Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
This week the three studios of MAA presented their projects to an international jury for the second term final presentations. A moment of the presentation of RSIII Digital Tectonics – Fabrication Ecologies Research Studio, directed by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto. Presentation of a group of students of RSII Self Sufficient Building Research Studio, directed by Enric Ruiz [...]
While in this decade cities will grow exponentially to host more than half of the world population, architects are not yet ready to design adaptive urban models capable to react to this phenomenon. “Encrypted mega-cities” is a seminar that provides an opportunity to think critically about urban potentials responding to this growth through a mode [...]
This weekend we had an intensive workshop at IAAC building our 1:1 pavilions for the experimental structures course. Next Monday the 11th of March there will be the final presentation.
During this 4 days workshop, students from the Fabrication Ecologies research line of the Master in Advanced Architecture 2013 were able to develop and test a new fabrication protocol deploying Hemp fibres by means of an industrial robot. Through the production of a 1:1 scale prototype, the 4 teams explored the design opportunities arising from [...]
The first design assignment for the students of the Master in Advanced Architecture 2013 was to develop and test communication protocols to control and manipulate the behavior of a large industrial robot. Since 6-axis machines such as the one in the IAAC Fab Lab are directly inherited from the mass production of cars and other industrial products, [...]
Friday January 26th, Master in Advanced Interaction students presented the final projects of the Physical Computing workshop that they have been developing during the 1st term. The project has been directed by Alex Posada. To see the projects click here.