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WHAT? The Master in Mass Timber Design – MMTD is a 10-month online education program imparting the next generation of architects, designers and engineers with the skills to design, develop and build mass timber buildings.

The MMTD provides expertise in theories, cases, techniques, tools and design projections of mass timber construction and the interrelated fields of architecture, structural design, assembly systems, material science and thermodynamics.

The MMTD offers a unique online experience based on advanced design research methodologies, a philosophy of learning by doing, and a community of experts in mass timber design that serve as faculty and lecturers.

The Master in Mass Timber Design – MMTD is a 60 ECTS accredited Master degree composed of three 15 ECTS postgraduate programs plus a final Master Project of 15 ECTS. The MMTD offers, in a virtual environment, an interactive, lively and collaborative learning program to educate the next generation of architects, designers and engineers in the design, development and construction of ecological buildings made with industrialized and pre-fabricated mass timber elements.

WHY?The environmental challenges of this century demand a new generation of buildings made from renewable, reusable, and carbon-storing materials; timber is uniquely positioned to address this challenge. Recent technological developments enable tall building structures made with prefabricated and highly industrialized mass timber elements. Educating a new generation of architects, engineers, and designers in ecological design and building practices is therefore of critical importance for contemporary society, and promotes the expertise necessary to make the most of new technical opportunities.

The construction sector is gradually shifting toward prefabrication, industrialization, and off-site manufacturing as these strategies shorten construction time, reduce embedded energy expenditures, reduce CO2 emissions, and reduce waste generation. This shift requires greater design control and increased manufacturing precision, thus positioning architects, engineers, and designers as key actors.

This paradigm shift requires students to learn the key ecological, technological, and technical aspects of mass timber design in order to innovate and emerge as the leading professionals our world requires.

WHO?For architects, designers, and engineers aiming to become experts in Mass Timber Design and to lead the next generation of highly industrialized and ecologically meaningful buildings. The MMTD gathers faculty and experts from all around the globe in a unique and innovative virtual format accessible to students from all over the world. The program suits candidates willing to enter into a collaborative environment and interactive learning platform through which they will have the opportunity to obtain the best intellectual, technical, and applied knowledge available.

If you seek to position yourself at the forefront of the current systemic shift in how sustainable architecture is conceived and implemented, the Master in Mass Timber Design is for you!

PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIESThe Master in Mass Timber Design connects students to an international network of practitioners, global institutions and companies leading mass timber design agendas, research, tools, projects and applications in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) field.

The online environment of this master provides students with the ability to interact with an expansive, international body of faculty members and colleagues in diverse professional contexts that can serve as launching pads for their own careers. In addition, the MMTD connects a broad array of companies, specialized design firms, industries and institutions that can provide job opportunities for recent graduates of the program in this moment of exponential growth for mass timber building design around the globe.

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AN ONLINE REAL-CLASS ENVIRONMENT

In contrast to the traditional Online programs and tutorials, The Master in Mass Timber Design offers a real-class “virtual” environment, based on a continuous, interactive and collaborative learning process.

The MMTD is not an solitary experience, as the program gives the possibility to be part of a selected group of international students, seamlessly connected thanks to the most advanced platform for video-conferencing and collaborative working.

The limited number of students ensures that each student can be rigorous and continuously followed by the faculty and the academic coordination team, with dedicated hours for academic counselling and administrative support.

THE MMTD EXPERIENCE

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Students can choose to follow the program in a Synchronous or an Asynchronous format, according to their time-zone or personal schedule.

SYNCHRONOUS FORMAT

In the Synchronous format, students will follow the tutorials and lectures in real time using a video-conference and collaborative work tool (ZOOM). Immediately after these tutorials and lectures, the courses will continue with live mentoring group sessions with the faculty and the other students, in order to review the students’ work and project development.

During the rest of the day, students can develop their work individually or by interacting with their colleagues, leveraging online conferencing tools and the online campus platform, including online forums and chat rooms.

