During the final presentations the students presented a video with the process of their work during the last week of the intensive workshop with Gregory Epps. Many ideas and many prototypes were developed by paper while one piece of the selected project was fabricated in 1:1 scale by metal. The selected project is going to be fabricated in full scale in the following days at IAAC.

All student projects and videos developed in the above seminar will be uploaded in the IAAC blog the following days.

After the presentations of the students Gregory Epps presented the work being developed at Robofold . Gregory at the first part of his lecture highlighted  the fact that robotics and software (as they have been developed at  the moment) could be used with more intelligence, opposed to the way that they are used for massive production in the industries,  and create complex results as we can see in several examples of  work coming out of research centers, throughout the word, that are experimenting with the above  technology .

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How we can envision Barcelona for the next 8, 16, 32, 64 and 128 years?

How new space optimization could generate opportunities for the densification of Barcelona?

Can we transform Barcelona (built and non built) into a networked city?

Can our city model be responsive to our behavioral changes over time?

Follow the link to view the projects of the MAA students developed at the introductory studio:

http://www.iaacblog.com/maa2011-2012-slowcities/category/slowcities/

This week, the master students are working together with Gregory Epps from RoboFold in the prototyping and fabrication of a folded component façade system.

Starting from the paper model and going through the design and fabrication process developed during the last years by Epps and his colleagues, the workshop will go until the fabrication and assembling of real scale steel components. The students started working individually and their work has been selected in different phases so that, at the end, a single project shared by all students will go into real scale production.

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Last weekend MAA 2011-12 students along with IAAC faculty and staff visited south Spain (Gandia,Valencia, Benidorm)
For 4 intensive days students visited building and masterplan projects, debated on architectural concepts and enjoyed local traditions.
The group had the chance to visit Sociopolis (Valencia) an under construction project fomented by the Generalitat Valenciana for the construction of a new model neighborhood of accessible housing, based on the local tradition of Valencias urban orchards, http://www.sociopolis.net

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¨Let material dictate you and find out how creative material could be¨ Theo Jansen

Atari was the tool of Theo when we he first started working with his idea on the ¨new forms of life¨, when he first started generating the codes for his animals.

Now Theo is wondering if he will be able to achieve the evolution of these species. He says that the fact that there are people throughout the word making their own beests with the holy numbers that he shared with his audience … it’s an evolution if you see it from a certain perspective.

The audience had the pleasure to see  firsthand the project that Theo Jansen just started working at.

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IAAC is happy to announce the entrance of KUKA robot at the institute. KUKA is added to the list of machinery of the fablab amplifying the limits of fabrication process and opening the way to new experiments and possibilities from design to production.

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