Event's IaaC

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia has been developing the simulation of domestic housing spaces in 1:1 scale model. This performance has been based on a project for students´ housing, on dotational soil. This project puts the same relevance both to the living spaces and shared spaces.

The Fab Lab Barcelona staff, Lucas Cappelli, Victor Viña and Tomas Diez, is attending the Fourth International Fab Lab Forum and Symposium on Digital Fabrication that is taking place at the Museum of Science and Industry of Chicago and the campus of The University of Chicago.
It will be preceded on the evening of August 22 by a technology and project show at the Museum of Science and Industry, and occurs during a week of workshops for field fab lab participants from around the world. This is the fourth in an annual series.
The Symposium will gather together researchers studying the programmed assembly of functional structures, ranging from nanoscale proteins to microscale microfluidics to macroscale buildings, along with counterparts investigating the global implications and local consequences of the digitization and personalization of fabrication.

IaaC alumni Shane Salisbury, Monika Wittig (Digital Tectonics '07)and Mariano Arias-Diez (Advanced Architecture '05) as partners of LIVEArchitecture Network (together with Luis Fraguada, DT 07) directed adigital fabrication workshop from Sept 21-24 at Montana StateUniversity ( Montana, USA). The workshop focused on developing thebasis for a collaborative, parametric design approach--therebyemphasizing total integration between digital modeling and fabricationat a 1:1 scale. Students explored design-to-fabrication with GRIDCORE(a material fully recycled and recyclable sponsored by the developer,professor Julee Herdt of the University of Colorado).http://www.livearchitecture.net

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia participates in different projects with the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. The latest one is a Mobile Fab Lab which is crossing the United States with all the components of a Fab Lab inside: Laser Cutter, Modela Milling Machine, Vinyl Cutter, CNC, and all the tools needed to make (almost) anything. Tomas Diez, Fab Lab Barcelona Project Manager, is part of the team with Amy Sun (MIT CBA) and Kenny Cheung (MIT CBA). The project aims bring Digital Fabrication to be accesible to the common people and develop educational programs about materialization.http://mobilefablab.blogspot.com/

“BCN_LDN Work Party” was an international working group meeting in London in April 2006. Fundació Ramon Trias Fargas and Demos brought together a passionate group of Londoners and Barcelonese from the arts, politics, architecture and academia to debate the future of both cities. Many of the ideas and themes explored in those conversations and in this book will resonate and be of direct importance to cities well beyond London and Barcelona.

From a very large, international field of competitive entries Self-Sufficient Housing has been nominated for inclusion in the Long List of 24 titles in the architecture category.
The judges are now considering nominations for the Short List, which will be announced in April.

For more information: www.ribabookshops.com www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/HOME.html, www.riba.org/go/RIBA/Home.html.
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Plasti+City is an installation done by students of the IAAC "Digital Tectonics" postgraduate program, presented at the construmat 2007 in Barcelona. It is the result of a collaborative exploration with the company LASENTIU to expand the use of Syntrewood, a 100% recycled and 100% recyclable plastic material, through the use of advanced digital design and manufacturing technologies (parametric cad-cam software + CNC fabrication equipment). Plasti+City is an adaptable architectural surface made out of 200 differenciated parts, all derived from identical standard elements.

"ReD, Research + Design, the studio founded by IAAC's faculty members Marta Malé-Alemany and José Pedro Sousa, won the architecural competition "Arquitectar o Ambiente", promoted by the Portuguese company Labicer, with the support of the Portuguese Architects Association. The competition challenged participants to design a temporary installation for the Departures Terminal of the Lisbon Airport, showing innovative applications of Labicer's recycable material 'Vitrakem' (www.labicer.com / http://www.arquitectaroambiente.com/).
ReD submitted 2 projects, which were both awarded in the competition: "Flying Carpet", an installation that explored Vitrakem as a structural and cladding material, got a Special Honorable Mention, while "Sample Box", an installation that exposed the different colors of the Vitrakem Catalogue, was awarded the 1st prize. The winning entry will now go into fabrication, in order to be installed at the Lisbon Airport on November 1st.http://www.re-d-com

IaaC´s entries win different awards in the advanced division at the 4x8 Design Competition in Chicago organized by MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.

Awards:
- "Mr. Ribs", Raquel Asensio and Guillermo Oriol. Overall Best Design
- "Symphony tool", Albert Morera. Best Engineering Design
- "Reusabilty", Xavier Tutó and Katia Glossman. Best Innovation.

The 4x8 exhibition and design competition took place during the fourth International Fab Lab Forum and Symposium on Digital Fabrication in the city of Chicago.