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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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Lecture's IaaC - IaaC Lecture Series_Jan 22 < Patrick Blanc

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IaaC Lecture Series_Jan 22 < Patrick Blanc

IaaC lecture Series Jan 22, 19:30h

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

Metro Bogatell

Patrick Blanc
Botanist

Patrick Blanc is a botanist, working at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, where he specializes in plants from subtropical forests. since 1982, has studied the many ways plants adapt to extreme situations at the CNRS. He invented the concept of the Vertical Garden, also known as the Living Wall.

The Vertical Garden or le mur vegetal, is an ecological art form which has globally reinvented urban landscapes into fascinating displays of vegetation. Using a system that allows plants to grow without any soil, The Vertical Garden allows for natural living beauty in the otherwise most uninhabitable of places such as the walls of buildings both indoors or out.

He has worked with Jean Nouvel, Andrée Putman, Francis Soler, Edouard François, Jacqueline et Henri Boiffils, Herzog et de Meuron, Marc Newson, Saguez et Partners, and many others. He is the French 1993 Science Society, Botany, 1999 Innovation Contest, Ministère de la Recherche, and Talent d’or 2002 du Sommet du Luxe et de la Création award winner and has recieved numerous of other awards.

Lecture: The Vertical Garden, from Nature to the City

Institut d'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya - Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona - tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20 - fax (+34) 93 300 43 33

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