Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
In coordination with Tomas Diez, the students are fabricating a 1:2000 model of Barcelona with the CNC milling machine, for Digital Fabrication and Design Studio classes. The finished model will be mounted on a wooden base wall, where the student are going to project their proposals for a zero emissions city.
Students presented their projects on processing in the final review session, with teachers David and Hector.
Chris Wan currently city design manager at Masdar, was at the institute to give an open lecture about this sustainable project, and he expressed a big interest in IaaC’s Zero Emissions project of Barcelona, so he had a private session before the lecture with the students related with CO2 emissions and the different ways that [...]
Gonzalo Delacamara, professor of Economic Analysis and researcher at the IMDEA Water Foundation, has co-ordinated a number of research projects over the last few years: the economic valuation of ecosystem services in Spain; the economic analysis of environmental external (marginal) costs of electricity generation in Spain or the economic valuation of water resources in Latin [...]
The students presented their analyses of different parts of Barcelona. In approach to the final proposal for a zero emission Barcelona, they have studied and analyzed different aspects of the city. Vicente Guallart, Willy Muller, Marta Malé, Lluis Viu, Jordi Pages, Areti Markopoulou and Tomas Diez reviewed the projects and discussed about them with the students. [...]
Neil Leach, architect and theorist, hosted three days of lectures at IaaC.