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FabLab House wins First Place in the Peoples Choice Awards

By iaac | Published: June 28, 2010

FabLab house has won the Peoples Choice Awards at the Solar Decathlon Europe Competition in Madrid. A pioneer in a different approach to design and technology, The FabLab house has incorporated different systems of social spaces, where self-sufficient habitats are able to produce energy, food and other goods. It is developed on a network of fabrication laboratories using CNC machines to design and produce houses that can be customizable by the inhabitants, and at the same time adaptable to the environmental conditions. More about the FabLab house can be found at www.fablabhouse.com .

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IAAC Masters Alumini wins FuturArc Prize

By iaac | Published: June 28, 2010

Yick Ho Alvin Kung (Hongkong) an IaaC Maters Alumini (thesis in Digital Tectonics) recently won an international competition for sustainable architecture from a Singaporean magazine. His competition entry for the FuturArc Prize is his thesis project, advised by Professor Marc Aurel. More information about the competition could be found at http://www.futurarc.com/index.cfm and his entry at  http://www.futurarc.com/prize_winners/2010_students/FAP_Student_Winner/1st.cfm. Alvin’s vision is to achieve sustainable and performative solutions through parametric design thinking and method.

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FabLab House in Madrid

By iaac | Published: June 27, 2010


Aerial view of the FabLab house in Madrid

The fablab house in Madrid: A preview of the future of how design can be manipulated and used according to the technology and know how that has provided us with limitless possibilities. The interior of the house is composed of a social space, a bedroom, kitchen, a small FabLab, a bathroom and an elevated small room for invited guests to sleep. The house’s control system is designed to provide detailed real-time monitoring of its behaviour and its interaction with the environmet, creating historical profiles which can be shared socially. More of the FabLab house can be found at  www.fablabhouse.com.

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FabLab House in Solar Decathlon Europe Competition

By iaac | Published: June 20, 2010


FabLab House team in Madrid

After endless nights of hard work the fablab House has been constructed in Madrid. With its theme ‘Form follows energy’, the house is now using the resources of its environment – the sun, water and wind to create a microclimate that will improve the basic conditions of habitability. The fablab house is also now serving as a workshop space where digital fabrication,innovation and creativity is encouraged. This sunday more than 5o children have realized drawings of their ideal solar house. They were supported by the fablab house team to win a fablab house cap with their names digitally imprinted on it.The competition for the next week till the 27th of june, more on the fablab house news can be found atwww.fablabhouse.com.

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Fab Lab House-Construction In Madrid

By iaac | Published: June 9, 2010


The FabSolar house under construction in Madrid

Team Working through out the night to mount the pieces together

FabSolar house in Madrid

Few of the last pieces of panels being mounted from IaaC to the truck
After travelling all the way from Barcelona (IaaC), to Madrid (Construction site), The FabSolar House is now under construction in Madrid. All pieces are there and now being fit together; despite the pouring rain the Solar house team, directed by Daniel Ibañez and Rodrigo Rubio, is working hard to have the house on time for the competition.

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Labbook – Grasswall – pp. 22-33

By | Published: June 8, 2010

labbook – 100608 – joel letkemann

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Fab-Solar House Presentation in IaaC

By iaac | Published: June 4, 2010

Fab Solar House presentation in IaaC

Before attending the Solar Decathlon competition in Madrid, Fab Solar house has been opened to the public on the 4th of june, 2010 at IaaC. The partners and members of the Fab Solar house – Schnieder Electric, Endesa and Visoren amongst others – ,sponsors of the project, politicians and members of institutions like the Mies Van Der Rohe foundation had all been present to see the house under construction. Presented by Iaac Director Vicente Guallart  there have been discussions on why and how the fab solar house has been aspired to be built, its technicalities and its aims for the future. Fabhouse researchers, students of Iaac & Fabacademy and collaborators have all been present during this event also discussing on their future trip to Madrid which will start at the end of this week.

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