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Research Studio III: Digital Tectonics

Faculty: Marta Male-Alemany

Co-Faculty: Victor Viña

Assistant: César Cruz Cázares

Student Team: Felipe Pecegueiro, Kfir Gluzberg, Jorge Orozco

Research Studio III: Digital Tectonics
Faculty: Marta Male-Alemany
Co-Faculty: Victor Viña
Assistant: César Cruz Cázares
Student team: Melat Assefa, Joao Nuno Palaio Albuquerque, Brian Peters

Research Studio II: Self Sufficient Buildings
Faculty: Willy Muller
Assistant: Maite Bravo
Student: Gianluca Santosuosso

Research Studio III: Digital Tectonics
Faculty: Marta Male-Alemany
Co-Faculty: Victor Viña
Assistant: César Cruz Cázares
Student Team: Felipe Pecegueiro, Kfir Gluzberg, Jorge Orozco

Project name: HelioBot

This is the full scale research and development of a machine for digitally controlled construction.  Our research aims to prototype an intelligent machine that utilizes and responds to the sun's energy.  We are concentrating solar energy for operations of burning, heating, and cutting in the preparation of materials and/or elements for assembly. The robot is also intended to rely on solar energy for electrical power, making it capable of operating autonomously.

Three components compliment each other to provide the Heliobot with the ability to execute limitless two dimensional paths for heating. An upper portion is exposed to the sun and utilizes a lens and mirrors to concentrate photons to a controlled location. This is mounted on a chassis equipped with an omni-directional mobility system. Finally, its intelligence lies in data collected from a path recorder and light sensor which allow the robot to respond to its environment in real time.

Research Studio II: Self Sufficient Buildings
Faculty: Willy Muller
Assistant: Maite Bravo
Student: Emil Burulyanov

Research Studio III: Digital Tectonics
Faculty: Marta Male-Alemany
Co-Faculty: Victor Viña
Assistant: César Cruz Cázares
Student Team: Mia Layco, Georgia Kotsari, Tomasz Starczewski

Project Name: Mimicry

Emergent systems found in nature such as the huddling of penguins or the building of termite mounds demonstrates how self organized systems prove to be most efficient.  Swarm behaviour has been studied in depth as well as simulated however never has it been applied to an over all process.  The Mimicry Group aims to harvest these qualities to create a fabrication process far more efficient than the current practice of CAD, CAE, CAM.  By doing away with these regimented steps and creating a hybrid system, fabrication process could potentially design, optimize and fabricate simultaneously.

Research Studio I: Emergent Territories
Faculty: Vicente Guallart
Assistant: Hemant Purohit,
Student: Ander Gortazar Balerdi, Jacek Markusiewicz

Self_ Sufficient Ecobarrio II Term: Director Vicente Guallart, Assistant: Hemant Purohit

The main issue of the Hyperhabitat research project is to try to develop a general theory about the understanding of the structures and logics where the construction of the urbanity is based, considering urbanity as a complex and diverse ecosystem were the people is able to develop their lives in a artificial environment exchanging information between them.

The understanding of this complex reality as a system of networks that are mixed between them is the starting point for the methodology of analyse; ‘urban network structures’ are based on four elements:

Nodes > concentrate the information and specific contents

Nets > distribute the information between nodes

Environment > supports all the systems in a specific context

Protocols > organise the ingredients of the system: the information

Research Studio I: Emergent Territories
Faculty: Vicente Guallart
Assistant: Hemant Purohit,
Student: Renata Helena Uebe Nogueira , Roberto Javier Dumont