar radiation, to be captured by the solar panels incorporated on its skin. The material chosen for the structure was wood,  and the bending strategies of the same were explored by dimensions, fabrication and assembly methods. The integration of sensors and activators served the dynamic character of the structure by offering the necessary controlled movement of the structures ribs.

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Continuing the research agenda: Fab Labs and Informalism between the “Unidad 00″ at the Architecture and Urbanism School of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, and IAAC-Fab Lab Barcelona, this year a second version of the dedicated summer school is going to take place in Barcelona at IAAC Campus between 3rd and 31st of August. The topics for this year’s edition will be based on Informal Phenomena and Smart Cities.

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These days, a group of interior design students from the Institut Créad in Lyon (France) are participating in one of the IAAC Digital Fabrication Workshops focused on furniture design using digital tools. The students design proposals are passing through a selection process that will end up with one of the designs being built in 1:1 scale at the Fabrication Laboratory (FabLab BCN).

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One of the visionaries of the idea of IAAC and co-creator of  Metapolis Group, the Architect and Professor at the University of Geneva, Manuel Gausa,  returns to IAAC assigned as the Dean of the Institute. Manuel Gausa along with the historian and cultural manager Antonio Nicolau as the General Director of IAAC and the economist Francesc Joan as the new President of the IAAC board form the team that consolidates the growth of IAAC.

IAAC seals the period of its growth by launching a new masters programme, the Master in Advanced Interaction next October 2012.