Lecture by Andrea Graziano and Alessio Erioli from Co-de-iT

Tel-Aviv / Barcelona - the workshop has ended with students researching more on their systems and ways of proposing urban solutions for their city – Tel-Aviv as well as some parts of spaces in Barcelona.
The past week, these students  have been working hard on their projects where they started to test their proposals where their work was part of the fabricating process and the vice versa. Through out this time they also had visiting lectures from Kuka robotics company www.kuka.com and also from Andrea gramazio and Alesio Erioli from www.co-de-it.com.
Students have presented their proposals to  IaaC  Co-Director Marta Male-Alemany, IaaC Faculty Areti Markopoulou, FabLab BCN  Manager Tomas Diez, Faculty of Tel-Aviv college of Management Arielle Blonder and Guy Austern and Iaac Workshop supporters.

The IaaC Summer School has continued with Students from the  College of Management Academic Studies_Department of Architecture from Tel-Aviv www.colman.ac with their Faculty – Arielle Blonder and Guy austern. This workshop was done by Faculty from IaaC Areti Markopoulou and Luis Fraguada with the support of Jacek Markusiewicz, Ander Gortazar, Jeffrey Clarke, James Brazil and Melat Assefa.

This workshop started from students doing an urban intervention in Tel-Aviv while also projecting these characteristics of their approach of design in some parts of Barcelona. Through the process they also use the machines and tools available at IaaC to test and experiment their work in progress.

Students with Fab Lab BCN manager  Tomas Diez  on the CNC Miller

The intersticials spaces project was made out of the remaining structure of the Media House Project developed by IaaC and MIT in 2001. Made out of wood, the project looks into the creation of urban furniture and homeless refuge for people living in latinamerican streets.
The rancho digital project is a basic housing unit of 12sqmt, fabricated out of the remaining pieces of wood from the Fab Lab House Project developed at IaaC last June for the Solar Decathlon Europe competition. The rancho is also made out of wood, and recovers the idea of the parametric design related with the low – tech construction methods in the Caracas’ Barrios. Future plans includes the construction of the prototype in Petare, Caracas, the biggest slum on latinamerica.
The Fab Labs and Informalism Workshop recovers the mixture of different aspects of design, materiality and technology. The projects were developed on the basis of collaborative design, recycling, digital fabrication and do it yourself approach.
Workshop Faculty: Tomas Diez, Luis Fraguada
Collaborators: James Brazil, Fabio Lopez, Natalija Bolsjakov, and Brian Miller

Vicente Guallart (IaaC Director) and Cecilia Arocha (UCV Dean)

The rancho digital is being constructed now in the Fab Lab. Each team is producing one to one prototypes of the different parts of the habitable space, 12 sqmt made out of the scraps from the Fab Lab House project. Ceiling, Structure, Enclosure, Ground Floor, Formwork…all parts are becoming toghether in one prototype. The Informalism Agenda is a research project that brings together the low tech and the high tech, the architecture from the barrio with the advanced architecture, the auto-fabrication with the personal fabrication at Fab Labs. Next August 11th will be the official presentation of the Rancho Digital.

More at: http://www.fablabbcn.org/informalism

Team Work

The rancho digital is being constructed now in the Fab Lab. Each team is producing one to one prototypes of the different parts of the habitable space, 12 sqmt made out of the scraps from the Fab Lab House project. Ceiling, Structure, Enclosure, Ground Floor, Formwork…all parts are becoming toghether in one prototype. The Informalism Agenda is a research project that brings together the low tech and the high tech, the architecture from the barrio with the advanced architecture, the auto-fabrication with the personal fabrication at Fab Labs. Next August 11th will be the official presentation of the Rancho Digital.

More at: http://www.fablabbcn.org/informalism

Scaling up prototypes, beach review and project definition. IaaC Summer School enters in phase two, which consists in the parametric design, testing and production of one to one scale prototypes in informal housing and temporary shelters for intersticial spaces in Caracas city. 40 students from Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas are developing and fabricating new proposals based on the “barrio” technology and digital fabrication equipment at Fab Lab Barcelona in IaaC. The goal will be accomplish next august 11th, with the final review and exhibition of the prototypes produced.
More at: http://www.fablabbcn.org/informalism

Tree structures team presentation

Intersticial spaces model test

Model assembly

Beach review

Faculty Luis Fraguada and Professor Javier Caricatto introducing the courses

IaaC summer school has started on the 19th of June 2010, With previous projects like the HyperHabitat (www.hyperhabitat.net), the FabLab House (www.fablabhouse.com) which were part of the XI Venice Biennale Architecture and The Solar Decathlon Europe respectively, This year the theme is ” FAB LABS AND INFORMALISM – High tech vs. Low Tech, Self Fabrication 2.0” where the study focuses on informal phenomena and possible connections with digital fabrication and associative design.It is a collaboration of IaaC, FabLab BCN and FAU-UCV (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University Central of Venezuela).

IaaC Co-Director Willy Muller giving presentations


So far students have had presentations and lectures by IaaC Co-Director Willy Muller, Professors Javier Caricatto and Cristina Von der Heyde from Unit OO (FAU-UCV) and Various lectures and tutorials on Digital  Fabrication and principles by Faculty Luis Fraguada and FabLabBcn Project Manager Tomas Diez. Students will produce 1:1 scale prototypes of habitable spaces while working on projects previously developed by students of the Unit OO of the FAU-UCV, linking informal modes of production and personal digital fabrication.