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DS MAA02 Design Studio – Self-Sufficient Housing Torre Baró // FINAL PRESENTATIONS

Today were the MAA02 Design Studio, directed by Javier Peña, Rodrigo Rubio and Silvia Brandi, Final Presentations. The projects presented were  an exercise directed to experimenting with the idea of the self-sufficient habitat. In the occasion of a competition in which IAAC has been invited to participate, along with the other architecture schools of Barcelona, the studio explored the development of [...]

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Wednesday 17th of December // DS MAA02 Design Studio – Self-Sufficient Housing Torre Baró // FINAL PRESENTATIONS

 

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IS.1 G1/ Torre Baró – Energy District // MID TERM PRESENTATIONS

Today we had the Introductory Studio G1 Mid Term Presentations. The Studio led by Claudia Pasquero and Carmelo Zappulla investigates how to turn a landscape into a productive one. How do water, solar energy, wind or biological processes affect sustainable design cycles for structures and landscape? The Studio site is that of Torre Baró, developed [...]

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IS.2 G2/ Torre Baró – Energy District // MID TERM PRESENTATIONS

Today we had the Introductory Studio G2 Mid Term Presentations. The Studio led by Edouard Cabay, assisted by Rodrigo Aguirre, investigates form finding as a tool to develop landscape into a productive one. How can form follow energy and production? The Studio site is that of Torre Baró, developed in the framework of a competition, [...]

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GSS2014 // Final Presentations // Barcelona

Check out the Final Presentations of the Global Summer school 2014 “The Next City” in Barcelona. The presentations were done with video mapping, and prototypes of the proposals were also displayed in function for the jury and public present.

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Yokohama City Council and Smart City Representatives visits IAAC

Today representatives from the Yokohama City Council working on Smart City developments together with representatives of Barcelona City Hall visited IAAC in an effort of promoting together Smart City developments. They partook in a guided tour of the facility, along with Master Program Director Areti Markopoulou and Guillem Camprodon, discussing Advanced Architecture projects and research [...]

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City Sense Book Release

“City Sense: Shaping our Environment with Real-Time Data” This publication compiles the winning and the finalist entries of the City Sense competition, organized by the Institute of Advanced Architecture. The competition was open to architects, engineers, planners, designers and artists who wanted to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing proposals [...]

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