Event's IaaC - IaaC Summer School - Fab Labs and Informalism

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#