Event's IaaC

Más allá de las recientes polémicas en torno al urbanismo, en España existen iniciativas innovadoras que reflejan el cambio de ciclo histórico que sufre el proceso de urbanización del territorio en el comienzo del siglo XXI.
Estas responden a estrategias vinculadas a nuevas cuestiones como la energía, el paisaje, la interacción, el reciclaje, el software, las redes, o la ecología, superando de esta manera los límites de la disciplina urbanística tradicional.
Independientemente de los diferentes colores políticos que respaldan o impulsan estas iniciativas, ellas están dirigidas por expertos de disciplinas diversas tales como arquitectos, ingenieros, antropólogos, geógrafos, sociólogos, abogados o economistas, que trabajan de forma coordinada, siendoésta parte de la clave de su éxito.
Esta reunión de expertos pretende fijar la atención sobre ellas, conocerlas y evaluarlas simultáneamente, y transmitir a la sociedad la necesidad de fomentar la excelencia en el desarrollo de la ciudad y el territorio.
En el encuentro se presentarán iniciativas, proyectos y estrategias que hace diez años no existían, y que orientan sobre el tipo de iniciativas, planes y proyectos que se desarrollarán en los próximos diez años en España.http://www.buenasnoticiasurbanismo.org/

IAAC's 'Digital Tectonics' faculty Marta Malé-Alemany and Jose Pedro Sousa (co-directors of the architecture and digital production studio ReD), have completed a lecture series through Poland that included the cities of Varsaw, Gdynia, Bosnan, Wroclaw and Krakow, which was supported by the FTA Foundation.

An interesting debate between Ignasio Fernández and Karsten Jurkait, both members of ARUP,Madrid, took place at IaaC the previous Friday, among a multi-disciplinary audience of students, architects, engineers...
The two lecturers, starting from historical references of the Pyramids, Parthenon and Pantheon and reaching projects like Mies Van der Rohe pavilion and Beijing water Cube, they made an effort of explaining the different approaches throughout history in creating sustainable buildings.
Explaining how an architect should think in terms of energy sources, building materials and water supply, they insisted in the importance of the involvement of an engineer along the process of designing, pointing out the importance of the ¨space needed for the infrastructure of a sustainable building¨ and the fact that ¨the greenest energy is the energy that you do not use..¨

Gaetan Kholer, one of the winners of the 1st Advanced Architecture Contest is attending the Master in Advanced Architecture , placing special enfasis in digital fabrication processes using the Fab Lab infrustructure at IaaC´s enhanced laboratory.
http://www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org/

The young Madrilenian architects, Daniel Ibañez and Rodrigo Rubio, winners of the 1st Advanced Architecture Competition, in which more than 500 architects and students has participated under the theme of ¨Self Sufficient Housing¨, participate in the Master of Advanced Architecture as assistants and researchers.
Their first research work at IaaC has been focused on the theme of ¨Hyberhabitat¨, a multilayered structure for the development of urban projects.
Furthermore, they have collaborated with the sociologist Jose Miguel Iribas and with the research team of IaaC in the ¨El efecto Albacete¨ project.

More and more often environmental concerns are becoming a much debated issue in political, economic as well as architectural debates. The effects of global warming are always seen as anomalous intensifications of natural dynamic processes that appear to be departing from their "normal" status. From this reading the natural response is to devise global strategies of reduction of co2 emissions (deemed responsible for the climatic anomalies) and local criteria of "ecologic mitigation", whereas the dangerous intensification of phenomena is contained with various techniques until its manifestations appear to be acceptable.
Workshop Direction: Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto from ecoLogicStudio_London and Jorge Godoy from IaaC.
Project assistance: Luis Fraguada, Emmanouil Zaroukas, Areti Markopoulou and Tomas Diez.
Jury: Willy Müller, Victor Viña, Sebastian Khourian, Juan Pablo Porta, Inhar Imaz.http://www.ecologicstudio.com

IaaC buys two new machines, one laser cutter and one 3d printer, enhancing its facilities and providing to its students the tools for working -¨fabricating¨ and the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the new technology and the digital fabrication.
1.Laser Co2Mod.SpiritGE02 : http://www.grafityp.co.uk/Laserpro%20spiritGE.htm
LaserPro Spirit is designed with the operator in mind and carrying various innovative features, reliable mechanics, and excellent output quality.
2.Spectrum Z510, prototype 3d printer : http://www.zcorp.com/
Superior inkjet printing technology creates parts with crisply defined features, enhanced accuracy, and precise color, so to print and evaluate physical models of design concepts in their nearly finished state. This unique, 24-bit color, 3D printing capability produces color models that accurately reflect the original design data.

Book Presentation 2nd of May
"BCN_LDN Work Party" is 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.
Joost Beunderman, Demos
Antoni Vives, Fundació Ramon Trias Fargas

Book Presentation 2nd of May

It is time to stop worrying about inventing and start reusing. That demand might be obvious given the environmental disaster unfolding all around us, but the issue is deeper than that. It is time to stop imagining that we can only assert our identity as persons or as a community by destroying what is around us and asserting our right to marshal all our resources to create something purely in contrast to what already exists. It is time to stop honoring the bizarre and the unrecognizable, the powerful and the new, and to start looking for that which is familiar, but somehow different, that which opens new spaces within the world we already know. It is time for reconceptualization and reuse, rethinking and representation.In a concrete manner this means finding ways within the realm of architecture of remaking cities and spaces through a gathering together of what already exist, a re-imagination of types, functions, styles and forms, and a shameless borrowing. The question is whether a new kind of urbanism can emerge from a reuse of these precedents and traditions. This workshop will use the reality of Poble Nou and ask whether that place can be reorganized so that a new kind of community, a new kind of form, and a new kind of space can open up purely through a reorganization of what already exists. Through mapping, imaginative and manipulative documentation, and representations, students will be asked to create a palimpsest or revision or opening up of this site. Final projects will take the form of three-dimensional collages.

Since first touching a keyboard, over 20 years ago, Turlif has been inseparable from digital processes, programming and technology. He has a long history working with and developing, various Web technologies, 3D Computer Graphics and Digital Materialization (the accurate and complete representation of any real or imagined object digitally and/or the creation of real, tangible, usable instances of these digital objects).
Turlif established one of the first companies to develop and holistically apply function based Solid Modeling to real world applications using personal computers. Offering this unique technology and approach has taken Turlif and his company across the globe. His ideas and technology have been applied to diverse applications over the years, from environmental down hole drilling to ancient temple reconstructions.
Turlif currently sits on the board of directors of several international
organizations including a newly formed non-profit in Japan dedicated to
Digital Materialization. Turlif currently resides above the Arctic Circle
in Norway at the MIT FabLab Norway where he is the Project Director.