Entries Tagged as ‘Fabrication’

October 10, 2008

Villa FAB-ulosa

One of the things children love to do is to create their personal world. That is exactly what Villa FAB-ulosa did, using high end technology. In other words… how can we make digital fabrication easy to perceive and pleasently useful in everyday life? Make children use it! And be sure that they will learn fast. [...]

July 14, 2008

Venice Biennale workshop@IaaC

On July 7th started at IaaC the workshop for the Installation of Vicente Guallart in the Venice Biennale. The aim of the firs two weeks was to design a press-fit system of structure and the furniture prototypes in transparent acrylic of 10mm, from which will be made all the furniture of the Installation “Hyperhabitat-Reprogramming the [...]

July 10, 2008

Parametric Dome_Design + 1:1 Fabrication

“A dome is a common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere”

This project was developed during the third term of the MAA_IaaC 2007-2008, by a group of 20 students, under the tutorship of Marta Male-Alemany and with the assistance of Shane Salisbury.
The objective of the project was to design [...]

February 7, 2008

prefabricated housing case study _ 1:1 The Digital House

Long after the idea of digitally customizing and producing your house was initially launched, Bell Travers Willson are introducing us to a whole new level through their project, 1:1 Making the Digital House. After two and a half years of research they presented it in an exhibition at The Architectural Foundation’s Yard Gallery in London [...]