Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes |
This assignment entails the reflection on a design of interstitial spaces, ranging from the domestic to more public atmospheres. Flexible in use, these paradoxical spaces-without-a-name lack intimacy but at the same time have the rare ability to generate privacy. They can have an aggravating quality and act as a gadfly because of their multi-functional use, but at the same time work as a buffer or an extension of the spaces surrounding them. Examples are the Maison Carré by Alvar Aalto, the Palladian villas in Veneto, but also the gardens of C. Th. Sørensen.
We would like to focus on the space rather than the elements that constitute interstitial spaces. The duality of inside-outside, slow perception of the space, Japanese engawa, German Miet-Kaserne or New York apartment hotels are some of the examples that come to mind. Generating tension, interstitial spaces could be seen labelled as the motor of architecture and urban design.
We will start with an analysis and discussion of reference buildings and/or environments that are a collection of well proportioned ‘rooms’, with different characters (measure, proportion, access of light,…). By focusing on the juxtaposition of room types and the in-between-space, we will make a study of a range of spatial typologies. At the same time we look at the individual stages of a person’s life in order to see how interstitial spaces can generate layers protecting one’s privacy, looking not only at traditional patterns but also alternatives such as one-parent families, recomposed families, single people, divorced parents, adoptive parents, working students, … offering a range of possibilities to design new architectural typologies of dwellings.
Each student will develop a project individually, through modelling, drawing and sketching.
To understand the context we will work on, we organise a field-trip to Belgium in the beginning of the semester. |
