Lecture's IaaC

Where: IAAC,c/Pujades 102 , Poble Nou
Date: Friday  the 3rd of December
Time: 7:30-9pm

Title: Masdar, Zero Carbon City
Speaker: Chris Wan

Biography

Chris Wan is Manager of City design at Masdar City. Masdar (in Arabic, literally source) is a project inAbu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, Its core is a planned city , which is being built by theAbu DhabiFuture Energy Company,  a subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company , with the majority of seed capital provided by the government of Abu Dhabi. Designed by the British architectural firm Foster  +  Partners, the city will rely entirely on solar energy and other renewable energy  sources, with a sustainable, zero-carbon, zero-waste ecology. The city is being constructed 17 kilometres (11 mi) east-south-east of the city of Abu Dhabi , beside Abu Dhabi International Airport. Many international architects will develop projects for Masdar City.

Chris Wan, graduate in the University of Bath, worked among other fro Richard Rogers and Walt Disney Imagineering, Hong Kong, and Sorouh real State, in Abu Dhabi.

Where: Espai1 SE, DHUB (Montcada, 12)
Date: Thursday the 25th of November
Time: 7:30-9:30pm

Title: Additive Manufacturing: New Materials
Speaker: Mark Ganter and Salvador Borrós

Mark Ganter’s biography
Mark A. Ganter, PhD graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1985. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington with an alliate appointment in Digital and Experimental Arts(DXArts). Professor Ganter’s research interests lie in the broad areas of applied computational geometry, solid modeling, computer graphics, and rapid prototyping. His main research activities focus on application of computational techniques to art, architecture, and engineering design/manufacturing problems.

His current work focuses on 3D volume (voxel) space representations, object segmentation (including biological), wavelets representations of volume data as well as the development of new materials and processes for 3D printing and 3D printing systems (including ceramic, and glass printing materials).

Salvador Borrós‘ biography
Dr. Salvador Borrós, Professor of Material Sciences at IQS, Universitat Ramon Llull and Director of the Grup d’Enginyeria de Materials at IQS.

BSc. Chemical Engineering, IQS, 1987

Doctorate of Chemical Engineering, IQS 1993

Director of Fàbrica Walter Friedrich Española 1991-1993

Founding partner of the Sagetis-Biotech Company, dedicated to the development of Biomaterials

Member of the organizing committee of the Additive Manufacturing Forum

Winner of the IV Talgo Awards for Innovation 2003
Author of over 90 article in indexed publications and 9 patents

Has directed 10 doctoral theses in the field of Materials

Where: Espai1 SE, DHUB (Montcada, 12)
Date: Tuesday the 23rd of November
Time: 7:30-9pm

Title: Online Interactive Design and Mass Customization
Speaker: Frank Steiner

Biography
Frank Steiner is a member of TIM Research Group since October 2007. He joined the group as a student assistant and has now moved on to support the TIM Research Group as a research associate.

Frank has an industrial engineering background. He received a diploma degree at RWTH Aachen University and furthermore Frank completed a master program on engineering management at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.

For the TIM Research Group Frank is engaged in teaching, as he coordinates an introductory course to business administration. Furthermore he is the group’s project leader for the EU research project “REMPLANET” (www.remplanet.eu); a research project on mass customization and manufacturing resilience of non-hierarchical manufacturing networks.

Frank’s main research topic is mass customization and sustainable development. Furthermore, he is interested in the fields of strategic management and product management. Specifically, Frank has a strong interested in technology and innovation management in the commercial vehicle and automotive sector.

Where: Espai1 SE, DHUB (Montcada, 12)
Date: Thursday the 18th of November
Time: 7:30-9pm

Title: Open Source Fabbers
Speaker: Adrian Bowyer

Biography
In the early 1970s Adrian Bowyer read for a first degree in mechanical engineering at Imperial College, and then researched a PhD in tribology there. In 1977 he moved to Bath University's Maths Department to do research in stochastic computational geometry. He then founded the Bath University Microprocessor Unit in 1981 and ran that for four years. After that he took up a lectureship in manufacturing in Bath's Engineering Department, where he is now a senior lecturer.

His current areas of research are geometric modelling and geometric computing in general (he is one of the authors of the Bowyer-Watson algorithm for Voronoi diagrams), the application of computers to manufacturing, and biomimetics. His main work in biomimetics is on self-copying machines.