ASYNCHRONOUS FORMAT

> In the Asynchronous format, In the Asynchronous format, tutorials and lectures are recorded daily and afterward will be shared with the students. After watching the recorded tutorials and lectures, students will join the live mentoring group sessions via video-conference with the faculty and the other students, in order to review their work and project development.

During the rest of the day, students can develop their work individually or by interacting with their colleagues, leveraging online conferencing tools and the online campus platform, including online forums and chat rooms.

> SYNCHRONOUS CALENDAR EUROPE and AFRICA - MORNINGS ASIA and OCEANIA - AFTERNOONS Central European Time (CET/CEST) Lectures & Tutorials – 10.00 to 12.00 Live Group Mentoring – 12.00 to 13.00

> ASYNCHRONOUS CALENDAR AMERICA - MORNING EUROPE and AFRICA - AFTERNOON ASIA and OCEANIA - EVENINGS Central European Time Recorded Lectures & Tutorials – Available from 15:00 onwards Live Group Mentoring – following day, 18:00 – 19:00 US East Coast Time ECT Recorded Lectures & Tutorials – Available from 09:00 AM onwards Live Group Mentoring – following day, 12:00 – 13:00

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THE MMTD EXPERIENCE


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3 Modules + Master Thesis

Credits: 60 ECTS Duration: 10 months September 2022 - August 2023Language: English Format: online (synchronous or asynchronous)

The Master in Mass Timber Design is accredited with 60 ECTS and is articulated into 3 Modules + Master Thesis. Students can apply to each module independently as a postgraduate program, accredited with 15 ECTS.

Postgraduate in Mass Timber Design of Singular Housing and Prototypes

Credits: 15 ECTS Duration: 3 months September - December 2022Language: English Format: online (synchronous or asynchronous)

Postgraduate in Mass Timber Design of Collective Housing

Credits: 15 ECTS Duration: 3 months January - April 2023Language: English Format: online (synchronous or asynchronous)

Postgraduate in Mass Timber Design of Large Facilities

Credits: 15 ECTS Duration: 3 months April - July 2023Language: English Format: online (synchronous or asynchronous)

Master Thesis Project in Mass Timber Design

Credits: 15 ECTS Duration: 1 month August 2023Language: English Format: online (synchronous or asynchronous)

FORMATS

Moholt Timber Towers by MDH Arkitekter

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WELCOME TO THE INSTITUTEFOR ADVANCED ARCHITECTUREOF CATALONIA

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is an international centre for research, education, production and outreach, with the mission of envisioning the future habitat of our society and building it in the present.

Based in Barcelona, the Institute offers multidisciplinary programmes that explore international urban and territorial phenomena, with an emphasis on the opportunities that arise from the emergent territories, and the cultural, economic and social values that architecture can contribute to today’s society.

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IAAC THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE OF CATALONIA

IAAC IS EDUCATION

With a wide range of pioneering master programmes, giving the next generation of architects and changemakers the space to imagine, test and shape the future of cities, architecture and technology.

This is also possible through the Fab Academy, a distributed educational model aiming to introduce anyone to Digital Fabrication. Not to mention the workshops and the short programmes, implementing global agendas developed through local solutions, such as the Global Summer School.

IAAC IS HERITAGE

With the Valldaura Labs, a self-sufficient research centre located in the Collserola Metropolitan park, 20 minutes from the centre of Barcelona and surrounded by 140 hectares of forest, where a series of laboratories are implemented for the production and testing of Energy, Food and Things.

IAAC IS RESEARCH

Thanks to a series of projects funded by the European Union and developed in collaboration with public and private European partners, oriented to explore the role of technology in our society and cities.

IAAC sets out to take Research and Development to architecture and urbanism, and create multidisciplinary knowledge networks. To this end, the Institute works in collaboration with several cities and regions, industrial groups, research centres, including the City Council of Barcelona, the Collserola Natural Park, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Centre for Information Technology and Ar chitecture (CITA), the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc), as well as diverse companies among which CISCO, Endesa, Kuka Robotics and many others.

