Archive for January, 2010

BSSA_IAAC Workshop

Friday, January 22nd, 2010 Posted in BSSA_IAAC Workshop | No Comments »

Mumbai is a city with different layers, given the parameters like natural conditions, economy, social status and culture, students were asked to design a structure- dealing with topics about the Sea, ... Read more..

Solar House Fabrication Launch 2010/01/21

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Posted in Events, Solar Decathlon 2010 | No Comments »

After many months of hard work, the Fab Lab Solar House fabrication was launched in official ceremony. This Fab Lab House, which will be entirely constructed by fabrication , will ... Read more..

Designing Associativity Seminar 2010/01/19

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 Posted in Designing Associativity Seminar | No Comments »

The class started with the final presentations of the first assignment, which was a parametric shadow machine. The works presented by students showed different approaches to the task: mobile structures, ... Read more..

Environmental Performance Modeling 2010/01/19

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 Posted in Environmental Performance Modeling Seminar | No Comments »

The class continued on honing the knowledge about thermal analysis. Students had also a chance to consult their doubts about the software with the faculty member Spyros Stavoravdis. Read more..

Environmental Performance Modeling 2010/01/18

Monday, January 18th, 2010 Posted in Environmental Performance Modeling Seminar | No Comments »

Spyros Stavoravdis gave an introductory lesson about thermal analysis in Ecotect software. It is a powerful tool that allows the users to estimate the amount of heating and cooling required ... Read more..

S2. Open Source Design

Monday, January 18th, 2010 Posted in S2. Open Source Design | No Comments »

 The fourth class in Open Source was a presentation by Ignasi Labastida - Director of the Creative Commons of Spain http://creativecommons.org/international/es/ - on licensing, mainly Creative Commons Licensing, how one can make a ... Read more..

RSIII. Digital Tectonics (FAB)BOTS_Arduino Workshop_Jan 15-17

Monday, January 18th, 2010 Posted in RSIII. Digital Tectonics | No Comments »

Faculty Victor Viña introducing the workshop Read more..

RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings

Monday, January 18th, 2010 Posted in RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings | No Comments »

  This is the age of where economy, technology, information, environment and society affect our everyday life; How to influence this system through design, how to design spaces relating to this context and what are ... Read more..

IaaC Lecture Series_Jan 14 < Prof. Xavier De Kestelier

Friday, January 15th, 2010 Posted in Lectures | No Comments »

The Specialist Modelling Group  at Foster+Partners: A case Study Prof. Xavier De Kestelier: Associate Partner at Foster+PartnersXavier De Kestelier was educated in Belgium and the United Kingdom andholds an MSc in ... Read more..

Experimental Structures 2010/01/14

Friday, January 15th, 2010 Posted in Experimental Structures Seminar | No Comments »

The last class of the first phase was an exciting session mixing presentations of the student's work, a lecture by ArchiWaste collective and an one-hour workshop to make a cardboard ... Read more..