Event's IaaC

Amy Sun from MIT will be in Fab Lab Bcn to run the workshop '4x8', creating objects from a 4x8 feet sheet of plywood. All entries will be displayed and judged at a special exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

To apply send us a motivation letter and your CV to: info@fablabbcn.org
http://www.fabfolk.com/4x8designcompetition

The workshop is running on at the Fab Lab Bcn in the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. All the participants are working on their ideas, designs and construction processes.http://4x8workshop.blogspot.com/

On Friday 2nd of June all the pieces made by the participants will be on exhibition for a open public event at Fab Lab Bcn located at IaaC. From a 4x8 piece of plywood are coming up different models based on design, functionality and interaction.
Amy Sun from MIT has been running the workshop since Monday 2nd of July.http://4x8workshop.blogspot.com/

‘(n)os enseñamos a volar?’
IaaC organized a 3-day workshop with 47 students from the Architecture
School of Madrid (ETSAM) from the class of professor Andres Perea.
The workshop, directed by Marta Male Alemany, Technology Director of
IaaC, took place at the building of IaaC from 21st until 23rd of April.
The outcome of the workshop was the realization of basic prototypes
produced with the Laser Cutting System.
The ballons produced during the workshop acrossed Barcelona´s sky.

The 2006 - 2007 edition of the Master for Advanced Architecture have explored sustainability issues through different scales and different strategies.. From territories to buildings and from buildings to machines and systems occurred by those, the master programme students have successfully reached the understanding of how new technologies and strategies, their application and implications, will lead us to a new conception of developing and inhabiting spaces. The final projects of the students have gained positive and challenging comments highlighting their advance level and their potentials.
Tutors: Jorge Godoy, Daniel Ibañez, Rodrigo Rubio, Emmanouil Zaroukas
Jury: Vicente Guallart, Willy Müller, Marta Male-Alemany, Raoul Bunschoten, Sebastian Khourian, Edouard Cabay, Pol Taylor, Juan Pablo Porta, Guillem Baraut, Jorge Aleix and Laura Cantarella

Vicente Guallart, Director of Iaac, presents 'Sharing Tower' and 'Aldeas Bioclimáticas de Chinchilla' projects at the meeting 'Intelligent Infrastructures for Energy Efficiency' at MIT Media Lab in Boston.

The Master in Advanced Architecture emerges this year as 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. Proposing a dynamic, customized structure, the Institute gives students the opportunity to create single or multi-scalar Studio agendas based on their academic interests within the programme.
The academic year of 2007-08 starts on 1st of October 2007 with students from 25 different countries:
Skopje, United Kingdom, U.S.A, Australia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Peru, Germany, Iraq, Thailand, Turkey, India, Poland, Cyprus, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Colombia, Korea
http://www.iaac.net/web/en/educationalPrograms.php

IaaC provides to its students and all the people interested a series of lectures taken place on the Institute on January and February.
The lectures include important architects and engineers debating on self-sufficient issues and how technology is contributing in creating these kind of environments.
Among lecturers, Albert Ferre, ACTAR, Benedetta Tagliabue, IAN+, Mario Biselli, Robert Brufau, O.V.E. Arup, S.O.M., LAMELA Studio..

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia puts a step forward in its international relationships.
Monika Wittig, Shane Salisbury and Luis Fraguada, IaaC's formed students, gave a lecture at the Facilities of the Enviromental Design Department of the Architecture School of the University of Colorado located in Boulder. The lecture was based on the IaaC's 2007 Digital Techtonics Master Edition project: Plasti+city, leaded by Marta Male-Alemany. During the lecture the Mobile Fab Lab team showed up to support the innitiatives on digital fabrication. The Mobile Fab Lab is a project leaded by the MIT CBA and IAAC. This fab lab is crossing the US with a total equipment to make (almost) anything, and bringing fabrication to the personal level.
After the lecture the IaaC team: Monika, Shane, Luis and Tomas visited the facilities of the digital lab of CU and made some interchanges with professors and authorities of the School of Architecture.

IaaC and MIT will teach for the first time in Barcelona Neil Gershenfeld's MIT Class: How to Make (Almost) Anything.
This is a three month workshop based on the Fab Lab philosophy: you can make (almost) anything inside a Fab Lab. The workshop will be run between Fab Lab Boston at South End Community Center and Fab Lab Barcelona at Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC). Both locations will be permanently connected through videoconference.
Participants will get introductory lessons to use the the Fab Lab machinery, developing hands-on, practical projects every week. At the end of the workshop participants will be able to integrate all the processes into a final project.
Please send us a CV and a letter of intentions to: info@fablabbcn.org