In collaboration with these entities, the Institute develops various research programmes that bring together experts in different disciplines such as architecture, engineering, biology, sociology, anthropology and other fields of investigation.

IAAC has made a name for itself as a centre of international reference, welcoming students and investigators from over 60 different countries among which Australia, the USA, India, Brazil, Russia, Ethiopia, all European countries and many others.

IAAC IS COMMUNITY

Beyond its educational and pro-research work, seeks permanent contact and cooperation among the hundreds of teachers, researchers, institutions and companies that have worked with us or that pursue the objective of providing solutions to the great challenges of humanity.

IAAC IS OUTREACH

Through lectures, publications, exhibitions and competitions. Thanks to initiatives such as the IAAC Lecture Series, or the Advanced Architecture Contest, IAAC promotes its values in the discussion about architecture, cities, society and technology, facing the nowadays worldwide challenges.

IAAC IS INNOVATION

With the Fab Lab Barcelona, the first and most advanced digital production laboratory in EU, and the Green Fab Lab, the first digital fabrication laboratory oriented to self-sufficiency: two places where you can build almost anything.

After hosting the FAB10 in 2014, the 10th annual worldwide Fab Lab conference, Fab Lab Barcelona has consolidated his role within the Fab Lab Network as one of the worldwide leaders of the Digital Fabrication Revolution as well as the Coordinator of the Fab Academy Programme.

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The Fab Lab Barcelona and Green Fab Lab are also part of the global network of Fab Labs, set up by MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms: small scale production and innovation centres equipped with digital fabrication tools and technologies for the production of objects, prototypes and electronics. Fab Lab’s final mission is to provide access to the tools and the knowledge to educate, innovate and invent using technology and digital fabrication. This initiative aims to allow anyone to make (almost) anything, thereby creating opportunities to improve lives and livelihoods around the world.

FAB LAB BARCELONA

GREEN FAB LAB

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Fab Lab Barcelona is the headquarters of the global coordination of the Fab Academy programme, in collaboration with the Fab Foundation and the MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. Fab Lab Barcelona is located in the Pujades Campus, where it supports different educational and research programmes related to the multiple scales of the human habitat.

The Fab Lab Barcelona has produced projects such as Hyperhabitat or the Fab Lab House and is currently developing projects of different scales, from smart devices for data collection by individuals, such as Smart Citizen, to the new production models for cities with the Fab City project being implemented in Barcelona in collaboration with the city council.

The Green Fab Lab is a digital fabrication lab that uses natural resources, part of the Plan Avanza national network of laboratories in Spain. One of its research lines is centred on the development of new materials from natural ingredients such as wood, earth or minerals for building, to make bricks, glass and resins using simple ancestral technologies and modern high-tech processes. The laboratory has several traditional bòvila brickyard kilns of the type traditionally found on large rural estates in Catalonia.

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MMTD MASTER IN MASS TIMBER DESIGN

Our Shelves Houses by Suma Arquitectura

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This module focuses on the research and practice of mass timber design at a small scale. From a singular house to a series of installations and pavilions, students are introduced to the basic topics of structure, thermal performance, assembly processes, digital manufacturing and robotics in mass timber design. Through this module, students will receive a comprehensive knowledge of discourses, cases, techniques, tools (environmental performance analyses, and parametric design), and design projections pertaining to singular housing units and small prototypes.

This module focuses on the research and practice of mass timber design of collective housing typologies, where timber is presently experiencing a resurgence. Students are introduced to highly industrialized and off-site manufactured structural timber systems, dry and fast assembly processes, acoustic and fire performance, durability, and contemporary typologies (including tall building design) in mass timber. Through this module, students will receive a comprehensive knowledge of discourses, cases, techniques, tools (building information systems), and projects pertaining to collective housing.

