Tag Archives: Classes

Research Studio I – Emergent Territories Final presentations

By iaac | Published: May 14, 2010

With the model of the projects they have worked upon, students presented their proposal for Mumbai to invited guests Trilochan Chhaya( Dean of  BSSA, Mumbai) ,  Ethel Baraona Pohl (Editor), Marc García Duran ( Working with Ferrer Foundation, India & Housing Projects in Barcelona),  François Guisan  (Environment Engineer for Sustainability), Faculty Luis Falcon and Hemant Purohit and to their fellow [...]

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RSIII. Digital Tectonics (FAB)BOTS – Final Presenations

By iaac | Published: May 14, 2010

   The final presentations for the design research studio ended with MAA students presenting their works, to invited guest Mara Balestrini (Communicator / Microsoft),  Borja Martinez(Art Director,www.losiento.net),  Olaf Gipser( Architect,www.olafgipser.com), Jordi Truco(Architect / hybrid-a.blogspot.com), Carme Romero(Research Director www.hangar.org  Jorge Velazquez (Robotic Engineer  www.pal-robotics.com),  Olga Subiros(Architect / www.programcollective.com), Catalina Pollack (Architect), Esteban Colmenares (Architect), Faculty Marta Malé-Alemany , Victor Vina, [...]

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Solar House Under construction In IAAC

By iaac | Published: May 14, 2010

The FabLab House Project (www.fablabhouse.com) is now undertaking construction phase in IAAC main hall. The pieces are being constructed in IaaC and will be transported to Madrid grouped together. The major structure (the machine room and first floor ground areas) have already been constructed, including the roof top sections, making it easier to make the [...]

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IAAC Lecture Series_May 7th

By iaac | Published: May 10, 2010

Andrew Kudless Founder of Matsys matsysdesign.com Andrew Kudless is a designer based in San Francisco where he is an assistant professor at the California College of the Arts. In 2004, he founded Matsys, a design studio exploring the emergent relationships between architecture, engineering, biology, and computation. Andrew has taught at The Ohio State University, the [...]

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RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings-with Reventós Manuel Rovira

By iaac | Published: May 10, 2010

The last class of reasearch studio II ended with students working on the structure of their buildings.  Invited structural engineer Reventós Manuel Rovira www.ereventos.comand faculty Willy Muller and assistant Maite Bravo consulted students on these structures, Students are currently preparing for their final presentations.

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Internet 0

By iaac | Published: May 5, 2010

The final presentations of students in Internet 0 included prototypes which react according to movement, sound, vibration and light. Students presented their projects with a technical description of their system, its behavior and its architectural application. There have also been an On-Site demonstrations of their systems working. With Faculty Victor Viña and invited guest jury [...]

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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 [...]

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