Academic Programs by IaaC

The institute MISSION, VISION & VALUES

IAAC OBJECTIVES

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22 @ CAMPUS

VALLDAURA CAMPUS

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

FAB LAB BARCELONA

VALLDAURA GREEN FAB LAB

FAB LAB PROGRAMS

LECTURE SERIES

IAAC PEOPLE

Master in cities and technology WORLD OF CITIES

PROGRAM ORGANIZATION

PROGRAM OCTOBER-JUNE

TUITION FEES

Mact Studios and seminars APPLICATION / DESIGN RESEARCH STUDIO

THEORY OF CITIES

STRATEGIC PLANNING SEMINARS

TECHNOLOGY SEMINARS

URBAN DESIGN SEMINARS

MACT COLLABORATIVE ENTITIES

Master in advanced architecture PROGRAM ORGANIZATION

FIRST YEAR: OCTOBER 2016 - JUNE 2017

SECOND YEAR: OCTOBER 2017 - JUNE 2018

OTF SEMESTER SEPTEMBER / FEBRUARY

TUITION FEES

MAA First year INTELLIGENT CITIES - RESEARCH LINE RS.I

SELF SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS - RESEARCH LINE RS.II

100

DIGITAL MATTER INTELLIGENT CONSTRUCTIONS - RESEARCH LINE RS.III

106

ADVANCED INTERACTION - RESEARCH LINE RS.IV

112

DESIGN WITH NATURE - RESEARCH LINE RS.V

118

INTRODUCTORY STUDIO

124

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

128

Maa second year INDIVIDUAL MASTER THESIS PROJECT

138

Open thesis fabrication OPEN THESIS FABRICATION APPLIED RESEARCH PROGRAM

148

OTF COLLABORATIVE ENTITIES 154 TUITION FEES

156

general information APPLICATIONS, GRADING SYSTEM AND MORE

158

THE INSTITUTE The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia â&#x20AC;&#x201C; IAAC is an international centre for Education, Fabrication and Research dedicated to the development of architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges in constructing 21st century habitability. Based in the 22@ district of Barcelona, one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capitals of architecture and urbanism, not to mention the European Capital for Innovation (2014), IAAC is a platform for the exchange of knowledge with researchers, faculty and students from over 60 countries around the world. IAAC is Education, with the Master in Advanced Architecture and the Master in City & Technology giving the next generation of architects the space to imagine, test and shape the future of cities, architecture and technology. This is possible through Open Thesis Fabrication, implementing of Applied Research and allowing learning by doing, as well as through short programs, implementing global agendas developed through local solutions, as the Global Summer School. IAAC is Fabrication, with the Fab Lab Barcelona, the most advanced digital production laboratory in Southern Europe, a laboratory where you can build almost everything, that recently hosted Fab10, the 10th annual worldwide Fab Lab conference. IAAC is Research, with Valldaura Labs, a self sufficient research centre located in the Collserola Metropolitan park, 20 minutes from the centre of Barcelona, where a series of laboratories are implemented for the production and testing of Energy, Food and Things.

IAAC Students 2000-2016 And IAAC is also Barcelona, the European Capital for Innovation (2014), the city that aims to be a self-sufficient city, a Fab Lab city, a smarter city. Thanks to its innovative visions, IAAC is strategically aligned to the new urban policies of the city, developed in close collaboration and mutual inspiration between the two entities. The Institute develops multidisciplinary programs that explore international urban and territorial phenomena, with a special emphasis on the opportunities that arise from the emergent territories, and on the cultural, economic and social values that architecture can contribute to society today. IAAC sets out to take R+D to architecture and urbanism and create multidisciplinary knowledge networks. To this end the institute works in collaboration with a number of cities and regions, industrial groups, research centres, including the City Council of Barcelona, the Collserola Natural Park, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Centre for Information Technology and Architeture (CITA), the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc), as well as diverse companies among which CISCO, Endesa, Kuka Robotics and many others. Together with these the Institute develops various research programs bringing together experts in different disciplines such as architecture, engineering, biology, sociology, anthropology and other fields of investigation. IaaC has made its name as a centre of international reference, welcoming students and investigators from over 60 different countries among which Australia, the USA, India, Brasil, Russia, Ethiopia, all European countries and many others. 9

MISSION, VISION & VALUES MISSION The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is a vanguard academic and research center whose mission is to promote scientific and technological innovation in the conception, design and construction of the human habitat, at all scales (from bits to geography), integrating technological, social and cultural innovations of our time and contributing to the consolidation of Barcelona as a global platform for the urban habitat. To this extent IAAC works with a multidisciplinary approach, facing the challenges posed by our environment and shaping the future of cities, architecture and technology. This is obtained through the focus on select criteria: - Design for Self-sufficiency - Application of ICT (Information and communication technologies) at all levels of daily life. - Contribution to the distributed networks in the conception of the environment. - Advanced digital and parametric design. - Digital and Robotic Fabrication

vision IAAC encourages innovation and construction of the human habitat, offering a working environment in the following areas: - Education through academic programs for graduate students and international faculty and students, continuous education programs in design, interaction, architecture, urbanism and landscape. - Research by developing projects to expand the boundaries of architecture, in collaboration with experts from multiple disciplines. - The development of innovation projects with companies and institutions that define role models, responding to global realities. - The promotion of projects through publications, exhibitions and competitions developed physically and virtually. For all this, IAAC works with local and global organisations participating in multidisciplinary knowledge networks. It promotes the transformation from its humanistic ideology based on learning by doing.

VALUES COMPACT An organization that is flexible, agile, quick, able to anticipate new challenges of our time.

NATURAL Promoting connected self sufficiency, according to the rules of biological ecosystems, to help build a more ecological and social world.

INDEPENDENT Private foundation that collaborates with individuals, universities, companies and public organizations to innovate in the human habitat and interaction.

HOLISTIC Broad overview of the conception, design and construction of the human habitat, and this works at all scales, in interaction with multiple disciplines.

GLOBAL In thought and action, in the origin of human capital, learning from the diversity of the world, promoting the construction of local realities with very specific identity.

SOCIAL Important social base, from interaction with individuals, companies and organizations that promote innovation in the construction of the human habitat, prioritizing talent and avoiding social and economic estigmation.

INFORMATIONAL Recognition of digital systems as a technological base that transform our world today, integration of technologies and processes associated in all the areas of their action.

IAAC OBJECTIVES – To underline and reinforce our position as a worldwide reference for education and research, as well as for self sufficiency and digital fabrication, through the consolidation and expansion of research projects, as well as offering up to date and evolving academic programs. – To expand our collaborations with strategic public and private partnerships both nationally and internationally. – To strengthen our consultancy role by creating specific alliances with industries that promote and support applied research.

– To actively pursue an agenda of activities related to green architecture, sustainability and renewable energies through the development of the Green Fab Lab, the Food Lab and the Energy Lab. – To enhance our current work and profile as a specialised think tank for innovative strategies within the fields of urban planning and urban design with particular attention to the Smart Cities challenge.

Barcelona is... MODERNISM: 7 works by Gaudi are UNESCO World Heritage sites. IMAGE: Almost 2.500 film shoots took place in the city during 2015. CULTURE: 50 museums and exhibition centers, Palau de la Musica, Sonar, Primavera Sound etc. Barcelona is part of the Network of UNESCO Creative Cities as City of Literature since 2015. SPORT: In addition to the pulling force of FC Barcelona, the city also hosts several international sporting events each year; these include the X Games, the World Swimming Championship etc.

PROFITABLE: Since 2000, Barcelona has been the top European city in terms of the quality of life of employees (Report by Cushman & Wakefield and Cinco Dias). TOURISM: More than 15,5 million foreign tourists visited Barcelona in 2015. AFFORDABLE: Barcelona is not among the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50 most expensive cities (according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting). MOBILE: The city will continue to host the Mobile World Congress (MWC) until 2018. Barcelona welcomes more than 70.000 visitors during this annual event.

FACILITIES AND LOCATIONS

22 @ CAMPUS The Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia is located in the Poblenou neighbourhood of Barcelona, in the recently created district known as 22@, a focus for companies and institutions oriented toward the knowledge society. The neighbourhood is close to the historic centre, the seafront, the Plaça de les Glòries and the Sagrera APT station, making it the most dynamic enclave in the city.

IAAC is housed in an old factory building, with 2,000 m² of space for research, production and dissemination of architecture, so that the space itself is a declaration of principles, embodying an experimental and productive approach to architecture. The IAAC premises include the Fab Lab Barcelona, an architecture and design oriented fabrication laboratory which is part of the global network of Fab Labs set up by The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT. The Green Fab Lab, hosted in IAAC’s forest campus in the Valldaura Labs, is also part of the same global network, a fabrication laboratory this time oriented towards self sufficient and productive solutions.

FACILITIES AND LOCATIONS

VALLDAURA campus Valldaura is IAACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second campus located in the Collserola Park, the natural centre of the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Valldaura campus is a large park and testing ground for innovation that features the latest technologies in the fields of energy, information and fabrication. The core of this innovative project developed by IAAC is a laboratory to implement investigation and set a new bench marck for self sufficieny. The Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs express a new concept for sustainability established by IAAC. Its aim is to create a sustainable, consciously designed ecology using both cutting edge technology and traditional craftmanship. Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs Centre is a place at the forefront of developing a new concept of habitability placing people as the centre of all actions. Local self-sufficiency is promoted in the use of the environment, and the expansion of knowledge is promoted through the participation in global information networks to share and generate progress. The Valldaura Self Sufficient labs and its three Laboratories, Food Lab, Energy Lab and Green Fab Lab; allow to research the specificities of the production of key elements involved in self sufficiency: food, energy and things, combining ancestral knowledge that connects us to nature with the latest advanced technology.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAmS IAAC Educational Programs give the next generation of architects the space to imagine, test and shape the future of cities, architecture and technology through applied research, learning by doing, and implementing global agendas developed through local solution. IAAC is also part of the European consortium InnoChain, a consortium of six renowed research institutions and 14 leading industry partners: an interdisciplinary network developing PhD research in innovative building design practice under the Horizon 2020 program.

MAA01 - 1 year, 75 ects MASTER IN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE

MAA02 - 2 years, 130 ects MASTER IN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE

The MAA01 - Master in Advanced Architecture Program is oriented to graduates who wish to commit and develop their design research skills in the context of new forms of practice within architecture and urbanism, ranging from large scale environments to tectonic details and material properties. In order to allow the highest quality and applied research, the Masters in Advanced Architecture proposes a multidisciplinary approach, considering architecture as a transversal field, for which it is imperative to integrate all research and applications with the knowledge of specialists form a diversity of fields of expertise. The MAA01 emerges as an Innovative Structure focusing on five select Research Lines all led by Internationally renowned experts, and bringing together students and faculty from different disciplines and origins, towards the creation of a Networked Hub dedicated to Research and Innovation for the habitability of the 21st Century. The program is organized in four phases: three terms and the final project development phase.

The MAA02 program combines the first year Master (MAA01) with a second year of investigation towards the development of a thesis project. This program allows senior students, already having developed the appropriate sensibility and tools from MAA01, to get further a personal investigation, around the themes of the advanced technology, architecture and urbanism. During this second year students are required to deal with a project counting on the possibility of developing it with international faculty and enterprises, highly specialized in different fields. During the second year each student will propose and develop his/her Individual Thesis Project through an academic program structured in: - Individual Tutoring with internationally renowed experts that will support the student in the development and in the theoretical definition of the thesis project - Seminars focused on the topics of Advanced Digital Tools, Research Methodology and 1:1 Fabrication The thesis, sumbitted in publication format, can be developed according to diverse research methodologies.

GSS GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL

VISITING PROGRAMS

The Global Summer School (GSS) is a platform defined by ambitious, multiscalar investigation into the implications of emergent techniques on our planned environments. The program develops a global agenda in various institutions around the world, each focussing on developing localised solutions.International teams located in key cities around the globe explore a common agenda with projects that are deeply embedded in diverse local conditions. This intensive two week course connects each participant to ongoing research agendas in robotics, simulation, physical computing, parametric design, digital fabrication, and other relevant emerging design methodologies. The program focuses on a global agenda developing local solutions.

