IAAC present its works at BMWi presentation

With the ocasion of the BMWi presentation (new hybrid electric car model from BMW), the company invited IAAC to present their ideas on design and sustainability.
Several design and research projects from last year where exhibited and alumni where exposing their ideas. Among others, we exhibited PetFlakes from Digital Fabrication, mDusse from Self-sufficient Buildings and Sound City from Emergent Territories
Interactive and responsive proposals got the attention of designers and engineers present at the event, with whom some interesting debates around optimization and self-production took part.

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Desk Crit by BENJAMIN BALL on Open Thesis Fabrication Programme

Today at Open Thesis Fabrication Programme Benjamin Ball, principal of the Ball-Nogues Studio, had a desk crit with students, checking the development of their projects.

::: IAAC - OTF 2012 DESK CRIT - BENJAMIN BALL :::

::: IAAC - OTF 2012 DESK CRIT - BENJAMIN BALL :::

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: BENJAMIN BALL

Tonight, according to the program of Lecture Series, IAAC welcomed the american architect and designer Benjamin Ball, principal of Ball-Nogues Studio, and in a very inspiring  lecture presented some of his latest projects. 

Ball-Nogues Studio is an integrated design and fabrication practice operating in a territory between architecture, art, and industrial design.  Their work is informed by the exploration of craft. Essential to each project is the “design” of the production process itself, with the aim of creating environments that enhance sensation, generate spectacle and invite physical engagement. 

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Desk Crit by FABIAN SCHEURER on Open Thesis Fabrication Programme

Today at Open Thesis Fabrication Programme Fabian Scheurer, principal of the firm DESIGN TO PRODUCTION, had a desk crit with students checking the development of their projects.

::: IAAC ::: OPEN THESIS FABRICATION ::: FABIAN SCHEURER DESK CRIT :::

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DESIGN STUDIO MID-TERM PRESENTATION

Today at the studio session students exposed to the jury their critical approach to their analyzed BCN main corridors.
They were asked to unveil the key opportunities, and controversies acting in their spaces. Based on these hypothesis, each team projected a mapping tool and localized the fundamental parameters to track.

From now on, students will be focused on, by using different sensoring methods, taking real time data to describe the dynamic behaviors present in their streets.After this mid-term review, students will start working on management of real time data and dynamic visualization tools.

IAAC ::: MAA 2012-2013 ::: MID TERM PRESENTATION

IAAC ::: MAA 2012-2013 ::: MID TERM PRESENTATION

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MAA02 INAUGURATION: SOLAR BUILDING

IAAC inaugurated yesterday the second year of the two years Master’s programme in Advanced Architecture MAA02.

The new Masters programme allows senior students, which already develop the appropriate sensibility and tools during the first year programme, to get into the deep of a personal investigation, about the themes of the advanced technology, architecture and urbanism. During this second year students are required to deal with a project counting on the possibility to develop it with international faculty and enterprises, highly specialized in different fields.

This 130 ECTS two years programme is acredited by the UPC School of Professional & Executive Development.

Lluís Viu Rebés and Jordi Pagès i Ramon will be leading the core Design Studio that will focus on the Solar Building not only as an energetic and geometric issue, but also aiming at problematizing its physical materiality, as to say developing, testing and building Solar Matter®.

Solar Matter® is a family of physical prototypes that will have the particularity of being “intelligent”: their dynamic, flexible and responsive qualities engineered into their structure will function as the basis of student’s proposals for the Solar Building.

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“Energy Trilema”:Mariano Marzo Lecture

On Monday IAAC welcomed Prof: Mariano Marzo, full professor of Stratigraphy at the Faculty of Geology of the University of Barcelona where he teaches Petroleum Geology and Energy Resources.

Mr Marzo’s research interests focus on the application of clastic sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, reservoir modeling and basin analysis to the exploration and production of hydrocarbons.

During a very inspiring lecture, titled “The Energy Trilemma”, he exposed how energy sustainability is being waged simultaneously on three battle fronts, that might be represented as a triangle with three E vertices: Economy, Energy security and Environment. In energy policy it seems advisable to seek the centroid of this hypothetical triangle: if we take action close just to one corner, we run the risk of neglecting the other two fronts of battle and lose the war.

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