Archive for December, 2007

MAA 2007 – 2008 First Term Final Review_Studio I > How to design a tree

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 Posted in Studio 1 | No Comments »

Nature, understood in its wide sense, is the territory where every architectural process is developed. It is fundamental to recognize nature’s basic principles, functional logics and to interact with ... Read more..

MAA 2007-08 First Term Final Review_Digital Fabrication > 4th Asignment

Thursday, December 20th, 2007 Posted in digital tectonics | No Comments »

Tutors: Marta Male and Shane Salisbury This Assignment counted on the invaluable contribution of Victor Viña, member of the FAB LAB BCN team. The objective of ASSIGNMENT 4 was to introduce students ... Read more..

MAA 2007-08 First Term Final Review_Digital Technologies in Architecture

Thursday, December 20th, 2007 Posted in digital technologies | No Comments »

 Tutor: Jose Pedro Sousa Since the eighties, the dissemination of the computer started to affect the practice of architecture in many ways. From the automated production of drawings and virtual simulation ... Read more..

MAA 2007 – 2008 First Term Final Review_Mapping

Monday, December 17th, 2007 Posted in mapping | No Comments »

The objective of this course is to have an approach to the mapping techniques related with territorial and urban realities, through the physical experimentation of places and the creation of ... Read more..

Readings on emergent culture_final review

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 Posted in readings | 1 Comment »

Tutor: Anna Plá Catala Our current urban milieu as contemporary phenomena compresses multiple agents and dynamics in its built reality. As a bio-socio-economical condenser, it constantly unveils the potential of such ... Read more..

Making electronic chips

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 Posted in digital tectonics | No Comments »

For the fourth asignment in Digital Fabrication Class,  students are making electronic chips from scratch. (i.e. designing, programming, fabricating, soldering and coding)  These electronics devices will be used to make installations based ... Read more..

The PortuDinner

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 Posted in LifeStyle | No Comments »

Once again, the International Food Series amazed us. This time was the Portuguese Night, we thought that Portuguese food could be very similar to Spanish one, but we were surprised ... Read more..

IaaC Lecture Series 2007-08 > Hanif Kara

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 Posted in Lectures | No Comments »

IaaC Conference Hall. November 30th Hanif Kara is a London based structural engineer. Since founding a practice his particular ‘design-led’ approach and interest in innovative form, material uses, prefabrication, sustainable construction, ... Read more..