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Master Project Theme IV: Contextualizing Digital fabrication_Final Presentations

iaac — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:29:18 +0000

Master Project Theme IV has finished off with students presenting their works to Tutors Olaf Gipser, Marta Malé-Alemany and guest critics Dana Cuff from UCLA www.spa.ucla.edu/dept.faculty, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto from Ecologic Studio www.ecologicstudio.com. Opening up different aspects of conversations while presentations were taking place, Students works were various topics with different approaches. The FabBots have evolved theoretically as well as contextually, material systems and script based fabrication technologies have also been explored to their limits.

IaaC at the Pecha Kucha Barcelona

iaac — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:23 +0000

With its events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide, PechaKucha Night (a japanese term for the sound of “chit chat” night) in Barcelona which was on the 18th of june has been presented by IaaC co-director Marta Malé-Alemany, where she presented the the IaaC Masters studio FabBots and the exhibition at the Design Hub museum of Barcelona which is currently showing the same works with lots of other prototypes of digitally fabricated elements and systems. More of the Pecha Kucha event can be found at www.pechakuchabarcelona.org. Works and schedules of the Disseny Hub of Barcelona can be found at www.dhub-bcn.cat

Master Project Theme IV: Contextualizing Digital fabrication

iaac — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:30:40 +0000

Masters project in digital fabrication methods, devices and emergent material formations is continuing with its research. Taking the concepts from their previous projects (fab bots) some students are transforming these into different situations where their machines can be used in other fabrication methods. With team Olaf gipser and faculty Marta Malé–Alemany there was an individual review with each student to push their projects in terms of computation, mechanism, concept and theory.

Master Project-Theme III

iaac — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:01:39 +0000

With the idea of producing multiple versions of a single result, students progressed on their projects having to choose their site, create the program and giving it context. Within this realm , they consulted with Jordi Pagès i Ramon and Lluis Viu on how their designs could possibly be adopted, as well as multiplied in different scenarios. Their projects are going to be based on Grasshopper where their results could variate according to the parameters given to it.

Master Project Theme 1V: Contextualizing Digital fabrication

iaac — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:25:51 +0000

Students have been working on their (FaB)BOTS Digital Tectonics Research Studio, now they will contextualize it and instrumentalize the fabrication wokr on two levels- Critically reflect on it from within theoretical notions of architectural and cultural discourse, and actualize it within concrete geographical, social, political, and economic environments.
On saturday with the first class with Olaf Gipser and faculty Marta Malé-Alemany, students were introduced to the theoretical framework of their projects while also deciding on how they would further with their fabBots.

D-HUB Modules

iaac — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:21:46 +0000

Working prototypes
The various prototypes for the D-HUB exposition www.dhub-bcn.cat are being fabricated at the FabLab cut with 3-axis milling machine. Using Alucobond 5mm, which provides lightness as well as stiffness, these prototypes can be attached to multiple forms of organization providing ample flexibility for the space. After being cut they are then manually folded and then secured with bolts inside.
The models are developed by Areti Markopoulou and Panagiota Tsekoura.

RSIII. Digital Tectonics (FAB)BOTS

iaac — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:56:31 +0000

With finals coming up soon student groups are currently working on their Fabbots, to achieve their aspired research avenue. Swarm robots, weaving machines, Sand casting and molding, Solar driven fabrication techniques are a few of the types currently being developed. Students have been working and consulting with faculty Marta Malé-Alemany , Victor Viña and assistant Cesar Cruz cazares, to develop with these projects.

RSIII. Digital Tectonics (FAB)BOTS

iaac — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:30:16 +0000

Student groups were researching on how to work on their Robots, their applications and how to
improve them through out the Easter break. They presented their development to Faculty Marta
Malé-Alemany, Victor Viña, Luis Fraguada and Assistant Cesar Cruz Cazares. This is a start of a
workshop which will continue through out the weekend giving students a good outline on how to
compute the machines and get working accordingly to their applications.