Every year, IAAC organises and takes part in a number of international educational programs and projects. IAAC annually participates in Global Architecture & Design exchange program organised by CIEE, international education and exchange centre. Global Architecture&Design Program simultaneously runs in three locations: Barcelona, Berlin and Prague. Students are working with leading architecture and design experts and innovators to complete a real world design project within an emerging global context. This program aims to pursue hands on design work in a state of the art studio using the latest technology to address an aspect of the current global environmental crisis.

Mact - 1 year, 75 ects MASTER IN CITY & TECHNOLOGY

OTF - 6 months, 25 ects OPEN THESIS FABRICATION

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is launching an EU accredited Master program in City & Technology (MaCT). In an effort of understanding the needs for the habitability of the 21st century cities and the significant role of technology for the formation of the new urban environments IAAC proposes a new Master program oriented in training Change Makers that City Government Administrations, the Industry and Communities need in order to develop projects for the transformation of the cities.

The aim of the program, in line with the opportunity of making a difference, is to develop research to be applied through patents or products for marketing. This will be obtained through the common goal of researching of different fabrication techniques, materials and form, towards the implementation of a large scale prototype, understanding the potentials of digital fabrication together with new needs of current society and the market. All the IAAC BUILDs researchers will be working together in 1 group towards a collective goal and project, in turn subdivided into different specialized research teams each focusing on a specific aspect of the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development. Hence the implementation of a 1:1 scale prototype allowing to test techniques and materials on real scale. IAAC BUILDs follows in the footsteps of OTF developing the applied research in partnership companies, whose involvement will vary according to project focus. The program also counts on the collaboration of experts in various fields such as engineering and structures, materials, technical components, and much more, allowing the development of a full scale and fully functioning prototype.

The Master program represents an effort of facilitating the exchange of knowledge and the mutual learning of urban experiences among cities. MaCT foresees new city economy and new city management models for the creation of a decentralized, productive and social city of the future.

FAB LABS

FAB LAB BARCELONA FabLab Barcelona is one of the leading laboratories of the worldwide network of Fab Labs, a small scale production and innovation center equipped with digital fabrication tools and technologies for the production of objects, prototypes and electronics. Fab Lab Barcelona is part of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, where it support different educational and research programs related with the multiple scales of the human habitat. It is also the headquarters of the global coordination of the Fab Academy program in collaboration with the Fab Foundation and the MITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Bits and Atoms; the Fab Academy is a distributed platform of education and research in which each Fab Labs operates as a classroom and the planet as the campus of the largest University in construction in the world, where students learn about the principles, applications and implications of digital manufacturing technology. The Fab Lab Barcelona has produced projects such as Hyperhabitat IAAC (official selection for the Venice Biennale XXI) or the Fab Lab House (Audience Award in the first Solar Decathlon Europe in Madrid). It is currently developing projects in different scales, from smart devices for data collection by individuals (Smart Citizen innovative project award in the Smart City Expo and World Congress in Barcelona), the development of the new generation of Fab Labs in the Green Fab Lab project, to the new production models for cities with the Fab City project being implemented in Barcelona in collaboration with the city council.

Fab Labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission is to provide access to the tools, the knowledge and the financial means to educate, innovate and invent using technology and digital fabrication to allow anyone to make (almost) anything, and thereby creating opportunities to improve lives and livelihoods around the world. Community organizations, educational institutions and non-profit concerns are our primary beneficiaries.

FAB LABS

VALLDAURA GREEN FAB LAB “LEARNING FROM NATURE TO CHANGE THE WORLD”

As a part of the Fab City network, the Green Fab Lab works towards the creation of a self sufficient habitat and research centre at Valldaura Labs, one of IAAC’s campus locations. Located in the Collserola Natural Park, in the heart of the metropolitan area of Barcelona it has laboratories for the production of energy, food and things, and develops projects and academic programmes in association with leading research centres around the world.

As part of IAAC’s commitment to promoting and advancing habitability in the world on the basis of ecological principles and to making the fullest use of all available technologies and resources, we have created a research centre focused on the idea of self sufficiency, with a view to providing a worldwide point of reference. The Green Fab Lab offers an opportunity to learn directly from nature in order to bring that understanding to the regeneration of 21st century cities.

FAB LABS

FAB lab programs fab academy

The Fab Academy Diploma consists of a 5 month part time student commitment, from January to June 2016. Each Fab Lab that participates in the Fab Academy program is part of a global Fab Lab / Fab Academy network. These Fab Labs are Nodes that offer the Fab Academy program. Fab Academy faculty, who are leaders in their respective fields, provide global video lectures, supervise academic content and guide research. Handson instruction in the labs is provided by instructors who supervise and evaluate Certificates, develop and disseminate instructional material, and assist with projects The Fab Academy is directed by Neil Gershenfeld, produced by Sherry Lassiter and coordinated by Tomas Diez.

Students at the Fab Academy learn: -How to use a Fab Labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s digital fabrication tools for rapid prototyping: Epilog Mini Laser Cutter, Roland MDX-20 Milling Machine, 3D printers, Roland CAMM-1 Servo GX-24 Desktop Vinyl Cutter, ShopBot CNC Milling Machine -Electronics design and production by producing circuit boards using a variety of sensors and output devices. -How to program AVR microcontrollers on the boards they have produced -Molding and casting -3D scanning and printing The program requires a minimum of 30 hours per week.

fab kids

workshops

The Fab Kids, is a creative laboratory that favors the development of intelligence, creativity and imagination of children and youth. It is a place where thinking is encouraged and innovation occurs, a space where educational and recreational activities take place, focused on design and digital fabrication.

Fab Lab Barcelona offers a program of workshops focused both on specific aspects of Advanced Digital and Robotic Fabrication, as well as spreading knowledge and empowering citizens and creative people. Some of the latest workshops include: Computational couture, 3d printing, building with robots, cutting and blending, extreme manufacturing, making things talk, mold's fabrication and objects production, networking environmental robotics (NERO), and much more. 23

RESEARCH

special PROJECTS 1

As part of IAACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment towards the investigation of new and emerging areas of the Architectural discipline, pilot projects are launched on a yearly basis. These projects, such as the Fab Lab House (1) , the Endesa Pavillion (2) , Hyperhabitat (3) and Smart Citizen Kit (4), operate in the field between academia, architectural practice and information technologies, and are designed and fabricated by IAAC faculty, students and collaborative companies..

These projects operate in a number of scales, from 1:1 architectural interventions to pocket sized microprocessors, all sharing a common vision of investigation towards a more sustainable and socially empowering design approach. All projects have been welcomed with considerable success, with various distinctions in events such as the Solar Decathlon and the Venice Biennale, as well as being published in a number of reviews and publications. In the development process of these pilot projects, IAAC collaborates with a network of partners from various disciplines, including leading universities and innovative companies.

RESEARCH

special PROJECTS 2014/2016 2014 - fab10 barcelona In 2014 IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona organized the 10th annual Fab Lab Conference and Symposium, hosted in the Barcelona Design HUB. FAB10 gathered the global Fab Lab Network and citizens of Barcelona making it a FAB City. FAB10 also gathered the international Fab Lab community, more than 350 laboratories based in more than 40 different countries, and hosted the FAB Festival and Fab City Symposium, open to all the citizens of Barcelona. During one week the events focused on open and accessible technologies that will change the world.

2015 - BEYOND // INNOVATION PAVILION The Pavilion of Innovation 2015 in Beyond Building Barcelona, curated by IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona, presented new ideas and construction paradigms emerging from international excellence in research and pilot projects, forming the basis of future buildings and cities. Novel and reactive materials, advanced digital/robotic manufacturing techniques and responsive environments were the key topics presented, towards shaping the future of the building industry.

events

RESEARCH

special PROJECTS 2014/2016 2015 - Pluja de llum // llum bcn The Llum Bcn festival of lights takes place each year in February. In the occasion of the 2015 edition, IAAC realized an illuminated installation that combines art, tradition and technology. The concept of the installation follows a mixture of the elements of the tale of Santa Eulalia, in particular her tears, transforming these into a conceptual rain. A rain of light, emanating from translucent vertical elements interacting with sounds and music.

2014 - datanet // llum bcn In the occasion of the Llum Bcn 2014, in the courtyard of the Museu Frederic Marés in Barcelona, IAAC ‘plants’ DATA NET, a new artificial tree, forming an interactive mesh. The intensity of light of the installation changes, reacting to the location and the density of the visitors through a series of sensors that track peoples’ movement.

2014 - LIBERTY Designed and fabricated for the Re.Set festival, a circuit of ephimerous architecture in the streets of Barcelona., Liberty follows the concept of FREEDOM. Knowledge provides freedom and progress; and the power of freedom is expressed through reading. This installation consists of three different trees whose trunks and branches are made out of steel, while the leaves are made of books, and the earth made of concrete. Liberty activates a new public space becoming a shadowed bench and a new relational area in the city centre. 28

active public spaces

RESEARCH

special PROJECTS 2014/2016 2014 - bb make The BB Make structure, developed by IAAC for the Beijing Design Week 2014, explored the potentials of new technologies applied to design, through the generation of a participative collaborative structure, enhancing local materials with advanced technologies. The structure consisted in bamboo beams, a well known local construction material, held together with digitally fabricated joints, in particular 3D printed joints and CNC milled joints, fabricated onsite.

2014 - endesa world fab condenser Pavilion for the FAB10 Symposium (July 2nd to 8th, 2014). Initial design by Margen-Lab, produced by IAAC and collaborative designed, built, and customized by the Fab Lab Network.

2014 - catalan vault IAAC MAA01, in collaboration with Map13 Architects have realized a Parametrized Catalan Vault, fruit of a 2 week long workshop in Valldaura Labs. Advanced digital tools along with traditional century old Catalan masonry techniques was developed in the process, with students seeking to re-engineer, compute, and construct a Vault in the forest. IAAC is also furthering this research investigating in the field of advanced robotic fabrication techniques towards the implementation and automization of these complex catalan vault forms. 30

1:1 fabrication

lecture programme

LECTURE series Since 2000 the Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Advanced Architecture runs an international lecture program in which architects and experts from a variety of different disciplines present their work at IAAC. The lectures are open to the public, consisting in a high quality cultural activity open to the city of Barcelona.

2014/2016 lecturers Elizabeth Diller Bob Sheil Laura Andreini Li Xiangning Izaskun Chinchilla Oscar Tomico Mitchell Joachim Farshid Moussavi Giovanna Carnevali Rodolphe el-Khoury Alberto Diaspro Alfredo Brillembourg Hubert Klumpner Andrew Watts Jose Luis de Vicente Dave Pigram Jelle Feringa Aaron Betsky Ali Basbous + Luis Fraguada Kengo Kuma Jan Knippers Yael Reisner Manuel Jimenez Garcia Winy Maas

MAA 2014-15 - Lecture Series Kengo Kuma

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lecture programme

LECTURE series previous lecturers Shigeru Ban Michel Rojkind Matthias Kohler Peter Eisenman Farshid Moussavi Bjarke Ingels Peter Cook Ricardo Bofill Ben Van Berkel Gunter Pauli Enric Ruiz-Geli Brett Steele Pepe Ballesteros Laura Cantarella Santiago Cirugeda Parejo Luca Galofaro Lourdes García Sogo Adriaan Geuze Xaveer de Geyter Toyo Ito Francisco Jarauta Young Joon Kim Kamiel Klaasse Anne Lacaton Duncan Lewis Greg Lynn Winy Maas Josep Lluís Mateo Fernando Menis Alfredo Payá Jaime Salazar Max Sanjulián Charles Renfro Amadeu Santacana Mark Wigley 34

Yung Ho Chang ILSA & Andreas Ruby Jacub Szczesny Jou Min Lin Lucy Bullivant Momoyo Kaijima Manuel Bailo + Rosa Rull Andres Cánovas Andrés Jaque Carlos Arroyo Angel Borrego Colectivo Zuloark Ana Salinas Maria Auxiliadora Galvez Isabela Wieczorek Ecosistema Urbano Claudia Pasquero Marco Poletto Bernhard Franken Sabine Müller Bostian Vuga Axel Kilian Benedetta Tagliabue Alejandro Gutierrez Juan Herreros Winka Dubbeldam Hanif Kara Neil Leach Minsuk Cho Alfonso Vegara Behrok Khoshnevis Stephen Wolfman Caterina Tiazzoldi Jaime Lerner Massimiliano Fuksas

Rajendra Kumar Ariadna Alvarez Garreta Manuel de Landa Manuel Gausa John Palmesino Maurizio Carta Philippe Rahm Eva Franch Benjamin Barber Francis Soler Maria Sisternas Mosè Ricci Massimo Banzi Simon Schleicher Ronen Kadushin Ethel Baraona Hernan Diaz Alonso Luca Galofaro Maria Aiolova Mette Ramsgaard Thompsen David Mocarski Neil Leach Richard Blythe Ben Flanner Marco Poletto Anupama Kundoo Arndt Goldack George Jeronimidis Eric Owen Moss and many others...

