RS2. Self Sufficient Buildings

PROTEAN VAL: Term II final presentation

liv.framgard — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:58:05 +0000

Is it possible to rethink society through architecture in the XXI century? A society where paradoxically free market ideals, free movement of capital and merchandise come together with new immigration laws, new borders, new walls, new boundaries for human beings. Could architecture be adaptable, fluid and light to respond to the nomadic lifestyle? To consider educational and employment migration? To disappear when it is no longer needed?

Barcelona hosts 7 000 000 tourists (many of which short stay professionals) and 200 000 students every year. Choosing networking over luxury, the young unsettled “urban nomad” population have a lifestyle that is not reflected in the amount of student residences/hostels, protected meeting spaces or flexible environments.

By building on poles, the project covers minimal ground space. Allowing the structure to be resized according to needs or desires, areas are added quickly. The floors make bridges where they meet, extending and connecting inhabitable areas. The reactive skin is attached in a triangulated modular system, and can be rearranged by the users. Being foldable, it adapts to the structural movements, and by inflating pockets of air or gas it insulates and provides transparency or translucency, according to desire. It also holds air valves for the regulation of air flow, thereby generating living conditions within the comfort zone.

SELF-SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS::: HARVESTING WATER

hunia.tomoum — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:13:47 +0000

::: Video link :::

Harvesting water project

MIT students visit to 22@ and Endesa Pavillion

iaac — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:51:35 +0000

MIT students at Endesa Pavillion. Sunday bike architectural tour around 22@ disctrict visiting among others the Ruiz-Geli MediaTIC, Miralles Diagonal Mar Park, Herzog&deMeuron Forum Auditorium and Lapeña&ElíasTorres photovoltaic pergolas.

MIT & IAAC students visit to 22@ office

iaac — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:37:41 +0000

The workshop started with a lecture on Poble Nou evolution: Discussion emerged afterwards on issues such as urban strategies of retrofitting urban fabrics or densification and scale.

Visit continued at the green terrace of the building, where Pich-Aguilera office stands.

MIT & IAAC workshop on 22@ selfsufficiency

iaac — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:39:51 +0000

Environmental Grafts. Self-sufficient plug-in devices at CanAlier Warehouse, 22@ BCN.

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dept of Architecture meet in Barcelona for a 5days Intensive Workshop. Researchers will develop a catalog of constructive prototypes for urban retrofitting. Catalog will be applied to the Can Alier case study, an old 22@ abandoned factory. Prototypes will be based on previous environmental performative models research.

RS2 Final Presentations

iaac — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:27:07 +0000

Javier Peña discussing on 22@ filtrating towers project, with Josep Mias (MIAS Architects), Javier Jimenez Iniesta (Architect) and Jordi Pages i Ramon & Lluís Viu (Max de Cusa Architects) as invited jury.

More pics after the read more…

Wind & Particles

rodrigo.aguirre — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:00:31 +0000

Understanding the behaviour of the wind using particles.
Link to the video
by Rodrigo Gabriel Aguirre Pereira

BlockPEREIV – stage of the project development

iaac — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:34:44 +0000

project by the MAA´s : Oscar Gomez (Mexixo) and Ahmad Bathaei (Iran)

MAA RS2 Students working intensively for the Term II final reviews

iaac — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:23:26 +0000

iaac — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:10:26 +0000

JAVIER PEÑA GALIANO (Murcia 1966). Architect by the ETSAM in 1992. He has been professor during the last 12 years in several Universities and workshops. Since 2010 he is Master professor at IAAC and external professor of project work at ESARQ UIC as well; from 2001 until 2011 he was associate professor of project work at the School of Architecture in Alicante. In his professional life he founded XPIRAL Architecture that is working since 1997 having head office in Barcelona, Murcia and Madrid. As head of XPIRAL team, he leads the development of several proposals that explore alternatives to problems no-disciplining, supported by new technology and multimedia resources, beyond the architecture, urbanism and design. In the point of view of permanent learning makes many trips to various countries. It also develops an intense activity not only architectural but also by participating in several panel discussions, lectures and meetings, as Barcelona, Lima, Moscow, Madrid , Sao Paulo… On the spot he participated in the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice, 2002, the exhibition of Spanish “architecture-On-Site” at the MOMA in New York and prolonged at the Botanical Garden of Madrid, 2006, and in the international exhibition of Spanish architecture “innovación abierta” celebrated in Panamá. He has spoken at various international exhibitions and workshops such as the V Biennale of Architecture and Design of Sao Paulo, 2003; Workshop of Architecture University of Alcalá, 2004; “7 Ideas of Beauty”, Madrid 2005; “talent and spirit”, Santander in July 2005. Has been honored with numerous awards, among them Architecture Prize Europan 6; FAD 2000 Finalist in the Awards Saloni; Second Prize ATEG 2006; First Prize in Contest of the Municipal Pool Mazarrón, Murcia 2006; First Prize Quarter of Peace, Murcia 2006; selected in the Prizes Mies Van der Rohe 2009; finalist in ONE PRIZE 2011 of New York.

Rodrigo Rubio (Madrid): Architect / Escuela Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM), first prize at the Selfsufficient Building International Contest, and master degree in Advanced Architecture in 2006. Since then, Rodrigo Rubio has been leading several research projects at IAAC such as the Albacete Effect, the Hyperhabitat Venice Bienale, or the Solar Decathlon Europe FabLabHouse. He founded with Daniel Ibáñez the MaRGeN architectural office at Madrid in 2005, inside the FreshMadrid platform, focused on landscape and selfsufficiency issues and awarded with several prizes at national and international competitions. Nowdays he is directing the Projects Office at IAAC from where the recently finished Endesa Pavilion was developed.