Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Andrea Debilio (Italy), Morten Bulow (Denmark), Antonio Atripaldi (Italy), recent graduates of the Master in Advanced Architecture 2010/2011 program, have won honorable mention in the Arch Medium New York Theater City competition. The students’ proposal, FanCity Theatre, was one of over 300 proposals submitted to Arch Medium and voted on by the jury. Here is [...]
MAA Students: Gamze Gunduz (Turkey) , Virat Kumar (India), Diego López Ibarra (Mexico) Studio: Digital Tectonics Studio Instructor: Marta Malé-Alemany, MAA Co-Director Project: Catenary with Crystals Student Summary: The aim of the project is to exceed the catenary principle, the ideal form of architecture, with the help of bouyancy and flexibility of threads while using [...]
MAA Student: Maria Marghariti (Greece) Research Studio: Self- Sufficient Buildings Studio Instructor: Vicente Guallart, IAAC Director, and Javier Peña Project: Algae Farm Block Student’s Summary: Basic element of the project is the algae and its cultivation, that consists a powerful source of energy, an effective water cleaning system and captures great amounts of CO2 (essential [...]
MAA Students: Jordi Portell i Torres (Spain), Martin Firera Alessandri (Italy), Ohad Yaacov Meyuhas (Israel), Julian Hildebrand (Germany) Studio: Digital Tectonics Studio Instructor: Marta Malé-Alemany, MAA Co-Director Project: Material Networks Student Summary: Material networks is about the development of a site-conscious multi-material additive deposition process combined with a subtractive material recycling strategy. With this process [...]
MAA Student: Hugo Carvallo (Peru) Research Studio: Self- Sufficient Buildings Studio Instructor: Vicente Guallart, IAAC Director Project Goal: Create a self-sufficient urban block for 22@, Barcelona. Student’s Summary: “The metabolism of the building/block [project] for the Self-Sufficient Building Studio is based on water. Water as a natural element not only provides life to the animals [...]