MAA 2014-15- Opening Lecture Winy Maas

MAA 2014-15- Lecture Series Jos[ Luis De Vicente

MAA 2014-15- Opening Lecture Winy Maas

MAA 2014-15- Lecture Series

MAA 2014-15- Lecture Series Rodolphe El-Khoury

iaac People

IAAC PEOPLE

senior faculty ARETI MARKOPOULOU ACADEMIC DIRECTOR MAA_DIGITAL MATTER STUDIO MaCT_RESEARCH STUDIO OTF_IAAC BUILDS

SILVIA BRANDI

EDOUARD CABAY

OTF_IAAC BUILDS MAA_EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURES

MAA_INTRODUCTORY STUDIO

MARCOS CRUZ MAA02 THESIS ADVISOR

MaCT_ RESEARCH STUDIO

ALEXANDRE DUBOR

MANUEL GAUSA

OTF_IAAC BUILDS MAA_ DIGITAL FABRICATION

THEORY OF ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE

VICENTE GUALLART

CARLOS GOMEZ

MAA02 THESIS ADVISOR MaCT_RESEARCH STUDIO

TOMAS DIEZ

MAA_ADVANCED INTERACTION STUDIO

MIREIA LUZÁRRAGA

MATHILDE MARENGO

MAA_SELF SUFFICIENT BUILDING STUDIO

ACADEMIC COORDINATOR MAA_URBAN SCIENCES MaCT_RESEARCH STUDIO

WILLY MÜLLER

JORDI PAGÉS

MAA_INTELLIGENT CITIES STUDIO MaCT_URBAN DESIGN

MAA02 THESIS ADVISOR

CLAUDIA PASQUERO

JAVIER PEÑA

MAA_INTRODUCTORY STUDIO

MAA_DESIGN WITH NATURE STUDIO

RODRIGO RUBIO

ENRIC RUIZ GELI

MAA_DESIGN WITH NATURE STUDIO MaCT_RESEARCH STUDIO

MAA_SELF SUFFICIENT BUILDING STUDIO

LLUIS VIU

CARMELO ZAPPULLA

MAA02 THESIS ADVISOR

MAA_iNTRODUCTORY STUDIO

IAAC PEOPLE

SEMINAR faculty

CARMEN AGUILAR Y WEDGE

RODRIGO AGUIRRE

MAA_PHYSICAL COMPUTING

MAA_COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN

STEFFEN BECKER

MAITE BRAVO

MaCT_TECHNOLOGY

MAA_THEORY OF ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE

ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG

MARK BURRY

MAA_URBAN SCIENCES

MAA_ DIGITAL FABRICATION

GUILLEM CAMPRODÓN

ALBERT CAÑIGUERAL

MAA_PHYSICAL COMPUTING

MaCT_STRATEGIC PLANNING

ORIOL CARRASCO

FRAN CASTILLO

MAA_DESIGN WITH NATURE STUDIO

MaCT_DIGITAL TOOLS

MARCELLA DEL SIGNORE

GONZALO DELACÁMARA

MaCT_URBAN PLANNING

MAA_THEORY OF ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE

RICARDO DEVESA

JOSÉ LUIS DE VICENTE

MAA_THEORY OF ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE

MaCT_STRATEGIC PLANNING

LUIS FALCÓN

CARLES FERREIRO

MaCT_THEORY OF CITY GUEST

MaCT_TECHNOLOGY

IGNASI FONTANALS

LUIS FRAGUADA

MaCT_THEORY OF CITY GUEST

GEMMA GALDÓN CLAVELl

MaCT_THEORY OF CITIES GUEST

MAA_COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN

MARCO INGRASSIA MAA_COORDINATOR MAA_URBAN SCIENCES

IAAC PEOPLE

MARIA KUPTSOVA

MAA & OTF COORDINATOR INTRODUCTORY STUDIO COORDINATOR

MaCT_STRATEGIC PLANNING

WINY MAAS

MATHILDE MARENGO

MaCT_ URBAN PLANNING

ACADEMIC COORDINATOR MAA_URBAN SCIENCES MaCT_ RESEARCH STUDIO

BRUNO MOSER

ANGEL MUÑOZ

MaCT_APPLICATION/DESIGN STUDIO

MAA_PHYSICAL COMPUTING

JAVIER NIETO

HEMANT PUROHIT

MaCT_THEORY OF CITIES GUEST

CARLO RATTI MaCT_URBAN DESIGN

JÚLIA LÓPEZ I VENTURA

PABLO ROS MAA_URBAN SCIENCES

MAR SANTAMARIA

RAMIN SHAMBAYATI

MaCT_TECHNOLOGY

MAA_PHYSICAL COMPUTING

ALDO SOLLAZZO

DJORDJE STANOJEVIC

HEAD OF VISITING SCHOOL MAA_INTELLIGENT CITIES SEMINAR

MAA_ DIGITAL FABRICATION

SPYROS STRAVORADVIS

FRAN TONKISS

MAA_COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN

MANJA VAN DE WORP MAA_EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURES

MaCT_THEORY OF CITIES GUEST

JORDI VIVALDI

MAA_INTELLIGENT CITIES STUDIO MaCT_URBAN DESIGN

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

President – Oriol Soler i Castanys

Nader Tehrani

Secretary – Andrés Blay Blanch

Juan Herreros

Lucas Cappelli

Neil Gershenfeld

Sebastià Sallent (UPC)

Vicente Guallart

Ramon Ruiz

Hanif Kara

Francesc Fernandez

Willy Müller

Manuel Gausa

Rafael Diez Torrelló (ROCA)

Aaron Betsky

José Maria Milá Mencos (Santa&Cole)

Hugh Whitehead

Lluís-Xavier Comerón Graupera (COAC)

Nikos A. Salingaros Artur Serra Salvador Rueda

EXECUTIVE BOARD

DIRECTION BOARD

Oriol Soler i Castanys

Luciana Asinari

Lucas Cappelli

Silvia Brandi

Ramon Ruiz

Lucas Cappelli

Andreu Blay

Tomás Diez

Sebastià Sallent

Vicente Guallart Areti Markopoulou Ana Marti Serichol Willy Müller Oriol Soler i Castanys

MASTER & RESEARCH - ACADEMIC TEAM ACADEMIC DIRECTOR - Areti Markopoulou ACADEMIC COORDINATOR - Mathilde Marengo MAA COORDINATOR - Marco Ingrassia MAA COORDINATOR - Maria Kuptsova DIGITAL AND ROBOTIC FABRICATION - Alexandre Dubor FABRICATION & COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN EXPERT - Djordje Stanojevich HEAD OF VISITING PROGRAMS - Aldo Sollazzo HEAD OF EUROPEAN PROJECTS - Chiara Farinea THEORY ADVISOR - Maite Bravo COMPUTATIONAL EXPERT - Luis Fraguada COMPUTATIONAL EXPERT - Rodrigo Aguirre PHD CANDIDATE, INNOCHAIN - Stephanie Chaltiel PHD CANDIDATE, INNOCHAIN - Angelos Chronis ACADEMIC SECRETARY - Maria Comiche COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS - Silvia Brandi MASTER & RESEARCH COMMUNICATION MANAGER - Alice Puleo FAB LAB COMMUNICATION MANAGER - Maria Ustarro ADMISSIONS COORDINATOR - Yousef Al Nafisi

IAAC PEOPLE

FAB LAB BARCELONA TEAM FABLAB DIRECTOR - Tomas Diez FABLAB COORDINATOR - Luciana Asinari FABLAB MANAGER - Martin Seymour FABLAB PROJECT MANAGER - Guillem Campodron ADVANCED MANUFACTURING OFFICE - Anastasia Pistofidou FABLAB LOGISTIC MANAGER .- Aitor Aloa GREEN FAB LAB COORDINATOR - Jonathan Minchin FAB ACADEMY TUTOR - Ferdinand Meier FABRICATION ASSISTANT - Ingi Freyr Gudjònsson PROJECT FOR THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY DIRECTOR, PROJECT FOR THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY - Vicente Guallart OPERATIONS MANAGER, PROJECT FOR THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY - Laia Pifarré COORDINATOR, PROJECT FOR THE SELF SUFFICIENT CITY - Ruxandra Iancu Bratosin RESEARCHER - Rodrigo Rubio RESEARCHER - Alessio Salvatore Verdolino BARCELONA URBAN SCIENCES LAB DIRECTOR, BARCELONA URBAN SCIENCES LAB - Willy Müller RESEARCHER - Maite Bravo RESEARCHER - Jordi Vivaldi RESEARCHER - Jose Starsky Naya Lara

ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATION MANAGER - Ana Marti Serichol ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT - Alberto Espada SECRETARY - Ana Bosch

MASTER IN

BARCELONA 2016 - 2017 Application & Prototyping Strategic Planning Technology Urban Design Theory of Cities

www.iaac.net www.iaacblog.com www.valldaura.net www.fablabbcn.org

TO APPLY:

applications@iaac.net

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WORLD OF CITIES The next 40 years will see an unprecedented transformation in the global urban landscape. Between 2010 and 2050, the number of people living in cities will increase from 3.6 billion to 6.3 billion. Almost all of that growth will occur in developing countries. By 2025 there will be 37 megacities, each with a population greater than 10 million; 22 of those cities will be in Asia. The impacts of this new phase of urbanization on the global economy and on existing urban infrastructure and resources are already being felt. They are also spurring innovation in urban design, technologies, and services. Trillions of dollars will be spent on urban infrastructure in this period, presenting an immense opportunity for new transport management systems, smart grids, water monitoring systems, and energy efficient buildings. Information and communication technologies will

be deeply embedded in the fabric of both old and new cities and will change the way we think of city operations and how we live and work in these environments. Pike Research forecasts that the smart city technology market will grow from $6.1 billion annually in 2012 to $20.2 billion in 2020.{1} Metaphors based on futurism and utopianism have been used over the past two decades to describe the changing ICT-based city. The information era and the technological advances in communications allow specific planning and design ideas to get far away from futuristic approaches; concepts for the future agglomeration seek bottom-up processes where importance is not final aesthetics or final accountancies but rather than data and information that prepare the ground for the birth of an urban metabolism.

