Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
The prototype for the self-sufficient solar house for the Solar Decathlon ‘FabLabHouse’ Europe, is being constructed entirely in the IaaC premises. With its completion aheading on the 18th-28th of June, Students who are doing their Masters Project in this theme, Fabhouse researchers, FabAcademy team, faculty and participants are working on every part of the pieces [...]
Three Phases have ended in the MAA program, This week students have gone back to work on their first introductory design course – ArboReal House Design – this time they do their tree house in a one to one scale. The Design course required students to study a tree, its functions and geometries to create [...]
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 [...]
Here is Pdf of this file – Ecotect_Melat.A_Assignment1
site analysis + proposal for a building in mexico city: environmental conditions as design drivers.
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 [...]
For the purpose of this seminar I am going to study the environmental performance for a house of 140 m2 I designed which is currently being under construction. During the design of the house I used the theoretical backgound of sustainable design.In this assignment I am going to use Ecotect in order to 1) assess the so [...]