Visiting School

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1. BRIEF ULE 2. SCHEDU 3. TUTORS S 4. SITE 5. VENUE ORS 6. SPONSO

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1. BRIEF T The AA Visiting Scchools are satellite e schools that take e place in differen nt cities all around d the world in partn nership with presttigious local institu utions. These schools focus on lo ocal issues -culturre, environment, e economy, society-- and follow the de esign methodolog gies developed at the Architectural Association.

T The program starte ed with a symposium in June at the e Guggenheim Mu useum Bilbao and d will be followed by a workshop in July at the Alhondiga in Bilbao. Th he w workshop will invesstigate new design processes to prroduce context se ensitive environme ents from a critical perspective. Loc cal ‘materials’ such h as user behaviour, social p patterns or environ nmental analysis w will inform the dessign process. In order o to construct this t agenda, the workshop w will inve est on digital desig gn ategies by studyin ng data-feed proto ocols, environmen ntal simulation sofftware and algorith hmic design. and fabrication stra T The workshop will explore the questtion of ‘place’ or ‘ttopos’ and its radical transformation n in the recent yea ars due to the pro oliferation and ava ailability of environmental para ameters. Departin ng from the notion n of ‘computing,’ u understood as info ormation processin ng, strategies of ‘d data mining’ and ‘indexing’ ‘ will be proposed as sensible readings of the site and the terrritory.

T The workshop aims at bringing toge ether design strate egies and the criticcal utilization of both local and glob bal, material and virtual, v visible and invisible in nformation of the p place. To build up pon new operation nal platforms of en nvironmental read dings, the proposa als will work on the e diagram and the e indexing, as opposed to dissociated parametric strategies. s T The site, Punta Zo orroza, has been chosen c as a residu ual area in comple ex topographies as a well as a forme er industrial site, generated by the in nsertion of in nfrastructural tissu ues in the territory y. Many have referred to these placces as by-product of the era of globalization, and as a result they have e often appeared coupled with new cconstructions thatt have been virallyy spread accross tthe territory in the e last 40 years or so. s These spaces s that are neither private p nor public ntially interesting tto engage with the e contemporary urban ecologies. Departing D from this s ‘generic’ typolog gical condition and d but ‘common’ are identified as poten ended’ environme ental data obtained d from the specificcities of the site will w build towards th he notion of: by integrating ‘exte

TTOPOS- Place T The breeding of loccal environmental parameters will g generate new form ms of architectura al agency and expression. Diverse mechanisms m will be b used to m materialize ‘invisible’ information suc ch as environmen ntal and social con nditions, users’ prreferences, digital information, etc. Each team will be e looking at one m main environmenta al parameter, in its s broadest sense, such as sun ligh ht, programmatic densification, d urba an flows, users’ da ata collected from urban behavioura al patterns, potential energetic consum mption/production,, etc to synthesize e ‘Datascapes’ tha at will feed into the e projects. These ‘Datascapes’ will be built from the ollowing devices, software and stra ategies: fo

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D Data mining > Phyython In ndexing> Rhinoce eros (Plug in: Gras sshopper) E Environmental sim mulations> Ansys / Ecotect T These variables will intertwine with a common progra ammatic allocation n: productive spac ces. The material translation of thes se data will frame the question of C COMPUTING through the localizatio on of global ‘typess.’

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W Work flow

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2. SCHEDUL LE

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3. TUTORS

M MAIDER LLAGUNO MUNITXA (ETH H Zurich, AA Lond don) M Maider Llaguno Mu unitxa obtained he er diploma in arch hitecture with hono ors from ETSASS S/ETSAB in 2006 and a graduated with distinction from m GSAPP, C Columbia University in 2010. While studying architectture, in 2004 she started her studie es in broadcasting g and communicattions at the University of the Basque country and in sum mmer 2010 she wa as part of the New w York University Interactive Teleco ommunications prrogram. From 200 06 until 2009 she worked w at Foreign n O Office Architects in n London. Maider has taught at Collumbia University and Yale School of architecture. She is currently the e Bilbao/SanSeba astian AA visiting school director and d from December 2011 she collabo orates as a scientific assistant at the e Institute of Tech hnology in Architec cture in ETH Zuric ch where she is now doing her PhD D research with th he support of a gra ant for research personnel from the e Department of Education E of the Basque Governme ent.

C CLARA OLORIZ S SANJUAN (AA Lon ndon, ETSAUN) C Clara Oloriz is a Ph hD researcher, tutor and practising g architect. She grraduated from the ETSA Universida ad de Navarra. Sh he has worked forr Foreign Office A Architects, Ceroun no, Plasma Studio o and Groundlab. S She teaches at AA ALU Masters prog gramme and at the University of Na avarra and has pa articipated in several workshopss worldwide. She obtained o her PhD D on the relationsh hip between archittecture and techno ology through pro oduction systems. Along with her P PhD research she has contributed to o several congressses and magazin nes and she co-dirrects an AA resea arch cluster on Urban Prototypes.

