Archive. Café de las ciudades. Mapping The Commons. Urban tactics. IaaC. Advanced architecture contest. Self-sufficient Housing Prototypes - Students Research - Researchs. Program: Open Thesis Fabrication 2010Research Candidate: Nicholas Waissbluth Project description: Bloon, a collaboration with the Barcelona based space tourism company, Zero 2 Infinity, is a capsule that will travel to near space giving travellers the experience to view our planet in the most unique way. The Open Thesis project concentrates on the space capsule: the geometry, possible fabrication processes, and building a 1:1 prototype.
The first phase consists of understanding the geometry of the capsule (a torus) supported by research in composite structures such as Automatic Fiber Placement technologies (AFP), and finally building a lightweight 1:1 prototype of one section of the capsule to be used for long term research into the design and fabrication of the capsule. Self Sufficient Building - Students Research - Researchs. (FAB)BOTS 2.0. Customized Machines and Robots for Design and Manufacturing Faculty: Marta Malé-AlemanyAssistant: Brian PetersTechnical Expert: Victor Viña, Luis Fraguada Continuing on the research from last year, the Digital Tectonics Research Studio 2010-11 will investigate the workflow between computational design and material production methods, exploring the relationship between design inputs and computer programmable devices that can be used for the production of building structures and/or components.
Challenging the traditional norms of linear file-to-factory production processes, the studio will examine scenarios in which parametric design and material production are developed simultaneously, exploring the potentials of linking design programming and machinic behaviour in real time. (Fab)Bots 2.0 Project Archive. Self Sufficient Territories - Students Research - Researchs. Faculty: WILLY MÜLLER, HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO Assistant: MAITE BRAVO Guest Tutor: Peter Trummer What constitutes a radical region? Which design strategies will redefine cities as hybrid terrains embracing the whole built environment, merging traditional boundaries existing between architecture, urbanism, landscape and infrastructure? Within a highly experimental framework, this studio seeks to radicalize the discourse around the role of architecture as a subversive strategy to redefine the role of segregated territories and ageing infrastructures at the urban scale.
Emphasizing aspects of mobility, infrastructure, environmental strategies, placemaking, energy efficiency and landscape terrains. Within the regional area of Barcelona, the Besós represents one of the main rivers crossing the regional area of Catalunya, flowing 40 km from the interior to the Mediterranean Sea.