Fab Solar House construction – Nearing to an end


Fab Solar house construction in IaaC premises

Flipping and separating one of the panels
Three more days to go for the Fab Solar house to be transported to Madrid, the house is on the process of being finished, electrical installations have been set up, interior furniture is fabricated and ready to be inside, the exterior ramp is also being fabricated and the exterior skin is being put up on every parts. The final push will be on sunday june 6th 2010 when these pieces are all going to be transported to Madrid, for the solar decathlon competition.

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Master Project-Theme III

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.

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Master Project Theme 1V: Contextualizing Digital fabrication

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.

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The Eco-Urban Apparatus









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Thesis: Cymatics, from sound to material

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By the study of  geometry,  effects of  sound and urban noises, through cymatics, we can explore the synthesis of spatial proportion and form generated from sound; to interpret the intelligent proportions of waves we experience as sound into expressions of formal proportions in architecture.
 
The purpose in experimenting cymatic language is to be able to translate and reinterpret the communication of sound through form; how to create atmosphere and effect, to compose by sound.
 
The objective of the apparatus is to:
Examine sound behaviour in order to understand  how to create effective sound illustration patterns that stimulate audio periphery, spatial perception, visual perception and the interaction between them.
Create visual representations of sounds found in urban spaces that illustrate  our aural environment
 
How:
To create an installation piece that includes several speakers/sand panels individually placed and reflect geometrics of urban sound spaces. Controlling each speaker/sand panel individually to play individual elements, that can illustrate one or more sound input. The final product would be an installation of  façade panels that reflects each audio periphery, reflecting geometrical individual and/or interaction patterns, having also as a result geometrical shadows atmosphere.

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APPARATUS 0.0

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Solar House construction – The fabhouse team


The workers house – fabhouse team having lunch at iaac

Organized by the Iaac fabhouse team, all who are working at the Solar Fabhouse construction at IaaC had lunch at the IaaC premises. There are more than 45 people working on the solar house fabrication, local carpenters from Barcelona, and students from 20 countries are involved in this process. The solar house is furthering ahead with construction.

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