Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
This MAI Research Studio will be conducted by the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology and specifically by the following professionals: Eunjeong Jeon, Martijn ten Bhomer, Kristi Kuusk, Eva Deckers and Oscar Tomico. Other partners for the research studio will be the Higher School of Design (ESDi), part of the Fundació [...]
Today Manuel Gausa presented his concepts and the theories he developed on informational and open logics. Manuel believes that in the last 20 years a new way of thinking has emerged, that is a new operative logic, associated to a new territory of research, or “mental map”, through more open ways of conceiving and organizing [...]
Today at Emergent Territories Studio, Maria Bohigas, Strategic Director at Barcelona Regional, had a desk crit with students, checking the development of their projects and helping them with her critics.
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 [...]