Event's IaaC

HYPERHABITAT: THE PROJECT
The purpose of the installation is to build a 1:1 scale prototype plan of a housing building for young people with shared spaces and connected through an information system to the world.
The idea is to demonstrate that in order to make a more self sufficient world with decentralized networks, the functional relationships between the different elements of the habitability networks need to be redesigned.
For the project's development an interdisciplinary team has been formed with Guallart Architects, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, The Center for Bits and Atoms from MIT, which along professionals and enterprises related to technological development, such as Bestiario, will make the installation.
A workshop is running now at IaaC for the production of the instalation

To follow the day by day process please visit: http://www.iaacblog.comhttp://www.hyperhabitat.net

HYPERHABITAT: THE PROJECT
The purpose of the installation is to build a 1:1 scale prototype plan of a housing building for young people with shared spaces and connected through an information system to the world.
The idea is to demonstrate that in order to make a more self sufficient world with decentralized networks, the functional relationships between the different elements of the habitability networks need to be redesigned.
For the project's development an interdisciplinary team has been formed with Guallart Architects, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, The Center for Bits and Atoms from MIT, which along professionals and enterprises related to technological development, such as Bestiario, will make the installation.
A workshop is running now at IaaC for the production of the instalationhttp://www.hyperhabitat.net

Venice Biennale workshop started on July the 7th and its aim is to produce the installation that will be representing Vicente Guallart (IaaC Director) work at the 11th Edition of the Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition titled: Architecture beyond buildings. Researchers and collaborators from MIT, IaaC, Bestiario and others are part of the production process of a 1:1 scale reconfigurable and shared living space representing the multi-scalar systems that constructs the world. On August the 5th the installation will be transported to Venice with part of the research team.

To follow the day by day process please visit: http://www.iaacblog.com
http://www.hyperhabitat.net

The Fab Academy will provide instruction and supervise investigation of mechanisms, applications, and implications of digital fabrication. Field "fab labs" are providing early access to these capabilities, through prototype tools for personal fabrication.
Instead of traveling to a distant campus, or connecting remote sites for distance learning from a central hub, a global network of local labs can itself become a distributed campus. This is the mission of the Fab Academy. The Fab Academy emerged from the experience of students who had exhausted local educational opportunities and came to fab labs for informal, peer-to-peer, project-based technical education, mentored by a growing group of faculty from around the world. Classes will be taught via networked video to students in fab labs around the world, with collaboratively developed online instructional material. Because there is no international accreditation, the Fab Academy will undertake applicable local and regional accreditation procedures; however the program content will be shared across these.

CON EMBARGO SIN EMBARGO is an international workshop that will take place in the Advanced Architecture Institute of Catalunya (IAAC) from the 1st to the 13th of September of 2008. IAAC address: Pujades 102 Baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona, Spain.
The participation in the workshop is open for professionals and students of advance years of architecture, urbanism, landscape and territorial planning.
The cost of the inscription is 1000 Euros.
Applications are open from 1st of August to 15th of August, 2008. Candidates should submit a resume and a portfolio in PDF format no larger than 5MB to sinembargo@supersudaca.org
Applications for scholarships covering 50% of the participation fee should be submitted to sinembargo@supersudaca.org as well.
CON EMBARGO SIN EMBARGO is a project of Supersudaca in the context of their research of Caribbean tourism. The workshop is coordinated by Felix Madrazo (MEX-NL), Martin Delgado (Uruguay), Stephane Damsin (Belgium) and Juan Pablo Corvalan (Chile) and will have the participation of the winners of Sudapan Endless(s)trips competition. (www.sudapan.org).
CON EMBARGO SIN EMBARGO is greatly supported by IAAC (Advanced Architecture Institute of Catalunya). IAAC was also a kind supporter of Supersudaca for Sudapan competition. Supersudaca also has the generous support of The Prince Claus Fund under the program Network Partnership. (www.princeclausfund.nl)
http://www.sinembargo.org

The 8th Edition of the Master in Advanced Architecture of Catalonia has finished with a closing graduation ceremony that took place on June 28th. Students from more than 24 countries like Australia, Argentina, Canada, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Poland, India, between others received their MAA Diplomas given by the Master Directors: Vicente Guallart, Willy Muller and Marta Malé Alemany.

The Master in Advanced Architecture is an innovative educational format that offers interdisciplinary skills and understanding through the researching of territorial, architectural and parametric design operations for the production of Self-sufficient Habitats.

