Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Philippe Rahm as part of the IaaC Spring Lecture Series with a lecture entitled Thermodynamic Cities. Mr Rahm discussed themes regarding thermodynamics applied to architectural design, on all scales, through a series of works that have been developed in his Studio Philippe Rahm Architectes. Philippe Rahm is architect, [...]
The Digital Matter Studio Students and Tutors continue their experience in Copenhagen: The Students are continuing to develop their research and prototypes in the workshop studying the ways of creating tensioned membranes with disconnected bending active elements, stabilising non-elastic membranes locally (for example with the configuration of three linear elements placed in a reciprocal configuration). Within [...]
The Masters in Advanced Architecture 2010/11 came to an end today with the third and final day of presentations for the week. In their final projects, the Emergent Territories Studio, led by Willy Müller and assisted by Maite Bravo, proposed: various new and innovative ways to make urban and public space multifunctional; a vision of [...]
The 2010/11 MAA Students in the Self Sufficient Buildings Studio wrapped up their year with today’s presentation of final projects. The goal of each project was to create a self-sufficient city block in Barcelona. This Studio was led by IAAC Director Vicente Guallart and Javier Peña. The studio assistant was Rodrigo Rubio. For the final [...]
MAA Students: Jordi Portell i Torres (Spain), Martin Firera Alessandri (Italy), Ohad Yaacov Meyuhas (Israel), Julian Hildebrand (Germany) Studio: Digital Tectonics Studio Instructor: Marta Malé-Alemany, MAA Co-Director Project: Material Networks Student Summary: Material networks is about the development of a site-conscious multi-material additive deposition process combined with a subtractive material recycling strategy. With this process [...]
From Forum to Montjuic, going through to Moll de la Fusta , the students from Emergent Territories studio discover a hidden part of Barcelona accompanied by Willy Muller. The city will be redesigned by five groups. One infrastructure : Ronda Litoral , five areas which will represent the new smart city overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.