Archive for January, 2010

IaaC Lecture Series_Jan 29 < Carlos Leite

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 Posted in Lectures, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Approaching Architectures in Sao Paulo Choosing a Sustainable City Redevelopment ModelCarlos Leite is an Architect and Urbanist with a Master and PhD in Urban Design from the University of Sao Paulo and ... Read more..

RSIII. Digital Tectonics (FAB)BOTS

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 Posted in RSIII. Digital Tectonics | No Comments »

The Fab-bots are developing, each student group is now electronically prototyping each typology of their machine, with the help of Faculty Victor Viña, Marta Malé-Alemany and Assistant Cesar Cruz Cazares they ... Read more..

S5. Solar Energy

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 Posted in S5. Solar Energy | No Comments »

  The two classes of Solar energy went on with lectures by Yasser Tufail who explained to students the different systems of Solar Energy applications. These included the scales of application, where ... Read more..

Designing Associativity Seminar 2010/01/28

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Designing Associativity Seminar | No Comments »

Lesson 9 was the day of Grasshopper Interoperability, or how to communicate with external programs. Based on a grasshopper definition made by faculty stall Luis Fraguada, students managed to connect ... Read more..

Experimental Structures 2010/01/28

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Experimental Structures Seminar | No Comments »

The second last class of Experimental Structeres was divided in two parts. At first, faculty staff Marine Bagneris gave a lecture about the historical approach of experimetal extructures and innovative ... Read more..

RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings: Workshop with Carlos Leite

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings | No Comments »

Day 1:  With  Carlos Leite and Willy MullerDay3: Presentation and consultation with students The Capsule idea, the concept, the tourist, the citizen, the life and the death, the airy, the floating, ... Read more..

S2. Open Source Design

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in S2. Open Source Design | No Comments »

There are many open source sites found on the web. Which is the most suitable? Students were presenting different ideas for their upcoming open source website. The pros and cons of ... Read more..

RSI. Emergent Territories 2010/01/22

Sunday, January 24th, 2010 Posted in RSI. Emergent Territories | No Comments »

As the deadline of the project delivery approaches, students' work start to take shape. IaaC director Vicente Guallart and faculty mamber Hemant Purohit reviewed the development of the project before ... Read more..

IaaC Lecture Series_Jan 22 < Patrick Blanc

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 Posted in Lectures | No Comments »

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RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 Posted in RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings | No Comments »

Research and consultation continued with faculty Willy Muller and Maite Bravo, where students presented their ideas in  models and power point presentations. There were intense discussions on how their ideas ... Read more..