The 3rd term of the MAA 2011-12 has started.

The RS3-Digital Tectonics Master Studio has started with renewed energy and two work sessions dedicated to summarize and present the state of the students work in both the technical and the conceptual fields. A new more dialectic format that encourages participation has been tested these days for the presentations . Some time was given for discussing the impressions of the Research Trip with comments on the visits that the group had in different Universities, Museums and Building. The projects are now being reshaped and are starting to focus on the final sprint.

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RS2 goes to Boston. Visits started at MIT’s Media Lab new Building, by Fumihiko Maki, where CBA (Center for Bits and Atoms) Fab Lab is settled. Researchers like Kenny Cheung or Nadia Peak where presenting their works. Group also visited Carlo Ratti’s Senseable City Lab where Copenhague Wheel prototype was being tested. At MIT architecture department a round table on self-sufficiency took part between IAAC’s RS2 students and Andrew Scott students, with Nader Tehrani guiding the conversation.

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Object 3D print test of a plastic origami

RS2 visits the WYSS Institute with Benjamin Hutton, the nanotechnology and micro-robotics research center associated to Harvard Engineering University. There, researchers presented their advances on intelligent surfaces, adaptive transparency engineered polymers, and flying or inflatable micro-robotics. Areti Markopoulou presented last research and academic projects of IAAC. Afterwards, RS2 visited Harvard GSD for a presentation on digital fabricarion and programming applications with Leyre Asensio and Panagiotis Michalatos. Andreas Georgoulias presented their research projects on ecologic infrastructures rating system.

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RS2 visits last architectural icons at New York before going to Princeton and Boston. After checking in F.Ll.Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, group crossed Central Park going to Soho, where Sanaa’s New Museum and Steven Holl’s StoreFront art gallery stands.

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RS1 at Arata Isozaki Office in Japan with Arata Isozaki.

RS1 at Prada, by Herzog y de Meuron

Rs1 at Kurokawa´s Capsule Hotel in Tokio.

RS2 at Dillier&Scofidio’s high-line intervention, Neil Denari’s mini-tower at background.

RS2 continues at NYC visiting the new developments of the High Line intervention by Dillier&Scofidio. The reactivation of the old railway infrastructure changed completely West district. Housing buildings of Neil Denari, Jean Nouvel or Frank Ghery add density to this new hybrid public space. After a quick walk through Times Square, night visit finished at Harlem elevated train stations.

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First days of the research trip were focused on the academic and professional scene of  New York City. At Columbia University RS2 Self-Sufficient Buildings Group visited the Philip’s Anzalome FabLab and David Benjamin’s Living Lab. A contradictory visit followed at the low-tech hand–craft fabrication workshops of the Cooper Union.

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