Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Chris Wan currently city design manager at Masdar, was at the institute to give an open lecture about this sustainable project, and he expressed a big interest in IaaC’s Zero Emissions project of Barcelona, so he had a private session before the lecture with the students related with CO2 emissions and the different ways that [...]
Lecture by Vicente Guallart , “The Self Sufficient Habitat”
The concept behind the DUNEhouse project is to create a flexible tool* more than a design where the client has the possibility to define his own house. Mainly, the idea is based on a system composed by different volumes where each of them represents a program or a cluster of it (bedroom and bathroom, kitchen, [...]
FabLab House has been named one of the very coolest Solar homes on Life.com, a magazine representing the most amazing collection of professional photography on the web. More information about this can be found at life.com/image/102299344/in-gallery/44991/very-cool-solar-homes and more about the FabLab house can be found at www.fablabhouse.com
FabLab house has won the Peoples Choice Awards at the Solar Decathlon Europe Competition in Madrid. A pioneer in a different approach to design and technology, The FabLab house has incorporated different systems of social spaces, where self-sufficient habitats are able to produce energy, food and other goods. It is developed on a network of [...]
Yick Ho Alvin Kung (Hongkong) an IaaC Maters Alumini (thesis in Digital Tectonics) recently won an international competition for sustainable architecture from a Singaporean magazine. His competition entry for the FuturArc Prize is his thesis project, advised by Professor Marc Aurel. More information about the competition could be found at http://www.futurarc.com/index.cfm and his entry at http://www.futurarc.com/prize_winners/2010_students/FAP_Student_Winner/1st.cfm. Alvin’s vision [...]
FabLab House team in Madrid After endless nights of hard work the fablab House has been constructed in Madrid. With its theme ‘Form follows energy’, the house is now using the resources of its environment – the sun, water and wind to create a microclimate that will improve the basic conditions of habitability. The fablab [...]