Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
This week MAA students from the Emergent Territories and Self Sufficient Buildings Development Studios took part in a workshop that gave an introduction to arduino, showing how it works, the connections that you can use, and the functionality of such things as light sensors, temperature sensors, and small motors that you can connect to the [...]
In collaboration with the exhibition Parameter: Digital Collaborative Design in Tel Aviv, IAAC faculty Areti Markopoulou and Luis Fraguada held a five day workshop called Data Driven Structures. In this workshop participants were challenged to rethink urbanity based on information gathered throughout the city. The goal of the workshop was to understand how could data-driven [...]
MAA students of Digital Tectonics Research Studio are having an intensive Processing workshop with Thiago Mundim. Before the workshop started they had an introduction of Processing simulations and what they can achieve with this powerful tool. Thiago presented his project Knitectonics, structured spaces made with different fabrics and simulation.
After a week long Research Studio, conducted by Michel Rojkind and Alberto Villarreal the student Emergent Territories have presented their proposals focused on innovation and strategic system. Each proposal is connecting the use of renewed energy sources to the new mobility system in a strategic part of the city. The urban scale and small scale [...]
In today’s session, Alberto Villarreal explained how sometimes we get opportunities for design in things that we do every day and we have to be aware of this, and not take for granted just what you are able to see.
The week long Research Studio workshop, conducted by guest lecturers Michel Rojkind and Alberto Villarreal of AGENT, has begun. In the first session they talked about mobility and the way different elements in a city should co-exist.
The students of Interactive System seminar participated in an intense workshop about Arduino and interactive circuits, conducted by Victor Viña. Students spent three days hacking into old toys, printers, and CD drivers, studying sensors and actuators and integrating them with software.