WINGS 2014 – Materializing Data through Landscape

By iaac | Published: January 18, 2014

This weekend we hosted the IAAC WINGS 2014 workshop at IAAC and the Valldaura Self Sufficent Labs campuses.

WINGS stands for Workshop in Intensive Networking Games and Strategies, and aims to deal with the process of architecture with a ludicrous approach, using games to generate architecture. This was fulfilled thanks to the enthusiasm not just of the students, consisting in the IAAC Master in Advanced Architecture students, as well as visiting students from the CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) from the USA, and students from the Polytechnic School of Genoa (Italy), but also the extreme enthusiasm of the Tutors (both from IAAC and invited by IAAC), coming from diverse disciplinary backgrounds – Architects, Designers, Artists, Actors and Anthropologists.

The theme chosen this year was that of Materializing Data through Landscape. Each group composed of 2 or more tutors and around 15 students were given open data sources that they studied on Friday, at the Pujades 102 campus, finding data sets that emerged to them as points of interest on the basis of which to conceive an installation, performance, land art, sensorial experience, and much more.

Day 2 of the workshop, held in the Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs, brought to life the installations and performances conceptualised through game play the day before, giving way to the transformation of the Valldaura landscape through the materialisation of data.

The tutors were: Manuel Gausa, Maria Aiolova, Marc Aureli Santos, Amadeu Santacana, Joan Maroto, Ana Martinez, Lisa Marrani, Anastasia Pistofidou, Laila Tafur, Ovidiu Cincheza, Georg Ladurner, Alexandre Dubor, Norma Deseke, Nicola Canessa, Jonathan Minchin, Drew Carson, Guillem Camprodon, Gaia Grossi and Mathilde Marengo.

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IAAC @ BSSA

By iaac | Published: January 18, 2014

This week Areti Markopoulou, the MAA Director, and Silvia Brandi, the MAA academic coordinator, flew to Mumbai, India, as they were invited to be members of the NMIMS’s Balwant Sheth School of Architecture (BSSA) Final Jury.

They also had the opportunity to meet up with some of the IAAC Alumni, among which Kartik Gala, Yogesh Karekar, Nidhi Shah, Hemant Purohit and Renu Gupta. Read More »

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MARIA AIOLOVA – The Art of Urbaneering

By iaac | Published: January 16, 2014

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Maria Aiolova, discussing the Art of Urbaneering, as part of the Winter Lecture Series 2014.

During the lecture, Maria touched series of themes very much of interest today: Whose job is it to create a city?  Our intention is to jumpstart a new profession that can re-invent and negotiate the complex mix that encompasses a city.  We have defined a radical new occupation to regenerate, pioneer, and sustain the future urban realm. These innovative multi-disciplinarian advocates are called Urbaneers. Their immense task is to manifest and facilitate the City 2.0 across the globe.  Each Urbaneer is an individual with a different set of versatile abilities that merge previously disparate occupations.  They range from combined ecological architects and engineers to action based urban planners and developers.  Almost any recombined professional activities will work, so long as they meet the constantly changing needs of urbanization.  Urbaneers perform in a role akin to Jane Jacobs, but at the magnitude and accomplishment of Robert Moses. An excellent historical example of an Urbaneer is Frederick Law Olmstead.  For years, we have shaped a school called ONE Lab that has expanded on this very notion.  Now, the Global Architecture and Design Programs will instruct in the art of Urbaneering to students seeking to augment their sensibilities and operate within cities.

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IAAC WINGS 2014 – Materializing Data through Landscape

By iaac | Published: January 14, 2014

WINGS 2014 -

IAAC WINGS 2014 – Workshop in Intensive Networking Games Strategies

Materializing Data through Landscape

100STUDENTS
from over 45 countries

3INSTITUTES
IAAC – Barcelona
UNIGE – Genova
CIEE – United States

2DAYS
17—18 January 2014

2LOCATIONS
IAAC 22@
Valldaura Self Sufficent Labs

1GAME…

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RS3 Workshop – ADAPTIVE SELF-PARAMETRISATION

By iaac | Published: January 14, 2014

This week the Research Studio 3 DIGITAL MATTER – INTELLIGENT CONSTRUCTIONS partook in the Adaptive Self-Parametrisation workshop, in parallel with CITA. The workshop was held by David Stasiuk –  digitalization of the physical models for the self parametrization -, Henrik Leander Evers – 3D scanning expert -, as well as the RS3 studio directors: Areti Markopoulou with Mette Ramsgaard Thompsen – CITA -  and tutor Alexandre Dubor.

The parametric model is limited by the need for defining all parameters at the start of the design process. This is contrary to the nature of design as a process of discovery. As any designer knows, the design space is dynamic changing as new information is discovered, understood and synthesised.

This workshop investigated the creating of self parametrisising models. Models that learn their parameters during the design process. By merging crafts based material knowledge with computational strategies for generative design, the workshop asked the students to think about how evolutionary systems can be implemented as conceptual as well as practical design tools. Taking point of departure in the building of a vault we want to create a design system that explores the breadth of a design space so as to understand how a network of single arches performs together and how they can be constructed.

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Thursday 16th of January: MARIA AIOLOVA –
The Art of Urbaneering

By iaac | Published: January 13, 2014

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Thursday 16th of January 2014
Maria Aiolova
Lecture: The Art of Urbaneering.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

MARIA AIOLOVA
Maria Aiolova is an educator, architect and urban designer in New York City.  Her work is focused on the theory, science and application of ecological design. She is a Co-Founder of Terreform ONE. In 2013, Maria was appointed Academic Director of Global Architecture and Design of CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange). Presently, Maria chairs the ONE Lab NY School for Design and Science and the One Prize Design and Science Award. She is an institutional adviser to New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She won the 2013 AIA NY Award for Urban Design. Maria is currently a visiting faculty at University of Applied Arts Vienna. Most recently, she taught at Pratt Institute and Parsons the New School for Design. Formerly, she served as Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of ETEX Corporation, a bio-tech company in Cambridge, MA. Maria is an inventor, who holds 18 technology patents. She was the winner of the Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award, and the Museum of Arts and Design in 2011. Maria has won a number of design competitions including first place in the CHARLES/MGH Station, Boston, and the Izmir Post District International Competition, Turkey.  She also won the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity and the Build Boston Award.
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METTE RAMSGAARD THOMPSEN – CITA Research Practice

By admin | Published: January 10, 2014

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Mette Ramsgaard Thompsen. During the lecture she elaborated the design and research practice developed at CITA.

CITA uses a practice based research methods focussed on the conceptualisation, design and realisation of working prototypes and full scale demonstrators. CITAs work has a strong cross-disciplinary focus consolidates new collaborations with interdisciplinary partners from the fields of engineering, design, robotics and material science.

We are proud to announce that this year IAAC and CITA will be collaborating in the development of the Research Studio in the Masters in Advanced Architecture investigating Digital Materials and Intelligent Constructions.

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