Thesis Projects will address specific issues relating to the self-sufficiency agenda, as well as the inherent material, organizational and spatial complexities determined by the chosen working scale and the experience gained during the year.
Five Themes are proposed representing five strategies/research directions

Thursday 26th of June
09.00-14.30: TP2_Accumulative Ecologies > Olaf Gipser
Guest Critics: Markus Lauber, Cristina Fernandez,Martin Sobota, Jordi Pages, Lluis Viu
14.30-16.00. BREAK
16.00-21.30: TP4_Value Land > Andres Jaque
Guest Critics: Diego Barajas, Uriel Fogue, Lluis Viu, Martin Sobota, Jordi Pages

Friday 27th of June
09.00-14.30: TP4_ (aesth)ET(h)ICs. [Energy = Space] > Uriel Fogue
Guest Critics: Eduardo Cadaval, Clara Sola-Morales, Andres Jaque
09.00-14.30: TP3_Architectural Components > Martin Sobota
Guest Critics: Mauro Costa, Olaf Gipser
14.30-16.00. BREAK
16.00-21.30:TP1_Fixing Variation, Modalities of Discrimination > Lluis Viu, Jordi Pages
Guest Critics: Ana Pla Catala, Olaf Gipser, Andres Jaque

IaaC offers a downloadable version of the forthcoming publication: IaaC Prospectus&Projects 2008.09.
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) is an international centre for research, education, and development oriented towards architecture as a discipline that addresses different scales of territorial analysis and urban development as well as diverse architectural projects, digital processes and information environments. The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia offers a three-term Master’s programme in Architecture and Urbanism accredited by the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya. Directors Vicente Guallart, Willy Müller and Marta Malé-Alemany, together with the rest of the teaching staff, are committed to a long-term prospectus of creating an international research and academic centre in Barcelona, bringing together international students, tutors and researchers from different fields in order to materialize experimental forms of communication, dwelling and planning.http://www.iaac.info/Prospectus&Projects_IaaC.pdf

El Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña organiza un taller de verano de fabricación digital. El objetivo es producir la instalación que el Iaac y el Bcn Fab Lab y Guallart Architects presentaran en la Bienal de Venecia, a partir de técnicas de fabricación digital, en las que se integran tecnologías de información.
La instalación titulada: Hyperhabitat: Reprograming the World, reproducirá a escala 1.1 una vivienda para jóvenes con espacios compartidos, fabricada con metacrilato, relacionada mediante sistemas informacionales, con redes y sistemas urbanos de otras escalas. En la producción de la instalación participarán diseñadores multimedia, programadores, diseñadores y otros especialistas.
Para informacion contactar/ for information:venice@iaac.net
Requisitos: Se admitirán arquitectos y estudiantes de arquitectura y diseño, con conocimiento de diseño por ordenador.
Objetivo: El objetivo será fabricar objetos para el pabellón, a partir de fabricación digital con maquinas láser, y otras técnicas, que los participantes podrán aprender durante el taller.
Selección: cada taller contará con 20 participantes. Se dividirá el taller en dos subtalleres de dos semanas. Se podrán inscribir en uno o dos talleres.
Fase 3: de entre aquellos que hayan participado en los dos talleres, se elegirán un máximo de 5 personas para viajar a Venecia para montar la instalación
Duración: El taller se divide en tres periodos:
Taller 1: 07 Jul- -19 Jul
Taller 2: 21-Jul-02 Ago
Taller Montaje: 04 Ago-11-Ago
Inscripción: la inscripción se podrá realizar hasta el 25 de junio de 2008.
Antes del día º15 de junio se notificará los candidatos seleccionados. Los candidatos podrán aplicar para la inscripcion en diferentes fases del taller o todas juntas.
Todos los participantes del taller que lo completen con éxito serán citados como participantes en la producción de la instalación en la Bienal de Venecia.
Alojamiento: Los estudiantes deberán buscar opciones de alojamiento dentro de Barcelona.
Precio de inscripción: 500 Euros por cada taller-

Buenas Noticias en torno al Urbanismo es una reunión de expertos que quiere promover la innovación en la habitabilidad del territorio a partir de la interacción de disciplinas diversas tales como la arquitectura, el urbanismo, la política, la sociología, la ingeniería, el paisajismo, el turismo, la economía o la geografía. A partir de experiencias concretas que operan a escalas diversas, se pretende identificar tendencias e iniciativas claves para el progreso del territorio en los próximos años.http://www.buenasnoticiasurbanismo.org