Scholarship: IaaC's Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings
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IAAC Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
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Spain, 5 calls for projects, 0 reviews, 0 comments
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is a center for research, education, production and outreach, with the mission of envisioning the future habitat of our society and building it in the present.
IAAC follows the digital revolution at all scales (from bits to geography, from micro-controllers to cities, from materials to the territory) to expand the boundaries of architecture and design and meet the challenges faced by humanity. IAAC is an experimental and experiential center where one learns by doing, through a test methodology that promotes real solutions. IAAC is open, independent and radical; inspired by the values of Barcelona, the capital of architecture and design, where urbanism was invented and where a local high quality and innovation-oriented research is connected to an international network of excellence in technology, architecture and society fields.
IAAC, beyond its educational and pro-research work, is an interdisciplinary and multicultural stable community that 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 provide solutions to the great challenges of humanity.
IAAC follows the digital revolution at all scales (from bits to geography, from micro-controllers to cities, from materials to the territory) to expand the boundaries of architecture and design and meet the challenges faced by humanity. IAAC is an experimental and experiential center where one learns by doing, through a test methodology that promotes real solutions. IAAC is open, independent and radical; inspired by the values of Barcelona, the capital of architecture and design, where urbanism was invented and where a local high quality and innovation-oriented research is connected to an international network of excellence in technology, architecture and society fields.
IAAC, beyond its educational and pro-research work, is an interdisciplinary and multicultural stable community that 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 provide solutions to the great challenges of humanity.
Description
The Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings is a 12-month immersive academic programme with an emphasis on using a practice-orientated approach to train professionals with advanced expertise in the design and construction of ecological buildings.
The programme takes place in Valldaura Labs, in Barcelona, Spain.
During the first six months in Barcelona, students will embark on a series of intensive and cumulative modules and workshops that will tackle all the fields interrelated with the design and construction of advanced ecological buildings, including material, thermal and metabolic building systems.
After developing the aforementioned skills, students will collectively create the design concept, strategies, fabrication techniques and blueprints for an ecological building prototype that they will build during the last three months of the programme.
PROGRAMME PRINCIPLES:
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Immersive Education: This Master offers a unique immersive education experience at Valldaura Labs. Sleeping, eating, socialising, studying, prototyping, designing, building happens all at its unique location.
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Learning by Doing: Students learn based on their own experience and hands-on building full-scale prototypes. This master is fundamentally hands-on with an emphasis on professional expertise. Every year of the Master program will build a 1:1 building prototype.
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Multidisciplinary Education: Students will have access to courses and workshops from all multiple disciplines around buildings.
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Connected Education: Students collaborate with other academic design centres and institutions which are developing similar projects.
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Recording Process: Each student registers and documents in a unique, open and online platform all the knowledge generated by the Master programme.
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International community: This Master programme is oriented towards students both from mature economies, such as Europe or North America, as well as emergent economies such as China, India or Latin America.
Rewards
(5) Scholarships
AAC and BAD are launching 5 scholarships of 30% of fee for the Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings addressed to students and young architects from all Arab countriesTimeline
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