Research's IaaC - Students Research -

The turistizens transformation potential as a tourist and a citizen, both distinct and equal is directly proportional to that of a fictitious argument inside a real hotel: the relation between the hotel and the movies, between Lost in Translation and The Park Hyatt of Tokyo, between
Transpotting and The Royal Eagle Hotel in London, or between Octopussy and The Lake Palace Hotel in Udaipur, in India.

The study will focus on this paradigm working in abstract and generic forms, analyzing the argument of fiction and real space, between the tourist and the citizen, between sleeping or dreaming, translating them into new concepts and designs: We can investigate with these
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Research Studio III: Digital Tectonics
Faculty: Marta Male-Alemany
Co-Faculty: Victor Viña
Assistant: César Cruz Cázares
Student: Melat Assefa, Joao Nuno Palaio Albuquerque, Brian Peters

Research Studio II: Self Sufficient Buildings
Faculty: Willy Muller
Assistant: Maite Bravo
Student: Marianne Villalobos Emonet

Research Studio III: Digital Tectonics
Faculty: Marta Male-Alemany
Co-Faculty: Victor Viña
Assistant: César Cruz Cázares
Student: Joel Letkemann, Viraj Kataria, Fabio Lopez

The studio project is centred on the development of a CNC robot, which creates molds in sand, as an ecological alternative to standard molds used in making concrete wall panels and other building components.

Seminar: Designing Associativity
Faculty: Luis Fraguada

The ‘Designing Associativity Seminar’ is titled as such in order to acknowledge the effort of designing relationships versus explicit objects or forms.  In term 2 students have looked at ways to construct logics which take advantage of diverse data sources, algorithms, geometry, and manufacturing processes.

Designing Associativity

Faculty: Luis Fraguada
Student: Joel Letkemann

Sun Shade

Grasshopper Solution
The sun panel is a fully parametric model, which is connected to a single attraction point within the Rhino file. Several different parameters can be manipulated within this solution, as the shade device ‘pulls’ towards the sun.

Introductory Design Studio I - ArboReal Home (Treehouse)

Faculty: Areti Markopoulou, Luis Fraguada
Advisor: Gerard Passola
Guest Tutor: Michel Rojkind
Students: Lourdes Marcano, Kathleen Anderson, Ekateria Ageeva

Introductory Design Studio I - ArboReal Home (Treehouse)

Faculty: Areti Markopoulou, Luis Fraguada
Advisor: Gerard Passola
Guest Tutor: Michel Rojkind
Students: Hristo Topchiev

Introductory Design Studio I - ArboReal Home (Treehouse)

Faculty: Areti Markopoulou, Luis Fraguada
Advisor: Gerard Passola
Guest Tutor: Michel Rojkind
Students: Viraj Kataria,Asim Hameed

Introductory Design Studio I - ArboReal Home (Treehouse)

Faculty: Areti Markopoulou, Luis Fraguada
Advisor: Gerard Passola
Guest Tutor: Michel Rojkind
Students: Emil Burulyanov, Fabio Andres Lopez

Ginkgo Biloba Siesta Place Treehouse

The concept of the tree house began from the idea of climbing up the tree. In the beginning the structure literally representaed a central voilume and hands and feet grabbing the branches. The concept evolved fast beacause of structurural and aesthetic considerations. It passed through climbing to hanging, from 4 strucutral strong points to 2 and then to 3 one of which a cable connection. Organic shapes were represented by rib outlines connected with carbon steel pipes. Structure affected the trunk only and tried to go around the branches as opposed to the beginning of the projecct when it was hanging on them. The volume itself consisted of a large space thought in a way to offer a relaxed hideaway. A siesta place in which one can take a nap and release the streess. In the process 2 different methods of constucting the actual structure were considered. Joining many different sections of pipes and ribs with siple bolted connections at an angle or CNC bending the whole lenght of the pipes, which is thought beyond the 15 meter mark, so it may be more continous and homogenious when seen from a close range but much more expensive and having the same effects as different sections when looked from a distance. Lower part of the horizontal ribs, which also were radiating from a central point to express the shape better, were used as stairs for climbing up, while simultaneously pointing pipe ends through smaller and smaller diameters to a concrete block anchored to the ground and covered with soil to be invinsible. In this block the pipes come together and complete the structural cycle. Outer skin of the house can be changed with cloth-like material to suit better the inhabitant and cater for different seasons, temperatures, moods and shading patterns.