{1} http://www.pikeresearch.com/research/smart-cities

Urban environments have always stood in close relationship to the technologies of production, transport, and communications. By introducing ICT in spatial planning, it can be conceptualized as a new type of infrastructure providing for the transport of data or information. As technologies and their impacts on urban environment change, their relationship calls for new or adapted concepts, where the emerging pattern language of electronic connections tie in seamlessly with the language of physical connections. The great challenge for a new urban metabolism lies in the capacity of the city to interact, to give and receive information among interconnected nodes of different scales and natures (infrastructure, buildings, public space elements, environmental conditions, flows). This anticipates fundamental concepts related to the importance of proposing

symbiotic systems of organization based on real time data that can be further articulated into responsive systems and metabolic organizations, where small decisions can have a large impact at an urban scale. Cities, then, perform as organisms and become behavioral. The city is a connective network among human beings and their activities. This is what led to urbanization in the first place: individuals clustered so that communication distances would shrink to a minimum, while the number of connective nodes increased. The future city model gives a leading role to information and communication technologies as well as to user empowerment in terms of interaction and innovation. {1} www.pikeresearch.com/research/smart-cities

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MASTER IN CITY & TECHNOLOGY The Master in City and Technology is a professional Master program oriented in training the new professionals that both City Government and Industry need in order to develop projects for the transformation of the cities using the potential of technologies of information. Following up the urban research carried out by the IAAC in the last years in fields like Internet of Things, Smart Buildings, Eco neighborhoods, Internet of Energy, Hydrogrid, Digital Fabrication or Smart Cities, the Master in City and Technology is addressing the question of the implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in different layers of the urban environment. The program aims to develop new categories of projects, technologies and solutions that can be extended systematically to the cities of the world, thus helping them to become more efficient and more human. Every Master Candidate will develop technological seminars, city studies, cultural analysis, and pilot projects in order to have a global comprehension of the development of Smart City Projects based in real real life environments. Participants will be introduced to concepts such as Open Innovation and will learn the new necessary processes and tools on how cities, surrounding regions and rural areas can evolve towards sustainable open and user driven innovation ecosystems to boost future Internet research and future Internet enabled services of public interest and citizen participation. They will be developing research on new modes of Economic Governance based on Public-Private Partnerships and decentralized collaboration 52

relying on the policy networks found in civil society. Finally, Master Candidates will learn to develop and implement symbiotic systems of organization based on real time data that can be further articulated into responsive systems and metabolic organizations, where small decisions can have a large impact at an urban scale. They will learn how to make projects that integrate the design of public space and buildings, the infrastructures of services, the user interaction and the technologies of information, developing technical, social and economical skills. This will allow to develop the new economy of city services and the new models of city management that boost the potential of the Internet of Everything. From urban planning to urban management and citizen-based services the Master in City and Technology foresee new city economy and new city management models through the creation of efficient, responsive, decentralized, productive and hyper connected systems to be implemented in order to build the city of the future.

The Master program is oriented to engineers, architects, designers, economists and graduates in any discipline related with the transformation and management of cities and technologies of information.

The program will be developed with the collaboration of companies and industry, and will form new professionals interested in leading this new field of city economy that is emerging worldwide.

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PROGRAM ORGANIZATION The Master in City and Technology is an innovative educational format that offers interdisciplinary skills and understanding through the research on new categories of projects, technologies and solutions related with information and communication technologies in urban environments. IAAC gives students the opportunity to create individual Studio agendas and develop Pilot Thesis Projects based on Citizen Innovation, New City Business Models, Urban Apps, Smart City Infrastructure, new Citizen-based Services, Open Data Development and more. In this way, IAAC puts together an experimental and learning environment for the training of professionals with both theoretical and practical responses to the increasing complexity of contemporary urban environments. Students have the opportunity to be part of a highly international group, including faculty members, researchers and lecturers, in which they are encouraged to develop collective decision-making processes and materialize their project ideas. The Master program represents an effort of facilitating the exchange of knowledge and the mutual learning of urban experiences among cities. Barcelona is considered to be at the forefront for urban strategic planning, awarded the European Capital of Innovation (“iCapital” – 2014) prize “for introducing the use of new technologies to bring the city closer to citizens” by the European Commission. MaCT foresees new city economy and new city management models for the creation of a decentralized, productive and social city of the future, forming graduates that will become the change makers in our future cities. The Master develops seminars, studios and master classes along 5 main thematics: Theory, Strategic Planning, Technology, Urban Design, and Studios (Data, Strategy and Design). The Master in City and Technology comprises the following elements:

tc.

THEORY OF CITIES - INTRODUCTORY STUDIO

sp.

STRATEGIC PLANNING SEMINARS

te.

TECHNOLOGY SEMINARS

ud.

URBAN DESIGN SEMINARS & WORKSHOP

st.

DATA, STRATEGY AND DESIGN STUDIO

ls.

LECTURE SERIES

rt.

RESEARCH TRIP

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program october-june

The following program refers to the Academic Year 2015-2016. The program for the Academic Year 2016-2017 may suffer variations.

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Tuition fees Tuition for students attending mact (75 ects: 1 year) Tuition for the year 2016/2017 is 15,000€. The selected candidates must send to the Institute a scanned proof of a down payment of 2,500€ to confirm participation, maximum 4 weeks after their accpetance. The remaining part of the tuition fee (12,500€) may be paid either in one or two intallments, 60% (7,500€), before September 1st, 2016 and 40% (5,000€) before December 1st, 2016.

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Mact studios and seminars

The following program refers to the Academic Year 2015-2016. The program for the Academic Year 2016-2017 may suffer minor variations.

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technology

APPLICATION / DESIGN RESEARCH STUDIO urban planning application fab city prototype lead faculty: vicente guallart, rodrigo rubio

FAB CITY DESIGN STRATEGIES lead faculty: Tomas Diez, Mathilde Marengo

PILOT PROJECT THESIS lead faculty: Bruno Moser (Foster + Partners)

The 3 design research studios follow a global agenda, from the generation of an urban prototype of an ideal 1km x 1km neighbourhood, through the conceptualization and application proposal of urban strategies, towards the prototyping of a real urban project in the MaCT partner city. We have seen how the [linear, garden, green, sustainable] city models have been studied and proposed by scholars and practitioners in the past. However, human life is changing in a speed that never did before. New technologies are affecting the way we live, and how we interact with other humans and our physical space. Even Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Law in how processor speed doubles every 18 months might change with the introduction of new 60

materials in the production of electronics. How can we define the current city model? is the smart city enough? Do we really need a single model to define a city? The design research agenda is based in the longterm research developed at IAAC, related to the idea that cities in the future will be able to produce all the resources that they need locally, while being connected globally, with the support of advanced technologies. The development of specific objectives is developed throughout the year: the production all the energy, food and most of the things the people living in a city need inside the city itself. This therefore proposes a radical change in the way cities work, with respect to how they work today.

MaCT 2015/2016 - SELF SUFFICIENT NEIGHBORHOOD PROTOTYPE

F.A.R

Dwelling Density

Open Space

Coverage

Population Density

Average Block Area

City anatomy

Sankey diagram of the trash flows in Barcelona

Housing

SELF SUFFICIENT NEIGHBORHOOD PROTOTYPE

25,000

PEOPLE

8453 UNITS

804,604 m2

SHARED HOUSING MIXED TYPOLOGIES HYBRID BUILDINGS

32.2 m2

RESIDENTIAL SPACE PER PERSON

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THEORY OF CITIES theory 2 to 5 masterclasses each term - multidisciplinary faculty

strategic planning

The Master in City & Technology foresees new city economy and new city management models technology for the creation of a decentralized, productive and social city of the future. This program is oriented towards training new change makers that the Administrations, Industries and Communities urban planning need. The Theory of Cities course aims to create a platform where the students can have direct contact with people from diverse areas of expertise, furthering their formation and knowledge towards application

their development as multidisciplinary change makers. The Course is developed in a transversal manner, throughout the entire Master program, in the form of Master Classes. Each Master Class counts on the intervention of a select expert from around the world, renowned in a particular field influential to the future of our cities, including economists, sociologists, politicians, architects, urbanists, engineers, philosophers, ICT experts, HCI experts and more. 2015/2016 Interventions included: Luis Falcón – inAtlas Antoni Vives – Late Vice Mayor of Barcelona; Júlia López – C40 Regional Director, Europe; Manuel Gausa – Actar Arquitectura; Ignasi Fontanals – CEO Opticits; Fran Tonkiss – London School of Economics; Javier Nieto – Santa&Cole; Daniel Ibañez – GSD Harvard; and many more. Students will be given a bibliography prepared by the Guest faculty prior to the ToC Master Class, used as the basis for the discussion on the Master class with the Guest faculty.

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AIR QUALITY EGG Community-led sensing network initiative

MEASURING DENSITY IN DHELI LSE - The Urban Age Project 65

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STRATEGIC PLANNING SEMINARS theory

strategic planning future everything

Jose Luis technology de Vicente New Business Models gonzalo Delacamara (IMDEA)

urban planning

Citizen Innovation

Albert Canigueral (Ouishare); guests: Enric Sanabre (GOTEO), Ricard Espelt + Ismael Pena Lopez (Apps4Citizens), Miguel Ferrer, Andrea Ruani (Eatwith)

application Cities for Citizens

Mara Balestrini (Ideas for Change) Through the study of the relationships between information technologies, citizens, economics, urbanism and the city, as well as the potentials that can arise form these relationships, the MaCT shapes the strategic planners and change makers of tomorrow’s cities. With the rise of mobile communications, sensors and automation and data modeling, Digital Technologies have an increasing role today in shaping the dynamics of the contemporary city. This role, however, is not driven exclusively by technological factors and didn’t come out of nowhere. Hence the importance of the relationship between information technologies and urbanism throughout the last 60 years, and the different visions and historical traditions that have produced the contemporary discourses of the Digital City, the Smart City or the Internet of Things, among other concepts. How can smart cities create a fertile space for new business models and innovation, mostly around the so-called ‘sharing economy’? Robust decision-making and long-term planning require factoring in multiple scales (spatial 66

and temporal). Increasing challenges in spatial development and urban design demand new approaches that can deal with complex trade-offs and synergies throughout those multiple scales. Some institutional setups may be effective means to yield new business opportunities and trigger innovation (technological, economic, social…) to improve the way communities deal with contemporary social, economic, and environmental challenges. Moreover, citizens are increasingly harnessing the potential of digital technologies to actively participate in urban matters, share efforts, resources and skills, and taking ownership of their contexts possibly effecting social, economic and/or political change. In some cases, citizen engagement strategies have been instigated by city councils with the aim to involve people in decision-making regarding civic and urban planning issues, or as part of a “technology push” aimed to support companies that create and sell urban ICTs. An approach to “Cities for citizens” entails putting citizens at the heart of the design process, with the understanding that diversity and power struggles are key to any city’s identity.

it' s a place to collect, storage and share data with drones. yes, it's a space for drones.

drone #E78B02 is taking off drone #C62A23 is waiting droneway #N03 is avaible

hello world !

an event is found: vegan festival, open marketplace 41°22’51.20” N 2°7’22.19”E

desibel counter drones are flying above Sagrada Familia to hold tranquility.

Montserrat Mountain is 3D mapped.

bird family: killdear migration distance: medium route: from genth to ibiza

technical spaces

for data monitoring offices drone watch center

algeo bioreacter

to produce energy

radar

bcn ballon

to watch drones

to create an alternative server

real-time data team air quality counter district: el clot drone family: x8 battery: 9 hours 55 minutes

emergeny services team �irst aid drone district: el raval drone family: x8 battery: 2 hours 56 minutes

fab lab drone

to fix and fabricate drones develop sensors educate public

observation team lighting counter district: el born drone family: tesla battery: 6 hours 05 minutes

plaça de todos drone ways

to discover city

drone stations welcome cut

to invite people

to protect drones to charge drones to transfer datas

SENTIENT CITY SURVIVAL KIT Mark Sheppard

THE NAKED CITY Guy Debord

LIGHT PAINTING WIFI Timo Arnall

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TECHNOLOGY SEMINARS theory

strategic planning technology

City Data Visualization

urban planning

fran castillo (SYNERGIC partners)

Communication Protocols

application

mar Santamaria, Pablo Martinez (300.000 km/s)

Communication Protocols Ignasi Errando (IoT lead CISCO Spain), Carles Batalla (Consulting Systems Engineer, CISCO), Juan Blanco (Director Business Development, EMEA South, CISCO)

Urban Apps Carles Ferreiro + Steffen Becker (DotOpen)

Technical advancements over the past decade have completely changed the way we sense, seize, use, plan and build present and future cities. Traditionally, urban planning has been based on a morphological description of the environment. This classic top-down approach has become obsolete either to describe the consolidated city slowly growing or declining urban regeneration projects will require a detailed knowledge of the territory-, or to deal with the development of emerging cities 70

where urban sprawl is faster than planning methods. However, the explosion of Urban Big Data and ICTs can address a description of the city also responding to different scales and velocities, providing responsive real-time solutions. This datification of the world enables the integration of multiple information in a unique representation to propose novel design strategies. Besides architecture of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;stone and spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, we should recognise an expanding landscape of invisible networks.

