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MAA_02 2nd Term Final Presentation

By admin | Published: March 18, 2013

On Tuesday, March 19th, students from the Master in Advanced Architecture 2011-2013 will present the advances on their projects for the 2nd term of their thesis year. Join them tomorrow, from 10 am until 02 pm, at IaaC.

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Experimental Structures Seminar Final Presentations, March 11th

By admin | Published: March 11, 2013

Tonight in IAAC will take place the Final Presentation of the Experimental Structures Seminar. The aim of the seminar was to investigate the extreme possibilities of textile constructions and structures which make them possible. Starting from analyzing existing technologies, students studied the possibilities of building portable and packable pavilions. Three models in a 1:1 scale and two models in [...]

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05 MARCH – ENCRYPTED MEGA CITIES FINAL PRESENTATION

By admin | Published: March 5, 2013

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 [...]

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EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURES SEMINAR – CONSTRUCTION WEEKEND WORKSHOP

By admin | Published: March 4, 2013

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.

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Machinic Conversations II

By admin | Published: March 4, 2013

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 [...]

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ENCRYPTED MEGA-CITIES Seminar Final Presentation

By admin | Published: March 4, 2013
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Smart Citizen platform at World Mobile Congress 2013

By admin | Published: February 28, 2013

During this week, Smart Citizen platform will be displayed at the World Mobile Congress 2013. At the entrance of the Mobile Barcelona Festival booth (3C28 in hall 3) organized by mLove; IaaC and Fab Lab Bcn, together with MID and Hangar.org, features the Smart Citizen platform. Smart Citizen is a device to generate participatory processes of people in the cities. [...]

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