Catalan Presidential Candidate Artur Mas at IaaC

By iaac | Published: October 1, 2010


Artur Mas, candidate for President of Catalonia and former “conseller en cap” visited today IaaC  and had a tour to the facilities of the school. The Board of Directors of the Institute for Advanced Architecture demonstrated to him new technologies that have been absorbed by architecture and had an extended conversation about the vision of  potential innovation in the city of  Barcelona and Catalonia in general,  from the territorial, urban to the building scale.

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Open Thesis Fabrication – Visits

By iaac | Published: September 21, 2010


Entering the facilities of Escofet.

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Open Thesis Fabrication Lectures Series

By iaac | Published: September 17, 2010


The first week of the Open Thesis Fabrication introduced to the students the techniques and methods for the manipulation of different materials. Five leading companies,working  in different materials each, presented their work, shared their knowledge and their unique results. The materials presented were glass, metal, concrete and wood. At the end the student had a deep perspective of the restrictions as well as the freedoms that each material can offer with an extended understanding of their performances in complex geometries. The companies that participated in the lecture series are : Cricursa / glass experts, Escofet/concrete experts , Imar /metal experts, Fupicsa and Finnforest/wood experts.

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Tel Aviv- IaaC Summer Workshop Final Presentations

By iaac | Published: September 3, 2010


Tel-Aviv College of Management Faculty Arielle Blonder with students and IaaC workshop supporter James Brazil

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Tel Aviv- IaaC Summer Workshop

By iaac | Published: August 28, 2010


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.

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IaaC Summer School Final Presentation- Intersticial Spaces and Rancho Digital projects

By iaac | Published: August 13, 2010

Final Presentation
Rancho Digital and the Intersticial spaces are projects developed at Fab Labs and Informalism Workshop of the IaaC Summer School 2010, which took place at IaaC and Fab Lab Bcn in August 2010.
The Final Presentation took place on August 11th with the visit of the Dean of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Cicilia Arocha, IaaC Director Vicente Guallart, IaaC Co-Director Willy Muller, and local and international visitors. 40 students, professors and professionals joined together to make this projects possible in 2 weeks of design, fabrication and assembly.

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IaaC Summer School – 1:1 Construction Phase

By iaac | Published: August 7, 2010


Parametric Model

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. Read More »

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