Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Open Thesis Fabrication 3.0 Inaugurated with the welcoming speech from the new IAAC Dean Manuel Gausa along with Areti Markopoulou, research and Development Director, that presented the program to the students.
IAAC Global Summer school ended last week. 15 students of different nationalities, participated in this edition of IAAC Summer School : SMARTitSELF.
After 2 weeks of intense workshop, with experimentation on prototypes among others, the team proceeded to the construction of an 1:1 prototype. ¨Heliocell¨, the project of this edition of Summer School, is a solar pavilion that has the attribute of transforming its structure so as to follow the sun path and get the maximum advantage of the solar radiation, to be captured by the solar panels incorporated on its skin. The material chosen for the structure was wood, and the bending strategies of the same were explored by dimensions, fabrication and assembly methods. The integration of sensors and activators served the dynamic character of the structure by offering the necessary controlled movement of the structures ribs.
Continuing the research agenda: Fab Labs and Informalism between the “Unidad 00″ at the Architecture and Urbanism School of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, and IAAC-Fab Lab Barcelona, this year a second version of the dedicated summer school is going to take place in Barcelona at IAAC Campus between 3rd and 31st of August. The topics for this year’s edition will be based on Informal Phenomena and Smart Cities.
These days, a group of interior design students from the Institut Créad in Lyon (France) are participating in one of the IAAC Digital Fabrication Workshops focused on furniture design using digital tools. The students design proposals are passing through a selection process that will end up with one of the designs being built in 1:1 scale at the Fabrication Laboratory (FabLab BCN).
One of the visionaries of the idea of IAAC and co-creator of Metapolis Group, the Architect and Professor at the University of Geneva, Manuel Gausa, returns to IAAC assigned as the Dean of the Institute. Manuel Gausa along with the historian and cultural manager Antonio Nicolau as the General Director of IAAC and the economist Francesc Joan as the new President of the IAAC board form the team that consolidates the growth of IAAC.
IAAC seals the period of its growth by launching a new masters programme, the Master in Advanced Interaction next October 2012.
The IAAC Global Summer School 2012: SMART itSELF started on Friday with an introduction on the program’s objectives and aims by the main tutors of the workshop : Areti Markopoulou, Rodrigo Rubio, Tomas Diez and Luis Fraguada. 15 Participants of different nationalities will be working on the ideas of Heliocell. During the course the participants are being trained in different softwares and hardwares that they will be using for the development of the summer school’s project.
One more edition of the Master in Advanced Architecture MAA 2011-12 has come to its end. IAAC with pride celebrated with the MAA students, their effort and the hard work that they conducted during this year, with a graduation ceremony to remember!
