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MAA Student Research Assignment: Shading Devices for a Façade

admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:01:52 +0000

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 physical object in order to investigate the relationship between information, design, and fabrication using parametric software.

To learn more about what MAA students are working on in the Designing Associativity seminar visit the seminar blog at: legacy.iaacblog.com/designingassociativity

Francisco Marmolejo working on details.

RS1 Workshop: The Shape of Information, Day 2

iaac — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:59:22 +0000

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.

“Architecture is about discussion, that’s what it makes it happen” - Michel Rojkind.

RS1 Workshop: The Shape of Information, Day 1

iaac — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:28:04 +0000

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.

RS1: Network City Lecture

iaac — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:42:45 +0000

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.

Self-Sufficient Buildings- Mid Review

iaac — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:42:38 +0000

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.

Visual Programming 6th class

iaac — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:47:53 +0000

Passive Design Strategies

iaac — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:43:47 +0000

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

Real applications of Radiance software, an example of some of the tools used in this seminar.

Rs_2 Self-Sufficient Buildings 1st presentations

iaac — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:00:59 +0000

In the first RS2_Self Sufficient buildings studio presentation the students presented their case studies on energy sufficient buildings and technologies. With critical thinking they shared their ideas on existing projects and systems trying to discover the distance between the successful theories and the successful practices on sustainable designs.

Interactive Systems Workshop

iaac — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:15:21 +0000

The students of Interactive System seminar participated in an intense workshop about Arduino and interactive circuits, conducted by Victor Viña. Students spent three days hacking into old toys, printers, and CD drivers, studying sensors and actuators and integrating them with software.

Designing Associativity Seminar

iaac — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:40:31 +0000

The main focus of the seminar will be to operate with McNeel’s Grasshopper plug-in for Rhinoceros 4, described as a ‘generative modeling for Rhino’, Grasshopper is a design environment suited for the explorations through-out the seminar.