AMB - LAND USE 300.000 Km/s

VICINITY. Understanding human behaviour. Fran Castillo

INNOVATION MAP - Innovation network 300.000 Km/s

BIG TIME BCN - Heritage Map of Barcelona 300.000 Km/s

OPEN ENERGY - Real-time energy behaviour Fran Castillo

AFFECTIVE CITIES - Data to understand the world. Fran Castillo and Oscar Marin Miro

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strategic planning

urban design seminars technology

urban planning Smart City Infrastructure

application

lead faculty: Willy MUller, Jordi Vivaldi

OPEN SOURCE URBANISM Marcella del Signore (Tulane University) Future Mobility Christian Gartner + Kathrin DiPaola + Julius Streifeneder (Stylepark), Lisa Futing (Audi Urban Future Initiative), Joseph A. Curtatone (Mayor of Somerville)

The Robotic City Winy Maas + Adrien Ravon (The Why Factory) Senseable City Workshop - Carlo Ratti, Antonio Atripaldi, Matteo Silverio (CRA) The tools and technology, as well as the way we interfere with our city, are drastically changing. Through the development of a series of Urban Design oriented experiences, the Master in City & Technology new city economy and new city management models for the creation of a decentralized, productive and social city of the future. A city where the development of the urban forms connects with accessible information to directly inform and shape our urban environment, taking advantage of the possibilities offered by emerging 74

technologies, imagining the future technologies and how these could change the planet and the way we inhabit our cities. A city responding to the shift from the industrial society to that of information. Or a city that proposes new forms of large scale infrastructural solutions, in the face of imminently obsolete of industrial and postindustrial infrastructure, taking advantage of large scale, privileged and emblematic values to propose urban solutions of re-information and re-cycling. Finally, also speculating and developing future scenarios - from utopian to dystopian, developed leading to visionary, city-related designs.

ENERGY CHAIN

ROBOTIC CITY Winy Maas // The Why Factory

CURRENT CITY AMSTERDAM MIT Senseable City Lab

Drone Swarm

NODE IAAC ARCHIVE

CONTROL ROOM RĂŹo de Janeiro

MAA 2013-14 - [RE]PHEMERAL Chirana Lemuel Sumendap, Sahil Sharma, Robert Douglas MacKaye

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MaCT COLLABORATIVE ENTITIES

MASTER IN

BARCELONA 2016 - 2017 RESEARCH LINES INTELLIGENT CITIES SELF SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS DIGITAL MATTER DESIGN WITH NATURE ADVANCED INTERACTION

APPLIED RESEARCH PROGRAM OPEN THESIS FABRICATION

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MAA - MASTER IN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE

MASTER IN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE MAA01: 75 ECTS, 1 YEAR

maa01 + otf: 100 ects, 15 months

MAA02: 130 ECTS, 2 YEARS

MULTISCALAR STRATEGY INTELLIGENT CITIES // SELF SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS // DIGITAL MATTER // ADVANCED INTERACTION // DESIGN WITH NATURE Architecture is always facing the responsibility of responding to emergent needs, technologies and ever-changing programs. We must ask more of architecture: we as architects should be required to design inhabitable organisms that are capable of developing functions and integrating the processes of the natural world that formerly took place at a distance, in other points of the surrounding territory. The models created for the metropolis of the last century are unable to accommodate new developments linked to contemporary urban lifestyles, which ever more discontinuous in space and time. The building-over of the global landscape requires us to project at the same time the full and the empty, the natural and the artificial, in such a way as to make economic impetus compatible with sustainable development. It is necessary

to generate complex knowledge linked to a multi-layered reading of realities that have traditionally been thought of as separate, such as energy manipulation, nature, urban mobility, dwellings, systems of production and fabrication, the development of software, information networks, etc. This opens up the possibility of generating new prototypes, capable of engaging with complex and changing environments. Finally, every new urban or architectural production needs to update its materiality and reinterpret construction techniques of the past centuries, which are very directly based on the transformation of locally available materials. It is now time for interaction between disciplines and technologies to engage in a vision that embraces different fields of research.

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PROGRAM ORGANIZATION The Master in Advanced Architecture is articulated in three different programs: MAA01, MAA01+OTF and MAA02. During the first year (October 2016 - June 2017) the students enrolled in the programs will work together in a common educational platform, with a common organization and academic structure. After the completion of MAA01, students enrolled in MAA01+OTF or MAA02 will follow two different organizations and academic structures. The MAA comprises the following elements: IS.

INTRODUCTORY STUDIO

RS.

RESEARCH STUDIO

SS. WS.

DS.

DEVELOPMENT STUDIO

LS.

SO.

OBLIGATORY SEMINAR

rsd.

SE.

ELECTIVE SEMINAR

MAA01: 75 ECTS, 1 YEAR FIRST YEAR October 2016 June 2017 1st TERM 2nd TERM 3rd TERM FINAL PROJECT

IS and seminars (20 ECTS ) RS and seminars (19 ECTS) DS and seminars (19 ECTS) Final project + WS (15 ECTS)

STUDIO SUPPORT SEMINAR WORKSHOP LECTURE SERIES research and development studio

maa01 + otf: 100 ects, 15 months FIRST YEAR October 2016 June 2017 1st TERM 2nd TERM 3rd TERM FINAL PROJECT

IS and seminars (20 ECTS ) RS and seminars (19 ECTS) DS and seminars (19 ECTS) Final project + WS (15 ECTS)

OTF SEMESTER September 2017 February 2018

MAA02: 130 ECTS, 2 YEARS FIRST YEAR October 2016 June 2017 1st TERM 2nd TERM 3rd TERM FINAL PROJECT

IS and seminars (20 ECTS ) RS and seminars (19 ECTS) DS and seminars (19 ECTS) Final project + WS (15 ECTS)

SECOND YEAR October 2017 June 2018 1th TERM 2th TERM 3th TERM SCIENTIFIC PAPER

RDS and SW (20 ECTS ) RDS and SW (19 ECTS) RDS and SW (19 ECTS)

Individual work on scientific paper

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first year october 2016-june 2017 MAA01: 75 ECTS, 1 YEAR

maa01 + otf: 100 ects, 15 months

MAA02: 130 ECTS, 2 YEARS

FIRST TERM (20 ECTS CREDITS)

second TERM (19 ECTS CREDITS)

The 10 week introductory term provides a common grounding of knowledge and skills to new IAAC students. It is a formative platform structured by an Design Project and five complementary courses anticipating ideas that will appear during the programme in relation to self sufficiency, design strategies, innovative forms of planning and contemporary culture. A toolbox of both, theoretical and practical skills for further research work

The second term is an Open Educational Structure where the students attend a Research Studio and 1 obligatory seminar engadged with the studio plus 2 Seminars among 4 Optional Seminars that they choose according to their academic interests. The second term is divided in five different research lines: -intelligent cities -self-sufficient buildings -digital matter -advanced interaction -design wih nature

COURSES AND CREDITS

IS. | INTRODUCTORY STUDIO (8 ECTS credits)

RS | RESEARCH STUDIO (I-V) (10 ECTS credits)

SO.1 | DIGITAL FABRICATION Introduction to Digital Fabrication (3 ECTS credits)

SS.1 | STUDIO SUPPORT SEMINAR 1 (I-V) (3 ECTS credits)

SO.2 | ECONOMICS Economics of Sustainability (2 ECTS credits)

SO.6 | OBLIGATORY SEMINAR

SO.3 | THEORY CONCEPTS Advanced Architecture Concepts (2 ECTS credits) SO.4 | DIGITAL TOOLS Computational Design (3 ECTS credits)

SE. | ELECTIVE SEMINAR (3 ECTS credits) SE. | ELECTIVE SEMINAR (3 ECTS credits) Please note: The distribution of students for

SO.5 | DIGITAL TOOLS Produino (2 ECTS credits)

the Research Studios and Seminars of the Second

Term is done according to ttheir preferences and the obtained grades acquired in the MAA First Term.

third term (19 ECTS CREDITS)

finaL PROJECT (15 ECTS CREDITS)

The third term is an Open Educational Structure where the students attend the Development Studio and 3 seminars: 1 Obligatory seminar in support of the Studio, plus 2 Seminars among several Elective Seminars that they choose according to their academic interests. The third term is divided in five different research lines: -intelligent cities -self-sufficient buildings -digital matter -advanced interaction -design wih nature

Phase 4 focuses on the extended research of the Development Studio Project of Phase 3 (13 ECTS credits). The students during this period have the opportunity integrate to their projects more in depth issues related to the self sufficiency agenda, as well as the inherent material, organizational and spatial complexities determined by the chosen working scale and the experience gained during the year’s programme.

COURSES AND CREDITS

The transversal workshop (2 ECTS credits) offered by the Master programme is a short term intensive experience, in which the students work together on collective projects organized by local or invited international tutors. Note: According to academic objectives the transversal workshop could take place either in Phase 4 or in any other phase during the academic year.

DS | DEVELOPMENT STUDIO (I-V) (10 ECTS credits) SS.2 | STUDIO SUPPORT SEMINAR (I-V) (3 ECTS credits) SE. | ELECTIVE SEMINAR (3 ECTS credits) SE. | ELECTIVE SEMINAR (3 ECTS credits)

Please note: The distribution of students for the Elective Seminars is done according to their preferences and grades acquired in the First and Second Term.

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second year october 2017 - june 2018 MAA02: 130 ECTS, 2 YEARS

first TERM (19 ECTS CREDITS)

second TERM (16 ECTS CREDITS)

During the first phase of the second year the students are proposing their thesis project, that they are going to develop throughout the year, their strategies in the research and design Project Studio . It is a formative platform structured by a research Design Project and three complementary courses anticipating ideas that will appear during the programme in relation to the research lines of the thesis themes, design strategies, innovative forms of planning and contemporary culture, supporting the theoretical research as well as the practical development of the thesis projects. All classes in this term are obligatory.

Phase 6, is a term period structured by the Research and Development Studio and 2 Seminars focused in the 2 main parts of a thesis research: theory and practice in different scales of investigation. All classes in this term are obligatory.

COURSES AND CREDITS

RDS. | Research and Development Studio (I, II, III) (10 CREDITS)

WS1. | WORKSHOP 1 Practice Fabrication (3 CREDITS)

SO.3 | OBLIGATORY SEMINAR 3 Theory Concepts (3 CREDITS)

SO.1 | OBLIGATORY SEMINAR 1 Theory Concepts (3 CREDITS)

SO.4 | SEMINAR WORKSHOP 4 Digital Tools (3 ECTS credits)

SO.2 | SEMINAR WORKSHOP 2 Digital Tools (3 ECTS credits)

third TERM (10 ECTS CREDITS) Phase 7, is a term period structured by the Research and Development Studio and a Seminars focused in the practice of the investigation. In this term the students are finalizing their proposal and construct prototypes of their thesis projects. All classes in this term are obligatory.

scientific paper

(10ECTS CREDITS)

This phase (summer period) is dedicated to the individual work on the Scientific Paper presenting the Thesis Project to be submitted in September.

