Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Join us to Master in Advanced Interaction Final Presentation of the Studio “Close to the Body” tutored by Oscar Tomico and Marina Castan!
In collaboration with TU/e and ESDI
We wait for you at IAAC at 18:00!
IAAC Global Summer School seeks to investigate common agendas in global locales.
IGSS 2013 will take place in 12 sites simultaneously under the common theme of Productive City.
2013 GSS – Agenda:
PRODUCTIVE CITY
The production of energy, food, knowledge, and objects are key elements which establish the basic necessities to create self-sufficient habitats. The 2013 Edition of the IAAC GSS wants to address the challenges and opportunities which exist in our urban environments with regards to the production of these elements.
As with each Global School, a multiscalar, and multi-site approach will be utilized to explore how the agenda unfolds with the particular economic, biological, and social factors of each locale.
-At the urban scale, we will identify potential productive regions in our urban habitats.
-At the building scale we will reconstruct a ‘smart city block,’ capable of producing and mitigating its production to and from the city.
-At the tectonic scale we will explore productive facade systems which are responsive to their location and local necessities.
The 2013 IAAC GSS seeks to generate a series of fabricated prototypes which address the agenda through multiple scales.
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN
Enrollment inquiries: applications@iaac.net
If you wish to support Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs Project and you didn’t make yet your contribution, do it now, there is just one day left!!!
http://goteo.org/project/valldaura-self-sufficient-labs/home
This weekend the Emergent Territories students participated in an intensive workshop in order to enhance his Maya knowledge. Maya is a software used in many fields such as Engineer or Designer, but also some architecture streams like the one leaded by Hernan Diaz Alonso uses this 3d and animation software.
The workshop was given by Jose Carlos Lopez Cervantes during the whole saturday and sunday. The activity endedwith a presentation of all the urban projects that the students are developing in the Besos river.
Bill Hillier at the IaaC
Lecture “Spatial sustainability in cities: or, do cities really have neighbourhoods?”
7th of May // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA
Bill Hillier is Professor of Architectural and Urban Morphology in the University of London, Chairman of the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, Director of the Space SyntaxLaboratory in University College London and a director of Space Syntax Limited. He was the pioneer of ‘space syntax’ in the nineteen seventies, and authored The Social Logic of Space (Cambridge University Press, 1984, 1990) with Julienne Hanson, Space is the Machine’ (CUP 1996), and over a hundred and fifty publications on space and other aspects of architectural and urban theory. Current research interests are in space syntax as a theory of the city, the relation between cities and urban societies, the syntax of generative buildings, the links between objective spatial laws and spatial cognition, the aesthetics of space, and the space syntax paradigm as a philosophical position.
