Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Today, day 3 of the Global Summer School, the Analysis phase of the GSSBCN continued with Spyros Stravodavris, using tools to assess the solar potential of the site and identifying the optimum areas for the installation of solar renewables to meet energy demands, through the development of a feasibility study. In the evening, we were [...]
Today, day 2 of the Global Summer School, began the Analysis phase of the GSSBCN where building physicist and solar simulation expert Spyros Stravodavris got in depth with tools for simulating the energy potential of built structures. In the coming days, participants will understand how to use these tools to calculate the energy potential for [...]
The 2014 Global Summer School on the Next City kicked off today. The morning session in Barcelona was opened with a tour of the Fab Lab Barcelona with Luis Fraguada, showing the diverse machines,and explaining and demonstrating how they function. We then moved to the Auditorium where the St Petersburg location joined us in streaming [...]
IAAC will be visiting Russia next week in a series of conferences with Areti Markopoulou, IAAC Master Program Director, on Advaneced Architecture, Towards the next city. This tour was made possible thanks to Sreda (www.sredadesign.org), general organisation partner for the Global Summer School in St. Petersburg, Simplex Noise (www.simplex-noise.com), lecture co-organisation in Russia, and Daniyar [...]
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, [...]
IAAC Global Summer School seeks to investigate common agendas in global locales. IGSS 2013 will take place in 12 sites simultaneously under the common theme of Productive City. 2013 GSS – Agenda: PRODUCTIVE CITY The production of energy, food, knowledge, and objects are key elements which establish the basic necessities to create self-sufficient habitats. The 2013 [...]