Last Thursday 6th of May all the IAAC staff members gathered for a team building event, to celebrate the growing and diverse team who’s one of the secrets behind the Institute’s success! Seventy team members coming from fifteen different countries joined the social event hosted at the Valldaura Self-sufficient Labs, in the Collserola Park.
This week our guest lecturers Jaime Coll and Judith Leclerc, invited as part of the Spring Lecture Series 2017, inspired the audience with their lecture: Definitely Unfinished. In 1923,…
Synthesis of Strip Pattern was a workshop oriented towards digital fabrication strategies and integrative design thinking, held at IAAC from the 7th to the 12th of April. Led by Djordje Stanojevic & Georgi Kazlachev with NOUMENA, FabLab BCN and Nodo, the course included phases of material properties research, development of complex geometrical 3D parametric models, fabrication details and techniques
Last 19th of April La Casa Elizalde in Barcelona opened its doors to present the exhibition Scripts – a chronicle of incidents, directed by IAAC OTF Co-director Edouard Cabay, and displaying an extensive series of drawings mechanically created by automated plotting machines.
The seminar Liquid Skin, led by Edouard Cabay with the support of a team of experts including Alexandre Dubor, Resja Ferusic, Carles Salas and Ferran Figuerola, focused on the integration of liquids within curved glass assemblies or surfaces, in order to produce architectural effects or performance: climatic, energetic and spatial.
Hugo, a 7 year old boy, has experienced a few special days at the Fab Lab Barcelona: with the help of Santiago Fuentemilla he has realized the dream of turning a simple drawing into a real object with the use of digital manufacture.
Only a few days to go for the Master in Advanced Architecture’s Seminar Bifurcation, led by the Executive Architect and Researcher at the Sagrada Familia Mark Burry, where students will be challenged to design a ten meters column using the same principles of the Gaudí’s column.
Last Thursday Open Thesis Fabrication (OTF) students have finally unveiled the outcomes of the six-month postgraduate program, led by IAAC Faculty Edouard Cabay and Alexandre Dubor, which focused this year on the applications of additive manufacturing in the production of sustainable low-cost buildings, printable on site with 100{9109d278f27679b0d72ba26d1dbf285952fc93361903e26181bc35932131a14a} natural materials.
MAA02 students, coordinated by IAAC Faculty Maria Kuptsova, Ángel Muñoz and Master in Advanced Interaction Directors Luis Fraguada and Klaus Obermaier, are in the final push of the fabrication of IAAC’s interactive installation for the Llum BCN Festival 2017.
