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..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..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..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..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..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..Monday, January 18th, 2010 Posted in RSIII. Digital Tectonics | No Comments »
Faculty Victor Viña introducing the workshop Read more..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..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..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..