This module focuses on the research and practice of mass timber design of large-scale facilities and projects including cultural, sport, educational and industrial facilities. Students are introduced to large scale prefabricated timber structural systems, complex structural solutions, parametric façade design, hybrid systems, complete life cycle analyses and material traceability of buildings in mass timber. Through this module, students will receive a comprehensive knowledge of discourses, cases, techniques, tools (visualization software), and projects pertaining to large-scale facilities.

This module focuses on an integrated timber design project with complete technical development and construction detailing, based on one of the studio projects developed by the student in Modules 1, 2 or 3. Using Building Information Systems (BIM) software and guided by faculty and international experts and consultants, students will develop the complete documentation of a ready-to-build mass timber project.

MODULE 1 - POSTGRADUATE 1 MASS TIMBER DESIGN OF SINGULAR HOUSING AND PROTOTYPES

MODULE 2 - POSTGRADUATE 2 MASS TIMBER DESIGN OF COLLECTIVE HOUSING

MODULE 3 - POSTGRADUATE 3 MASS TIMBER DESIGN OF LARGE FACILITIES

MASTER THESIS PROJECT

MODULES

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This seminar is based on a literature review of books, publications, conferences, and relevant papers on mass timber design for singular housing units and prototypes. The seminar provides the intellectual, conceptual and epistemological foundation for Module 1. Students will work on readings and critical writing to elucidate a position for mass timber design and practice.

This seminar develops a series of design analyses of key contemporary mass timber singular housing units and small prototypes. The analyses will unearth all aspects associated with the design, including the architectural, engineering, tectonic, structural, technical, functional, social, ecological, economic, and regulatory. This type of deep inquiry will provide students with an advanced knowledge of the state of the art of mass timber design at the small scale. At the same moment, the relevant representational tools, techniques, and strategies will also be investigated.

This seminar develops a comprehensive technical survey of timber structural systems relevant for single housing and small prototyping (lightweight structures, cross laminated timber structures, modular construction, parametric structures). The seminar is centered around a series of technical lectures combined with practical and experimental exercises. Questions about industrialization, manufacturing, testing, construction methods and assembly will be discussed and evaluated. This seminar also covers structural modeling with wood components and their connections.

This lecture course offers an overview of the performative aspects of single housing units and prototypes made with mass timber. It covers life cycle analyses including embedded energy, carbon emissions and durability, together with thermal, acoustic and fire performance.

This seminar provides students with competency using the most advanced digital tools for analysis and design, based on environmental parameters such as solar radiation, thermal comfort, aerodynamics and exposure to wind (CFD) for the design of mass timber buildings. This seminar provides analytical tools to measure and digitally simulate design performance, as well as generative tools and software to design computationally advanced and more ecologically integrated mass timber buildings.

The Design Studio offers a platform for students to put into practice the discourses, cases, technologies and tools learned in other seminars of the module as a synthetic form of knowledge. Led by renowned designers in the field of mass timber design, the studio is centered around the design of single housing units or small prototypes and pavilions following a hands-on and learning-by-doing methodology.

Narrative 1: State of the Art in Single Housing Construction and Prototypes 2 ECTS

Cases 1: Analysis of Single Housing and Prototypes 3 ECTS

Techniques 1.1: Structural Mass Timber Systems for Single Housing and Prototypes 2 ECTS

Techniques 1.2: Performance Design Seminar 3 ECTS

Tools 1. Advanced Digital Design: Environmental Analysis Software 2 ECTS

Project 1. Studio for the Design of a Mass Timber Singular Housing or Prototype 3 ECTS

MASS TIMBER DESIGN OF SINGULAR HOUSING AND PROTOTYPES15 ECTS

MODULE 1 - POSTGRADUATE 1

The Voxel by MAEBB 19-20 Endesa Pavilion by IAAC

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Endesa Pavilion by IAAC

MultiPly by AHEC, Waugh Thistleton Architects and ArupTimber-Steel Hybrid Beam by Felipe Riola

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This seminar is based on a literature review of books, publications, conferences, and relevant papers on mass timber collective housing. The seminar provides the intellectual, conceptual and epistemological foundation for Module 2. Students will work on readings and critical writing to elucidate a position for mass timber design and practice.