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C CHRIS PIERCE (A AA London) C Christopher Pierce e studied at Virginia Polytechnic Insstitute and State U University and gain ned a PhD from th he University of Edinburgh.

E Among his recent publications are esssays on OMA, ‘From Bauhaus to O Our House to Koo olhaas: The Office e for Metropolitan Architecture A (OMA A) and Modern Am merican Culture’; C Cloud 9, ‘Seven-ye ear Itch: Another Note N from Empuriiabrava; and Diller Scofidio + Renfrro, ‘Threes a Crow wd. He formed Mis s-Architecture with Chris Matthews s in n 2000.

H He currently runs a diploma unit and d is the visiting school coordinator a at the Architectura al Association

T TONI KOTNIK (ET TH Zurich, Univers sity of Innsbruck) D Dr. Toni Kotnik stu udied architecture and mathematicss at the Swiss Fed deral Institute of Technology T (ETH) Zurich, the Unive ersity of Tübingen, and the Universiity of Utah and received his doctoral de egree from the Un niversity of Zurich.. He was research h fellow at Center for the Representation of Multi-Dim mensional nformation (CROM MDI), postdoctora al researcher at the e ETH Zurich, asssistant professor at a the University of o Applied Science es in Lucerne and d studio master at In th he Architectural A Association in Lond don. Currently, he e is assistant profe essor at the institu ute for experimenttal architecture att the University of Innsbruck. His re esearch work is fo ocused on the inte erplay of architecttural design, geom metry, and constru uction.

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A ALFREDO RAMIR REZ (AA London) A Alfredo Ramirez iss an architect and co-founder of Gro oundlab a practice e committed to res search and develo ops the discipline of Landscape Urbanism. He studie ed A Architecture in Mexxico City, and the AA graduate prog gramme Landsca ape Urbanism in 2005. Before found ding Groundlab he e has practised in n several architectural offices and institutions in Mexico City, M Madrid and London n where he has co oncentrated in arc chitectural and urb ban design projectts like the Olympic m master plan for London 2012. At Gro oundlab he has w won and developed d several competitions, workshops, exhibitions and projects, p Alfredo is also a studio m master of the Land dscape Urbanism Design Master att the Architectural Association, Dire ector of the AA Vis siting School In Mexico City and ha as given workshop ps and lectured on the e topic of Landsca ape Urbanism and d the work of Grou undlab in Italy, Me exico, Germany, Israel, Taiwan, Sp pain, China, UK an nd Venezuela.

A ALEJANDRO ZAE ERA-POLO (PRINCETON UNIVERS SITY, NJ) A Alejandro Zaera-Polo (born Madrid, 1963) is the co-fo ounder of London-based Alejandro Zaera-Polo Archiitects (AZPA). He trained at the Escuela Técnica S Superior de Arquite ectura de Madrid,, graduating with H Honors, and wentt on to do a Maste er in Architecture (MARCH ( II) at the e Graduate Schoo ol of Design, H Harvard Universityy, USA, where he graduated with Distinction. He colla aborated with at OMA O in Rotterdam m between 1991 and a 1993, prior to establishing F Foreign Office Architects in 1993. Alejandro A Zaera-Po olo has also had a an extensive invollvement in educattion at an international level since 1993.

1 He is currently Dean Ele ect of Princeton SO OA, where he wass a Visiting Professsor since 2009 and has held the Norman N Foster pro ofessorship at Yale SOA, and was D Dean of the Berlag ge Institute in Rottterdam from 2000 0-2005, resetting tthe institution’s ac cademic compass through pedagog gy and public even nts towards the

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creation of new insstruments of architecture and urban n design conceive ed through practice in globalised co onditions. His texts s can be found in many professiona al as El Croquis, Quaderns, A+U, Arcch+, Harvard Design Magazine. publications such a

F FLAVIO TEJADA G GORRAIZ (ARUP P, Master Planning g & Urban design practice leader) F Flavio Tejada Gorrraiz works as Mas ster Planning & Urrban design practtice leader for ARU UP in Europe Reg gion. He complete ed his Ingeniero de Caminos, C Canales y Puertoss degree at the Un niversity of Cantab bria, and he has e extended his forma ation including an Architectural Des sign Program at UNCCharlotte U (U USA) and Real Esstate Business Ma anagement Maste er (MDNI), ICADE E-ICAI. His profess sional practice inc cludes managing multidisciplinary m te eams, including urban planning, urb ban design, lands scaping, civil engin neering, environm mental and legal/financial aspects. During D his career, Flavio has completed more than 20 2 m master plans in the e United States, Europe, E Africa and d Asia, identifying new methods of city c planning and development, app proaching the soc cioeconomic and environmental cha allenges of XXI century territories fro om an innovative perspective. Flav vio has relevant ex xperience in the field of sustainable e Brownfield egeneration projects in the Atlantic Arch (Santander Water Front, Bassauri Master Plan, Aviles Innovation n Island, Ametzola a train integration in Bilbao). re

IN NIGO CALDERON N (Tecnalia Resea arch&Innovation) H He is MSc Civil En ngineer since 2007 7 by the School off Civil Engineering g of Santander (SPAIN), University y of Cantabria.

