Event's IaaC

Rancho Digital and the Intersticial spaces are projects developed at the 'Fab Labs and Informalism Workshop' of the IaaC Summer School 2010, which took place at IaaC and Fab Lab Bcn in August 2010. 

The Final Presentation took place on the 11th of August with the visit of the Dean of the  Central University of Venezuela - Cicilia Arocha, IaaC Director - Vicente Guallart, IaaC Co-Director - Willy Muller, and local and international visitors. The group of 40 - students, professors and professionals - worked together for two weeks designing, fabricating and assembling the projects.

Intersticials spaces : project was made out of the remaining structure of the Media House Project developed by IaaC and MIT in 2001. Wood being the construction material, the project looks into the creation of urban furniture and homeless refuge for people living in latinamerican streets.

Rancho digital project : a basic housing unit of 12 square meters, fabricated out of the remaining pieces of wood from the Fab Lab House Project developed at IaaC last June for the Solar Decathlon Europe competition. The rancho recovers the idea of the parametric design related with the low – tech construction methods in the Caracas’ Barrios. Future plans includes the construction of the prototype in Petare, Caracas - the biggest slum in Latin America.

The Fab Labs and Informalism Workshop recovers the mixture of different aspects of design, materiality and technology. The projects were developed on the basis of collaborative design, recycling, digital fabrication and do it yourself approaches.

Workshop Faculty: Tomas Diez, Luis Fraguada

Collaborators: James Brazil, Fabio Lopez, Natalija Bolsjakov and Brian Miller

Process of works in pictures can be found at http://picasaweb.google.com/fablabbcn/RanchoDigitalIaaCSummerSchool#

FabLab House, www.fablabhouse.com, is participating in a 10 day competition of the Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 with a presentation on the 22nd of June in Madrid. 

On Tuesday June,15th the Fabrication Laboratory Exhibition will be opening at the Design Museum of Barcelona (DHUB)

The upcoming event being organised by the DHUB consists of not one but a series of activities (exhibitions, real-time fabrication laboratories, workshops, lectures, etc.) that offer a comprehensive overview of 3D digital manufacturing technologies, a new reality in constant evolution that is producing a fundamental transformation of design and production processes.

The exhibition format of the Fabrication Laboratory is an open infrastructure, allowing its initial form to be modified and expanded as new content is produced. As a result, the laboratory will gradually consolidate a process of ongoing analysis of the new scenario in the field of production.

The DHUB FAB LAB  will be functioning as part of the exhibition, a fabrication laboratory connected to the Fab Lab Network and setup by the Fab Lab Bcn, equipped with machines to make (almost) anything. This Fab Lab will offer different workshops and activities which could be found at: http://www.dhubfab.com.

The exhibition is curated by Marta Malé-Alemany, Co-Director of MAA and it is designed by IAAC.

The Solar Decathlon Europe event/competition will be opening to the public from 18th-28th of June in Madrid.
The visitors will be able to visit the houses designed by 19 of the best universities of the world, which are competing to show which one has the most attractive design and is the most efficient.

Fab House, the Solar House designed,developed and built by IAAC will be one of them.

Entrance :Free

Opening hours: 11:00 am to 2:00 pm and 5:00 am to 8:00 pm.

How to come to Villa Solar:
You can come to Villa Sola by bus (31, 65, 33, 39, 41) by metro (Príncipe Pío L 6, 10) and by train, Cercanías de RENFE. You will discover a different city next to the Manzanares river, perfect for going for a walk and enjoy the amazing view of the solar houses with the Royal Palace and the Almudena Cathedral in the background.

IAAC work in progress occupies the majority of its big industrial building facilities.

The two big projects currenltly running at IAAC are the Fab House 01 to be presented in Solar Decathlon in Madrid (June 18th) and the Production of the Laboratory of Fabrication exhibition to be inaugurated at the Design Museum of Barcelona,DHUB (June 15th)

IAAC & HP invite you to the award ceremony of the 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest on the theme of THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY: Envisioning the habitat of the future, with more than 700 proposals from 116 different countries.

THURSDAY, 27 OF MAY 2010 AT 19.30h at CCCB

Miguel Rodríguez Casellas holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design form the University of Puerto Rico. His master’s thesis in 1991 already showed a concern for large-scale projects next to other interests in art criticism and cultural theory.
In the early nineties, Rodríguez Casellas worked at Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, where he cultivated a taste for large-scale urban projects. 

In recent years, Miguel partnered with architect Miguel Szendrey Ramos in a firm they named Ordinal, a multidisciplinary platform that seeks to radicalize professional practice from a fresh, rather playful perspective, looking for the vindication of a generation of architects that, according to them, lack a coherent cultural project. The name Ordinal plays with the etymology of a word that simultaneously produced the terms “order” and “ordinary,” as it is the search for hidden organizing patterns within the banal and ordinary what constitutes the methodological premise of the firm.
Since 1996, Rodríguez Casellas has been a professor of Theory, History and Design at ARQPOLI, the School of Architecture at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, and succeeded Jorge Rigau as dean in 2006.

IAAC is pleased to invite you its Open Lecture

"Structure as Diagram: From Typology to Topology in Structural Design". By Toni Kotnik on Friday June 4^th, 19.30

Toni Kotnik

Principal of Kotnik.architects

Toni Kotnik studied architecture and mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, the University of Tübingen, and the University of Utah and received his doctoral degree from the University of Zurich. He was research fellow at Center for the Representation of Multi-Dimensional Information (CROMDI), principal researcher at OCEAN design research network, postdoctoral researcher at the ETH Zurich and assistant professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Lucerne. Currently, he is studio master at the Emergent Technology and Design program at the Architectural Association in London, senior researcher at the chair of structural design at the ETH Zurich and principal of Kotnik.architects, a Zurich-based architectural office. His practice and research work has been published internationally and is focused on the interplay of digital architectural design, mathematics, and structural force flow.

IAAC is pleased to invite you to its Open Final Reviews of MAA 2009-10 Phase 3 Research Studios Projects.

Schedule:
May 12th,10.00: Digital Tectonics
May 13th,10.00: Emergent Territories
May 14th,10.00: Self Sufficient Buildings

Guest Jury:
Mara Balestrini, Josep Bohigas, Trilochan Chayya, Adrian Constatnt,Jose Luis Echeverria,Marc Garcia, Olaf Gipser,Carlos Ipser, Borja Martinez, Jorge Perea, Ignasi Perez Arnal, Carme Romero, Jorge Velazquez