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MAA Final Projects: Inverted Topography and Public Space Below

By iaac | Published: April 19, 2011

MAA Student: Luz Michelle Lavayen (Panama) 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 main concepts for developing a self-sufficient city block  were to free the ground level, create an underground patio and use it as a public green space in [...]

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MAA Final Projects: Following the Sun in Eixample

By iaac | Published: April 19, 2011

MAA Student: Javier Gonzalez (Spain) Research Studio: Self-Sufficient Buildings Studio Instructor: Vicente Guallart, IAAC Director Project Goal: Create a self-sufficient urban block for 22@, Barcelona. Student Summary: Trying to look to the past by adapting the proposal to Ildefons Cerdá’s urban structure to keep the character of the city (not only adjusting the façades to [...]

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MAA Final Projects: Ancient Inspiration on Water Cycling

By iaac | Published: April 18, 2011

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 [...]

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MAA Research Trips: Following the MAA Curriculum Around the World

By iaac | Published: April 6, 2011

(RS2 Self Sufficient Buildings: Students discuss sustainable urban planning in Masdar City) Students in the Masters in Advanced Architecture Program are split into three Research Studios (RS1: Emergent Territories, RS2: Self Sufficient Buildings, RS3 Digital Tectonics). This week each will be exploring a different part of the world. As we have mentioned, each trip is [...]

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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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Rs_2 Self-Sufficient Buildings 1st presentations

By iaac | Published: January 26, 2011

In the first RS2_Self Sufficient buildings studio presentation  the students presented their case studies on  energy sufficient buildings and technologies. With critical thinking they shared their ideas on existing projects and systems trying to discover the distance between the successful theories and the successful practices on sustainable designs.

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Research Studio: Redesigning a block in Barcelona

By iaac | Published: January 16, 2011

The students from the Self Sufficient Buildings research studio had an introduction for the studio by Vicente Guallart then took a walk to see the sites for the studio proposal. They will redesign the typical block in Barcelona, for a new self sufficient one.

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