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The Emergent Territories Development Studio 1 had an intense review with Nader Tehrani, Department Head of the MIT School of Architecture. The IAAC Master students had the opportunity to present their projects in the Port of Barcelona aiming to integrate two seemingly disconnected disciplines: urbanism and urbiotica.  During this intense session, the students obtained valuable feedback regarding the theoretical foundations supporting their proposals, as well as suggestions related to the technical research involved in form production and strategic implementation. Nader provided a highly critical and inspiring contribution to the Master students at this crucial stage of their projects.The Emergent Territories Studio will continue developing their ideas until the end of June 2012.

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This week the DS3 master students are having a workshop with Santiago Martin Gonzalez from the IDEASCAD, team at University of Oviedo, on the topic ¨ Computer Vision¨ . The two day workshop is giving the students the basic knowledge that will allow them to apply image recognition techniques in their research projects. Santiago shows how to get information from video cameras (WebCams) and translate that into geometry, color, movement and distance data.

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MAA o2 Students presented the work as it has been developed, until now,under the guidance and tutoring of Jordi Pages i Ramon and Lluis Viu Rebes (Max de Cusa Architects). The students have just finished the 1st out of the 4 parts of the Thesis development. The 1st part of the thesis was mainly focused on a geometrical research through computation so as to create a methodological framework. A rather comparative study of growth strategies where weight, stress and other physical parameters, applied on a certain geometry, could give a rich package of observations that could pass them to the next step of their thesis.

The jury consisted of: Edouard Cabay, Panagiotis Michalatos, Areti Markopoulou and Nota Tsekoura

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During an intense week workshop, IAAC students developed a small scale project (benches prototypes), developed and conducted under the supervision of Panagiotis Michalatos, using structural information as a driving factor.  The workshop explored the degree in which many models and methods used in computational structural optimization make various assumptions that render the materialization of their outcomes open to design interpretation. The students were working in groups, using different materials as cardboard or wood, while the tools used that they used were : Rhino + Grasshopper + custom grasshopper components for near real time Finite element analysis Custom Topology optimization and structural pattern generation software.

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¨Interfaces are changing your intuitive understanding…¨ as Panagiotis explained in his lecture yesterday at IAAC. Originally from Athens Greece with the last 7 years leaving abroad, from Sweden to London and from London to USA and Boston, Panagiotis Michalatos is exploring the potential of software  interfaces that will optimize the design and structural possibilities while will open a much more communicative path between architects and their clients. Panagiotis presented several projects that he have worked on as well as the interfaces that he has developed while he was working in AKT II and after.

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Sr. Josep Maria Rovira, General director of Endesa Catalonia along with Sr.Alex Fabreras, Director of distribution of the northeast area of Endesa Catalonia, visited today the IAAC installations to assist ENERGRID mid project presenation.Energid is an initiative of Endesa, developed by IAAC in collaboration with i2Cat and UPC.

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