MAA Self-sufficient Building studio‘s students have been recently took for a visit of three iconic Cloud9 projects, designed by their Faculty Enric Ruiz-Geli and Mireia Luzzáraga Alvarez.

The first visit, back in the month of December, has been the one to the Media-TIC building in Poblenou, awarded in 2011 as the Best Building by the World Architecture Festival.

The building seeks to be iconic in the digital world and a vehicle for the dissemination of new technologies, while being designed as a socially open civic space.

Media-TIC is in the shape of a cube and formed by large iron beams covered in a plastic coating of inflatable bubbles, which offer glimpses of the fluorescent structure of the building. The attractive covering also has a functional utility as a way of regulating light and temperature, primarily preventing 114 tons of CO2 a year from escaping from the building, and offering a 20% saving on climate control.

The destination of the second visit, in which IAAC students went along with their colleagues of the AA school of London, were the Aiguablava Villa in Begur and the working site of the future ElBulli Foundation.

The “Mediterranean case study” of the Aiguablava Villa, is about to be officially inaugurated; while the construction works for the ElBulli Foundation are still a work in progress.