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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and the Fab Lab Barcelona teams are participating at the Fab 13 International Conference in Santiago de Chile. From 31st July until the 6th August, the world-renowned Fab Lab Meeting will gather members coming from over 10,000 Fab Labs with the main purpose to share, discuss, collaborate [...]
Badalona’s Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol performs a series of complex aortic aneurysms surgical interventions successfully thanks to prior medical rehearsals with 3D printed prototypes fabricated in the Fab Lab Barcelona at IAAC. The collaboration with Fab Lab Barcelona, which began in November 2016, has allowed the team of Dr. Pere Mas Altés, Vascular Surgeon [...]
Publication Description 'From Now to Then: Between Man-kind an Robotic-kind' is a IAAC's publication developed with the collaboration of global think-tank and research institute The Why Factory, led by world-renowned Dutch architect Winy Maas, and elaborated by IAAC students from the Master in City and Technology 2016/2017. This publication aims to bring together visionary ideas [...]
This past Thursday the first edition of the BCN Summer Workshops closed its doors, celebrating this first successful attempt of connecting the brightest minds of Barcelona with enthusiastic, curious and like-minded people from all around the world. To carry on this mission until the very end, the closing event of this pilot-workshop-series could not be [...]
IAAC has developed a series of materials and advanced systems for passive cooling and ventilation, which allow reducing indoor temperatures by up to 5 degrees and air conditioners use by more than 25%. These alternatives help to sharply decrease hot indoor temperatures in locations where the weather is extremely warm. The Institute for Advanced Architecture [...]
IAAC ADMISSIONS COORDINATOR THE INSTITUTE – The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia – IAAC is an international centre for Education, Fabrication and Research dedicated to the development of architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges in constructing 21st century habitability. Based in the 22@ district of Barcelona, one of the world’s capitals of [...]
Aquapioneers is an initiative that was born in the Green Fab Lab at IAAC Campus Valldaura Labs, which has been supported and powered by IAAC and Fab Lab Barcelona. Aquapioneers creates an open source urban agricultural system saving 90% water consumption and allows cultivation without soil with aquaponics system. Guillaume Teyssié and Loic Le Goueff are the founders [...]
This 10th edition of IAAC Global Summer School 2017 (GSS17) has been a great success! More than 140 students distributed in several nodes worldwide such as Moscow, Barcelona, Tehran, Beirut, Monterrey and Beijing have had the opportunity to learn more about advanced urban technologies and space dynamics as essential means for city change. Students participating at the GSS17 program defined strategies for the applications of [...]
From the 3rd to 7th of July, the EU co-funded program InnoChain organised its mid term reviews and a joint workshop-seminar at IAAC in Barcelona. On Monday 3rd July the project was reviewed by the EU Project Officer Nina Poumpalova, Sarah-Amalia Aronzohn and Mervi Himanen as external expert. The scope of the meeting was to assess the progression of the project [...]
On Wednesday 28th of June takes place the opening of the IAAC End of Year Exhibition Living (in) Future Cities, which will be held this year at the MUHBA Oliva Artés in Poblenou, and it will be open to the public until the 30th of July. Every year the Institute organizes a public event to showcase the best [...]
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