Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
The workshop started with a lecture on Poble Nou evolution: Discussion emerged afterwards on issues such as urban strategies of retrofitting urban fabrics or densification and scale.
RS1 participants fly to Japan to experience Japanese Architecture and the City, to follow up with Tokyo´s Urban development and it´s interdisciplinary plan, an urban setting that allows different economic activities to grow, as one of the 3 ¨command centers¨ of the world.
The Rs2 MAA students are to experience the diversities of this country by visiting different cities as they are visible in the map below.
RS1 In front of Herzog & de Meuron PRADA store in Tokyo.
Javier Peña discussing on 22@ filtrating towers project, with Josep Mias (MIAS Architects), Javier Jimenez Iniesta (Architect) and Jordi Pages i Ramon & Lluís Viu (Max de Cusa Architects) as invited jury.
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The jury of the RS3 Final presentations of MAA Term II consisted of:
MAGÍ GALINDO / IQS / LEITAT, SANTIAGO MARTIN GONZALEZ / Univ. Of Oviedo, JORDI TRUCO / ELISABA / HybridA, LUIS FRAGUADA / IAAC / BAD, MAITE BRAVO / IAAC, EDOUARD CABAY/IAAC+ OHAD MEHUYAS (RS3 Alumni)
RS3 studio investigates the workflow between computational design and material production methods, exploring the relationship between design inputs and computer programmable devices that can be used for the production of building structures and/or components. Challenging the traditional norms of linear file-to-factory production processes, the studio will study the potentials of linking the programming of specific material formations and machinic behaviour in real time, exploring the generative design opportunities that may emerge from this convergence.
Pierre Bélanger closed his week at IAAC with an Open Lecture after the workshop´s final presentations. Pierre Bélanger is Landscape Architect and Associate Professor at the Hardvard University Graduate School of Design. He is also editor of the Landscape Infraestructures DVD and his most recent publication include Regionalization, Redefining Infraestructure and Landscape as Infraestructure. During the lecture he focus on the convergence of urbanism, landscape and ecology in the interrelated fields of planning, design and engineering. He focused on the dual objectives of ecological durability and economic performance in the reclamation of regional systems and large urban landscapes.
S4_Landscape Infrastructure seminar: taught by Harvard professor Pierre Bélanger with the assistance of Margherita Neri.
It was an intensive week for both students and tutors. Lectures, round tables discussions and teamwork were the main activities. Students have carried out mapping work in different areas and at different scales within the field of landscape infraestructure. From the national to the international scale, covering topics as diverse as waste treatment, energy, water, mobility or Internet connections.