 Where: IAAC, C/Pujades 102, Poble Nou
Date: Wednesday the 17th of November
Time: 7:30-9pm

Title: Behaviour: Examining the Proto-Systemic
Speaker: Theodore Spyropoulos

Biography

Theodore Spyropoulos (1976) is an architect and educator. He is the Director of the Architectural Association’s innovative team-based M.Arch program the Design Research Lab [DRL] (London). He has taught since 2002 at the AA in the undergraduate, graduate and visiting program level. He has been a visiting Research Fellow at M.I.T.’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies working with the Interrogative Design Group and co-founded the New Media Research Initiative at the Architectural Association. He has taught in the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania and the Royal College of Art, Innovation Design Engineering Department. 

Theodore cofounded the experimental architecture and design practice Minimaforms. He has previously worked as a project architect for the offices of Peter Eisenman and Zaha Hadid Architects. He studied at the AA, Bartlett School of Architecture and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

www.minimaforms.com

www.aaschool.ac.uk/aadrl

Where: Espai1 SE, DHUB (Montcada, 12)
Date: Tuesday the 16th of November
Time: 7:30-9:30pm

Title: Additive Manufacturing in Architecture
Speaker: Enrico Dini and Rupert Soar

Enrico Dini’s biography
Enrico was born in Pisa in 1962 and graduated in Civil Engineering at Pisa University. His family have an amazing record of scientific advancement; Enrico is closely related to the mathematician who derived Dini’s theorem and his father worked for the man to invented the Vespa motocycle and who got the world’s first Helicoptor to fly.
Enrico has spent his entire career in the sector of mechanics, automation and robotics, manufacturing automatic machines for the automotive and footwear industry, but never forget his first love for civil engineering and particulary Gaudi’s architecture.

In 2003 Enrico approached the world of 3D Printing to manufacture small objects and immediately understood that the process invented by MIT in the late 80's, could be applied to achieve impossible full scale shapes buildings. Enrico Dini has opened the way for application of this process on a large scale. Since 2007 he started developing a binder, a process and a machine suitable to build full scale stone-like structures. In 2008 Enrico printed ‘Radiolaria’, a two meters tall free-form concept gazebo ,designed by the Architect Andrea Morgante, commonly considered as the very first printed building ever.

Today, Enrico is still developing the D-Shape technology cooperating with several architectural and civil engineering firms, universities, building construction and machinery companies.

Rupert Soar’s biography
For over 20 years Rupert Soar has been at the forefront of Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Manufacturing. Rupert was a co-founder of the world leading Rapid Manufacturing Research Group (RMRG) in the UK and head of the Loughborough University Freeform Construction (LUFC) group.

Rupert is now director of Freeform Construction Ltd whose partners, researchers and staff are engaged in RM for construction, new construction materials, scripting and modeling systems, optimization and scanning as well as machines capable of ‘3D printing’ full-scale buildings and structures. Freeform Construction embodies the concept of ‘function finding’ (more function into less form).

Famously, Rupert and his collaborators have attracted international coverage through their exploits uncovering transient ventilation strategies and structural homeostasis within sub-Saharan termite mounds, which are completely new to science. Such strategies, reproducible through emerging Freeform Construction methods, stand to revolutionize digital design and construction and epitomize the goals of sustainable methods.”

Where: IAAC, C/Pujades 102, Poble Nou
Date: Friday  the 12th of November
Time: 7:30-9pm

Title: "The Need for a Style of the Nonstandard"

