…With the closing of a difficult year and the onset of a new one we’re working diligently to make brighter, IAAC’s Valldaura Labs team is also looking forward to…
Read more…the workshops, focusing on utilitarian needs for the community of Valldaura and surroundings. Each student will develop a concept, and produce project-specific objects which will be presented in the Exhibition…
Read more…1/ CONTEXT The emphasis in this course will be on developing a curiosity about Valldaura Labs as a creative hub, an educational space, and a historically charged site with…
Read more…Five new ‘Dadant’ style Beehives have been designed, prototyped and installed at Valldaura Labs by ‘Ecological Interaction’ researchers led by Open Source Beehives designer and co-founder, Jonathan Minchin. The…
Read more…In recent years, IAAC has developed different workshops in the natural environment in order to experience the relationship between architecture and nature. Can Valldaura will become IAAC’s second…
Read more…In Valldaura we keep track of many different types of data. Everything from the plants we grow, how many eggs our chickens produce to which trees we have…
Read more…June 16, 2020, will go down in the history of Valldaura Labs as the day the first cross-laminated timber panel was successfully produced using timber harvested from the surrounding…
Read more…Valldaura Labs has a new tool! Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is one of the key technologies revolutionizing wood architecture. Made from gluing together perpendicular layers of solid sawn lumber, CLT…
Read more…This Autumn, Valldaura Labs launched a foundational seminar focused on forests and cities with the objective of bringing together experts in bio-driven territories, cities and construction to create as…
Read more…strategies – IAAC’s Valldaura Labs and Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings & Biocities (MAEBB) class of 2020/21 have produced and installed a prototype urban element system comprising wooden platforms to…
Read more… Introducing a new cycle of architectural eco-infrastructure that promotes the regeneration of local and native plant species within the Valldaura region. Wind vibration energy acts as a platform…
Read more…RESEARCH ABSTRACT Tree species classification is an essential aspect of sustainable forest management. Annual tree harvest, which happens in Valldaura Labs, plays a key role in the process…
Read more…Leka, at Can Valldaura in the coming weeks! In their own words: Our goal is to change the business model in the field of catering and our purpose is based…
Read more…Valldaura Labs has won a call issued by the European Institute for Innovation & Technology (EIT) Urban Mobility group for rapid responses to COVID-19. The Valldaura Labs project, FURNISH…
Read more…Say hello to the newest member of our robot family at IAAC, meet the new ABB robot in Valldaura Labs, kindly sponsored by ABB with the partnership of…
Read more…The 2017-18 edition of the Open Thesis Fabrication Programme, directed by Edouard Cabay and Alexandre Dubor,…
Read more…the Ox. As always, Valldaura joins in this and many other celebrations. Our event was centered around a wonderful dinner coordinated by our students Kevin Xi Lim and Niko Tian,…
Read more…Today was the last day of the MAA Pre-course 2015/16, held in the Green Fab Lab in Valldaura. The students had the opportunity to visit IAAC’s Forest Campus,…
Read more…between Valldaura and the city. Transferring our bodies, physically and conceptually was the main focus of attention. During three days of teamwork and community work, a group 10 people have…
Read more…Congratulations to IAAC’s Michael Salka, Technical Coordinator of Valldaura Labs, for being awarded the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship! According to the Gates Cambridge Trust: “Twenty four of the most…
Read more…On the 1st of October 2019, Valldaura Labs welcomed the class of 2019-2020 Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings and Biocities. This year, the student body comprises of students from…
Read more…trees and are mostly characterized by square or rectangular sections. “The processing of timber in Valldaura Labs”, a post explaining step by step forestry management done in Valldaura, we now…
Read more…On September 05, the 2018-2019 class of the Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings graduated in the Valldaura Labs Campus. It was a bittersweet day of celebration and farewell, after…
Read more…During the lockdown, Valldaura acts simultaneously as a place of residence and research for international students. The students work during these days in the development of their final…
Read more…This week, IAAC MAA DWN visited Valldaura Labs Jonathan Minchin give us a tour around the house and give us a lecture about the Valldaura opportunities……
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