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Berlin students visit Valldaura
TU-Berlin’s Urban Design & Communication (urbandesign.staedtebau.tu-berlin.de) – together with students from Michigan State University (MSU) and TU-Dortmund – visited IaaC’s Valldaura Campus during a trip to Barcelona. The excursion served as an introductory week to…
Intelligent Beehive done!
Finally, the first of Intelligent Beehives is settled on the Valldaura fields. It is the first of what will be Valldauras’ honeybee hives.
Mapping Valldaura
As part of the International Permaculture Day celebrations at Valldaura Labs, the Action Group started off the days’ events by digitally mapping the walk from Mundet Metro station to Valldaura. The excursion took…
Rocket Heater for the coffee
Preparing coffee may take long in the kitchen. One of the interns, Victor Guber, decided to solve the problem building a rocket heater. A rocket heater is a highly efficient heater, which uses…
Visit of Josep Lluís Martinet
Last Thursday we received the visit of Josep Lluís Martinet, owner of the renowned Bodega Mas Martinet. It’s always great to be influenced by such insightful people.
Josep Mascaró and Collserola
Josep Mascaró, head architect of the Collserola Park, has taken a group of students of Valldaura to the Magerola hill, a close-by location. It is a peculiar place, right at the end of…
Henhouse Routines
Every morning, around 7am, the interns go to the henhouse to open it, so the chiken, ducks and goose can wake up for the day. The aninals then have access to the space…
Our Own Mortar
On the west side of the house the ground is quite clayey. The interns decided to work on that earth, extract it, to give it a future use. Essentially, they make piles out…
Solar Oven is ready
After quite an amount of work, some thinking and some sweating, the solar oven is ready. Essentially, along the process of building the oven, we’ve come to understand, at a deeper level, how…
“Intelligent Beehives” Part I
Annemie Maes, from ONKO, a Belgian non-profit organization, has visited Valldaura for a few days and conducted the first part of the “Intelligent Beehives” workshop. Through that workshop, the interns have learned the…
Structure for Solar Showers and Dry Toilets
During the next week, both the dry toilets and the solar showers will be built and installed. That is why Oscar Gussinyer and Pepe Valls, from Coop 33, came to build the bases…
Preparing New Plantations
During this week, the interns have been working on the construction of a small greenhouse, were we will be able to plant the seeds and keep them monitored and warmer when the weather…
Intelligent Beehive done!
Finally, the first of Intelligent Beehives is settled on the Valldaura fields. It is the first of what will be Valldauras’ honeybee hives.
Visit of Josep Lluís Martinet
Last Thursday we received the visit of Josep Lluís Martinet, owner of the renowned Bodega Mas Martinet. It’s always great to be influenced by such insightful people.
Volunteers clean the forest for a Forest Garden
A group of volunteers, including IAAC students, met on December 25 to clear a piece of forest in Valldaura. The selected area was abandoned more than forty years ago, and weeds, bushes and…
Marco Poletto’s visit
Marco Poletto, director of the research studio at the Architectural Association and co-founder of ecoLogicStudio, visited Valldaura this 21th of January. Poletto will be part of the Master Design for Self Sufficiency,…
Forest Garden class by Jamie Nicole
Forest Garden class by Jamie Nicole
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