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The last class before the Research trip to India was by the Self-sufficient building research studio, where students presented their 300 roomed hotel capsules to faculty Willy Muller, Assistant Maite bravo and invited jury. The students projects have come to architecture from concept.The faculty finished the class showing students parts of the movie, Hotel Chevalier – by [...]
IAAC INDIA RESEARCH TRIP 2010 IAAC IS DOING A RESEARCH TRIP TO INDIA FROM February 28th to March 8th from Barcelona to Mumbai to Chandigarh following the tradition of IAAC’S Research Trips which brought us to Brazil, Taiwan, Eslovenia, and Tunisia. This years trip IAAC will be working in Mumbai exploring current conditions and dynamics of the territory. Some highlights [...]
RSIII. Digital Tectonics (FAB)BOTS-End of Phase II The Research Studio III finished the second phase, with students projects presenting their projects to Faculty Malé-Alemany, Victor Viña and Assistant Cesar Cruz Cazares with invited critics Marea Balestrini (Communication) , Nuria Diez(Interactive Architecture), Sergio Carratalas (Design) and Luis Fraguada (Design and Computation). With the main research on this studio being accessibility, adaptability, specificity on fabrication methods. The presentations [...]
IaaC Lecture Series_Feb 24 < Michael Jakob ¨Faux Mountains and the essence of the symbol¨ : Michael Jakob Michael Jakob is Professor in Landscape & Art at hepia (Geneva) and Lecturer in Theory and History of Landscape at EPFL and at ISE (Geneva University). He studied at the universities of Tübingen (Germany), Paris, Stanford and Geneva. He has been a guest professor at the Universities of [...]
RSI. Emergent Territories 2010/02/23 – Final Review Research Studio I development came to an end. Students presented their final works, institute’s director Vicente Guallart and faculty member Hemant Purohit gave their final comments along with the guest jury members Luis Falcon, Ferran Grau and Marta Male-Alemany.The Project aim was to design a framework for self sufficient living, statistically in the form of [...]
IaaC Lecture Series_Feb 19 < Bostjan Vuga Lecture: ¨One Project, Three Designs¨“SADAR VUGA ARHITEKTI” Founder, Bostjan Vuga graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana (1992) and continued post graduate studiesat the AA School of Architecture in London (1993-1995).Since 1998 he lectures at architectural schools, conferencesand symposiums in Slovenia and abroad. In 2003 he was a studio tutor at Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. [...]
RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings Students presented their work for a jury of nine people, which included Thomas Noll-Executive Director of Grand Hotel Europe (Orient Express) in San Petersburg,Russia, Simon Weber -President of Long Bay Investment Group S.L.; President and owner of diverse real estate groups, Belgium, Ramón Aragonés -General Director of NH Hotels in Spain, Barcelona, Daniel Alonso -Business Development Director [...]
Research Trip To India – Introduction On the approaching trip to India, Faculty Areti Markopoulou and Heman Purohit with Academic Coordinator Nadine Pinkett introduced to students what will be done during their stay in mumbai and Chandigarh.The week that will follow the 28th of February, they will be in a different territory researching on different topics ranging from day to day life activities [...]
Experimental Structures 2010/02/11 Faculty staff Marine Bagneris highlined the importance of communication between professionals that take part in the whole process of construction, and showed different tools to improve that communication. Works by Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito, Helmunt Pottmann or Alain Marty helped to understand this issue. Finally, students structures were presented, a wide range of experiments such [...]
Designing Associativity Seminar 2010/02/11 As shown in the image, faculty staff Luis Fraguada helped students to use Grasshopper to develop their studio projects, and he also showed some new gasshopper tools as Hawl, a tool for interoperability with other programs.

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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is a latest-generation education and research centre dedicated to the development of an architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges in the construction of habitability in the early 21st century. Based in the 22@ district of Barcelona, one of the world’s capitals of architecture and urbanism, the IaaC is a platform for the exchange of knowledge with faculty and students from over 25 countries, including the USA, China. India, Poland, Italy, Mexico and Sudan. Students work simultaneously on multiple scales (city, building, manufacturing) and in different areas of expertise (ecology, energy, digital manufacturing, new technologies), pursuing their own lines of enquiry on the way to developing an integrated set of skills with which to act effectively in their home country or globally.

The IaaC has carried out research projects in Brazil, Taiwan, Croatia and Romania. In 2008 it was chosen to take part in the official section of the Venice Biennale with the project Hyperhabitat, and in 2010 will present a 1:1 scale house entirely produced at the Institute at the Solar Decathlon Europe in Madrid. The IaaC has the most advanced digital production laboratory of any educational institution in southern Europe, with laser cutters, 3D printers, milling machines and a platform for manufacturing chips.

The IaaC organizes the Masters course in Advanced Architecture, directed by Vincent Guallart, Willy Müller and Marta Malé in conjunction with the UPC Polytechnic University. September 2009 will see the start of the Open Thesis Fabrication course, open to Masters’ architecture students from around the world. September 2009 will also see the launch of Fab Academy, part of the global network of Fab Labs affiliated to the MIT’s Center for Bit and Atoms.

Since 2004 the IaaC has run the Self-Sufficient Housing and Self-Fab House design competitions, and later this year will present the Your City 2109 competition with the aim of generating new paradigms for architecture and the construction of the city in this time of change.

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