IAAC Event's

MAA02 FINAL PRESENTATIONS AND JURY

Tuesday 18th of June 2013

Tutors:

Jordi Pages
(Max de Cusa Arquitectes)
Lluis Viu
(Max de Cusa Arquitectes)

Jury Board:

Areti Markopoulou
(MAA Master program Director)
Jordi Mansilla-Ortoneda
(Ortoneda-Risse Architects)
Antonio Sanmartí
(ASZARQUITECTES -ETSAB)
Pablo Ros
(IAAC Faculty)
Amadeu Santacana
(nug arquitectes - ETSAV)

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 5th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of SELF-SUFFICIENT HABITAT.

The aim of the competition is to promote discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.

The competition is open to architects, engineers, planners and designers who want to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and urban planning

The prize (Total value: 50.000, 00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme. The competition jury, which is composed of architects, professionals in a wide range of fields and directors of some of the world's foremost architecture schools, is looking for outstanding proposals at any scale, for any city in the world on Smart Cities, Eco neighborhoods, Self-sufficient buildings, Intelligent homes or any other proposal that analyzes the phenomena of Self-sufficient Habitats.

The Registration is FREE, and the competition entries should be submitted digitally in PDF files via the Internet.

IAAC 2 days Workshop in Intensive Networking Games Strategies Playground Positions

“That’s thirty minutes away, I’ll be there in ten”

Pulp fiction

The concept of the workshop was to develop 6 fields of play directed by 6 teams so as to produce a reflection around and on the new lines of thought in contemporary architecture and the contemporary position of the architect in this socio-cultural scenario. A mix between reflection and playing games, thought and action. A hybrid that mixes critics and actions. Finally, a critical action.

We had less than 48 hours to energetically produce a critical and propositive action.

An action-production whose definition was to be open to the individual criteria of the 6 invited production and thought groups, and that could be developed as a punctual action, as an active object , as a giant map or any special or material form of manipulation that activates the positive-critical reflection of the spectator.

The answer was to be festive and/or ludicrous. The aim was to answer the question posed through a process of “productive games”, both intense and rapid (object, action or installation) and to occupy or, in any case, transform a space inside IAAC (6 simultaneous spaces, like a multi-track circus). 

The invited teams: 6 fields, 6 teams:

José Maria Torres Nadal and Antonio Sanmartín

Josep Maria Garcia Cors

Juan Alfonso Zapata

Studio G - Mathilde Marengo, Jeannette Sordi and Anna Varaldo

Joan Maroto, Lis Marrani and Ana Martinez

Luciana Asinari and Silvia Brandi

The structures and performances were presented on the 28th through an itinerant multi ring circus presentation party.

The Smart Citizen project will be presented at the Simposio Ciudad Intelligente | Ciudad Creativa | Smart City on the 11th of June at 17.15 at the CentroCentro, Palacio de Cibeles.

Smart Citizen is a sensor board based in Arduino that could be used as a environmental conditions detector in each citizen's balcony, using their WiFi connection and solar powered. An Open-Source Environmental Monitoring Platform consisting of arduino-compatible hardware, data visualization web API, and mobile app.

Smart Citizen is a start-up project developed by IAAC, FAB LAB Barcelona, MID Media Interactive Design, Acrobatic Industries, HANGAR.ORG.

Support Smart Citizen project in Kickstarter!!

On the 17th of May IAAC will open its doors to the public for a presentation of its programs.

Tomorrow, students from Research Studio Emergent Territories/Radical Region of the Master in Advanced Architecure present their 2nd Term projects. Presentation will be at the Auditorium from 16 to 20 hs

Today, students from Research Studio Digital Tectonics /Fabrication Ecologies of the Master in Advanced Architecure present their 2nd Term projects. Presentation will be at the Auditorium from 10 to 20 hs.

On Wednesday, March 20th, students from the Master in Advanced Architecture_01 2012-2013, Research Studio II: Self-Sufficient Building, will present their 2nd term projects.

Join them tomorrow, from 11 am until 19.30 pm, at IaaC.

On Tuesday, March 19th, students from the Master in Advanced Architecture 2011-2013 will present the advances on their projects for the 2nd term of their thesis year.

Join them tomorrow, from 10 am until 02 pm, at IaaC.

On Monday 11th, students of Master in Advanced Architecture will present the results of their Experimental Structures Seminar.

The aim of the seminar, leaded by Josep Miàs and Silvia Brandi, was to investigate the extreme possibilities of textile constructions and structures which make them possible. Starting from analyzing existing technologies, students studied the posibilities of building portable and packable pavilions.

Three models have been chosen and built in a 1:1 scale presented today at IaaC facilities.