La Model Prison
From Discipline to Rehabilitatio Project description How the adaptive use of Carceral Architecture can transform systems of confinement into systems of care? Site Analysis
Within the current global context of rapid change, integrated with the potentials of digital technologies, IAAC’s Master in Advanced Architecture (MAA) is committed to the generation of new ideas and applications for Urban Design, Self Sufficiency, Digital Manufacturing Techniques and Advanced Interaction.
In this context IAAC works with a multidisciplinary approach, facing the challenges posed by our environment and the future development of cities, architecture and buildings, through a virtuous combination of technology, biology, computational design, digital and robotic fabrication, pushing innovation beyond the boundaries of a more traditional architectural approach.
Course: MAA01 25/26 Introductory Studio G2
Introductory Studio G2: Design Commons in the Anthropocene investigates how architecture can respond to planetary limits through adaptive reuse, material intelligence, and systemic thinking. Centered on Barcelona, the course treats the city as a material bank and laboratory for low-carbon transformation. Students analyse the ecological, social, and economic impacts of construction, map material flows, and experiment with regenerative building practices using locally sourced materials. By combining vernacular knowledge with digital tools, the studio challenges extractive models of building and cultivates design methods that are circular, collaborative, and responsive to ecological and social realities.
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BEYOND THE CAGE
from Exhibition to Ecosystem How can a zoo transition ethically from captive habitats to an urban ecological network? delete this later ### comments for blog – just copy paste the stuff from the presentation and support the content from the research booklet but not so much Idea of Obsolescence A zoo is a facility where … Read more
People’s Stage
The project People’s Theatre addresses the growing obsolescence of cultural heritage buildings under overlapping social, economic, and climatic pressures. Using Teatre Arnau in El Raval as a case study, the project investigates how adaptive reuse can reposition a historically commodified theatre as a socio-economic commons ” This research investigates how adaptive reuse of Teatre Arnau … Read more
The Can Ricart Regeneration Project
Design Ethos This project seeks to explore how issues of stagnation and obsolescence can be tackled whilst still enabling socio-economic and technological developments of our urban spaces. It will explore how they can be applied within architecture to evaluate how we can more effectively address issues of erasure whilst still permitting modern interventions and advancements … Read more
