Archive for October, 2009

Design Class 01 – arboreal Home – Mid-Review

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Design Studio I - ARBOREAL HOME / Home as a living structure Mid Reviews - October 27th, 2009 Faculty: Gerard Passola (Biologist), Areti Markopoulou (Architect), Luis Fraguada (Architect) Jury: Marta Malé-Alemany (IaaC Co-Director), Edouard Cabay ... Read more..

IaaC Lecture Series 2009-2010 > Juan Herreros

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in Lectures | No Comments »

IaaC Conference Hall, October 26th, 2009 Juan Herreros is a PhD architect, Senior Professor and Head of Teaching Thesis Program at the School of Architecture of Madrid where he was also ... Read more..

Green Dictionary – 4th Class – Defining New Concepts

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 Posted in Green Dictionary | No Comments »

In yesterdays Green Dictionary guest lecturer Juan Herreros stopped by and contributed his 5 terms. Faculty Vicente Guallart and students continued discussions on the defining new and existing concepts that ... Read more..

Digital Fabrication – Fabrication Processes

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 Posted in Digital Fabrication | No Comments »

Mondays Digital Fabrication class continued work on exposing the students to different digital fabrication processes. Faculty Marta Malé-Alemany continued teaching the students how they can use advanced digital design ... Read more..

Can Valldaura Volunteers Program – 1st Session

Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in Can Valldaura Program | No Comments »

On Saturday 5 students from IaaC´s Master of Advanced Architecture (Jacek Markusiewicz (Poland), Ander Gortazar Balerdi (Spain), Javier Palacios (Mexico), Maria Mogollon Lemaitee (Colombia), and Pedro Precedo (Spain), and 3 ... Read more..

Design Studio I – Presentations / Q&A

Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in ArboReal Home | No Comments »

In Fridays Design Studio I students presented their tree research progress of the trees functional programs. Presentations were followed up with a Q&A with faculty Areti Markopoulou, Luis  Fraguada  and ... Read more..

Solar House Team – Work Studio Design

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Posted in Solar house | No Comments »

Here the Solar House Team is discussing their work studio layout, they are trying to figure out which geometric shape and size will work best for the work tables. After ... Read more..

Digital Tools – Meshes

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Posted in Digital Tools | No Comments »

In Wednesdays Digital Tools faculty Luis Fraguada taught the students how to create clean meshes from geometical shapes using McNeel´s Rhinoceros to make 3D shapes. Rhino as the main 3D ... Read more..

Green Dictionary – 3rd Class – Research

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Posted in Green Dictionary | No Comments »

Tuesdays Green Dictionary with IaaC Director Vicente Guallart broke up into studio groups to discuss among their fellow alum the different topics they´ve been reading. Here Vicente is discussing with ... Read more..

Solar Decathlon – Washington 2009

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in Research | No Comments »

The Solar Decathlon is an international collegiate competition in which student teams compete to design, build, and operate highly energy-efficient, completely solar-powered houses. For the 2009 event, teams were awarded, ... Read more..