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MAA Student Research Assignment: Shading Devices for a Façade

Shading devices for a Façade, is a student research assignment, still under development, by IAAC MAA students Francisco Marmolejo, Marisa Margariti and Mathew Owen for the Designing Associativity seminar. These devices will open or close as they collect data from solar sensors connected to them. The goal for this assignment is to implement data flow into a [...]

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RS1 Workshop: The Shape of Information, Day 2

In today’s session, Alberto Villarreal explained how sometimes we get opportunities for design in things that we do every day and we have to be aware of this, and not take for granted just what you are able to see.

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RS1 Workshop: The Shape of Information, Day 1

The week long Research Studio workshop, conducted by guest lecturers Michel Rojkind and Alberto Villarreal of AGENT, has begun. In the first session they talked about mobility and the way different elements in a city should co-exist.

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RS1: Network City Lecture

Tomas Diez lecture for the Emergent Territories Studio on the future Network City. The lecture was  investigating the development of urbanization since the emergence of the modern network city while  focusing on conditions in contemporary urbanism. Tomas Diez referred to the challenge of the future in redesigning cities using data and information coming from transportation infrastructures and telecommunication systems.

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Self-Sufficient Buildings- Mid Review

MAA Students have been designing a block in Barcelona using metabolic system and other sustainable methods, they presented their studio proposals with Antonio SanMartin and Javier Peña as a guest jury.

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Visual Programming 6th class

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Passive Design Strategies

Above: Passive design principles, basic thermal concepts and the tools for passive design.

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