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Investigación Viajes MAA2013 / 14 // Emergentes Territorios en LA

admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:34:47 +0000

This week the Research Studios are all off on Research Trips around the world.

Emergent Territories is in L.A. this week, with the objective of discovering the opportunities of a territory in a context of unprecedented urban growth with high density and congestion.

Visiting one of the most iconic cities worldwide, and located along the coastline of California, Los Angeles is one of the most distinctive areas in the world.

The Research trip is an educational one, aiming to understand what can be learnt from the situation in cities and the process of formulating proposals within these constraints. Students are able to investigate the particular conditions prevailing within the realms of the Emergent Territories Research Line established by the studio project at all scales.

The IAAC group has so far had the opportunity to visit some of the more important architectural works in L.A., a visit to SCI-Arc, where they have been working for the past 2 days in the development of a Workshop regarding Render Animation and Robotics.

Digital Materia Estudio – Taller de presentación final al CITA Copenhague

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:27:09 +0000

The workshop held at CITA last week, investigating the potential to build a canopy between the two workshop spaces at KADK proposing a structure covering a courtyard used for open-air material experiments, concluded with the final presentation of the prototype developed.

To end the trip to Copenhagen on a lighter and more touristic note, the Students and tutors then had the pleasure of visiting BIG.

Digital Materia Studio – Investigación de viaje a Copenhague

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:50:33 +0000

The students and Tutors of the Digital Matters Research Studio have gone to Copenhagen to partake in a Workshop organised in collaboration CITA from the 3rd to the 7th of March.

The professors and tutors leading the 4 groups of students, both from CITA and IaaC, are: Prof. Christoph Gengnagel (UDK), Julien Nembrini (UDK), Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (CITA), Paul Nicholas (CITA), Martin Tamke (CITA), Anders Deleuran (CITA) , Areti Markopoulou (IaaC), Alexandre Dubor (IaaC) and Moritz Begle (IaaC).

The workshop is developed to investigate a further an understanding of material systems as being based on discreet energetic systems that negotiate flows of energy. The forces and emerging behaviour of the system are understood and simulated as well as used in a designerly way.

The investigation is centred on how materials and their properties can be modeled, chosen and programmed to influence a material system in a target oriented way.

The overarching concepts and computational techniques are exemplified and investigated in a structural system that negotiates the forces from programmed bending active elements and a tensile surface with variable geometry.

The IaaC students and tutors arrived in Copenhagen on Saturday, and started off their stay with a bicycle tour visiting the VM Houses, 8 taller, VM Mountain, Hotel by 3XN, as well as Christiania.

They then went to CITA where an introduction to the workshop, including the design task and diverse materials to be investigated. The students were then divided into their working groups, and started developing their specific tasks towards the creation of their first models.

MAA in LA- Day 1-IAAC STUDENTS PRESENTING AT SCI ARC

admin — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:05:14 +0000

IaaC Emergent Territories Studio students presenting their projects at Sci Arc during the research trip to Los Angeles, California, with IAAC faculty Willy Muller, Areti Markopoulou, Lucas Cappelli, and Maite Bravo.

The jury was composed of Sciarc Faculty, who provided valuable feedback for each of the studio projects developed during Term 2 at the Master Program.

The Emergent Territories Studio is developing a collaboration between Hernan Diaz Alonso (Sciac), Peter Trummer (Sciarc), and directed by Willy Muller and Maite Bravo.

Group visit to Walden 7, RS1

iaac — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:18:20 +0000

The MAA Students of the Emergent Territories studio explored Walden 7 accompanied by Willy Muller and Maite Bravo. Signed by Ricardo Bofill and located in the west side of Barcelona, Walden 7 is an urban scale experiment of the seventies, a masterpiece of apartment blocks in Spain. Before the visit at Walden 7 the group had the opportunity to take a look at the new contemporary projects developed at Ricardo Bofill’s office.

ArboReal house Workshop at Collserola Park

iaac — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:08:15 +0000

Three Phases have ended in the MAA program, This week students have gone back to work on their first introductory design course – ArboReal House Design – this time they do their tree house in a one to one scale. The Design course required students to study a tree, its functions and geometries to create a new hybrid of botanical species (partially natural and partially artificial) where tree and house structure work as a single organism.

Day 1
Site located in the House of Can Valldaura, in the Collserola Park, Cerdanyola de Vallés, Students with IaaC Director Vicente Guallart, faculty Areti Markopoulou, Gerard Passola, Luis Fraguada and Meg Lowman,Biologist, Canopy www.canopymeg.com divided in groups to choose a site, locate a tree, and make a model of a tree house which suited best for their tree.After students made small prototypes of their proposals; components were taken from every group to decide on how the tree house will look like.

Day 2
Tensegrity structure was the decided system to build the house. Since this is flexible enough to be built anywhere on any tree, Students with faculty located their house according to its location, topography and view. Materials were also selected – Wood, rope, Pine cones, branches, shrubs and twigs. The house was going to be made between three pine trees.

Day 3
With Assistants from Dr. Gerard passola, the tree house structure was started. All students were assigned to make various work. some started joining the pine cones for the facade, some started to weave the base. some started to make the facade, and some collected broken pieces of branches and shrubs which are serving as materials.

Day 4
On the last day of the workshop, faculty and students decided on the type of roof structure they will put up. This marked the completion of their tree house, which will serve three people (maximum), highleveled enough to enjoy a view from the forest.
The workshop ended with a barbeque at the house of Can Valldaura.

Barbeque at Valldaura

iaac — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:03:45 +0000

After a four day workshop designing and fabricating parts of the Solar house participants (project directors, researchers, Fab Labbers and students) of the seminar were off to Collserola Park – Cerdanyoa de Valles- where the House of Can Vallaura is located. Here is a place where experimentations like green architecture, nature, sustainability, energy and social activitis such as Green Fab Lab will be occuring. It is also the place where the winner of the tree house project during MAA Phase I will be built. After the Barbecue event, Vicente Guallart from the Valldaura association, showed invitees the Collserola House and its surrounding forest.

¨My India¨ IAAC Research Trip EXPO

iaac — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:15:09 +0000

IaaC’s work in Mumbai explored current conditions and dynamics of the territory. Changing coastal conditions, learning from slums as the largest housing type, critiquing the unjustified escalation of land value and the various actors that work within this mechanism were part of the study as well.
Rapid growth in the population of cities and hurried development in second tier and third tier cities of India which ape their metropolitan contemporaries, were also part of the exploration.
“My India” Exhibition Presented by the IAAC MAA is a sum of all these experiences caught on movie and photograph. It started with students Films presented at the IaaC conference hall, and continued with the photographic exhibition at Corretger5 Gallery Barcelona