Valldaura day
The 4th of December we celebrated the foundation of Valldaura, 852 years ago, by the Cister Monks. For such a commemoration we designed an event in four acts: First act The Path: We…
Energrid Project
Energrid is the internet of energy; a project powered by Endesa, with the aim of developing a distributed system of local energy production and consumption that could be implemented in any given building….
Programs 2013
Master in Permaculture. March/June 2014 Master in Environment & Landscape Octubre 2013/junio 2014 Master in Design for selft-sufficiency. Octubre 2013/junio 2014
Oscar Tomico (Escuela de Eindoven) y Marina Castán (ESDI)
On Sunday Oscar Tomico and Marina Castán visited Valldaura. Tomico is directing research study «Close to the Body», within the framework of the Master in Advanced Interaction of IAAC. As part of the…
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…
Barcelona Regional meeting
The Barcelona Regional team, which is the agency for urban development directed by the architect Willy Müller, has visited the house in Valldaura and its surroundings. The event was part of the meeting…
Recicling bricks from the construction made in 1888
During the construction and remodelling of Valldaura, most of the bricks used have been recicled from the very same house. Most of them date back to 1888, when the house was built by…
Valldaura’s history by Miquel Sanchez
Miquel Sanchez, a renown historian, will write the book on the history of Valldaura since the first settlement in the place, around 1150, until the present days. Monks, kings, nobles, illustrious and intellectuals,…
