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Self Sufficient Buildings Research Studio- 2nd Term Final Presentations

By iaac | Published: March 31, 2011

Students of the 2010/2011 Master in Advanced Architecture Self Sufficient Buildings Studio had their final presentations on Wednesday March 30. In Phase II of the MAA program students attend one of three Research Studios: Self-Sufficient Buildings, Digital Tectonics or Emergent Territories. The final presentations for the Digital Tectonics and Emergent Territories Research Studios were held [...]

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Research Studio 3 Workshop Introduction

By iaac | Published: March 15, 2011

MAA students of Digital Tectonics Research Studio are having an intensive Processing workshop with Thiago Mundim. Before the workshop started they had an introduction of Processing simulations and what they can achieve with this powerful tool. Thiago presented his project Knitectonics, structured spaces made with different fabrics and simulation.

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RS1 Workshop: The Shape of Information, Day 2

By iaac | Published: February 22, 2011

In today’s session, Alberto Villarreal explained how sometimes we get opportunities for design in things that we do every day and we have to be aware of this, and not take for granted just what you are able to see.

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RS1 Workshop: The Shape of Information, Day 1

By iaac | Published: February 21, 2011

The week long Research Studio workshop, conducted by guest lecturers Michel Rojkind and Alberto Villarreal of AGENT, has begun. In the first session they talked about mobility and the way different elements in a city should co-exist.

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Group visit to Walden 7, RS1

By iaac | Published: February 21, 2011

The MAA Students of the Emergent Territories studio explored Walden 7 accompanied by Willy Muller and Maite Bravo. Signed by Ricardo Bofill and located in the west side of Barcelona, Walden 7  is an urban scale experiment of the seventies, a masterpiece of apartment blocks in Spain. Before the visit at  Walden 7 the group had the [...]

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RS1: Network City Lecture

By iaac | Published: February 20, 2011

Tomas Diez lecture for the Emergent Territories Studio on the future Network City. The lecture was  investigating the development of urbanization since the emergence of the modern network city while  focusing on conditions in contemporary urbanism. Tomas Diez referred to the challenge of the future in redesigning cities using data and information coming from transportation infrastructures and telecommunication systems.

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Self-Sufficient Buildings- Mid Review

By iaac | Published: February 20, 2011

MAA Students have been designing a block in Barcelona using metabolic system and other sustainable methods, they presented their studio proposals with Antonio SanMartin and Javier Peña as a guest jury.

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