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Environmental Performance Modelling

By iaac | Published: May 5, 2010

The last class of Phase III in Environmental Performance Modelling ended with Faculty giving outlines to students projects on how to solve problems they have encountered while doing their projects for the seminar. They have been asked to design and test a single space building in a location of their choice. Their design should be the result of analysis performed using ECOTECT and other tools.

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FabLab Barcelona

By iaac | Published: April 30, 2010

The Fab Lab program is part of the MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) which broadly explores how the content of information relates to its physical representation, fab.cba.mit.edu.

FabLab Barcelona is part of the FabLab central where students from Peru, Ethiopia, Italy and Spain are learning. With the future FabLabs under formation in both Ethiopia and Peru, students are taking courses from the MIT program, ‘How to make almost anything’. This includes projects from design tools (laser cutter, CNC miller, 3d scanner and printer ) to PCB design, microcontroller programming, Networking and communications and machine design. There have also been taking various workshops like the Fabfi workshop where the goals are to create simple, low cost and easy to create antennas,more information at fabfiblog.fabfolk.com.

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Environmental Performance Modelling

By iaac | Published: April 28, 2010

The classes in Environmental Performance Modelling continued with a detailed lecture on thermal analysis and what the back ground concept lays up on. This software not only takes data visually but also analytically, so students have to learn how to apply their basic knowledge of Heat and ventilation systems, and how they work. They also learned the basic tools for Passive design strategies.