…km materials initiative at Valldaura Labs, MAEBB students launched a timber sourcing and tracing effort that will progress throughout the academic year and culminate in the application of the wood…
Read more…Master in Advanced Ecological Building (MAEB) students just landed in the Valldaura Self-sufficient Labs, which will be home to the 12-month…
Read more…FURNISH consortium, IAAC’s Valldaura Labs installed the Open Terrace system built using only sustainably harvested local timber at The Coffee House on Barcelona’s Carrer de València. Recognising the success of…
Read more…After nearly 14 weeks in which the need to protect Valldaura from COVID-19 required the sealing off of the campus, lockdown is finally ending this Sunday, June 21….
Read more…IAAC – Master in City & Technology 2021/22 Theory of Cities Masterclass Curated by: Alex Mademochoritis Site Visit: Valldaura Labs Valldaura Self-sufficient Labs is a project promoted by the…
Read more…IAAC launched its first volunteer program at IAAC Can Valldaura forest camp last weekend. 24 students of MAA 2010/11 attended the program collaborating actively in tasks such as…
Read more…consists of two layers: a main frame structure and an adaptable substructure. Using pine wood from Valldaura with 150x150mm section, the main structure is a rational frame which provide a…
Read more…The Valldaura estate comprises 135 hectares of forest within the 1300 hectare Collserola Natural Park. As recently as the 1940’s the landscape was severely cleared, not a single tree left…
Read more…On Monday 22nd of June we had the inauguration of the first IaaC Alumni meeting at the Valldaura Labs, a sight that had evolved visibly for many f…
Read moreCLIENT BIOGRAPHY NAME : THOR GENDER : MALE AGE : 8 YEARS OLD HOBBIES : CATCHING THE BALLS/ROCKS THIS IS HIS HOUSE ( but you can rarely…
Read more…prestige in the field of urban policy, including IAAC’s Co-Founder, Director of Valldaura Labs and Co-Director of the MAEBB, Vicente Guallart. Image Credit: Ajuntament de Barcelona Prototypes involving varying degrees…
Read more…This May, Daria Bychkova, a IAAC alumnus and founder of the practice Chekharda based in Moscow, Russia spent time with MAEB at Valldaura Labs to share her experience about…
Read more…Friday January 26, the MAI students presented the Bootcamp Barcelona Valldaura Project that they have been developing during the 1st term. The project has been directed by Alfonso Borragán,…
Read more…affect its efficiency, understanding that is less efficient that the HAWT. 2. The verticality can be, somehow, fit easily into our initial conversations for the Valldaura intervention. [ The verticality…
Read more…tree house project during MAA Phase I will be built. After the Barbecue event, Vicente Guallart from the Valldaura association, showed invitees the Collserola House and its surrounding forest….
Read more…trees here in Valldaura to get an understanding of the constraints involved with forest photogrammetry. TREE SCANNING METHODOLOGY The tree is photographed from all sides, aiming to capture the tree…
Read more…My thesis goal is to generate energy from the water that i can collect in and around a building ( in my case Valldaura). In order to achieve to…
Read more…The Board of Directors of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia formed by authorities from the civil and academic society of Barcelona, met in Valldaura for a pivotal…
Read moreMid-term presentation for Introductory Studio: G02, IAAC ’13-’14 Akanksha Rathee, Chung Kai Hsieh, Mardet Gebreyesus, Sinem Samanc?…
Read moreROMI is an open and lightweight robotics platform for micro-farms that grow a large diversity of polyculture crops. Developing state-of-the-art land-based and air-borne monitoring tools to handle…
Read more…Valldaura, with a location in the hills surrounding Barcelona and an objective of self-sufficiency, is dependent on natural spring water. The house at Valldaura currently does not have…
Read more…The goal of this project was to use 3D-Scanning with a drone to choose and plan a parasitic architectural concept at Valldaura. A 3D-model was created by “stitching”…
Read more…map of vectors representing the water flow through the slide. The projection will help the residents of Valldaura understand what is going on within the system. From the 2D animation…
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