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CORA Installation / IAAC

Paula Pintos — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 03:00:00 +0000

The Valldaura Labs Campus of the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is located in the Collserola Natural Park (Barcelona), covering 135 hectares. It is known for its innovative approach to utilizing advanced technologies in its projects. Continuing with this practice, the Campus has introduced a KUKA industrial robot, a versatile tool capable of milling, cutting wood, and performing other precision tasks. As part of the "Master in Advanced Architecture and Bioscities" (MAEBB), an international team of students faced the challenge of designing and building a fully functional laboratory for this robot over four months.

3dPA Forest Campus / IAAC - 3dPA

Paula Pintos — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 03:00:00 +0000

IAAC completed a 100 m² low carbon emissions building prototype using local soil and natural materials, utilizing the pioneering Crane WASP 3D printer. The 3D-Printed Earth Forest Campus in Collserola Natural Park (Barcelona) features enclosed, covered, and open spaces, serving as a live laboratory for testing new constructive and architectural solutions, and represents a significant step towards a sustainable km0 earth affordable housing model.

MO.CA Mobile House / IAAC

Valeria Silva — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:00:00 +0000

MO.CA is a mobile home made of zero-kilometer cross-laminated timber (DLT), and designed within the Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings & Biocities (MAEBB) program developed at the Valldaura Labs campus of the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). Throughout history, people have exercised their fundamental human right to freedom by combining self-sufficiency with mobility, from migratory tribes to interstellar explorers. In recent decades, the quest for self-sufficiency has been driven by the recognition of global climate change and the associated need for innovative, fossil-fuel-independent housing. Even more recently, the rise of remote work opportunities, facilitated by communication technologies and accelerated following the COVID-19 era, has renewed general interest in freedom of movement.

House 1105 / H Arquitectes

Daniela Cardenas — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 17:00:00 +0000

... A really small facing South plot, the result of Judith’s parent’s house segregation…

Valldaura Labs Rehabilitation / Guallart Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 10 May 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Valldaura Labs is a project to create a Self-Sufficient Habitat Laboratory.promoted by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. It is located in the center of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, in the Park natural of Collserola.

Data Centre In Cerdanyola / ACXT

Fernanda Castro — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The Data Centre program includes more than 6.000 m2 of processors distributed into 18 IT rooms as well as parking places, contingency offices, operation, coupling facilities, testing rooms, suppliers and workshops. The building typology requires the highest technological functionality, prioritizing: flexibility, scalability and energy efficiency in the three floors of computer rooms as well as in the two technical floors for the facilities of cooling and electric ones.

Els Gorgs Institute, Cerdanyola del Valles / BAAS, Jordi Badia

Giuliano Pastorelli — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The Els Gorgs Institute is one of the latest projects completed by Jordi Badia (BAAS), architects who we have published extensively in Plataforma Arquitectura and who are also part of the collective 8E platform, presented in Chile as part of the XVII Architecture Biennial in Santiago.

House rehabilitation in Bellaterra / YLab

Rodrigo Frey — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The project consists in the rehabilitation of a single family house and its outdoor space located in the beautiful residential area of Bellaterra, in Cerdanyola del Vallès, close to Barcelona and in the surroundings of the Collserola natural park.