It will debate work by international artists and architects, address new and alternative methods of commitment to the environment from diverse perspectives, such as society and ecology, or from the point of view of materials.
"The growing consciousness that a building is a device that performs primarily as an environmental regulator is shifting the focus of the discipline from tectonics to social and ecological processes: buildings establish the regime of energy exchange of the built environment by virtue of their geometry, their materiality etc… and therefore there is an opportunity to establish relationships between these performances and emerging architectural sensibilities and expressions."
The workshop will investigate new design processes to produce context sensitive environments from a critical perspective. Local ‘materials’ such as user behaviour, social patterns or environmental analysis will inform the design process. The workshop will invest on digital design and fabrication strategies by studying data-feed protocols, environmental simulation software and algorithmic design.
A prototype of the best project from the workshop will be fabricated in the Tecnalia installations.
Architecture symposium: PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTS.
Venue: Museum Auditorium, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Spain.
Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012, from 9 am to 8 pm.
Led by: Maider Llaguno and Clara Olóriz. Panel: Iñaki Begiristain, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Juan Herreros, Eva Castro & Alfredo Ramírez, Douglas Spencer, Efrén García Grinda y Cristina Díaz Moreno, Philippe Rahm, Toni Kotnik, Gramazio & Kohler y Marjetica Potrc.
Co-Organized by: Architecture Association School of Architecture, London, through the Bilbao-San Sebastián Visiting School program and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, as part of its 15th anniversary events.
Sponsors: Bilbao City Council
Collaboration: Institut Français Bilbao
Tickets: Free admission. Tickets available at the Museum ticket office.
Computing Topos, Workshop:
Venue: Alhóndiga, Bilbao. Spain.
Dates: 16-27 July, 2012.
Architectural Association Coordinator: Chris Pierce.
Directors: Maider Llaguno Munitxa & Clara Oloriz Sanjuan.
