Beschreibung
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IDEAL ARCHITECTURE: HOUSE
HS22
This year our studio deals with housing. We start the semester with a three-day excursion to Torino, the northern Italian city on the Po River at the foot of the alps, capital of the Savoy dynasty and briefly of Italy, with its gridded center and city blocks, early workers‘ villages and industrial settlements in the suburbs. Based on selected examples of both anonymous structures and famous buildings, we study the urban architecture of Torino. We start our common journey of discovery with an analysis - open and experimental, but also systematic and critical. Together we discover, examine and document each house, discuss and develop criteria and categories, in order to eventually compare and order them. The result of this process is our own Torino typology. Through drawings, not just mere representations, but inspired and personal depictions of these architectures we develop together a collective, common repertoire of timeless architecture. Playfully and at the same time systematically, we work on a shared vocabulary of architecture.
Finding one‘s own architectural language within the vast vocabulary of architecture is the most important but also most difficult task for an architect - and therefore the task of the second half of the semester. Each group creates an independent design. Wether out of a discovered principle or a very personal fascination, each group develops an independent and experimental design: a piece of furniture, a domestic object. Bare of the necessity to fulfill a certain function, a small piece of furniture and a large house are quite alike, as objects both are shaped by formal coherence and constructive, material decisions. The medium of the semester‘s second half is the large scale model. Each of these architectural objects is an ideal house.
REAL ARCHIECTURE: HOME
FS23
In the first semester, the two methods - analytical-rational planning and artistic-personal design - are still put side by side. In the second semester, we combine them. The object-like house is replaced by an open question: What is home? What does it take to feel at home? And to what extent do demographic developments, changing role models or the climate crisis have an impact on the forms of housing? By speculating on these questions, we will try to imagine a future home. Critical texts, expert presentations, joint discussions and statistical data on society, climate, housing, etc. will provide a reasonably solid basis for visions and scenarios of tomorrow‘s housing. The scenarios will be developed in the first step by using collages. In the picture plane of the collage, the objects of everyday life enter into a relationship with people and space. Step by step we develop pictorial representations of our scenarios. In the second step we transform the spatial, typological and formal system of the buildings by means of plan collages. Paradoxically, we do not have to reinvent everything for this visionary architecture. Our extensive studies and the large collection of examples from Torino, our own typology, have already provided us with a wide range of formal and functional solutions and principles that could prove useful for envisaging the spaces. By combining typological, general principles with an individual, specific scenario, we will design a large housing project in the city of Basel that, through a real context and a concrete materiality, will translate the vision initially formulated into a real architecture. |
Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte |
Entwurf, Konstruktion, Staedtebau, Modellbau, Zeichnungen |
Lernziele |
HS22: On site survey of built architecture, analysis and recording of architectural characteristics and principles, typologization of various buildings. Accurate and experimental use of architectural drawings. Independent design of a small architectural object, piece of furniture. Working with large-scale models. Architectural and model photography.
FS23: Developing an independent, responsible and visionary attitude to a current social question. Designing an independent project that is coherent in terms of urban planning, typology, form and construction. Learning collage technique in picture and plan.
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