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PRACTISE FABRICATION // LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES 1:1 // Final Presentation

A collapsible modular tensile structure that allows you to set up a seating and a shelter wherever you want, a rolling cocoon in which you can rest in several different positions before rolling away again and again, a green parametric pavilion formed by a performance-specific components capable to build up a structure out of sawdust [...]

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IAAC visiting lectures in Russia // Advanced Architecture Towards the Next City

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 [...]

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Friday 23rd of May: JOHN PALMESINO // Fathoms

Friday 23rd of May 2014 John Palmesino Lecture: Fathoms @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public JOHN PALMESINO John Palmesino is an architect and urbanist. He has established Territorial Agency together with Ann-Sofi Rönnskog. Territorial Agency is an independent organisation that innovatively promotes and works for sustainable territorial transformations. Territorial Agency works to strengthen [...]

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MAA students design THE MODULES // CCCB – BIG DATA EXHIBITION 2014

In response to the request of the CCCB Barcelona to create furniture – in particular for the Big Bang Data Exhibition – that would fit the ever changing needs of a space for workshops, the Fab Lab Barcelona and the design team of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) proposed several options. “The [...]

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Close to the Body // Workshop

IAAC Advanced Interaction students along with ESDi students and Estruch artists participated in the Close to the Body workshop, with Oscar Tomico from the Designing Quality in Interaction Research Group at the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, in order to research the design wearable’s, the material, the body and performativity Close To The [...]

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Sense It 6-AXIS workshop // IAAC | Fab Lab Bcn @ RobArch2014

This year at RobArch2014, Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design, IAAC|Fab Lab Barcelona – Alexandre Dubor and Guillem Caprodon – along with Make it Locally – Gabriel Bello Diaz – and the University of Michigan – Ellie Abrons and Adam Fure -, are running the Sense-It 6-Axis Workshop at the University of Michigan. Sense-It explores [...]

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EXTENDED SKIN // EXPERIMENTAL TEXTILE DESIGN WORKSHOP

IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona with fabtextiles.org and pratipo.orginvite you to a first open and free session: Introduction and demo We are proposing a workshop directed to all those who wish fully develop a project that combies digital fabrications technologies and interactive capacities (physical computation). Since in the 30′s modern reprogrammable computers were theorised, these have gone from mainstream to cellular and [...]

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