This seminar develops a series of design analyses of key contemporary mass timber collective housing buildings. The analyses will unearth all aspects associated with the design, including the architectural, engineering, tectonic, structural, technical, functional, social, ecological, economic, and regulatory. This type of deep inquiry will provide students with an advanced knowledge of the state of the art of mass timber design at the mid- and high-rise building scale. At the same moment, the relevant representational tools, techniques and strategies will also be investigated.

This seminar develops a comprehensive technical survey of timber structural systems relevant for collective housing (CLT structures, modular construction, composite floor systems, hybrid structures). The seminar is centered around a series of technical lectures combined with practical and experimental exercises. Questions about industrialization, manufacturing, testing, construction methods and assembly will be discussed and evaluated. The course also covers structural modeling with wood components, and their connections.

This lecture course offers an overview of the performative aspects of collective housing made with mass timber. It covers life cycle analyses including embedded energy, carbon emissions and durability together with thermal, acoustic or fire performance applied to mid- and high-rise mass timber housing buildings.

This seminar provides students with competency using advanced digital tools in Building Information Modeling (BIM). With the increased role of industrialization and prefabrication in mass timber building, this seminar provides the opportunity to learn how to parametrically model the interrelated elements and components of a design, not only as geometry, but together with all their associated data including costs, measurements, performance factors and schedules of the architectural project.

Narrative 2: State of the Art in Collective Housing 2 ECTS

Cases 2: Analysis of Collective Housing 3 ECTS

Techniques 2.1: Structural Mass Timber Systems for Collective Housing 2 ECTS


Tools 2. Advanced Digital Design: Building Information Modeling 2 ECTS

The Design Studio offers a platform for students to put into practice the discourses, cases, technologies, and tools learned in other seminars of the module as a synthetic form of knowledge. Led by renowned designers in the field of mass timber design, the studio is centered around the design of a mid- or high-rise housing building following a hands-on and learning-by-doing methodology.

Project 2. Studio for the Deseing of a Mass Timber Housing 3 ECTS

MASS TIMBER DESIGN OF COLLECTIVE HOUSING15 ECTS


Bloc 6x6 by Bosch.Capdeferro Arquitectura Our Shelves Houses by Suma Arquitectura Moholt Timber Towers by MDH Arkitekter

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Self-Sufficient Collective Housing in Xiong’an by Vicente Guallart Architects

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This seminar is based on the literature review of books, publications, conferences, and relevant papers on large mass timber facilities. This seminar provides the intellectual, conceptual and epistemological foundation for Module 3. Students will work on readings and critical writing to elucidate a position for mass timber design and practice.

This seminar develops a series of design analyses of key contemporary large mass timber facilities (cultural, education and sports). The analyses will unearth all aspects associated with the design, including the architectural, engineering, tectonic, structural, technical, functional, social, ecological, economic, and regulatory. This type of deep inquiry will provide students with an advanced knowledge of the state of the art of mass timber design for cultural, sports and educational large-scale buildings. At the same moment, the relevant representational tools, techniques and strategies will also be investigated.

This seminar develops a comprehensive technical survey of timber structural systems relevant for large timber facilities (CLT, GLU-LAM structures of trusses, arches and hybrid and special structures). The seminar is centered around technical lectures combined with practical and experimental exercises. Questions about industrialization, manufacturing, testing, construction methods and assembly will be discussed and evaluated. The course also covers structural modeling with wood components and their connections.

This lecture course offers an overview of the performative aspects of large facilities made with mass timber. It covers life cycle analyses including embedded energy, carbon emissions and durability together with thermal, acoustic and fire performance applied to large mass timber cultural, educational or sport buildings.

This seminar provides students with competency using advanced digital tools for building visualization. The unique properties of mass timber demand a re-envisioning of representational and visualization tools and software to better render and express new aesthetic dimensions. This seminar introduces the latest and most powerful 3D computer software available for creating still images and dynamic animations of mass timber design projects.

