DHUB FAB at Nits dels Museus

By iaac | Published: May 23, 2011

Nits dels Museus is a one night event in which all museums of Barcelona are open until 1am for free, during the second weekend of May. During this night the DHUB FAB, located at the exhibition Fabrication Laboratory (Curated by Marta Male-Alemany and produced by IAAC), offered the open lab sessions, an opportunity for anyone to make anything in a Fab environment. More than 200 visitors visited the Fab Lab and experienced live activities related with the implications and applications of digital fabrication.

For more pictures about the activity visit: https://picasaweb.google.com/fablabbcn/DHUB_NITSdelsMUSEUS#

The DHUB FAB is a project by the Fab Lab Barcelona and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, in collaboration with the Disseny Hub of Barcelona. The DHUB FAB project just finished activities yesterday (May22nd), after more than 30 workshop offered to Schools and specialized professionals of different fields of knowledge and its relation with digital fabrication. For more information visit the DHUB FAB WEB

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IAAC Students at Construmat 2011

By iaac | Published: May 20, 2011

(Above: Javier Peña explaining to students how to use a solar collector like a new façade)

This week MAA students in the Self Sufficient Buildings Development Studio took a trip to Construmat 2011 with studio instructor, Javier Peña. Construmat is an annual trade show for the construction industry held in Barcelona. This year over 1,300 companies were at the trade show presenting their new products and innovations.

MAA students learned about new materials and technologies such as solar panels, solar water heaters, shading systems and water saving home appliances. Students had a chance to learn about the current market of construction materials and to see how they can incorporate them into their research at IAAC.

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Seminar Project: Material Systems

By iaac | Published: May 19, 2011

MAA Student Martin Firera Allessandri (Italy) is working on his project for the Material Systems Seminar final which will be next week. Led by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poleto (EcoLogicStudio), the Material Systems seminar is investigating the relationship between material, materiality and material systems in the realm of architecture. To learn more about the Material Systems seminar you can read our earlier blog post previewing the Phase III seminar.

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Phase III Seminar Preview: Multidisciplinar Optimization

By iaac | Published: May 17, 2011

Seminar: Multidisciplinar Optimization

Faculty: Santiago Marin (Vortica)

In Phase III of the Masters in Advanced Architecture students will continue to work on their final projects in their Development Studios and they will also attend three seminars that cover a wide variety of topics.

The Multidisciplinar Optimization seminar will be divided into three different sessions. During the first session the students will approach the cognitive engineering for design methods with an introduction from CAD to CED. With the knowledge of management and project presentation of the second session, the students will be provided with tools to manage information within in a multidisciplinary project. One of the objectives will be to find as many parameters as possible that are affecting habitats in order to create a model in the 3rd session.

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IAAC Open Lecture Series 2010/2011: Farshid Moussavi

By iaac | Published: May 16, 2011

On Friday, the 13th of May, IAAC welcomed Farshid Moussavi who gave a lecture titled “Form and Ornament”.

Farshid Moussavi is an architect, educator and co-founder of Foreign Office Architects (FOA). She is Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University. She has published two books based on her work at Harvard, The Function of Forms and The Function of Ornament.

Farshid oriented her lecture around the relationship of Function of style with form and function as it is identified in her books. Throughout her lecture she stated that suggestive repetitions can over time suggest significant changes, as repetition is a fundamental condition in Architecture.

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IAAC Open Lectures 2010/2011: Gunter Pauli

By admin | Published: May 12, 2011

On Thursday, 12 May, IAAC welcomed Dr. Gunter Pauli for an open lecture in the IAAC Auditorium.

Dr. Gunter Pauli was born in Antwerp in 1956. He graduated with a degree in economics from Loyola’s University in Belgium and obtained his masters in business administration from INSEAD in France. He is the founder of the ZERI Foundations (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives).

Dr. Pauli presented The Blue Economy which encourages innovation in production, consumption and habitability in order to create a world in which sustainability is fast, low cost, and available to everyone.

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IAAC, Fab Lab BCN on TV3 Catalonia

By admin | Published: May 11, 2011

IAAC and the Fab Lab BCN were recently featured in a story about the future of 3D printing on TV3 Televisió de Catalunya. Tomas Diez, Project Manager in the Fab Lab BCN, and Marta Malé-Alemany, Co-Director of IAAC’s MAA Program, explained the work that went into the current exhibition on display at DHUB Barcelona, Full Print3d.

This exhibition will be on view at DHUB BCN until 22 May.

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