COURSES AND CREDITS RDS. | Research and Development Studio (I, II, III) (10 CREDITS) SO.3 | OBLIGATORY SEMINAR 3 Theory Concepts (3 CREDITS) SO.4 | SEMINAR WORKSHOP 4 Digital Tools (3 ECTS credits)

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OTF SEMESTER september - february maa01 + otf: 100 ects, 15 months

otf: 25 ects, 6 months

AIM & GOAL The aim of the program, in line with the opportunity of making a difference, is to develop research to be applied through patents or products for marketing. This will be obtained through the common goal of researching of different fabrication techniques, materials and form, towards the implementation of a large scale prototype, understanding the potentials of digital fabrication together with new needs of current society and the market. FORMAT All the IAAC BUILDs researchers will be working together in 1 group towards a collective goal and project, in turn subdivided into different specialized research teams each focusing on a specific aspect of the project’s development. Hence the implementation of a 1:1 scale prototype allowing to test techniques and materials on real scale. SOME OF THE RESEARCH THEMES ARE: – Design – Materials and Materiality – Software and Hardware – Structure – Fabrication – Assembly – User interfaces

PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS IAAC BUILDs follows in the footsteps of OTF developing the applied research in partnership companies, whose involvement will vary according to project focus. These companies consist in Cerámica Cumella, ASCAMM, Cricursa, Fupicsa, Merefsa, Tallfusta. The program also counts on the collaboration of experts in various fields such as engineering and structures, materials, technical components, and much more, allowing the development of a full scale and fully functioning prototype. 90

KEYWORDS 3d printing in architectural construction Solar houses Robotic and digital fabrication Smart buildings and urban elements User interfaces

OTF 2013 GROUND FLOOR - Moritz Megle

OTF 2013 MOSS VOLTAIC - Elena Mitrofanova

OTF 2013 MINIBUILDERS - Jin Shihui, Stuart Maggs, Dori Sadan, Cristina Nan

OTF 2013 KALEIDOSCOPE - Dulce Luna

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Tuition fees Tuition for students attending maa01 (75 ects: 1 year)

Tuition for students attending maa02 (130 ects: 2 year)

Tuition for the year 2016/2017 is 17,400€. The selected candidates must send to the Institute a scanned proof of a down payment of 2,500€ to confirm participation, maximum 4 weeks after their accpetance. The remaining part of the tuition fee (14,900€) may be paid either in one or two intallments, 60% (8,940€), before September 1st, 2016 and 40% (5,960€) before December 1st, 2016.

Tuition for the year 2016/2018 is 28,500€. The selected candidates must send to the Institute a scanned proof of a down payment of 2,500€ to confirm participation, maximum 4 weeks after their accpetance. The remaining part of the tuition fee (26,000€) may be paid either in one installment; or divided it into 3 installments: 35% (9,100€), before September 1st, 2016; 30% (7,800€) before December 1st, 2016 and 35% (9,100€) before Septermber 1st, 2017.

Tuition for students attending maa01+OTF (100 ects: 15 months) Tuition for the year 2016/2017 is 23,200€. The selected candidates must send to the Institute a scanned proof of a down payment of 2,800€ to confirm participation, maximum 4 weeks after their accpetance. The remaining part of the tuition fee (20,400€) may be paid either in one or two intallments, 60% (12,200€), before September 1st, 2016 and 40% (8,200€) before December 1st, 2016.

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INTELLIGENT CITIES SENIOR FACULTY: WILLY MUller Intelligent Cities works beyond the conventional scales of territorial design, town planning, building or fabrication in designing a multi-scale habitat. As in the design of ecosystems, each level has its own rules of interaction and relation, and at the same time must comply with certain parameters that pertain to the system as a whole. The Studio focuses on projects that range in scale from the territory to the neighborhood. The idea of Intelligent Cities is related to two issues: on one hand, the understanding of countries and cities around the world with emerging economies and cultures that, by virtue of their regional or economic position, can contribute value to the planet as a whole. In this sense the Studio seeks to identify

the particular urban and territorial values of these places in order to construct more intelligent territories anywhere in the world, moving on from the Western idea that there is a single model of city (be it European or American) to work on the basis of more complex and more open values. The other issue related to intelligent cities has to do with their creation as intelligent territories that function in a multiscalar way, emphasizing the relationship between nature, networks and nodes and promoting the ‘emergence’ of an urban intelligence through research on the application of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in different aspects of the urban infrastructure and public space.

MAA 2014-15 - Intelligent Cities TRIPHIBIAN - Ksenia Dyusemabeva - Asya Güney, Edgar Navarrete Sanchez, Diego Ramirez Leon 94

MAA 2014-15 - Intelligent Cities Responsive Habitats- Prawitt Kitti Chanthira, Taiesha Edwards, Michelle Tseng, Jinyang Han

MAA 2014-15 - Intelligent Cities LANDSCAPE OF EXPERIENCE - Pia Grobner - Yanna Haddad - Joy Alexandre Harb

Looking back at the history of the BesĂ˛s river, we witness massive interventions of urban planning and transformation in the urban context of the surrounding territory. The project aims to preserve continuity whilst keeping hold of the existing features of the area, instigating a process of urban cell regeneration. 96

MAA 2013-14 - Intelligent Cities EXCAVATED CITY Mehran Davari Dolatabadi

MAA 2013-14 - Intelligent Cities INTERACTIVE SPANNING OF THE BESOS Nuri Choi, Youssef Rashdan 97

Prothicity highlights the problematics of BesĂ˛s River context, from the discontinuity to the fractures and gaps it suffers. A surgical operation is needed to heal the injury. Hence a research that covers the topic of prosthetics, dealing with the artificial and the unfamiliar pieces as the components to aggregate and cover the region, generating a bridge of informal events.

MAA 2013-14 - Intelligent Cities PROTHICITY - Mustapha Saleh Moussa, Yousef Al Nafisi

MAA 2013-14 - Intelligent Cities INTERACTIVE SPANNING OF THE BESOS Nuri CHoi, Youssef Rashdan

MAA 2013-14 - Intelligent Cities HYDROLOGY BRIDGES Ala Al Kadi Jazaierly, Amir Asayesh, Amirreza Saheb, Jose Manuel Reyes Grimpel

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SELF SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS SENIOR FACULTY: ENRIC RUIZ-GELI // MIREIA LUZARRAGA Self sufficiency is about consuming just the resources you are able to produce, turning into zero our ecological footprint, or the surface of land that each one needs to live. This scenario is close to the statements that we need to achieve for the 2020 agenda.

this complex combination of elements and their relations. At the RSII we will read and learn from the people that are already talking about this holistic way of thinking (Rifkin, Braunghart, Mc Donnough, Latourâ&#x20AC;Ś).

At the RSII self sufficiency will be wider concept. Not only we will apply this term when speaking about energy, but also speaking about other issues like water, food, economy, societyâ&#x20AC;Ś

In order to face this holistic way of thinking, architects can not be alone, they must learn to work inside multidisciplinary teams. A starting point will be the scenario of RSII, in which we will work on our projects together with physicists, biologists, economists and designers.

As architects, our role in this new concept of ecology goes beyond buildings, materials, light, space or shape. Our approach to this new way of thinking must be holistic, emphasizing the importance of the wholes, and the interdependance of its parts. Therefore, for us, architecture is about

MAA 2014-15 - Self Sufficient Buildings RIFKIN - Ahn Vu, Joel Kahn, James Mitchel 100

Inside the topic of self sufficiency, in the past three years we have developed projects around the ideas of Factory of the Future, Urban Retrofitting, Factory of Knowledge, and many more.

MAA 2014-15 - Self Sufficient Buildings RESURRECTURE - Alessia Tosetto, Maja Czesnik , Shruti Ramachandran

MAA 2014-15 - Self Sufficient Buildings THE GRID - Boris Schalev, Alejandro Carrillo, Denis Li 101

MAA 2012-13 - SOUNDSCAPE Angeliki Terezaki, Konstantina Nasopoulou, Surag Viswanathan Iyer, Zeynep Birgonul

Retrofitting the industry, the “Urban Fabric” is a three-dimensional mesh envelope based on cell organisation in plants that combines farming, photovoltaic panels, metal, fibers, water and technology. This modulation from structure to plants, insulated to uninsulated, skin to nature, adapts to the seasons and reflects the environments of future activities. The radical element of the project marks the starting point of a new revolution in this industry. 102

MAA 2012-13 TEXTILE INNOVATION STARTUP CENTER - Diego Arturo Diaz Garcia, Dirce Medina Patatuchi, Dulce Adriana Luna Hernández, Juan Diego Ardila, Taruni Aggarwal

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A cloud problem requires a cloud solution. The jungle senses the cloud of pollution from external sources before reacting, creating a cloud on site that captures pollution. This cloud is then manipulated to rain on site through over seeding, removing the pollution from the air. To create a self sufficient system energy is needed. Algae uses CO2 and waste water creating bio fuel to power the cloud.

The Social Innovation Incubator performs through the development of an educational path set in a revolutionary environment, giving people a platform where to innovate and find their job opportunities. The building responds to the context and inspires innovation. You are introduced to advanced knowledge, tools and processes, practicing, testing and performing innovative projects. You connect with people in different levels and fields. You come out a seed of innovation in the knowledge community. 104

MAA 2012-13 - THE JUNGLE Dori Sadan, Moritz Begle, Stuart Maggs, Urte Naujekaite

MAA 2012-13 - SOCIAL INNOVATION INCUBATOR Aldo Sollazzo, Alejandra D铆az de Le贸n Lastras, Mauricio F Valenzuela Lanzas, Robert Francisco Garita

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DIGITAL MATTER INTELLIGENT CONSTRUCTIONS SENIOR FACULTY: ARETI MARKOPOULOU Today, we are facing a change in paradigm in the field of Architecture. Information Era Technologies and their impacts on architecture are drastically changing, and their relationship calls for new or adapted concepts, where physical space seamlessly intertwines with digital content, and where the language of electronic connections tie in with that of physical connections. We are consequently moving towards a different form of “habitats”, where architecture is not merely inhabited, but becomes technologically integrated, interactive and evolutional. If computers were once the size of buildings, buildings are now becoming computers, both in a performative sense, on I/O Communication protocols, and in a programmable sense, at material-molecule nanoscale; even becoming operational thanks to self-learning genetic algorithms. The key, thus, to 21st century challenges generated by global urbanization, economic instability and particularly the increasing awareness related to the environmental crisis will be the development of high efficient “products’ with increasing levels of functionality. Architecture following every stage of life will have to address and respond to both challenges and advancements. Our buildings and cities will need new interfaces to communicate with the environment and embedded systems of performance that do not rely on existing urban infrastructures. Active and bio-materials will play a critical role in this development, forcing architects to get free from mechanical actuators or computing devices and integrate into their designs the inherited functions that “smart materials” present on a molecular scale. At the same time, advanced 106

digital manufacturing techniques contribute to digitally fabricate new material systems and building components with varied properties of density, translucency, elas¬ticity and much more. This brings another level of sustainability awareness, one that questions concepts of durability or longevity and brings forward concepts of dynamics, adaptability and metabolism. Understanding the significant need of generating the production of non-rigid, responsive and multi-functional material and construction systems, the Digital Matter Research Line develops case studies on digital and computed matter, exploring intelligent construction systems to be applied at architectural scale. The projects implement active materials, information, digital content and fabrication foreseeing an engineered architectural future of intelligent responsiveness and adaptation. Should we continue constructing rigid and fixed structures? Or can buildings and cities begin to think? Digital Matter Research line will be generating an architecture that is not just mimicking the living but is roaring into life. The method of investigation follows a rigorously experimental approach and progresses in complexity from small scale material sampling to the production of 1:1 scale architectural components and prototypes.

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MAA 2013-14 - Digital Matter TRANSLATED GEOMETRY - Eleni Baseta, Ece Tankal, Ramin Shambayati

MAA 2014-15 - Digital Matter REMEMBRANE - Ji Won Jun, Josep Alcover, Matteo Silverio

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The project seeks to create a responsive facade that on the one hand protects the people from enviromental conditions and on the other hand becomes part of the public space. In this sense the project is able to interact and correspond to the peoples needs and activities with respect to the context they inhabit.

MAA 2014 -15 - CHROMATIC SKINS Carlos Bausa Martinez, Hristo Kovachev, Stephanie Bashir

A project that investigates possibilities of using air inflation in architecture, as an active response to constantly changing parameters in environment: the Skin is a new composite material made of thin layers of flexible silicone rubber and elastic fabric. Series of inflatable cells combined in groups can be inflated or deflated to change form and appearance: a tunable topography responding to real time data of wind and light. The responsive facade protects the people from enviromental conditions and becomes part of the public space.

MAA 2014 -15 - SOFT SKINS Lubna Alayeli, Nina Jotanovic, Ceren Temel, Farah Alayeli

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The research explores production methods and material behaviours in plastic biodegradable systems. It investigates DIY biomaterial production and passive reconfiguration processes to create components for a dissolving architecture.

