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| Tunis research presentation |
| April 2008 |
Heads of the Society of Tunis South Lake and the Tunis Urbanism Office visited IaaC to follow the research “Emergence on Med South”.
Med Sud is an investigation into the emergence in the South Mediterranean Sea as an entity that has been exploded and developed in different forms from its north and south. The investigation looks the Mediterranean dimension from different perspectives, looking for the local, regional and global relations that discover a territory that seems to be explored and defined enough, but still there are stronger potentials that open new and emergent opportunities for the sustainable development.
This research is part of the IaaC´s International Exchange program, this year together with the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. The research project is directed by Willy Muller and Fred Guillaud and coordinated by Tomas Diez |
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| Nader Tehrani Lecture > IaaC Lecture Series 2008 |
| 18_04_08 |
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Nader Tehrani received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor in Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1985 and 1986 respectively. He continued his studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he received a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design in 1991. Tehrani attended a post-graduate program in History and Theory at the Architectural Association in London. A tenured Associate Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tehrani has also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and Georgia Institute of Technology, where he served as the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design. |
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| WAW > University of Illinois at Chicago |
| 11-14 April 2008 |
The Weekend Architectural Workshops (WAW) are a one-weekend intensive experience in Digital Fabrication technologies. WAWs are a new format to introduce architecture, design, art and multi-disciplined students to fabrication equipment such as the Laser Cutter, CNC Mill and 3D Printer for the production of models, prototypes and 1:1 scale objects and components.
WAWs are organized by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, and are oriented to schools and institutions of architecture, art, and design from different countries of the world.
WAW > University of Illinois at Chicago. IaaC (11th-14th of April)
IaaC Director: Vicente Guallart, WAW Director: Marta Male, WAW_UC Coordinator: Shane Salisbury, WAW_UC Tutors: Shane Salisbury, Areti Markopoulou, Tomas Diez |
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| MAA 08-09 > Application Extension |
| Apr-May 08 |
IaaC master Program 2008-09 is receiving applicants from 31 countries, including USA, Kenya, Israel, India, China, Turkey, Spain, Argentina and others. Next year master program will maintain the innovative format that allows the student to decide to work on Territorial, Building or Fabrication Scales, being able to choose to follow seminars from different disciplines.The application period has been extended until May 23th
http://iaac.net/web/en/educationalMasterApply.php |
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| MAA Trip to Romania |
| March - April 2008 |
The objective of this field trip, by the students and tutors research group, is an extensive territorial investigation and analysis in order to propose urban and planning strategies for the Southeastern European country of Romania.
Our trip´s aim will be the understanding of two key cities with their surroundings. Bucharest, the capital of Romania and Constanta, a portuary, industrial and turistic node of the country. The trip will be focused on the data and matter collecting, using several register protocols in each information field. |
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| IaaC Alumni awarded in the EMERGING ARTIST PROGRAM 2008, Denver_USA |
| MArch 2008 |
Former IaaC students Monika Wittig, Luis Fraguada, Mariano Arias Diez, and Shane Salisbury have been announced as the winners of the Denver International Airport "Emerging Artists Competition." The project called for a one year long art installation between two roads en route to the Denver Airport.
The [WIND]OW SEAT project is attempts to visualize this complex fluid system that is the air we all inhabit—a ubiquitous condition dynamically affecting all geographies. With this premise, any locale, whether an awe inspiring forest or an unnoticeable highway median can be analyzed and compared through the rendering of its wind activity. Conceptually, [WIND]OW SEAT emerged from analyzing a typically unused space physically sited in a median approximately 7 miles from Denver International Airport. The design takes its departure from the windsock, a relatively simple instrument used in aviation to signal the changes in wind direction and wind speed. [WIND]OW SEAT attempts to take the behavior of a single windsock, and translate it into a field condition where local behaviors can be read globally to articulate the complexities of the wind forces.
