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IAAC present its works at BMWi presentation

admin — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:30:05 +0000

With the ocasion of the BMWi presentation (new hybrid electric car model from BMW), the company invited IAAC to present their ideas on design and sustainability.
Several design and research projects from last year where exhibited and alumni where exposing their ideas. Among others, we exhibited PetFlakes from Digital Fabrication, mDusse from Self-sufficient Buildings and Sound City from Emergent Territories
Interactive and responsive proposals got the attention of designers and engineers present at the event, with whom some interesting debates around optimization and self-production took part.

Opening of The World Bank Symposium “Rethinking Cities: Framing the Future”

admin — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:49:42 +0000

On sunday night, in the Palacio de Congresos of Fira Barcelona, took place the great opening of The World Bank Symposium “Rethinking Cities: Framing the Future” with the exhibition My Very Own City (MVOC) curated by IAAC (curator: Areti Markopoulou, collaborator: Maite Bravo).

My Very Own City (MVOC) exhibit is a collective display featuring some of the most forward initiatives carried out by 23 Universities worldwide, representing a wide range of perspectives into the concept of Rethinking Cities.
Featuring more than 50 projects, this exhibit aims to be a collaborative dialogue around five key concepts about cities: “citizen”, “infrastructure”, “mobility”, “in-formed urbs” and “productivity”.

Responsive cities, distributed infrastructural networks, participatory informal settlements, adaptable habitat units, smart mobility systems, fab labs, new building metabolisms, productive territories and sustainable infrastructures, are some of the key concepts of My Very Own City.

From utopias to subtle interventions, these projects become a collective reflexion on future and present cities.

A catalogue of the exhibition is also available, more information you can find athttp://www.rethinkingcities.org/exhibition/

Humanizar la Ciudad. Arquitecturas de Madrid y Barcelona

iaac — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:56:12 +0000

On Thursday, June 9, IAAC and Santa & Cole opened the exhibition Humanizar la Ciudad. Arquitecturas de Madrid y Barcelona.

The exhibition brings together 30 proposals by architects from Barcelona and Madrid which propose a new paradigm for the twenty-first century where the needs of citizens take precedence over arbitrary urban growth and where sustainable urban development is addressed through technological development and creativity. That is, in short, to humanize the city.

This exhibition will be on display at IAAC Monday through Friday from 9 until 19.30h until the 1st of July.

IAAC Global School: Data Driven Structures Workshop in Tel Aviv

iaac — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:07:13 +0000

In collaboration with the exhibition Parameter: Digital Collaborative Design in Tel Aviv, IAAC faculty Areti Markopoulou and Luis Fraguada held a five day workshop called Data Driven Structures.

In this workshop participants were challenged to rethink urbanity based on information gathered throughout the city. The goal of the workshop was to understand how could data-driven structures affect the construction of the physical world, how cities and its built elements could be viewed as informational architecture systems.

Led by Areti nd Luis (above), the students worked on 4 case studies in Tel Aviv that were chosen based on urban criteria such as attractors,density, public space and heavy infrastructure.

Student groups visited the 4 different case studies and walk around them with the ASKit, a sensor kit developed at the Fab Lab BCN able to gather information on temperature, light, movement and CO2 as well as the specific longitude and latitude at each moment gathered by an integrated GPS on the sensor kit.

Students extracted the collected data from the ASKit and map them in order to understand the case studies based on real time collected data.

Based on the information extracted students made urban proposals and rehabilitation strategies for the 4 case studies. The intent of the workshop was not to merely interface with the built environment but to implement strategies which transform built environments into information systems.

Part of the workshop’s strategy was focused on testing ways of collecting the urban data by using the ASKit and others were focused on how those data could inform a structure that in its turn gives information to the city network.

Students developed their proposals by using rhino, grasshopper and ghowl (a plugin for rhino developed by Luis Fraguada) and they worked on fabricating their proposals using the new CNC milling machine that was set up and inaugurated by Areti and Luis.

IaaC at Bolivia Architecture Biennale, 3.600m above the sea level

iaac — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:24:51 +0000

3.600m above the sea level. The XI Architecture Biennale of Bolivia has been the most international edition of its history. This biennale had a very significant focus on sustainable architecture and emergent technologies, putting toghether experts from Japan, Argentina, England or Spain, in a cycle of conferences that took place at different sites in La Paz, such as the Colegio de Arquitectos de La Paz building, and the San Francisco Museum.

IAAC was invited to give the closing lecture of the one week event. Areti Markopoulou and Tomas Diez, gave a conference about IAAC educational programs and research projects, such as the Master in Advanced Architecture, the Fab Academy, the Solar House Project or the Fabrication Laboratory Exhibition curated by the institute at the Design Hub of Barcelona.

Following the events of the biennale, both IAAC staff members were invited by the Ambassador of Spain at La Paz, Mr. Ramon Santos, together with the AECID representatives and the Biennale organizators, shared a conversation about the future challenges of architecture and digital fabrication both in Spain and Latin America.

¨My India¨ IAAC Research Trip EXPO

iaac — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:15:09 +0000

IaaC’s work in Mumbai explored current conditions and dynamics of the territory. Changing coastal conditions, learning from slums as the largest housing type, critiquing the unjustified escalation of land value and the various actors that work within this mechanism were part of the study as well.
Rapid growth in the population of cities and hurried development in second tier and third tier cities of India which ape their metropolitan contemporaries, were also part of the exploration.
“My India” Exhibition Presented by the IAAC MAA is a sum of all these experiences caught on movie and photograph. It started with students Films presented at the IaaC conference hall, and continued with the photographic exhibition at Corretger5 Gallery Barcelona