Environmental Performance Modelling

By iaac | Published: May 5, 2010


The last class of Phase III in Environmental Performance Modelling ended with Faculty giving outlines to students projects on how to solve problems they have encountered while doing their projects for the seminar. They have been asked to design and test a single space building in a location of their choice. Their design should be the result of analysis performed using ECOTECT and other tools.

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Internet 0 Final Presentation

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LightShake_Melat Assefa-Diana Bauder-Asim Hameed-Eleni Kolovou-Jessica Lai-Maria Lucia Mogollón

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Walk With Me_internet 0_final presentation

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IaaC Lecture Series_Apr 30 < Maria Voyatzaki

By iaac | Published: May 1, 2010
‘(Re)thinking architectural education for a non-standard architecture’
Maria Voyatzaki
Associate Professor of Architectural Design and Building TechnologyMaria Voyatzaki is associate professor of architectural design and building technology at the School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) since 2001. Her PhD at the University of Bath, School of Architecture (1996) supervised by Dr. Chris Williams and Prof Ted Happold investigated the design process of non-standard architecture entitled “An Insight into the Design Process of Unconventional Structures”. Her research and respective published work focuses on the integration of an idea and its materiality aiming at enhancing the quality of architecture through this integration.
She has taught for over 11 years in the United Kingdom and for a semester in Denmark (Aarhus School of Architecture). Between 1989-1991she worked in the research team of Bath University, UK on projects between the University of Bath led by Ted Happold, Buro Happold and Frei Otto. She works as a free lance architect in Greece. She has organised and participated in a great number of international student workshops and international conferences for architecture educators. She is the Coordinator of the European Network of Construction Teachers since 2001. She is also the coordinator of a number of European funded programmes on architectural education, with the most recent one being the two-year funded LifeLong Learning Multilateral Project, continuum: from the school lab to the factory workshop that investigates new pedagogic protocols for teaching students on a file-to-factory logic.
She has been a Council Member of the European Association for Architectural Education (2000-2007). She has lectured abroad and has sat at design juries around the world. She is a chartered architect and member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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RSIII. Digital Tectonics (FAB)BOTS

By iaac | Published: May 1, 2010

Students had a Pre-final review this friday, with their projects already developing with the thesis, concept, machine behaviour and development, their computational design tools, on-site deployment strategies, project applications, and their conclusions presented.
With Faculty Marta Malé-Alemany , Victor Viña, assistant Cesar Cruz cazares and guest invites like Maria Voyatzaki, students discussed their points to develop their final robots ed for the next two weeks.

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RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings-Workshop with Ignasi Pérez Arnal

By iaac | Published: May 1, 2010


For the last three days, Research Studio II students have been taking lectures and discussing their projects on the workshop with Ignasi Pérez Arnal -Ignasi Pérez Arnal profile -faculty Willy Muller and assistant Maite Bravo.Lectures taken included ; design as critical factor for efficiency & sustainable tourism, energy, water and material solutions, ecoproducts and waste.
Taking basic sustainable systems into account, how to manipulate these intuitively, how do they combine with a program, site, masterplan and project. Students are working on these issues, developing each project according to its context, needs and concept.

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