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DESIGN STUDIO MID-TERM PRESENTATION

admin — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:20:25 +0000

Today at the studio session students exposed to the jury their critical approach to their analyzed BCN main corridors.
They were asked to unveil the key opportunities, and controversies acting in their spaces. Based on these hypothesis, each team projected a mapping tool and localized the fundamental parameters to track.

From now on, students will be focused on, by using different sensoring methods, taking real time data to describe the dynamic behaviors present in their streets.After this mid-term review, students will start working on management of real time data and dynamic visualization tools.

Introductory Studio, Barcelona Zero Emissions Mid Review

iaac — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:00:33 +0000

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.

Afterwards, the general perspective of the zero-emission project had been evaluated in a semi-roundtable with Director Vicente Guallart.

Barcelona Zero Emissions > New Sustainable-Digital Fabrication equipment

iaac — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:52:30 +0000

Site model in progress for the Barcelona Zero Emissions project. Students keep working and organizing sites for the working prototype model.

The Workshop

iaac — Wed, 26 May 2010 22:26:26 +0000

alberto.romero@iaac.net

The workshop ‘Sea Sand Structures’ focuses on fringe conditions of limit and discontinuity within the city by exploring one of the aspects, the coast of Mumbai. Set up and coordinated by Renu Gupta along with the faculty members of BSSA in Mumbai and in IAAC, Barcelona, the workshop was conducted simultaneously to have an interesting exchange of concepts and design approaches by locals and foreigners to the same issue. (19,20,21st Jan 2010)

The workshop precedes the IAAC’s India visit in March 2010. By focusing on one aspect, the workshop raises many subsequent local issues within the city of Mumbai. It remains important to initiate a design dialogue before the actual visit that deals with a number of questions in Indian cities and familiarizes the students with the ‘site’.

Link to BSSA workshop

http://bssa-projects.blogspot.com/2010/01/sea-sand-structures.html

Augmented Topography

iaac — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:26:37 +0000

Sea_Connection

iaac — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:27:55 +0000

Frin[d]ge

iaac — Sun, 23 May 2010 22:29:40 +0000

Augmented Topography

iaac — Sat, 22 May 2010 22:32:55 +0000

Our site is a small fishing harbour located on one of the main tributaries running through Mahul on the east coast of Mumbai. The harbour lies on the fringe of the creek, which consists of a 32m wide waterway, a 15m wide intertidal zone linking to a mangrove zone of 15m behind which lies a small community of approx. 2000 people.

Our proposal aims to bridge the gap between land and water breaking down the barrier defined by the line of the high tide and by introducing a new structure in the intertidal zone that responds directly to the movement of the tides allowing access to the river at all time throughout the day.

Sea-link

iaac — Sat, 22 May 2010 22:30:50 +0000

Wave energy
Wave magnification
Responding structure
Building

Partially Floating Platforms on the Marine Drive, Mumbai

iaac — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:37:22 +0000

We identified our site as one of the main boulevards and promenades along the coastline of Mumbai. It is the Marina Drive – a 3 km long 6 lane boulevard and a pedestrian promenade along the sea front, that is part of the most attractive residential and catering facilities. There seemed to be a gap between the sea itself, the magnificent views of the sunsets it provides and the pedestrian area, that is situated so close to it. This is why we decided to try and provide a suitable link between between the inland and the sea. A detachable and easily installable non-permanent structure that can aid the people to get to the the seafront and the water itself. It also has to designed to fit in between and above the tetra-pod wave breakers, which are a serious obstacle for reaching the sea.

Initial continuous geometry platform

Platform broken down to fewer segmets

Functional Diagram