Last May 19th to 23rd, Barcelona hosted the 19th edition of Construmat, the International Construction Faire. Within this new edition, and with the suggestive change of name to “Beyond Building Barcelona – Reengineering Construmat, Fira de Barcelona set the challenge of including the Innovation Area to the traditional features of the Faire. For this reason assigned IaaC | Fab Lab Barcelona the mission to design and execute the content and exhibition for the new Pavilion of Innovation 2015.
The Pavilion of Innovation 2015 presented the latest ideas and construction paradigms emerging from international excellence in research and pilot projects, forming the basis of future buildings and cities. Novel and reactive materials, advanced digital/robotic manufacturing techniques and responsive environments were the key topics presented, towards shaping the future of the building industry.
The Pavilion of Innovation 2015 featured 3 section: Exhibitions, Workshops and a Symposium.
The Exhibition presented a limited number of pioneer academic research projects and prototypes from the BEYOND | CALL FOR PROJECTS, as well as professional built projects and prototypes will be exposed within the Pavilion of Innovation 2015. The aim was to offer a matchmaking space for research and innovative projects to meet construction and technology companies, constructing the bridge connecting innovation with the industry and businesses, and bringing possibilities for projects to be implemented in real world developments.
The workshops were centered on Computational Couture, Building with Robots, Making things talk, Drones, and Wikihouse.
The Symposium took place on Saturday, 23th of May, where each speaker presented its innovative work and ideas in short sessions. Among other thematics 4D printing, digital fabrication, self-sufficient buildings and distributed manufacturing will be discussed during this event. The speakers were:
Skylar Tibbits; Director, Self-Assembly Lab, MIT, Boston, United States
Mark Burry; Executive Architect, Sagrada Familia, Sydney, Australia
Alastair Parvin; Designer, WikiHouse, London, UK
Claudia Pasquero; Co-founder, ecoLogicStudio, London, UK
Eva Gladek; Founder, Metabolic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fabian Scheurer; Founder, Design to Production, Stuttgart, Germany
Philippe Block; Founder, BLOCK Research Group, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Anupama Kundoo; Founder, Anupama Kundoo Architects, Madrid, Spain
Hernan Diaz Alonso; Director, xefirotarch, Los Angeles, United States
Enric Ruiz Geli; Founder, Cloud 9, Barcelona, Spain
The Round Table discussants were:
Areti Markopoulou, IAAC Academic Director
Tomas Diez, Fab Lab Barcelona Director
Willy Müller, Barcelona Regional Director
Albert Riera, Director of Industrial Sectors, Ascamm/Eurecat
Moderated by: Ramon Prat, Editor
The Beyond Building Barcelona faire 2015 received more than 54.000 visitors this year, 15% more than the last edition in 2013.
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