Archive for February, 2010

RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings

Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings | No Comments »

After a week long workshop during the last week, Students presented details of their design work. They had a lecture by Assistant Maite Bravo, and also were consulted by the faculty ... Read more..

S5. Solar Energy

Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in S5. Solar Energy | No Comments »

The Solar Energy class started with Yasser Tufail's presentation on the basic strategies and processes of Master planning from concept to tender stages. Then students were assigned to make a city, deciding ... Read more..

Experimental Structures 2010/02/04

Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Experimental Structures Seminar | No Comments »

Faculty staff Marine Bargneris gave an interesting lecture about contemporary experimental structures, showing students different buildings and structures by Jorn Utzon or Ove Arup. During the afternoon, student had desk ... Read more..

Santa & Cole Visit 2010/02/02

Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Events, Excursions | No Comments »

During tuesday students visited Santa&Cole, an enterprise that integrates urban design, nature and intelligence of urban space. They met IaaC President Javier Nieto, as well as other Santa&Cole professionals such ... Read more..

S2. Open Source Design

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 Posted in S2. Open Source Design | No Comments »

The final presentation for Open Source Design, started by a lecture of the Massimo Menichinelli, member of the Peer-2-Peer Foundation http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ , later on students presented their proposed designs alongside their ideas for an open source ... Read more..

RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings: End of workshop

Monday, February 1st, 2010 Posted in RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings | No Comments »

The Mid-Phase submissions of the Self-Sufficiency Agenda, ended with presentations by students working on their projects for the week of the workshop with Carlos Leite. They presented the general layout and concept ... Read more..

RSI. Emergent Territories 2010/01/29

Monday, February 1st, 2010 Posted in RSI. Emergent Territories | No Comments »

Emergent Territories Research Studio started with a quick presentation by IaaC director Vicente Guallart, where some old and new proposals were shown, from Arturo Soria's Ciudad Lineal to Masdar City ... Read more..