H He has professiona al experience in th he designing and calculation of stru uctures for building, civil and industtrial works, curren ntly working in Tec cnalia Research & In nnovation, as Hea ad of Advanced Sttructures.

H He is Associate Prrofessor in the Strructural and Mech hanical Engineerin ng Department of the t School of Civiil Engineering of Santander, S in the ETSICCP, since 2009.

H He is member of th he National Techn nical Committee fo or the Eurocodes AEN/CTN-140, collaborating in the e subcommittes SC1, SC3, SC4, GTGHP, GT6 and

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presiding the SC9,, he has been also o purposed recently as Spanish expert for the Evolution Groups in the e EC3 and EC4 off the CEN/TC-250 0.

C Currently he is worrking in the final stage s of the PhD thesis: “Analysis o of the Coupled Fattigue Damage on Structural Elements induced by Wind Random D Dynamic Action in Aggressive Envirronments” started in 2008.

F FERNANDO MOR RENTE BELMEZ (Tecnalia ( Researcch&Innovation) In ndustrial Engineerr /Fire Safety and Explosion Manag ger in TECNALIA R & I / Founding member of IGNIS SCONTROL SL / Spanish S representtative of the T Technical Committtee 3 – Fire Safety y of Steel Structures of the European Convention for Constructional Steelwork S (ECCS--TC3) / Member of o the Spanish T Technology Platforrm on Industrial Safety S (PESI) / Me ember of Scientificc Committee of the e International Co onference Applications of Structural Fire Engineering g (A ASFE) / Member o of the Spanish As ssociation of Tunn nels and undergro ound works (AETO OS) / Spanish Insttitutional Specialis st of the SECURE E with Steel E European Networkk / Spanish Representative of the D Draft Project Propo osal – Rules on Robustness R in the Eurocodes / Mem mber of the Spanis sh Technology P Platform construction – strategic Lin ne: Safety and Health / Member of A AEN CTN 140 EU UROCODE STRUCTURAL – SC 3 steel structures / Member of AEN C CTN 140 EUROCO ODE STRUCTUR RAL – GT6 Robusttness / Spanish re epresentative of th he CEN / TC 250//SC 3 Eurocode 3 – Design of steel Structures.

X XABAT OREGI (Te ecnalia Research&Innovation) X Xabat Oregi Isasi o obtained his diploma in architecture e from ETSASS in n 2008. He has a master’s degree on o Light Façade organized o

by UPV V – Tecnalia and he h iss doing a research h Master in Energy Efficiency. Currrently he has a gra ant to research pe ersonnel from the Department of Ed ducation of the Ba asque Governmen nt and he is carrying out their research h in Tecnalia. Duriing the last 3 yearrs he has perform med research proje ects related to ene ergy efficiency and d simulation. In urn, he has taughtt simulation progrrams as Design Builder and Ecotecct in different cours ses and masters. Last 2 years, he was w a teacher in architecture a tu department of UPV V.

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JOSEBA GARMEN NDIA (Tecnalia Re esearch&Innovatiion) Joseba Garmendia a Arzalluz graduatted from The School of Engineering g of San Sebastia an, of the University of Navarra. Afte er working for a engineering e servic ce nd being part of a engineering depa artment of a large e industry, in 2010 0 he arrived to TEC CNALIA to work as a energy auditor in bureau dedicated tto construction, an hat period he has participated in wo orkshops on enerrgy auditing and energy efficiency, and a he also collab borated as a teach her in several buildings. During th courses related witth that subject.

P PIERLUIGI D’ACU UNTO (ETH Zurich h, AA London) H He received his Diploma in Architec cture and Civil Eng gineering with Hon nours from the Un niversity of Pisa (Italy) and a Maste er of Architecture with w Distinction frrom the Architectu ural Association School S of Architectture in London (UK). Since 2006, he has been gaining professional experience as an n Architect and an n E Engineer in private e practices in Italy y and Japan. He h has been awarded d in several national and internation nal architectural co ompetitions. He is s currently a R Research Assistan nt at the Chair of Structural S Design at the Swiss Fede eral Institute of Te echnology (ETH) in Zurich. His rese earch is primarily focused f on exploring the convergence of Archite ecture and Engine eering within the d domain of Emerge ence.

