Master Project Theme IV has finished off with students presenting their works to Tutors Olaf Gipser, Marta Malé-Alemany and guest critics Dana Cuff from UCLA www.spa.ucla.edu/dept.faculty, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto from Ecologic Studio www.ecologicstudio.com. Opening up different aspects of conversations while presentations were taking place, Students works were various topics with different approaches. The FabBots have evolved theoretically as well as contextually, material systems and script based fabrication technologies have also been explored to their limits.
Master Project Theme IV: Contextualizing Digital fabrication_Final Presentations
RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings
The Reasearch Studio for Self-Sufficient Building ended with Students presenting their work for invited jury Professor Trilochan Chhaya( Dean of BSSA, Mumbai),Ignasi Pérez Arnal global ecoforum/IgnasiPerezArnal, JOSEPH BOHIGAS Architect, M.Arch (Columbia), Professor at Escola de Disseny Elisav a (Pompeu Fabra), Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, lUniversidad de Salamanca and Cátedra Mies de la Escola Técnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (UPC) www.bopbaa.com.KARL UNGLAUIB Senior Associate EMBT www.mirallestagliabue.com, ALEJANDRO RIOS Architect, PHD, founder PL Arquitectura e ideas SL and to faculty Willy Muller, Maite Bravo and Luis Fraguada. Sleeping inside a dream: New rules of Turistizen was the theme of all projects where students designed a Luxury hotel in Mumbai. These presentations involved discussions where design, function, energy, location, site and self-sufficiency were talked about.
FabLab Barcelona
The Fab Lab program is part of the MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) which broadly explores how the content of information relates to its physical representation, fab.cba.mit.edu.
FabLab Barcelona is part of the FabLab central where students from Peru, Ethiopia, Italy and Spain are learning. With the future FabLabs under formation in both Ethiopia and Peru, students are taking courses from the MIT program, ‘How to make almost anything’. This includes projects from design tools (laser cutter, CNC miller, 3d scanner and printer ) to PCB design, microcontroller programming, Networking and communications and machine design. There have also been taking various workshops like the Fabfi workshop where the goals are to create simple, low cost and easy to create antennas,more information at fabfiblog.fabfolk.com.
Proceeding with their biweekly assignments students are also preparing for their final projects, where each one is now developing his/her final thesis project which will be presented by the end of the academic year. More of students projects can be found at fabacademy blog or fabacademy labs.
RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings
Students have been working in groups on their master plan for their chosen sites which include the Bollywood area, the Port and the Centers of Mumbai. They are now in the details of their capsules where they are working on their site, environment and energy source. Faculty Willy Muller and assistant Maite Bravo were consulting students on how to go ahead with their research.
