Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
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.
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.
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.
Impure is a visual programming language that enables non-programmers to fully access the power of information comprehension and data processing. With Impure it is possible to gather information in real time from a large variety of data sources structured as well as unstructured; corporate as well as over the internet, social, financial, news, maps, search, images, [...]
The students from the Self Sufficient Buildings research studio had an introduction for the studio by Vicente Guallart then took a walk to see the sites for the studio proposal. They will redesign the typical block in Barcelona, for a new self sufficient one.
From Forum to Montjuic, going through to Moll de la Fusta , the students from Emergent Territories studio discover a hidden part of Barcelona accompanied by Willy Muller. The city will be redesigned by five groups. One infrastructure : Ronda Litoral , five areas which will represent the new smart city overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
Internet of things or Devices to the home, is a seminar focused on creating smart and interactive objects with radio frequency identification (RFID) or wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSAN). These have applications for Agriculture, Healthcare, Environmental monitoring, Smart cities and much more.