Narrative 3: State of the Art in Large Facilities 2 ECTS

Cases 3: Analysis of Large Facilities 3 ECTS

Techniques 3.1: Structural Mass Timber Systems for Large Facilities 2 ECTS


Tools 3. Advanced Digital Design: Design Visualization Software 2 ECTS The Design Studio offers a

platform for students to put into practice the discourses, cases, technologies, and tools learned in other seminars of the module as a synthetic form of knowledge. Led by renowned designers in the field of mass timber design, the studio is centered around the design of a large timber facility following a hands-on and learning-by-doing methodology.

Project 3. Studio for the Design of a Mass Timber Housing 3 ECTS

MASS TIMBER DESIGN OF LARGE FACILITIES 15 ECTS


Self-Sufficient Collective Housing in Xiong’an by Vicente Guallart Architects Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona by Suma Architectura

St. Olav High School by MDH Arkitekter

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ProjectMinna Riska, MDH Arkitekter

Andrew Waugh, Waugh Thistleton Architects (TBC)

Elena Orte & Guillermo Sevillano, Suma Arquitectura

NarrativesDaniel Ibáñez

CasesVicente Guallart

TechniquesFelipe RiolaFelipe Vitorero

ToolsPatrick SpencerMichael Salka Firas Safieddine

Directed by: Daniel Ibáñez

Daniel Ibáñez is a Spanish practicing architect and urbanist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is Doctor of Design at the Harvard GSD and co-director of the Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings and Biocities (MAEBB) at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya (IAAC) in Valldaura Self-Sufficient Labs, Barcelona. Since 2017, Daniel is senior urban consultant at the World Bank advising international governments and institution on timber housing and timber urban development.

Daniel´s focus in on the architectural and urban implications of timber construction. He is co-author of the book Wood Urbanism: From Molecular to Territorial (Actar, 2019) and co-organizer of the conference a Harvard GSD in 2014 with the same name. Daniel is co-author and director of several award winning timber projects including the Fab Lab House (Madrid, 2010), Endesa Pavilion (Oslo, 2013), the Endesa World Fab Condenser (Barcelona, 2014), Ways of Wood (Boston 2017), Tiny House or the Voxel (Barcelona, 2019-2020), some of them exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia 2012, the Oslo Architectural Triennale 2013, or the Design Biennial Boston 2017 among others.In addition to IAAC, Daniel has taught at several international institutions including Rhode Island School of Design in the School of Architecture, Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design, the Universidad Pontificia Católica de Chile in the school of Architecture, Shukhov Lab in the Graduate School of Urbanism, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Escuela Técnica Superior of Architecture of Madrid and Harvard Graduate School of Design.

MASTER IN MASS TIMBER DESIGN FACULTY

Coordinated by: Fabio Capra Ribeiro

Elena Orte & Guillermo SevillanoPrincipals at Suma Architectura

Fabio CapraribeiroAcademic Coordinator, MMTD and MAEBB at IAAC

Minna Riska Principal at MDH Arkitekter

Andrew WaughPrincipal at Waugh Thistleton Architects

Vicente GuallartIAAC Founder and MAEB co-Director

Felipe RiolaProfessor of Structural Design and Statics, University of Wuppertal (Germany)

Felipe VictoreroSub-Director of Center UC-CORMA of Wood Innovation at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Patrick SpencerEnvironmental Consultant at EA Buildings

Michael SalkaProject Manager at Valldaura Labs, IAAC

Firas SafieddineDesign Visualization Consultant

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www.iaac.net - www.iaacblog.comwww.valldaura.net - www.fablabbcn.org

To apply: [email protected]

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Elena Orte & Guillermo SevillanoPrincipals at Suma Architectura

