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

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:07:54 +0000

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 a Self Sufficient House. The site is located in Torre baró, in the Collserola hill, between the city of Barcelona and the Collserola Natural Park.

The project proposals were presented to an International Jury board composed by: Areti Markopoulou – IAAC Academic Director, Marjan Colletti – marcosandmarjan design limited, Gonzalo Delacámara – IMDEA and Marcella del Signore – x-topia.

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

admin — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:30:58 +0000

MAA02 Design Studio – Self-Sufficient Housing Torre Baró

Wednesday, 17th of December 2014 // 16h00 – 19h00, IaaC Auditorium

Senior Faculty:

Javier Peña

Rodrigo Rubio

Silvia Brandi

Jury:

Areti Markopoulou – IAAC Academic Director

Marjan Colletti – marcosandmarjan design limited

Gonzalo Delacámara – IMDEA

Marcella del Signore – x-topia

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

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:51:36 +0000

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 in the framework of a competition, to which IAAC has been invited to participate along with other architecture and design schools of Barcelona, hence giving the students the possibility to explore the possibility of transforming a real site into a self-sufficient land.

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

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:17:56 +0000

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?

GSS2014 // Final Presentations // Barcelona

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 11:37:08 +0000

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.

Yokohama City Council and Smart City Representatives visits IAAC

admin — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:05:27 +0000

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 development, as well as Smart city development research, and the Fab Lab Bcn. The tour was concluded with a presentation of the Smart Citizen Platform presentation in the Cisco Lab.

City Sense Book Release

admin — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:44:39 +0000

“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 capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and urban planning, with the purpose of balancing the possible impact of real-time data collection on sensor-driven cities.

Books now on sale.

info@iaac.net

Edited by:

IAAC – Lucas Capelli

Language / ISBN:

English [978-84-15391-29-6] Available

Cover:

Soft

Illustrations:

Color

Size:

12 x 16 cm.

Page Number:

368

Published by:

ACTAR , Institut d’Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya

Price:

International 25.00 €

Spain 26.00 €

Portugal 25.00 €

USA 34.95 $

RS1 – Week1

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:57:55 +0000

How could we design a self-sufficient city from scratch? How abstract an environment could be?

We started analysing the list of world’s cities by quality of living according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting, in order to analyze which are the optimum envinonmental conditions for a city. Our aim was to create a city where those conditions would be reversed, that is, creating a good project in a difficult environment. That environment would have these characteristics: arid climate, lack of river, seaside, mountainous terrain.

The use of Grasshopper led us to randomize these variants and to create different base-terrains depending on the randomization degree.

In addition, we also considered essential to identify a key-word which could resume our aims. That key-word is identity, a word that groups not only culture, language or religion, but also almost all aspects that concern our lifes, from food to energy, from waste to leisure, work, water, education. That identity concept is also related to scale, so we tried to specity the allowed scale for each of the aspects that concerns identity.