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IAAC Green Dictionary Research Project

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:17:58 +0000

Today we started the research for the Green Dictionary Project!!!

Ten years after the appearance of the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture IAAC boosts The Green Dictionary, an ambitious multi-format project (print and digital) focused on sustainable development issues, energy self-sufficiency , creative management of resources, innovation and interaction with the environment, recycling and urban renaturation, sensitive contexts, intelligent cities, relational spaces, active natures, permaculture and more.
The Green Dictionary will be a collective effort boost by IAAC involving recognized experts, IAAC current students and the big IAAC alumni community, collaborative international research units and new incentives and energies.

Master Project Theme I: Eco-Machinic Apparatus_Final Presentations

iaac — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:24:21 +0000

The Eco-Machinic Apparatus- a systematic thinking which provides the cultural subsratum for an understanding of the relation ship between cause and effect, Making operational insturements for the organization of complex systems. The Master Project I has finished off with students presenting this apparatus along with a series of experiments and videos they have done. Discussions with Tutors Marco Poletto and Claudia Pasquero along with guest critics, Faculty Marta Malé-Alemany and Dana cuff from UCLA spa.ucla.edu/deptfaculty have brought about some interesting and definitive conclusions on the experiments.

SELF ORGANIZING BRANCHING_experiment 02

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:37:44 +0000

For this experiment the materials used were, wax, plaster and soapy water+wax. The mappings were a 2×2 and a 3x3cm grid and the length was 40cm.

Being able to use materials that can freeze the moment makes it easier to analise the results but on the other hand it loses the on going possibility of self organizing over and over again.

Because of technical difficulties it was impossible to dip the sample more than once, and that made the results very unstable. I’m now working on a new apparatus that will allow even longer samples to be dipped many times giving them more stability.

Watch video HERE

SELF ORGANIZING BRANCHING_experiment 01

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:30:43 +0000

The first experiment uses soapy water and wool threads to simulate self organizing branching. Different mapping and different lengths were used to test the conditions in which the branching happens.

Watch video HERE

Master Project Theme I: Eco-Machinic Apparatus

iaac — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:20:43 +0000

The Theme in Eco-Machinic Apparatus with Tutors from Ecologic Studio-Marco Poletto and Claudia Pasquero - www.ecologicstudio.com – has started. Students were presented with examples of prototypes of the eco-machine, the apparatus and what the thinking behind it. This is a Thesis framework which will concentrate on the development of suchinstrument, the “eco-Machinic Apparatus”, an architectonic platform wheretechnology embedded in new forms of synthetic life. “The Apparatus” offersthe opportunity to incorporate scientific and technical ‘know how’ while testingin real time its effects within the realm of architectural and urban design.