Michal Piasecki » Iaac Barcelona

large scale laser cutting at Iaac

Michal Piasecki — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:41:46 +0000

Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, where I did my masters in Architecture, has put on their blog some interesting images of what you can do with a laser cutter which (as far as I remember) has a bed size of 4 by 2 meters. They have only worked on on the forms which you can see underneath for few days – during one of the WAW workshops they conduct every few month.

The object I’m working on right now is only going to be 1 x 1 meter big, but a genetic algorithm procedure of optimization for cost on a laser cutter is applicable of to any scale of course. This is why I got interested in this work.

studying at Iaac in Barcelona

Michal Piasecki — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:05:04 +0000

I have co-authored an article “How does it feel to study in Barcelona”, published in December’s issue of Architektura-Murator – a polish monthly design magazine. The authors of the article are (not accidentally) co-founders of Workshops Factory. It felt like back in the sunny Bcn, where the idea of WF was born, inspired by our common experience of studying at Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia). Gaweł Tyrała edited the text – many thanks.

Agata Kycia, Monika Szawiola, Krzysztof Gornicki and Dorota Kabala wrote about parametric design studio run by Marta-Male Alemany (wtih predominant usage of Top-Solid). Krystian Kwiecinski wrote about emergent cities studio run by Vicente Guallart and I wrote about self-sufficient buildings studio, run in the second semester by Willy Mueller and in the third one by Izaskun Chinchilla.

introducing workshops factory

Michal Piasecki — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:23:53 +0000

We came up with the idea of Workshops Factory during a dinner at Rambla Poble Nou while still studying at Iaac in Barcelona. We (meaning Dorota Kabala, Agata Kycia, Monika Szawiola, Krzysiek Gornicki, Krystian Kwiecinski and me) are planning to organize workshops on digital parametric in design. First one is likely to take place in the first quarter of 2009. The talks with Warsaw University of Technology, School of Architecture and Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona are on. Most probably the theme of the workshop will be Rhino scripting and digital fabrication.

In the mean time, Dorota has prepared a short video about what we are planning to do.

Workshops Factory website functions as a blog which informs about all our work as a group as well as a showcase of our individual work related to digital paradigm in design.