Project Credits:
LaN DENVER TEAM: Monika Wittig, Luis E. Fraguada, James Richard Coleman
LaN INTERNATIONAL TEAM: Shane Salisbury, Mariano Arias-Diez
PROJECT CONSULTANT: Richard H. Epstein - AIA
TECHNICAL ADVISORS: Shajay Bhooshan, Axel Kilian, Ph.D., Dipl.–Ing
PROJECT SUPPORT: Gillian Hallock Johnson - Burkett Design, Jon X. Giltner - Giltner & Associates, Dr. Bill Warnock - Boulder-Lhasa Sister Cities Project
MATERIAL SUPPORT: Ron Simonds - Boulder Mountain Repair
http://www.livearchitecture.net/blog |
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| MAA 07-08 > Romania Trip |
As part of the third term of the Master in Advanced Architecture subject, Romania research will start with the visit of IaaC Research Group toghether with students at the end of March of 2008.
The objective of this research is to set up a logical structure that leads to approach a project starting from multiple layers which interact to create a town or a city. This research is supporting the idea of the multyscalarity, that is trying to test if the urbanity is working with the same logics in different scales.
This research is starting from the idea that everyplace in the world could be analysed with 3 main layers, ENVIROMENTS, NETWORKS and NODES.
External romanian collaborators from the academic and the profesional fields will support the development of the research |
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| Presentacion de la Ruta de la Innovacion de Barcelona |
| 17_03_08 |
El teniente de alcalde de Hacienda y Promoción Económica y Presidente de Barcelona Activa, Jordi William Carnes, junto con Vicente Guallart, Director del Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Catalunya, presentan la guÃa Ruta de la Innovació a Barcelona, en uno de los puntos de la Ruta de la Innovación, el Fab Lab o centro de fabricación personal del Institut d’Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya (IAAC). La publicacion pretende mostrar y añadir valor a la innovación que está realizando en la ciudad cada dÃa, liderada entre otros por el Fab Lab Bcn.
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| Post it Exhibition CCCB > Taipei Prototypes of Urbanity |
Post it looks at different overlapping uses of urban territory, focusing on the viewpoints offered by architecture, town planning and the visual arts. "Post-it Cities" seeks to explore the phenomenon by means of the ephemeral cities that infect the everyday city with uncoded, temporary, anonymous uses, with an implicitly critical approach.
Taipei, Prototype of Urbanity. The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) directed by Vicente Guallart in collaboration with The Observer Design Group directed by JM Lin, started in 2006 this research work with the students of the 2005-2006 master of advanced architecture, 10 days at Taipei measuring and reading the city in order to get the primary information for the following workshop at Barcelona; this publication is the result of the entire research. IaaC wants to map cities over the world to have a picture of this moment of the history of urbanism and architecture development that will allow to understand what our cities are, how they are functioning and whose are the possible facts that will lead urbanity on the future.
Exhibition March 13th 2008 - May 25th 2008, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. C/ Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
http://www.ciutatsocasionals.net/ |
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| 2nd Advanced Architecture Contest Final Veredict |
After revising and discussing the projects of the the 2nd Advanced Architecture Contes. The jury members, composed of Yung Ho Chang, Turlif Vilbrandt, Young Joon Kim, Michel Rojkind, Josep Lluís Mateo, J.M. Lin, Julio Gaeta, Greg Lynn, Vicente Guallart, Willy Muller, Lucas Cappelli, Rodrigo Rubio and Daniel Ibañes have arrived at the following verdict:
Firstly however, the jury would like to thank all of the architects and students for their participation who have combined very diverse points of view and cultural realities through their ideas of self-construction in order to foment and develop new constructive systems around the world.
Awarded projects:
1st Prize: F1C243
Ming Tang
Dihua Yang
CHINA
This proposal uses a traditional local material, implementing geometry elements in a pertinent way creating structures able to transform and re-inform themselves . The jury values its landscape integration and the possibility of being constructed as prototype.
2nd Prize: 5923BC
Luis Aguirre Manso
SPAIN
The jury values the hybridisation of light construction systems that rise from the ground, and the functional scheme surrounding the chimney, that follows principles of traditional architecture.
3rd Prize: C2BD4E
Shinya OKUDA
Kung Yick Ho Alvin
Lam Yan Yu Ian
HONG KONG
The jury values the use of advanced technologies in the manipulation of biodegradable materials to create a system that can be assembled as a sustainable construction.
http://www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org/results.php |
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