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40 518 Architectonic Typologies 2/Guest Studio
PASSED 7 SEMESTERS + knowledge of Rhino
The students will design a building starting from a given general “typology”, such as “public space”, “tower”, “timber, village, courtyard, foyer”, etc., which will become the themes of the design studio for the whole semester. We will propose three different themes in beginning of the semester. The students will develop just one of the three topics individually with one of the three Mendrisio and Oslo assistants and in public discussions with all the teachers. Each theme is thought so as to be a source of shared inspiration for a further project development, that was imagined to be both purposeful and free. All the parameters of the project, such as the site and the program, form part of the choices that each student will have to cope with individually by developing their own architectonic and spatial interpretations of the given “typological theme”. The students will decide independently whether to work on a small scale, concentrating on a single object, or on a large scale. The preliminary choices that they will take before undertaking the design of the project, will be discussed collectively.
The studio will be thought in collaboration with atelier Olgiati from Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio. http://www.arc.usi.ch/en
Architectonic Typologies is a guest professor master studio, chair ‘Rom og Teknikk’, concerned with exploring ideas about architectonic space and different techniques of making these ideas possible as real and beautiful everyday architecture. Technique should be understood here in its double meaning, as tools for imagining and representing spatial ideas and as technical know-how to make them physically present as real architectonic and spatial qualities. It is a project oriented studio, where architecture is thought through designing it. In the studio, we are studying different architectonic typologies and themes – the structures of different scales and meaning that embody the essence of an architectonic space. We understand the process of design as a search into the nature of architecture. The studio is a collaborative studio, inviting the most interesting international architects, high level academicians and practitioners, to investigate and renew together with us the methods and representational tools for teaching and production of architecture. http://www.romogteknikk.aho.no
1. Formulating the independent and prejudice-less thinking about architecture and working with its constituent elements, like site, size, function, typology, building materials, etc.
2. Stimulating the individual awareness of today’s positions in architecture
3. Stimulating the awareness of one's own architectural position and one's own attitude toward the work with architecture
4. Benefit from the work with a foreign guest-teacher and from the confrontation with his architectural thinking, knowledge, experience and imagination.
After finishing the course, the student should:
- be able to develop and consciously use his/her own working method
- be able to argue for an individual and specific statement about his/her design aims. This statement is important as starting point, but also as benchmark of every architectural project.
- be able to develop principles for structuring of both basic and complex architectural material and technical skills and develop them into a final project
- be able to develop and structure the architectural knowledge on the base of specific project themes chosen to work with during the studio
- be able to learn how to creatively use architectural research in the work with architecture.
- be able to present and communicate his/her architectural ideas and his/her final project through the appropriate forms of representation, with drawings, models, diagrams, photos, 3Ds, etc.
The main aims of teaching in the studio will be:
- to create motivation to the analytical thinking and the causal architectural expression
- to stimulate, cultivate and articulate personal discussions with teachers, as well as open public discussions within the studio, during the development of the projects
The teaching will consist of the work in the studio, individual discussions and desk critiques, carrying out the case studies, public discussions, seminaries, films and lectures structured in-between 3 public reviews.
Practically, the work will be organized in 4 steps with three interim reviews plus the final review. On these occasions students will have to present the state of their work in a consistent and convincing way. The duration of each step will be approximately 1 month, ending with a public presentation and discussion/critique of each individual work.
The study trip will go to a place, difficult to visit alone. We are thinking about going to Uzbekistan, or India.
Work load will consist of:
- texts, drawings and models, digital and hand-produced, in different scale, photographs and 3D illustrations
- the prepared public discussions and reviews of the individual work
- the final project will be presented with photos, texts, drawings, models and 3D renders
Forms of examination include following:
- the active presence and work in the studio during the whole semester
- the assessment will focus on:
a. student’s architectural sensibility and awareness of architectural problems,
b. the clarity of argumentation, built-up during the process
c. the ability to evaluate the quality of the project idea,
d. the strength of “conversion” of idea into an architectural project,
e. the evaluation of the intellectual and architectural capacity to confront the creative risk involved in the project
f. the developed presentation material and presence at 3 public reviews during the semester
g. the delivered complete project material for the exhibition AHO Works and for the final review. The studio-work is evaluated with Passed or Not Passed, jf. according to the regulations for master’s degree programs at AHO
Curriculum/literature will be presented before the beginning of the studio
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project assignment | Individual | Pass / fail | Forms of examination include following: - the active presence and work in the studio during the whole semester - the assessment will focus on: a. student’s architectural sensibility and awareness of architectural problems, b. the clarity of argumentation, built-up during the process c. the ability to evaluate the quality of the project idea, d. the strength of “conversion” of idea into an architectural project, e. the evaluation of the intellectual and architectural capacity to confront the creative risk involved in the project f. the developed presentation material and presence at 3 public reviews during the semester g. the delivered complete project material for the exhibition AHO Works and for the final review 04.06.2016. The studio-work is evaluated with Passed or Not Passed, jf. Regulation for Master Studies at AHO‚ pt. 6-14. |