Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
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, [...]
Tonight at IAAC, Alisa Andrasek, architect, curator and founding principal of Biothing gave us a lecture explaining how computational simulations could allow us to access to behavioral tendencies of matter at a finer grain. Through several projects, Alisa showed the different uses that the new technologies can offer to architecture, not only in terms of visualization but specially in [...]
Open Synthesis: Increased Resolution Fabric of Architecture Because of architecture’s nascent tendency to synthesize myriad of agencies involved in the formation of design, it has the potential to play an important role within accelerated convergence of matter and information. While data visualization techniques widespread in other fields are productive for the communication and legibility of [...]
Can a pavilion inflate its skin and change its configurations according to the event? Can a pavilion be desmountable and so foldable to fit in a hand luggage? Can an exhibition space be adaptable descend from a ceiling and become a sensorial personal experience? Today the Experimental Structures Competition took place and we tried to realize some of this [...]
The MAI students presented the Smart Net Studio Project that they have been developing during the december and january. The 6 groups of students proposed each one an intervention based in the Fablab “smart citizen” project. The work was presented in front of the tutors that have been leading the students research, and in front [...]
MAI_Master in Advanced Interaction2013-2013 – Smart Net Studio final presentation Presentation Schedule 05.00pm Introduction and Presentation 05.20pm Presentation Session 07.00pm Closing Speach 07.15pm Drink
IAAC Alumni presented a Design Studio project developed within the Master in Advanced Architecture 2011-12 in the context of Rob|Arch Conference 2012. Alexandre Dubor and Gabriel Bello Diaz featured the “Magnetic Architecture: Generative Design through Sensoric Robots” at the Conference Workshops that took place from December 14th to 16th in Vienna, Graz, Zürich, Rotterdam and [...]