Tag Archives: Sustainability

MBIArch Notes: “Verticalscapes” Design Studio

The first Core Design Studio of the MBIArch program, “Verticalscapes“, focuses on a “prototypology” that combines architecture, landscape, and environment. Directed by Iñaki Ábalos, the studio is one of the second term’s hightlights, and the cornerstone of the Architectural Design area of study. We’ve asked Javier García-Germán, partner at Totem Arquitectos and the studio’s Assistant [...]

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MBIArch Notes: Productive Land Program (PLP)

The Productive Land Program (PLP) was a two-week seminar and site-specific workshop dedicated to analyzing and developing the productive capacities of land in a semi-rural context. Directed by Joan Roig—member of the BIArch Board of Directors and Principal of Batlle i Roig Arquitects—and with the support of architects Anna Viader and María Buhigas, as well [...]

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MBIArch Notes: Mark Chown

As a part of the Sustainable Building Services course, led by Juan Gallostra–engineer and General Director of Grupo JG, Barcelona–which addresses the limitations and possibilities of building services design through the interaction of mechanical and electrical systems in relation to other building elements (structure, circulation, envelope), MBIArch students followed a guest lecture held by Mark [...]

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