Fabio CapraribeiroAcademic Coordinator, MMTD and MAEBB at IAAC

Minna Riska Principal at MDH Arkitekter

Andrew WaughPrincipal at Waugh Thistleton Architects

Vicente GuallartIAAC Founder and MAEB co-Director

Felipe RiolaProfessor of Structural Design and Statics, University of Wuppertal (Germany)

Felipe VictoreroSub-Director of Center UC-CORMA of Wood Innovation at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Patrick SpencerEnvironmental Consultant at EA Buildings

Michael SalkaProject Manager at Valldaura Labs, IAAC

Firas SafieddineDesign Visualization Consultant

Directed by: Daniel Ibáñez

Daniel Ibáñez is a Spanish practicing architect and urbanist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is Doctor of Design at the Harvard GSD and co-director of the Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings and Biocities (MAEBB) at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya (IAAC) in Valldaura Self-Sufficient Labs, Barcelona. Since 2017, Daniel is senior urban consultant at the World Bank advising international governments and institution on timber housing and timber urban development.Daniel´s focus in on the architectural and urban implications of timber construction. He is co-author of the book Wood Urbanism: From Molecular to Territorial (Actar, 2019) and co-organizer of the conference a Harvard GSD in 2014 with the same name. Daniel is co-author and director of several award winning timber projects including the Fab Lab House (Madrid, 2010), Endesa Pavilion (Oslo, 2013), the Endesa World Fab Condenser (Barcelona, 2014), Ways of Wood (Boston 2017), Tiny House or the Voxel (Barcelona, 2019-2020), some of them exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia 2012, the Oslo Architectural Triennale 2013, or the Design Biennial Boston 2017 among others.In addition to IAAC, Daniel has taught at several international institutions including Rhode Island School of Design in the School of Architecture, Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design, the Universidad Pontificia Católica de Chile in the school of Architecture, Shukhov Lab in the Graduate School of Urbanism, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Escuela Técnica Superior of Architecture of Madrid and Harvard Graduate School of Design.

MASTER IN MASS TIMBER DESIGN FACULTY

Coordinated by: Fabio Capra Ribeiro

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PREVIOUSPROJECTS

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ARCHITECTURE OF CONTINUITY OTF 2019-2020

The 2019 Open Thesis Fabrication (OTF) research aims at achieving a sustainable and structurally stable construction system using km-0 robotic additive manufacturing. Building Architecture Continuity employs continuous printing and cantilever geometries to enhance the structural capacities and spatial qualities of its expected results. The tools employed in the project consist of a combination of computational methods, robotic manufacturing, custom made material solutions and performance-based design. During the six-month exploration, the research has produced several scaled models and a final construction of a complex design, printed in different scales and materials. The design process of the final prototypes followed a path from abstraction to specificity. Based on the structural research conducted before the finalisation of this step, seven modules of various qualities were produced. These modules acted as the connecting pieces between the abstract design and the technicalities of the new technology. They were combined, manipulated, twisted and deformed in order to create spatial solutions in the form of a series of rooms and single architectural elements, such as stairs, openings and columns.

OTF Research Credits:

This project is a research of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), developed within the Open Thesis Fabrication (OTF) program 2018-19, in collaboration with WASP, UN-Habitat, Windmill, La Salle and Rice House.

Researchers: Ozgur Cengiz, Yuchen Chen, Ipsita Datta, Yingxin Du, Ashkan Foroughi, Pavlina Kriki, Yi Fan Liao, Bhakti Vinod Loonawat, Shahram C. Randeria, Payam Salehi Nejad, Nusrat Tabassum

Faculty: Alexandre Dubor, Edouard Cabay, Joaquim Melchor, Kunaljit Chadha

Faculty assistant: Eugenio Bettucchi, Sheikh Riaz, Armin Akbari, Ya-Chieh Chang

Collaborators: Lapo Naldoni, Alberto Chiusoli, Massimo Visonà and Francesco De Fabritiis (WASP), Josep Ramon Sole and Joal Juanpere (Windmill), Runze Wang (Un-Habitat), Nadia Soledad and Gloria Font (LaSalle)

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