MAA 2012-13 - SMB SMART BIODEGRADABLE MODULE Dhwani Samir Patel, Mardet Gebreyesus, Sviatlana Matushko

By combining the evaporation property of the hydrogels with the thermal mass, and humidity control property of clay ceramic and fabric, a composite material responsive to heat and water was created. The proposed solution is a passive evapotranspiration system able to lower the temperature of an interior space. With the help of accurate energy and thermal analysis of todaysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; technology, hydroceramicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passive system can effectively keeps the balance of the humidity and temperature inside the human comfort-zone.

MAA 2013-14 - HYDROCERAMIC PASSIVE COOLING FACADE Akanksha Rathee, Elena Mitrofanova, Pongtida Santayanon

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ADVANCED INTERACTION SENIOR FACULTY: CARLOS GOMEZ THE MEANING OF MACHINES Recent generations have witnessed an overvaluation of the technological fact, an overrating of the gadgets that we consume, leading to a shadowing of the particular function for which they have been created. We live in confussion as to the very reasons for having these devices. Technology has become just one more cunsumer commodity and is no longer a source for creative inspiration and experimentation. The meaning of an object, of any object, is determined and defined by its use and this becomes problematic with the ever increasing popularity of multi-purpose devices. This makes it difficult to distinguish between the need to have the object and the desire to own it. In order to analize the reasons of technology it is

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necesary to approach the reaserch about the technological fact as a generator of articulations and relations but, more importantly, as an instrument for finding solution to systemic problems. It would be easy to define a set of such crucial problems that the coming generations will have to confront and in analysing these problems we could determine whether thechnology is really helping us reach solutions or on the contrary if it is making us forget the impact of its own development and implementation. On the light of the above observations, the aims of this study are twofold: to think and reflect about an â&#x20AC;&#x153;ethicsâ&#x20AC;? of the use of technology, and to design systems that could somehow help revert the problems generated by our own technological development.

MAA 2014-15 - Advanced Interaction THE UNKNOWN DESOLATE TRANSIT -Stephanie Farrah and Tanti Wulansari

MAA 2014-15 - Advanced Interaction TOUCH MEDIA -Orion Campos Gorrao Maoreira

MAA 2014-15 - Advanced Interaction MEGAWATTSMEGAWASTE -Mahdi Najafi 113

MAA 2013-14 Sebastian Alvarado Grugiel

MAA 2013-14 - DEAFDROPS Antanaityte Gerda 114

MAA 2013-14 Sebastian Alvarado Grugiel

MAA 2013-14 - ANT CAPSULE Martin Lukac 115

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DESIGN WITH NATURE SENIOR FACULTY:

JAVIER PENA // RODRIGO RUBIO

NATURALIZED INFRASTRUCTURE Cities are enormous metabolic sinks: dependent consumers of water, energy and matter furthermore active producers of waste and pollutants… We can learn from nature to revert this tendency. This DWN 15-16 Design Studio will explore the naturalization of Barcelona infrastructures in order to address the main ecological conflicts of its urban metabolism. Synthetic landscapes embedded in the city fabric, able to reconnect Barcelona’s urban and non-urban forces. “Naturalized enjoyable infrastructures”. Students will focus in understanding the main metabolic cycles of Barcelona’s ecology. Cycles of water and energy, food and waste, pollution and mobility, nature and biodiversity, will be our targets. Their metabolic unbalances and ecological conflicts will be addressed through the means of design tools, framing our role as architects amid the necessary urgency of these global issues. Students will work in specialized teams of expertise, each one of them working on a specific urban cycle or resource, exploring possible related natural forces and processes, the necessary technologies and techniques to activate them, also entering in an actual dialogue with the related social agents and urban institutions.

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Our research will be driven by three simultaneous operative tools: A. Urban metabolism (scalar approach). Mainly explored through additive complex diagramming _ (hyperdrawing) B. Natural processes (non-scalar approach). Mainly explored through the production of performative prototypes _ (natural machines) C. Social dynamics (multi-scalar approacMainly explored through subjective rrative techniques _ ( iterative tales ) Machines of tomorrow will be natural machines, materials will be biomaterials, engineering will be ecological engineering. Nature works in a hybrid holistic way, no dichotomies between natural and artificial, and twenty-first century will need a radical re-definition of the relations between the urban and the non-urban forces.

MAA 2014-15 - Design with Nature

Silvia Oliva (Mycology), Felipe Agudelo, Neel Kaul, Shasshank Shahabadi (Metagenesis), Giuseppe di Domenico, Nada Shalaby, Philip Serif, Yasmine Hamza (MethLAB)

L.A. watersystem and Icebergs trading post Alexandre Braleret

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MAA 2013-14 - PERE IV SMART STREET HOTEL Alejandra D铆az de Le贸n, Dulce Adriana Luna, Drew Carson, Priyanka Narula, Marjan Jelveh Nejad

AmpLeaf is a synthesized smart surface that is integrated into the anatomy of the forest to experiment from within, using energy directly harvested from the ecosystem and its many agents rather than energy from existing power grids. Wind vibration energy acts as a platform for new dialog between ecological systems and human interaction. 120

MAA 2013-14 - AMPLEAF Kateryna Rogynska, Ramin Shambayati, Robert Douglas McKaye, Sahil Sharma

MAA 2013-14 - THE 3D PRINTED WIND CHARGER Aditya Kadabi, Elena Mitrofanova, Gustavo Adolfo Triana Martinez

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MAA 2013-14 - WE5 Alejandro Martinez del Campo, Alessio Salvatore Verdolino, Hriday Siddarth Saini, Ricardo Perez Borbolla, Tobias Grumstrup

MAA 2013-14 - RECIPE AERODYNAMIC PAPER Ruxandra Iancu Bratosin , Irina Shaklova, Juhi Pravin Patel Meral Ece Tankal 122

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INTRODUCTORY STUDIO claudia pasquero // carmelo zappulla // edouard cabay In the framework of learning by doing, the Introductory Studio gives students the opportunity to fully explore and apply the various tools and techniques assimilated during their 1st Term at IAAC. From the examination of space understood as layers of activities and interactions, to the design and simulation of their behaviors, animated through performative models; or the profound understanding of mechanisms of local

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energy, food and bio-materials production in dense urban environments, contributing to the urban morphogenesis of contemporary cities; all developed with the support of digital fabrication and parametric design.

MAA 2014-15 - IS Tutors: Claudia Pasquero, Carmelo Zappulla PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE Joy Alxandre Harb Kadiri, Yanna Haddad, Josep Alcover Llubia Daphne (Zoi Dalfni Arnellou), Shruti Ramachandran

MAA 2014-15 - IS Tutors: Claudia Pasquero, Carmelo Zappulla BIODIGITAL LANDSCAPE - Maria Alexandra Polyakova, Denise Li, Francesco Massetti, Teresa Londono, Stephanie Farah

MAA 2014-15 - IS Tutors: Claudia Pasquero, Carmelo Zappulla KALEIDOSCOPE - Niel Parekh, Stephanie Bashir, Rodion Eremeev, Rodolfo Parolin Hardy

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MAA 2012-13 THE CRYSTAL ROCK Jose Roberto Diaz Braga, Maria Laura Cerda, Michele Braidy, Sviatlana Matushko

MAA 2012-13 -TROPE / FROM NATURAL TO DIRECTED Sofoklis Giannakopoulos, Stefanos Levidis, NiccolĂ˛ Marini, Georgios Soutos

MAA 2012-13 -MICROBIAL ECOLOGIES Fran Castillo, Peter Malaga, Yogesh Karekar, Priyanka Narula 126

MAA 2012-13 HYGROSCOPIC MORPHOLOGY Carlos Bausa Martinez, Dimitrios Aidonis, Efstathia Eleni Baseta, Karl Francalanza

MAA 2012-13 - STIGMERGIC FIBRES Jean Akanish, Alexander Dolan, Jin Shihui, Ali Yerdel

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SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS Through select elective and obligatory seminars, the academic curriculum explores diverse fields of Advanced Architecture: DIGITAL FABRICATION COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN THEORY OF ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE URBAN SCIENCE PHYSICAL COMPUTING EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURES Some of the renowned IaaC Seminar faculty are: Vicente Guallart (Architect), Maite Bravo (Architect), Enrico Dini (Engineer), Silvia Brandi (Architect), Tomas Diez (Urbanist), Edouard Cabay (Architect), Manja van de Worp (Engineer), Lluís Viu Rebés (Architect), Jordi Pages Ramon (Architect), Josep Mias (Architect), Fabian Scheurer (Computer Scientist), Alexandre Dubor (Architect), Anastasia Pistofidou (Architect), Ricardo Devesa (Architect), Marc Viader (Architect,Computer Scientist), David Dalmazzo (Computer Scientist), Valérie Bergeron (Architect), Victor Arribas (Material Engineer), Spyros Stavoravdis (Architect), Gonzalo Delacámara (Economist), Mathilde Marengo

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(Architect), Neil Leach (Architect), Pablo Ros (Architect), José Ballesteros (Architect), George Jeronimidis (Architect), Tom Pawlofsky (Architect), Petr Novikov (Architect), Saša Jokic (Architect), Dave Pigram (Architect), Iain Maxwell (Architect), Cristobal Castilla (Designer), Gerard Passola (Ecologist, Biologist), Julian Vincent (Biologist), Pierre Belanger (Achitect/Urbanist), Dennis Dollens (Architect), Michel Rojkind (Architect), Michael Knauss (Architect), Cristina Sendra (Chemical Engineer), José Pérez de Lama (Architect), Nikos Salingaros (Mathematician), Salvador Rueda (Biologist), Andreu Ulied (Engineer), Christine Otto Kanstinger (Engineer), Aaron Betsky (Architect)

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MAA - DIGITAL FABRICATION Introduction to Digital Fabrication

DIGITAL FABRICATION The Digital Fabrication seminars explore different scales of production of architecture using Digital and Robotic Fabrication techniques such as: CNC cutting (laser), 3D printing, CNC milling, molding and casting and composites, design and fabrication. One of the goals is to introduce the thinking around the function, by following the evolution of the design through iterations of production as a workflow. 130

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COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN The Digital Fabrication seminars explore different scales of production of architecture using Digital and Robotic Fabrication techniques such as: CNC cutting (laser), 3D printing, CNC milling, molding and casting and composites, design and fabrication. One of the goals is to introduce the thinking around the function, by following the evolution of the design through iterations of production as a workflow.

EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURES Experimental structure courses are aimed at pushing the limit of constructions, combining physical experimentation and digital simulations, in order to discovery new structural paradigms based on the concepts of lightweight, bending, tension, aggregation and components, as well as setting the logics behind these. 1:1 structures are tested through various media, materials, programs and scales, concluding with the construction of a large scale demonstrative prototype. 132

The proposal seeks to draw the future city expansion in a different way, leading the next urban age, and creating a more sustainable society, in shape and function, focusing on humanity.

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URBAN SCIENCE Since the emergence of the Third Industrial Revolution, Urban Sciences are facing major challenges: how do we respond to the shift from an industrial society to an informational society? In fact the space we inhabit today was basically constructed at the start of the Industrial Revolution, the Information Society is now bringing to bear new principles and technologies with which to rethink the functioning and structure of the city, and how its citizens interact with it.

THEORY OF ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE Based on the term “Advanced Architecture” coined in 2003 by the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture, this course aims to establish some theoretical principles around 3 Conceptual Frames: [Frame 1] Systems/Strategies — Transversal Logics: information - cities [Frame 2] Systems/ Environments — Relational Logics: cities - natures [Frame 3]- Systems/Process — Digital Logics: natures - information. 134

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MAA - MASTER IN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE

individual master thesis project from bits to geographyes During the second year of the Master in Advanced Architecture Students have to opportunity, and the necessary support from a series of experts in various fields, to develop an in depth and individual research agenda. Students propose a thesis project, that they are going to develop throughout the year, and are allocated an Individual Thesis Advisor who is specialized in the topic proposed. MAA02 is a formative platform structured by a research Design Project and three complementary courses anticipating ideas that will appear during the programme in relation to the research proposals of the thesis themes, design strategies, innovative forms of planning and contemporary culture, supporting the theoretical research as well as the practical development of the thesis projects. On top of this, the MAA02 students have the opportunity to work alongside the IAAC team in the development of a series of 1:1 scale projects and prototypes to be deployed throughout the city of Barcelona.

