IaaC Bit 4.0

Implementing Advanced Knowledge

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4.0 Sequences editorial team

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IaaC Series Lecture Enrique Walker

The ecological Gap Daniel Koehler

Parametric Logics in the architecture of the XX century

Enrique Walker is an architect, and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, where he also directs the Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design.

Daniel Koehler (Dr.) teaches urban design at the University of Innsbruck and digital design strategies at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. His research incorporates digital methods into the study of the city, its history and architecture.

Maite Bravo obtained the degree of architect with honors at the University of Chile; a MAA at IaaC and a second master at UPC. She is currently a PHD “European Doctor� candidate at UPC.

IaaC Advanced Architecture Contests

IaaC Alumni Symposium IaaC Research

Barcelona Beijing Make IaaC Research

Lucas Cappelli is an architect director of the IaaC Advanced Arhitecture Contests. Currently he is the head of the IaaC Executive Board

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.

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.

IaaC Lecture Series Mitchell Joachim

City sensing and parametric strategies for urban planning

IaaC Advanced Architecture Contests

Mitchell Joachim is a PHD professor at many schools and Co-Founder of Terreform ONE. He was chosen by Wired magazine for “The Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To”.

Andrea Galli graduated in engineering and architecture from the P. T. with a thesis that gathers his research on a computational approach to architectural design and urban planning. Currently he works at Carlo Ratti Office.

Enric Ruiz-Geli is an architect from ETSAB and Associate Set Designer for Bob Willson. He is currently Director of Cloud 9, co-director of Metapolis and tutor at Barlett and IaaC, among many other schools.

Pylos IaaC Research

Framing the design process when designing with wereables

Rethinking Edibla Landscape Emanuele Sommariva

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.

Oscar Tomico is Assistant Professor of the Designing Quality in Interaction Research Group and part of Wearable Senses at Eindhoven University of Technology

Emanuele Sommariva is PHD architect and teacher at Università degli Studi di Genova for urban design.

4.0 Sequences

If in the 3rd edition IAAC BITS (Deployments) we explored some of the features related to the notion of deployment as an informational and spatial process, in this edition we are presenting a set of documents that through its common background underline the idea of “Sequence” as a particular dynamic (and method) of propagation.

Deployments and Sequences as examples of dynamic actions but, also, as key-words of new contemporary (and non-linear) urban (and productive) formulations.

In this sense, it is capital to understand the difference in between “series” and “sequences”. On the one hand, “series” (one of the paradigms of the material and modern approach to the idea of production) would define a set of consecutive and repetitive events that are reproduced by derivation and generic adhesion that’s to say, reproduced through the same received information. On the other hand, “sequences” (a more “open” operational concept) would indicate a discontinuous and “non-lineal” succession of “rhythmic”, but differential and variable, events. Although these elements wouldn’t be necessarily linked in its formal understanding, they are infrastructurally and relationally weaved, keeping among them a vague inter-cadence, that’s to say, a frequency defined by space-time intervals which would not strictly repeated but that would keep some systematicity and evidently, a high degree of variation.

One of the most interesting consequences of “sequences” is its capacity to deal both with the idea of predictability -in its (para) repetitive understanding- and with the concept of perturbation -in its surprising sense-. Indeed, a sequence is organised under a certain pattern that behaves as a guideline, but that at the same time permits some alterations, protuberances, branchings or eruptions in the elements that is made of. Therefore, unlike series, in sequences the idea of repetition is mixed with the notion of novelty, a mix that provides them a big dose of flexibility and adaptation, without loosing a certain degree of global coherence that save them to fall in the absolute relativism.

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The result of this system is an “open” combination -not exact, neither repetitive-, in between bands that suggests the idea of a flexible code where the order would consist more in its “directionality” rather than in its “repetition”. However, is important to not get confused with this issue: the concepts of “bands” should be understood more as a dynamic and indeterminate rail rather than as a strict “zonning”.

This rail would be capital provide a flexible instrument to “infiltrate” its elements in between fragments of reality and at the same time articulate the fragmentation itself.

In this sense, this 4rt edition of IAAC-BITS should be understood as a sequence: a set of elements that despite being composed of a discontinuous and non-lineal succession of documents, it is infrastructurally weaving and aligning all its components through the same ideological vector.

The concept of a “barcode” understood as a particular case of sequence, is a very explicit metaphor to describe the aim of this edition.

Each document would be a specific “bar” in the whole schema, that in spite of its peculiar features related to width, colour, or length, can be related to the whole system by a certain and common direction. Moreover, its concatenation, although is not repeating the same frequency and therefore is alternating different rhythms, is providing a certain shared horizon where each individuality is projected and perceived.

Therefore and as a consequence, an attentive reading of this edition should provide not just a set of “monades” of information, but also and more important, a global and general pattern where all these individualities would deploy its specific content and at the same time work together to emphasise a common logic.

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IAAC BITS

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DIRECTOR:

IAAC SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Manuel Gausa, IaaC Dean

EDITORIAL COORDINATOR Jordi Vivaldi, IaaC bits Editorial Coordinator

EDITORIAL TEAM Manuel Gausa, IaaC Dean Mathilde Marengo, Communication & Publication Jordi Vivaldi, IaaC bits Editorial Coordinator

ADVISORY BOARD: Areti Markopoulou, IaaC Academic Director Tomas Diez, Fab Lab Bcn Director Silvia Brandi, Academic Coordinator Ricardo Devesa, Advanced Theory Concepts Maite Bravo, Advanced Theory Concepts

DESIGN: Ramon Prat, ACTAR Editions

IAAC BIT FIELDS: 1. Theory for Advanced Knowledge 2. Advanced Cities and Territories 3. Advanced Architecture 4. Digital Design and Fabrication 5. Interactive Societies and Technologies 6. Self-Sufficient Lands

Nader Tehrani, Architect, Director MIT School Architecture, Boston Juan Herreros, Architect, Professor ETSAM, Madrid Neil Gershenfeld, Physic, Director CBA MIT, Boston Hanif Kara, Engineer, Director AKT, London Vicente Guallart, Architect, Chief City Arquitect of Barcelona Willy Muller, Director of Barcelona Regional Aaron Betsky, Architect & Art Critic, Director Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Hugh Whitehead, Engineer, Director Foster+ Partners technology, London Nikos A. Salingaros, Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio Salvador Rueda, Ecologist, Director Agencia Ecologia Urbana, Barcelona Artur Serra, Anthropologist, Director I2CAT, Barcelona

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