Speaker: Kas Oosterhuis

Biography

Professor Kas Oosterhuis studied architecture at the Delft Technical University. In 1987-1988 he taught as Unit Master at the AA in London and worked / lived one year in the former studio of Theo van Doesburg in Paris together with visual artist Ilona Lénárd. Their design studio is in 2004 renamed into ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd]. As from 2007 Kas Oosterhuis is a registered architect in Hungary, executing as General Designer the CET project. From 2000 Oosterhuis is appointed professor digital design methods at the Delft Technical University and is currently leading a staff of 20 researchers at Hyperbody, the knowledge center for Nonstandard and Interactive Architecture at the TU Delft. Kas Oosterhuis is Director of the protoSPACE Laboratory in the iWEB pavilion, located in front of the Faculty of Architecture. Kas Oosterhuis is member of the Dutch Building Information Council [BIR] and has been a Member of the Board of Museum Witte De With in Rotterdam and of the VCA until 1989. He has been the co-founder of the Attila Foundation, responsible for the groundbreaking Sculpture City event in 1994 and the ParaSite weblounge in 1996. He has lectured worldwide at numerous universities, academies and international conferences since 1990. Kas Oosterhuis has initiated two GSM conferences at the TU in Delft on the subjects multiplayer game design, file to factory design and build methods and open source communication in the evolutionary development of the 3d reference model. In 2008 ONL received the Autodesk BIM Experience Award for the CET Project in Budapest. Further award winning building designs include the Saltwater Pavilion at Neeltje Jans (Gold Award 1997 for innovative recreational projects, Zeeuwse Architectuurprijs 1998, nomination Mies van der Rohe Award 1998), the Garbagetransferstation Elhorst/Vloedbelt in Zenderen (Business Week / Architectural Record Award 1998, OCE-BNA Award for Industrial Architecture 1996, Aluminium Design Award 1997) and the Hessing Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier in Utrecht (National Steel Award 2006, Glass Award 2006, Dutch Design Award for Public Space 2006, nomination Mies van der Rohe Award 2008, nomination Golden Pyramid 2006).

Where: Espai 1 SE, DHUB (Montcada, 12)
Date: Tuesday the 9th of November
Time: 7:30-9:30pm

Title: Online Interactive Design and Customization
Speaker: Justin Marshall and Hannes Walter

Justin Marshall's Biography
Dr Justin Marshall is currently a Research Fellow working within Autonomatic, the 3D Digital Research Cluster based at University College Falmouth in the UK. He is a practising maker and researcher with a diverse training in range of visual art and design disciplines.

Over the last ten years his research has involved investigating the integration of digital technologies into both art and craft practices. Recent projects have concentrated on the role of digital technologies in building new relationships between independent makers and industry, and to refigure the relationship between maker and consumer.

Since April 09 he has been undertaking a project investigating the role of bespoke design in facilitating digital inclusivity.

More information www.automake.co.uk

Hannes Walter's Biography
Hannes is the crowning glory of parental creation after a number of successful practice rounds. Generation for Generation his ancestors have been impassioned blacksmiths – so not just blood but also liquid metal flows through his veins. His skills as a craftsman and his common sense where brought to a level of enlightenment through a close encounter with a 220 Volt wall socket. This jolted him through an Electrical Engineering education and sparked many a revolutionary idea and passionate discussion.

Whilst others play around with their (iPhone) laser-sword, Hannes is well versed in the use of lasers to cut forms and products from fist thick steel. His hands-on mentality lead him to the expression tattooed upon his breast: für ihn gibt es nichts Gutes, außer man tut es! (Good things come, when they get done.)

Studying Design in Vorarlberg, Cologne and New Zealand he gained the deeper insight that the crowd is more powerful than the individual, and the physical is more useful than the virtual. Indeed, his thesis lead him, inevitably, to the possibilities of 3d printing, creative coding and design interfaces. In other words, the birth idea for Fluid Forms.

When Hannes needs a jolt he now reaches for the coffee can rather than the wall socket.

More information www.fluid-forms.com

Where: Espai1 SE, DHUB Montcada (Montcada, 12)
Date: Friday the 5th of November
Time: 7:30-9pm

Title: Open Source Software and Electronics
Speaker: Massimo Banzi

Biography
Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project and CTO of Tinker.it. He has worked for clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool, V&A Museum and Adidas. He spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institue Ivrea as Associate Professor. Massimo has taught workshops and has been a guest speaker at institutions like: Architectural Association – London, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel, Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, FH Potsdam, Domus Academy, Medialab Madrid, Escola Superior de Disseny Barcelona, ARS Electronica Linz, Mediamatic Amsterdam, Doors of Perception Amsterdam. Before joining IDII he was CTO for the Seat Ventures incubator.

He spent many years working as a software architect, both in Milan and London, on projects for clients like Italia Online, Sapient, Labour Party, BT, MCIWorldCom, SmithKlineBeecham, Storagetek, BSkyB and boo.com.

Where: IAAC, C/Pujades 102 , Poble Nou
Date: Wednesday the 3rd of November
Time: 7:30-9pm

Title: Inclusivism
Speaker: Bjarke Ingels