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G GUY AUSTERN (A AA London) C Currently studying at the Emergent Technologies gra aduate program in the AA, London, Guy Austern has both a B.Sc. in Computer C Science from the Hebrew w U University, Jerusalem, Israel(2001), and a B.Arch. fro om the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology(2007 7). As a practicing g architect, Guy ha as worked for N NCArchitects in Isrrael, dealing with large scale publicc structures, speciializing in retail ce enters, complex sttructural systems, as well as digitally oriented sustainable design ns. Guy has taugh ht courses in the C COMAS college, Issrael and the IAAC, Spain, focusing g on the use of ad dvanced software tools for creating esponsive structurres. His graduate tthesis deals with tthe potential of cu ustom designed so oftware tools to ge enerate sustainab ble urban tissues environmentally re on various scales.

T TOBIAS JEWSON N (AA London) B Born in Stockholm, Tobias Jewson moved m to London after completing his bachelor’s degree at the Royal Institute of Techn nology, Stockholm m. In 2009 he joine ed th he Architectural A Association’s interm mediate unit 7 the en run by Kate Da avies and Liam Yo oung. He’s part 1 project p ‘Data Foss sils’ was awarded a commendation n frrom the RIBA President’s Medals Student S Awards. A After spending a yyear working at Fo oreign Office Architects and Alejand dro Zaera-Polo Arrchitecture, he is now back at the AA A about to comme ence his final yearr at the diploma school.

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V VINCENZO REALE (AA London) V Vincenzo Reale grraduated in 2010 from f the Universitty of Bologna (Ma aster Course in Bu uilding Engineering g and Architecture e) under the supe ervision of prof.

A Alessio Erioli, Univversity of Bologna and prof. Ludovicco Lombardi, UCL L & Zaha Hadid Architects. He is a qualified Enginee er since 2010, and d currently an MSC C E Emergent Technologies and Design n candidate at Arcchitectural Associa ation London. He collaborated with some contemporrary architecture firms such as Tom m W Wiscombe’s Emerg gent Architecture (2011). He also h held a long-term ccollaboration with the t contemporary y theater company y Societas Raffaello Sanzio. In 2012 he was one of the organizer of Supe er-Surface Fabrica ation (python scrip pting and fabrication workshop) at Architectural A Asso ociation London.

G GIANCARLO TOR RPIANO (AA Lond don) C Completed Bachelor’s degree in Arc chitecture and Strructural Engineerin ng at the University of Malta, before e moving to Londo on to undertake an a M.Arch in E Emergent Design a at the Architectura al Association, wh here he is currentlly studying. His main interests are algorithmic a design n focussed on emergent behaviours s, natural structures, structural enginee ering and computtational techniques. He has led worrkshops on digital architecture in Malta and at the Arrchitectural A Association.

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4. SITE P Punta Zorroza, Bilb bao http://maps.google e.co.uk/maps?saddr=Calle+de+Herrm%C3%B3geness+Rojo&daddr=Bilbao,+Espa%C3% %B1a&hl=es&ie=U UTF8&sll=43.2773 393,2.962446&sspn=0.038743,0.104628 8&geocode=FUBg glAIdaKLS_w%3B BFYMMlAIdT2TT_ _ympDhhmK05OD DTHQnstzgvUEB BA&t=h&gl=uk&mrra=mift&mrsp=0&s sz = =14&z=14

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5. VENUE A AlhóndigaBilbao house es one of the city's mos st representative build dings, a cultural and le eisure space with a varied offering for everyo one visiting it. A m meeting point to share, learn and enjoy differrent cultural, leisure an nd sporting proposals,, individually, in groups or as a family, which h are suitable for alll publics.

The 43,000 sq m of Alh hóndigaBilbao are loca ated in the city’s forme er wine warehouse. A building with a modernist air, declared an "A Asset of Cultural In nterest" by the Basque e Government in 1999, where past, present and future all merge into one. The façades and part of the space designed by the Bilbao architect Ricardo o Bastida at the beginning of the 20th centu ury have been retained d and refurbished. The e outside classic style contrasts with th he interior urban space e, designed in a singular, innovative and sober way by Philippe S Starck, which crystallise es the life and energy of the city of Bilbao.

Exhibitions, concerts, le ectures, children’s workshops, physical actiivities of all kinds, a re eading area, a place to have a coffee… Alh hóndigaBilbao has a wide variety of thingss on every day, thanks s to its programme of activities and events o of multiple disciplines and its extensive opening times. Either if you make us a one-offf visit or if you live nearby, you will always ffind an attractive offerring that matches yourr tastes for you to enjo oy yourself.

http://www.alhondigabilbao.com/ P Plaza Arriquibar, 4 4. 48008 Bilbao

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