In this framework the Introductory Studio group 2, led by Edouard Cabay, with Rodrigo Aguirre, presented their projects today to an international jury board composed by: Areti Markopoulou – IAAC Academic Director, Silvia Brandi – IAAC Academic Coordinator, Lluis Víu – Max de Cusa Arquitects, Jordi Pagès – Creative Director & Motion Designer, Jaime Coll – COLL-LECLERC, Pepe Ballesteros – Pasajes Arquitectura, Javier Peña – Xpiral and Marcella del Signore – x-topia.

The Introductory Studio led by Claudia Pasquero and Carmelo Zappulla focused on the topics of energy, natural process, bio materials and environmental resources. The projects received feedback from an international juryvoard composed by Areti Markopoulou – IAAC Academic Director, Silvia Brandi – IAAC Academic Coordinator, Jonathan Minchin – Green Fab Lab Coordinator, Marjan Colletti – marcosandmarjan design limited, Sandra Manso – UPC and Lluis Víu – Max de Cusa Arquitects.

Introductory Studio – Torre Baró Energy District G1

Thursday, 18th of December 2014 // 10h00 – 14h00, IaaC Auditorium

Senior Faculty:

Edouard Cabay

Assistant:

Rodrigo Aguirre

Jury:

Areti Markopoulou – IAAC Academic Director

Silvia Brandi – IAAC Academic Coordinator

Lluis Víu – Max de Cusa Arquitects

Jordi Pagès – Creative Director & Motion Designer

Jaime Coll – COLL-LECLERC

Carmelo Zappulla – External Reference architects

Pepe Ballesteros – Pasajes Arquitectura

Javier Peña – Xpiral

Marcella del Signore – x-topia

Introductory Studio – Torre Baró Energy District G1

Wednesday, 17th of December 2014 // 10h00 – 14h00, IaaC Auditorium

Senior Faculty:

Claudia Pasquero

Carmelo Zappulla

Jury:

Vicente Guallart – Chief Architect of the Barcelona City Council

Areti Markopoulou – IAAC Academic Director

Silvia Brandi – IAAC Academic Coordinator

Jonathan Minchin – Green Fab Lab Coordinator

Marjan Colletti – marcosandmarjan design limited

Sandra Manso – UPC

Lluis Víu – Max de Cusa Arquitects

The Studio site is that of Torre Baró, developed in the framework of a competition, to which IAAC has been invited to participate along with other architecture and design schools of Barcelona, hence giving the students the possibility to explore the possibility of transforming a real site into a self-sufficient land.

The Studio site is that of Torre Baró, developed in the framework of a competition, to which IAAC has been invited to participate along with other architecture and design schools of Barcelona, hence giving the students the possibility to explore the possibility of transforming a real site into a self-sufficient land.

In the evening, we were joined by Vicente Guallart, Chief architect of the City Council of Barcelona and one of the founders of IAAC, who presented his vision of the Next City, or more accurately the next Barcelona: Barcelona 5.0. The lecture was followed by a discussion with Vicente, the students of the Global Summer School, and IaaC Master Program Director Areti Markopoulou.

In the coming days, participants will understand how to use these tools to calculate the energy potential for building sites and entire territories.

The GSS 2013 concluded today with the Final Presentation of the 6 projects developed throughout the 2 weeks of work. The Global School programme seeks to investigate common agendas in global localities.  The 2013 edition included the participation from institutes in Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, and North America, in particular: Mumbai, Tehran, Istanbul, Barcelona, New York and Lima.

The projects developed aimed to generate a new strategy to understand and facilitate the Production of the City in various aspects: Production of Knowledge, Prodution of Food, Production of Objects, and the Production of  Energy,  key elements which establish the basic necessities to create self-sufficient habitats, and allowing the Summer School to serve as the testing ground for the generation of project ideas. Concepts included sharing energy, sharing working experience, adaptable structures that combines data and visual illusions, sunshine sterilization installation, etc.

The projects were developed through a 3 phase process: Analysis, both on a global and a local scale, Digital Design, generating a programme and concept for the Project, and, finally, a Fabrication phase, in which a vision, through the generation of a prototype, and the project process were elaborated.

Each Group worked on a different square in the centre of Barcelona, generating interactive tools, through the elaboration of 1:1 scale prototype for each square. These facilitated the incremention of knowledge and facilities for the square in question, thanks to the use of the Smart Citizen kit and Arduino, that is associative tools that allow  to relate the projects to various internal and external dynamics of the site.

The Barcelona Group distribution was as follows:

Group 1: Plaça de la Merce

·         Daniel Villacis

·         Francis Goyes

·         Sara Infelisi

Group 2: Plaça de Salvador Segui

·         Gabriela Fichtner

·         Kritina Zubko

·         Necdet Yağız Özkan

·         Stephie Moukarzel

Group 3: Plaça dels Angels

·         Jordi Guerra

·         Sofia Li Xin

·         Tseng Tzu-Man

Group 4: Plaça Nova

·         Amro Kabbara

·         Anna Goga

·         Olga Tarasova

Group 5: Arc de Triomf

·         Alexander Plotkin

·         Misha Knyazev

·         Stas Kozin

Group 6: Plaça del Mar

·         Mattia Benatti

·         Olga Gorkaya

·         Sandra Poliakov