28/03/2023

UIC Barcelona School of Architecture at REBUILD 2023

UIC Barcelona School of Architecture is participating in the REBUILD 2023 event that started today and until 30 March at the IFEMA Event Centre making Madrid the world capital of technological innovation in building. All the solutions, models and concepts that are revolutionising building today will be presented during the three-day event, and several lecturers from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture will be participating.

 

Miquel Lacasta, founding partner of ARCHIKUBIK, will talk about the Agrocity Gagarine Truillot project, 2021 Spanish Urbanism Prize, and about the Cité International de la Gastronomie. “It is an extremely important competition that we won last November, based on the value of French gastronomy, an intangible UNESCO heritage, with a very diverse programme consisting of laboratories, market, museum, student residence, hotel, and more.”

Borja Ferrater, founding partner of OAB, will participate in “OAB Project Methodologies.” Ferrater won the FAD Award in the category of ephemeral architecture, together with Carlos Ferrater, for the exhibition in Madrid “M.C. Escher. The art of the impossible,” winner of the Wallpaper Design Award for the Roca Barcelona Gallery building. “My talk will deal with the new methods of working. I will focus primarily on how we have been influenced by the technological advances (BIM, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, etc.) used in our architecture studio during the design process and on a new office (called ELIA) linked to OAB created to respond to new needs,” Borja Ferrater pointed out.

Mauro Manca, lecturer in Sustainability and founder and director of Energreen Design, is part of a round table discussion on how to apply circular economy in building.

Maria Isabel Gabarro, director of the Master’s Degree in Architecture & Design Business Management at UIC Barcelona, will moderate the round table discussion “New business paradigms in architecture studies. Architecture & Business.”

Founded by Felipe Pich-Aguilera and Teresa Batlle, directors of the Sustainability Area at UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, Picharchitects will exhibit systems developed together with industry, involving ceramic, mineral, metallic and natural materials, with the interest of going deeper into resources, industrialisation, sustainability and digitalisation. They will be in the Workshop Arena at the “Matterflow” exhibition on new ways of designing, building and using, in their presentation of the book Material and in a discussion on the residual value of buildings, and also in different workshops organised by the PichInnovation team.