Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Working prototypes The various prototypes for the D-HUB exposition www.dhub-bcn.cat are being fabricated at the FabLab cut with 3-axis milling machine. Using Alucobond 5mm, which provides lightness as well as stiffness, these prototypes can be attached to multiple forms of organization providing ample flexibility for the space. After being cut they are then manually folded and [...]
The prototype for the self-sufficient solar house for the Solar Decathlon ‘FabLabHouse’ Europe, is being constructed entirely in the IaaC premises. With its completion aheading on the 18th-28th of June, Students who are doing their Masters Project in this theme, Fabhouse researchers, FabAcademy team, faculty and participants are working on every part of the pieces [...]
With the Team of Jordi Pagès i Ramon and Lluis Viu the Theme of ‘Multiple Results or the exuberant world of possibilities’ has started. In the current paradigm of architectural design, scripting and parametric control,the idea of multiplicity takes a new momentum.A bigger importance is given to the projects “solution” rather than to the resulting formal [...]
The Theme in Eco-Machinic Apparatus with Tutors from Ecologic Studio-Marco Poletto and Claudia Pasquero - www.ecologicstudio.com – has started. Students were presented with examples of prototypes of the eco-machine, the apparatus and what the thinking behind it. This is a Thesis framework which will concentrate on the development of suchinstrument, the “eco-Machinic Apparatus”, an architectonic platform [...]
Three Phases have ended in the MAA program, This week students have gone back to work on their first introductory design course – ArboReal House Design – this time they do their tree house in a one to one scale. The Design course required students to study a tree, its functions and geometries to create [...]
As the time for the Solar Decathlon competition is approaching, IaaC is filled with energy of students (both IaaC and FabAcademy), Solar house researchers, faculty and participants finishing its assembly which is composed of over 1500 pieces milled from 2.5mx12m LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber) panels. The construction of every part requiring different techniques. They have been designed and fabricated [...]
The Reasearch Studio for Self-Sufficient Building ended with Students presenting their work for invited jury Professor Trilochan Chhaya( Dean of BSSA, Mumbai),Ignasi Pérez Arnal global ecoforum/IgnasiPerezArnal, JOSEPH BOHIGAS Architect, M.Arch (Columbia), Professor at Escola de Disseny Elisav a (Pompeu Fabra), Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, lUniversidad de Salamanca and Cátedra Mies de la Escola Técnica Superior [...]