The 2019 Open Thesis Fabrication (OTF) research aims at achieving a sustainable and structurally stable construction system using km-0 robotic additive manufacturing. Building Architecture Continuity employs continuous printing and cantilever geometries to enhance the structural capacities and spatial qualities of its expected results. The tools employed in the project consist of a combination of computational methods,…
Digital Adobe is an innovative research agenda oriented to producing architectural solutions with natural materials and additive manufacturing or 3d printing. The technology, developed in the applied research post graduate program Open Thesis Fabrication, enables to customize the form of a building on multiple scales. Tailoring, from the global form, to the resolution of the…
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), based in Barcelona, has, for some time now, been exploring and investigating the potentials of additive manufacturing (3D printing) applied to the architectural field, therefore the implemented on a larger scale. In this framework, the Institute put together a team of researchers with the aim of re-elaborating…
MATAERIAL is a brand new method of additive manufacturing. This patent-pending method allows for creating 3D objects on any given working surface, independently of its inclination and smoothness, and without a need for additional support structures. ANTI GRAVITY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING: Conventional methods of additive manufacturing have been affected both by gravity and the printing environment:…
TERRAPERFORMA3D Printed Performative Wall The project, TerraPerforma, focuses on large-scale 3D printing, the influence of additive manufacturing on building with a traditional material - unfired clay - and climatic performative design. Mud constructions are an ancestral technique, based on the use of local material with an ecological footprint which is close to zero. It is…
BB MAKE – A COLLABORATIVE AND OPEN STRUCTURE by IAAC Beijing Design Week 2014 In 2014, Barcelona had the honour of being the guest city for the Beijing Design Week 2014, implementing the "Barcelona, a future inspired by design" exhibition in the 79-Tank, an impressive circular precinct in district 751. In this framework, the Institut Ramon…
As part of the Self Sufficient neighbourhood project, the City Council of Barcelona invited the Design and Architecture Schools of Barcelona to participate in a competition for the design of a Self-Sufficient Neighborhood in Torre Baró. In particular, the schools were given 2 plots of land in which to design a Self-Sufficient house prototype as…
ON SITE ROBOTICSBringing Robotics to the Construction Site to Manufacture the Future On Site Robotics is a collaborative project of IAAC and TECNALIA, which demonstrates the potentials of additive manufacturing technology and robotics in the production of sustainable low-cost buildings that can be built on site with natural materials. Combining technological advances in robotics (cable…
The first pedestrian bridge printed in 3D in the world was inaugurated last December 14 in the urban park of Castilla-La Mancha in Alcobendas, Madrid. The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) was in charge of the architectural design of the bridge, which has a total length of 12 meters and a width of…
EU Project MAKE-IT (2016-2018) Description Make-IT studies maker communities within Europe both through different case studies and innovation action research to enhance their use of Collective Awareness Platforms (CAPS), which support maker communities and networks to innovate, design and make physical products based on peer collaboration and sharing. EU Call Horizon 2020 Total Funding 1,999,863.00…
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