Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
RS1 participants fly to Japan to experience Japanese Architecture and the City, to follow up with Tokyo´s Urban development and it´s interdisciplinary plan, an urban setting that allows different economic activities to grow, as one of the 3 ¨command centers¨ of the world.
The Rs2 MAA students are to experience the diversities of this country by visiting different cities as they are visible in the map below.
RS1 In front of Herzog & de Meuron PRADA store in Tokyo.
Javier Peña discussing on 22@ filtrating towers project, with Josep Mias (MIAS Architects), Javier Jimenez Iniesta (Architect) and Jordi Pages i Ramon & Lluís Viu (Max de Cusa Architects) as invited jury.
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The jury of the RS3 Final presentations of MAA Term II consisted of:
MAGÍ GALINDO / IQS / LEITAT, SANTIAGO MARTIN GONZALEZ / Univ. Of Oviedo, JORDI TRUCO / ELISABA / HybridA, LUIS FRAGUADA / IAAC / BAD, MAITE BRAVO / IAAC, EDOUARD CABAY/IAAC+ OHAD MEHUYAS (RS3 Alumni)
RS3 studio investigates the workflow between computational design and material production methods, exploring the relationship between design inputs and computer programmable devices that can be used for the production of building structures and/or components. Challenging the traditional norms of linear file-to-factory production processes, the studio will study the potentials of linking the programming of specific material formations and machinic behaviour in real time, exploring the generative design opportunities that may emerge from this convergence.
Pierre Bélanger closed his week at IAAC with an Open Lecture after the workshop´s final presentations. Pierre Bélanger is Landscape Architect and Associate Professor at the Hardvard University Graduate School of Design. He is also editor of the Landscape Infraestructures DVD and his most recent publication include Regionalization, Redefining Infraestructure and Landscape as Infraestructure. During the lecture he focus on the convergence of urbanism, landscape and ecology in the interrelated fields of planning, design and engineering. He focused on the dual objectives of ecological durability and economic performance in the reclamation of regional systems and large urban landscapes.
S4_Landscape Infrastructure seminar: taught by Harvard professor Pierre Bélanger with the assistance of Margherita Neri.
It was an intensive week for both students and tutors. Lectures, round tables discussions and teamwork were the main activities. Students have carried out mapping work in different areas and at different scales within the field of landscape infraestructure. From the national to the international scale, covering topics as diverse as waste treatment, energy, water, mobility or Internet connections.
After the end of the Seminar with the MAA students Ecologic Studio, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Polleto (Through video connection from London) presented their work as it is being developed at their office and in other schools were they teach. They presented their latest project : H.O.R.T.U.S. A prototype of urban gardening that establishes a new relationship between nature and technology. ¨CyberGardening the city¨ is a concept that gives the possibility to the citizen to participate by becoming a cyber-gardener that has some role to play in the change of the ¨Landscape¨.