MAA02 13-15 - RE-FORM Ian Mann

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MAA02 13-15 - IN BETWEEN REALITIES Rasha Sukkarieh

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individual master thesis project thesis advisor: marcos cruz C-Biom.A Computation, Biomaterials and Architecture C-Biom.A is an innovative design research group at the IAAC focused on developing new bio and environmentally integrated designs strategies. Students explore advanced computational models and simulations that are applied to building prototypes made of new material composites that are either bio-inspired or bio-integrated. Many of the proposed objects and components aim to stimulate natural growth of bacteria, fungi, algae, and higher plants and the integration of these species in buildings. In a time in which more people are living in cities, the ultimate aim of the group is to develop a radically new sensibility of understanding of architecture where climate and nature, as well as new sense of materiality is the driving motif for design. There is a high level attention given to the use of new digital tools and fabrication techniques through which more complex and highly differentiated responses can given to our rapidly changing urban environment. Students in C-Biom.A develop an individual Thesis that is composed of a written and illustrated portfolio, as well as substantial models and prototypes that are shown in a final exhibition designed by the students.

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MAA02 13-15 - Alessio Verdolino HYDRO-MEDIATING INTERFACE

MAA02 13-15 - Natalie Alima THE ARCHITECTURE OF DECAY BIO-SCAFOLD

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individual master thesis project thesisbits advisors: jordi pages // from to geographyes Rather than to frame architecture as an energetic or a geometric issue we aim at problematizing architecture’s physical materiality. We believe that it is within the depths of matter and its internal consistency, within the realm of pure organization buried in atomic aggregates, in a space devoid of cultural interferences, metaphors and meanings and where beauty is not taken into account, that one can focus on strategies to develop novel proposals for architecture. We aim at abandoning the glitz of the surface, abandoning the visible and its panoply of image simulators, and overturning the experiment into an operative and performative act: we aim at developing, testing and building Climatic Matter®. Over the years teaching at IAAC we have developed a speculative and opportunistic agenda that embraces architecture´s contemporary paradigms, sustainability and object oriented programing, and synthesized them into an operative method that purposely avoids metaphors. We aim at implementing systematic and methodological processes that imbricate the ecological and the digital, a consistent palimpsest of environmental and parametric design. Through this dynamic and unstable material aggregates, made out of climate and algorithms, architecture surfaces as Climatic Matter®. Our agenda is pure process, our language is geometry and abstraction is the means to achieve and develop Climatic Matter®

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MAA02 13-15 - ROBUSTIC Sahil Sharma

MAA02 13-15 - RIGIDUM FLEXIBLE Luis Leon Lopez 142

MAA02 13-15 - LIQUEF (A)RCHITECTURE Chung Kai Hsieh

MAA02 13-15 - THE AESTHETICS OF EFFICIENCY FOR SUSTAINABILITY - Alejandro Martinez del Campo 143

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individual master thesis project thesisbits advisor: VICENTE GUALLART from to geographyes The large majority of the global population lives in urban environments and the predictions are that by 2050 more than 80% of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population will be living in cities. It is because of this that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to understand how cities function as a productive system that acts as a key part of the global economy. Todays large cities deal with issues lie climate change, uneven growth, centralization of management, lack of sustainable large scale retro-fitting strategies and many more. To attack these issues a holistic strategy is needed, one that combines new technologies, cities and the social layer. It is not a question if the decisions taken should be bottom-up or top-down, but more of how to make the two work together as they are both necessary for the implementation of a successful model. The alignment of the projects, layers of investigation and big scale initiatives, coordinated generally by the government and large corporations and the development of bottom up projects, generally driven by the civil society and the small business owners is crucial for the implementation of an innovative project within fertile grounds. One crucial step is empowering the population that shapes the city in order for them to take charge of their own destiny, without being dependent on economical and political conditions that resulted out of the globalization process. Second is the development of an ecological model that responds to the climate change issues by needing far less energy to function, it uses the local resources and keeps the production on a local scale. The focus is on strategical plans, sectorial plans and scientific knowledge to better understand and improve the construction of social communities in the cities and to be able to upgrade them through the filter of information technology as technology has always been a resource that boosted the changes in civilizations and improved in a big way the quality of life of the population.

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MAA02 13-15 - GENIUS GHETTO Ruxandra Iancu Bratosin

MAA02 13-15 - Robert McKaye ARCHITECTURE OF SENSITIVITY

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BARCELONA 2016 - 2017 APPLIED RESEARCH PROGRAM

Digital Fabrication Self-sufficient Buildings Experimental Materials

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OTF - Open thesis fabrication

open thesis fabrication applied research program elective semester SEPTEMBER - february

In design and architecture, Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) fabrication equipment has given designers unprecedented means for executing formally challenging projects directly from the computer. The impact of digital production in these fields allows the production of complex geometries and opens up a wide field of research and experimentation. IaaC, through the Open Thesis Fabrication (OTF) agenda, is placing a new emphasis on translating research into technologies and bringing together academy and industry by powering innovation.

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Success in innovation appears to entail working closely with the industry, in both basic and applied research simultaneously. Thus, the OTF program emerges as an intensive applied research platform in collaboration with partner companies seeking the development of innovative solutions in a wide range of fields (architecture, design, contsruction, interaction, technology etc). The program focuses on the development and completion of full scale prototypes using advanced CNC machinery, applying experimental materials, testing smart energy solutions, and developing industrial solutions.

BIO CERAMIC SYSTEM OTF 2013 - Iker Luna

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MINIBUILDERS-SMALL ROBOTS PRINTING BIG STRUCTURES Shihui Jin, Stuart Maggs, Dori Sadan,Cristina Nan A family of small scale construction robots, all mobile and capable of constructing objects far larger than the robot itself. Each of the robots developed was to perform a diverse task, linked to the different phases of construction, finally working together as a family towards the implementation of a single structural outcome. Hence, instead of one large machine, a number of much smaller robots working independently, but in coordination, towards a single goal.

PYLOS AIR-DRY CLAY 3D PRINTER OTF -Sofoklis Giannakopolous This research focus on the use of natural clay as a base material for a large scale on-site 3D Printer. The particular problematic linked with the process and scale were the target of the project. he investigation of the chosen material with different additives led to the discovery of a new stronger clay, with a tensile strength 3 times harder than the so called hard clay. The development, starting from basic composites towards more elaborate ones, contemporary to the development and manufacturing of the machine, driven by the research and results on the material behaviour. 150

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MATAERIAL ANTIGRAVITY OBJECT MODELING OTF - Sasa Jokic and Petr Novikov This patent-pending method allows for creating 3D objects on any given working surface independently of its inclination and smoothness, and without a need of additional support structures.

MOSS VOLTAIC PLANTS GENERATING ENERGY OTF - Elena Mitrofanova Emerging technology called biophotovoltaics (BPV) uses the natural process of photosynthesis to generate electrical energy from the ecosystem found in the roots of plants. This project propose to use mosses in a facade system to harvest energy while offering the advantages of green walls 152

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otf COLLABORATIVE ENTITIES

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Tuition fees Tuition for students attending otf (25 ects: 6 months) Tuition for the year 2016 is 6,200€. The selected candidates must send to the Institute a scanned proof of a down payment of 300€ to confirm participation, maximum 4 weeks after their accpetance. The remaining part of the tuition fee (5,900€) may be paid before September 1st, 2016.

All payments of the selected program must be paid by bank transfer only to: Bank: Santander Agency: 6784 IBAN – ES55 0049 6784 3226 1615 5632 SWIFT – BSCHESMMXXX Holder : Institut d’Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya. Address: Via Augusta, nº182 (Es 08021 Barcelona) Note: Make sure that bank transferring SUBJECT is the applicant’s name, and not the person who orders the transfer. Also make sure to select the SWITF instructions code “OUR” when ordering the bank transfer. This means that you have to pay the transfer charges. 156

General information

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applications, grading system and more Applications To apply for IAAC, please fill out and submit the online applications form (www.iaac.net/iaac/apply) for the programs: MAA01, MAA02, MaCT, MAA01 + OTF, OTF. For the online application, the following required documents should all be submitted in English, with the exception of the undergraduate diploma that needs to be translated into Spanish. (All documents must be uploaded onto the designated space on the online applicationform in PDF format). - A letter of intent expressing the reasons for which you wish to attend the chosen master – maximum two A4 pages in PDF. - Curriculum vitae and portfolio showing samples of your work – A4 format maximum 10MB in PDF. - Two letters of recommendation (from professional or academic referees), in PDF, with the corresponding referee contact information. - Legalized copy of previous architecture degree* or other related professional degrees. Please make sure that you arrange the legalization of your diploma as required depending on your country of origin. More info about degree legalization here. In the case of this document is not available at the moment of the application, please contact us.

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- An official translation into Spanish of your diploma* (if the diploma is not in Spanish already). More info about official translations here. - A copy of a valid passport (copy of valid I.D. is accepted for citizen of member states of the EU) - Non-refundable application fee to be paid to the bank information mentioned at the end of this page under the section titled “Bank Information”. * If you have not yet graduated, but will be graduating before the commencement of the academic year to which you are applying at IAAC, you are eligible to apply. However, to complete the application process, will need to ask you to provide us with a provisional certificate from your University, in English, stating that you will graduate this year. If you have any questions or doubts with regards to the application process, please feel free to contact us at applications@iaac.net

grading system

student feedback and evaluation

Class attendance is obligatory for studios and seminars. In both cases, courses are graded as follows:

The usual procedure IAAC uses for the collection and analysis of information to ensure the quality of the program is the student surveys and evaluation reports. IAAC performs two different types of surveys: one survey is specific for each course, and is being made immediately after a course finishes, and the second survey is a general survey, which is conducted at the end of the academic year. Course Survey: The surveys contain questions related to course content and structure of the class, the methodology used and the level of facilities where the course has been conducted. There are also questions about the faculty , allowing the student to evaluate the faculty’s communication capabilities, the capacity of synthesis and organize the content structure as well as the faculty’s competence in assessing and explaining the results obtained. The survey also include questions about the relevance of the class with respect to the students own interests and the relevance with the general research agenda of the Master program. Students are also asked within this survey to suggest improvements in the courses that IAAC takes into consideration for the future editions. General Survey: The general annual survey refers to the overall management of the program and the efficiency of the entire organization. It includes questions of whether students had difficulties in the application and admission process, whether they had problems in acquiring all necessary certificates and/or other documents and more. It also includes question of satisfaction in relation with the efficiency level of IAAC staff, whether faculty and content have met

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0–4.9 Fail (this means that the student is not going to get his/her Master Degree, this grade will be justified and well explained) 5.0–6.9 Pass 7.0–8.9 Good 9.0–10 Excellent/Distinction

- Under no circumstances will students be excused from presenting their design work at the final review of a project. - Diplomas will not be delivered to students with an incomplete in their final grades. In addition to the above, Midterm Reviews will be held with the members of the faculty in order to inform each student briefly of the general feelings of the faculty about his or her work. Suggestions may be given on how to prepare for the Final Review

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their expectations, and whether they were satisfied with the level of access to facilities and material resources at the Institute . Also, students are asked what course or activities considered more interesting and relevant to the program and they are also asked to express ideas for overall improvement.

non european students Non European students accepted to the program are advised to contact the nearest Spanish Embassy to start the Visa procedure. Be aware that the application procedure for a Student Visa can take up to 3 months.

study expenses Study-related expenses such as the purchase of books, graphic reproduction, printing and model moking are not included in the tuition fee. For field trips and excursions an individual financial contribution may be required.

Materials Students are expected to bring their ownly a laptop computer no more than two years old, with the following specifications: PIV at 2.4 GHz (or similar in the case of an AMD processor). 1024 Mb RAM. WIFI internet connection. 1280 x 1024 screen display resolution

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medical insurance Participants are responsible for their own health insurance and other personal insurance. It is mandatory to acquire a Medical Insurance to cover your stay here in Barcelona. The Catalan Public Health System does not cover students, and will charge you for any visit or consultation. Please note that the IAAC is not liable for loss or damage to personal belongings.

accommodation IAAC does not provide accomodation for students, although can provide information and assistance related to rental procedures.

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