Self-Sufficient Housing THE SELF-FAB HOUSE
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia directed by Vicente Guallart - www.iaac.net –is issuing an international summons to architects, designers and students from around the world, inviting proposals for the construction of self-sufficient dwellings with an emphasis on exploring people’s capacity to self-construct their own homes.
The 2nd Advanced Architecture Contest directed by Lucas Cappelli - www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org - encourage in this edition of the Self-sufficient housing competition, the design of a “SELF-FAB HOUSE” using industrial or traditional craft-based techniques generated on the basis of the knowledge of the information age, such as digital processes, software-driven manufacturing, skills and know-how in the use of new or established materials, the strategic recycling of other chains of production or familiarity with the historical processes of the construction of habitats in natural environments, revised in the light of new standards of sustainability. The proposals must be digitally delivered in 3 PDF files DINa3 format. Registration is free. The prize (total value: € 39.500, 00) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme.
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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) - www.iaacat.com - is an international centre of education and research focused in architecture understood as a discipline that involve different scales from territorial analysis, urban developments, architectural projects, digital fabrications and informational environments.
Placed in Barcelona - www.bcn.es -, one of the international capitals of Urbanism, the institution develops a multidisciplinary program that explores urban and international territorial phenomena placing the accent in the opportunities that emerges from developing countries and cultural, economic and social values that architecture may contribute to society.
Some of the most important projects recently developed are The Media House Project, elaborated with the MIT's Media Lab - www.media.mit.edu -, the territorial research project Hipercatalunya - www.hipercatalunya.org -, featured in Macba Barcelona, and the Transamericana project performed in Brazil.
The IAAC extends educative programs linked to the Advanced Architecture Master, leaded by Vicente Guallart - www.guallart.com - and Manuel Gausa, in collaboration with the Fundación Politecnica de Catalunya - www.fundacio.upc.edu -
In addition to research programs and international projects the agenda is completed with lectures, excursions, exhibitions, publications and competitions.
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This year the Master of Advanced architecture topic is Fast Asia / Asia 2005-2006: ?Fast economic growth vs. fast city growth in Asia?. The program ends with an Excursion for all students supported by the IAAC to the area of study, this year, a country of Asia.
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submission date: May 27, 2005