Angaben zur Professur

Lehrstuhl 

Professur A. Brillembourg / H. Klumpner

Typ 

Professur für Architektur und Städtebau

Standort 

ONA J 17

Webseite 

www.brillembourg-klumpner.arch.ethz.ch

Assistierende 

Hannes Gutberlet, Katerina Kourkoula, Danny Wills

Kontakt E-Mail 

wills@arch.ethz.ch

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

Thema 

Empower Shack - Cape Town, South Africa

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

Overview The design studio focuses on the development of a functioning and replicable housing prototype for a real site in an informal settlement of Cape Town, South Africa. The studio will respond to the need for dignified, affordable housing and leverage the potential of modular construction, strategic urban planning, community capacity building and industry systems. Each student will individually develop a prototype through all scales – from connection details to urban plans – and undertake a holistic series of topics – including material studies, passive strategies, economic models, and scale mockups. Taken together, these projects will form an overall body of research with the potential to manifest itself in a built prototype in Cape Town. With a population of over 50 million and the continent’s largest economy, South Africa is often seen as a source of relative stability and prosperity in the region. Yet economic inequality remains high. Around 1.5 million households (approximately 7.5 million people) live in 2,700 informal settlements scattered across the country, which faces an overall shortage of 2.5 million houses. While the government’s record on housing delivery is laudable, the scale of need means informal settlements will remain for the foreseeable future. In response, authorities have slowly begun shifting the focus to incremental upgrading, including committing in 2010 to improve the quality of life of 400,000 households in well located informal settlements by 2014 through improved access to basic services and land tenure. The studio research and design will engage itself in an ongoing project to develop and implement design innocations for rapid and incremental informal settlement upgrading. The goal is to provide practical strategies to alleviate a national crisis, while remaining embedded within community-driven processes around resource allocation. Content The studio will help frame an understanding of the forces shaping informal settlements and the critical behaviors, requirements and practices of its inhabitants. It will also encourage the development of a critical position on the potential role of the architect to mediate a design process within broader social, political and economic systems. Students will undertake research, study test cases, formulate a design hypothesis, model their designs through scale mockups and communicate their intentions in a series of critiques and reviews. A series of lectures, screenings, and discussions will accompany the design program to communicate the social-political and cultural context of the site, and explore the field and discourse of design intervention. These will be given by selected guests from the fields of architecture, urbanism, landscape, building technologies and associated disciplines, as well as experts from the Urban-Think Tank Chair. Schedule Students will begin the semester with a series of precedent analyses and mapping exercises in small groups. Lectures will be held on topics of the African and South African context. Students will then begin developing individual design proposals for their housing prototypes. Weekly discussions on thematic topics will take place, building to a comprehensive understanding of the problem of housing. Three main reviews will take place throughout the semester, including the final review.

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Staedtebau

Lernziele 

Goal Students will develop a comprehensive housing prototype with the possibility to eventually be tested on-site in Cape Town. The studio will help frame an understanding of the forces shaping informal settlements and the critical behaviors, requirements and practices of its inhabitants. It will also encourage the development of a critical position on the potential role of the architect to mediate a design process within broader social, political and economic systems. Training Throughout the semester, students will focus on developing transferable and practical skills – such as: - Developing drawing and modeling techniques across a variety of media to represent architectural and urban ideas. - Responding to the complexity of urban problems through architectural solutions in a real life context. - Analyzing the various layers that shape a city (social, economic, political, infrastructural). - Anticipating the positions of urban actors from local, national and international levels of activity. - Bridging top-down policy with bottom-up practices. - Addressing the rapidly changing context of cities in developing countries and the global south. Regular workshops will train students on how to effectively represent ideas through architectural drawing and modeling – teaching how to use and move between varied techniques like mapping, diagramming, orthographic drawings, as well as computer programs like Rhino 3D, VRay, and the Adobe Creative Suite. **The design studio is also planned in conjunction with the Seminar Week trip to Cape Town through the Brillembourg & Klumpner Chair of Architecture and Urban Design. Enrollment in the Cape Town Seminar Week is NOT required but is highly recommended as it forms an essential part of the studio and maximizes design output. Travel grants are available through DARCH with proper application.

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

051-1139-14

Zusätzliche integrierte Disziplin(en) 

Integrated Planning Discipline 063-1401-14L

Unterrichts-sprache 

English

Arbeitsweise 

Group analysis, individual design proposals

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

Oct 15, Nov 3, Dec 3 (With potential to change)

Datum Schlusskritik 

Dec 17

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

Oct 16, 2014 - ONA

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 0 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Seminarwochenkosten)

Verfügbare Plätze 

26

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

Plakat ansehen (PDF Datei)

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