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Angaben zur Professur |
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Lehrstuhl |
Gastprofessur H. Wolff |
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Typ |
Gastprofessur Entwurf |
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Standort |
ONA J 30 |
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Webseite |
www.doz.arch.ethz.ch/gastprof/wolff.html |
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Assistierende |
Thireshen Govender, César Besada Cons, Karina Hüssner |
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Kontakt E-Mail |
besada@arch.ethz.ch |
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Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse |
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Typ |
Entwurf V-IX |
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Thema |
BREAKTHROUGH - Techniques of working |
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Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes |
ABSTRACT
The course will explore the notion of breakthrough in design, not as a special moment in one’s life but rather as a cultivated habit of working. The urban investigation will focus on cities on water and how the contemporary city meets this constructed edge. The brief will call for a temporary building that should provoke new understandings of the potential of the city.
OBJECTIVE
Breakthroughs don’t require genius. It is something we learn to do. It should be a habit. Beyond hard work and commitment, what makes our work leap forward?
We are interested in working habits that disrupt our normal flow of work with qualitatively superior outputs. The studio will have no interest in genius or epiphanies. This is not about a life changing experience.
We will explore techniques of working to gain better understanding about each student’s own potential to make a radical leap forward in design. These techniques will include the cultivation of emotional and psychological states of mind which can lead to productivity and invention. The use of the body (mind, eyes, hands and feet) can be immensely pro-ductive in advancing ideas and understandings of one’s work, while you are working. The temporary suspension of judgement to advance action is important here. We will also in-vestigate what other people have done to advance their work.
Ways of seeing are integral to ways of thinking. The studio will involve exercises in radical-ising our ways of representing ideas. New techniques of representation will assist in gen-erating new conceptions of architecture and the city.
CONTENT
The urban enquiry will focus on the relationship between cities and their waterfronts. We will explore the structural features that make the water’s edge a specialised part of the city fabric, capable of extraordinary public life. A series of cities from all over the world will be studied to develop our knowledge in this regard.
The project site will be a small area within the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa. This area receives more visitors annually than anywhere else in Africa. The urban pres-sures and opportunities are exaggerated here, but at the same time it is an area that re-quires the development of new conceptions of itself; it requires a breakthrough. The Water-front has been developed commercially for the past 25 years. During the previous 300 years a commercial trade port and fishing industry have been established on the site.
Students will be asked to design a temporary building on the water’s edge which can demonstrate new urban opportunities. The impermanence of the project should open the door for risky experimentation.
This project will form the backdrop to the pursuit for developing new techniques of working. Students will be required to explore multiple iterations of a proposed technique to allow such a technique to develop in strength, character and consequence.
LECTURE NOTES
A reader will be issued to all students on the first studio day. It will contain texts, drawings and provocations that illustrate the objectives described above. It will also contain more background information on the site.
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Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte |
Entwurf, Staedtebau |
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Lernziele |
We will explore techniques of working, physical activities and precedent to gain better understanding about each student’s own potential to make a radical leap forward in design. Ways of seeing are integral to ways of thinking. The studio will involve exercises in radicalizing our ways of representing ideas. New techniques of representation will assist in generating new conceptions of architecture and the city. |
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LV-Nr. des Entwurfs |
051-1104-15 |
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Zusätzliche integrierte Disziplin(en) |
Integrated Discipline Planning (LV-Nr. 063-1402-15) - other integrated disciplines possible (to be discussed) |
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Unterrichts-sprache |
English |
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Arbeitsweise |
Single or group work (possibility to work in pairs) |
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Daten Zwischenkritiken |
To be confirmed |
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Datum Schlusskritik |
To be confirmed |
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Einführungs-veranstaltung |
Tuesday, 17.02.2015, 10 am, ONA studio area |
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Zusätzliche Kosten |
CHF 0 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Seminarwochenkosten) |
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Verfügbare Plätze |
24 |
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Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes |
Plakat ansehen (PDF Datei) |
