Definition

Studio Positions has a research-based teaching, with focus on in-depth individual research into a given topic. The student is encouraged to develop an individual formal language, and through different medias investigate fundamental architectural issues/questions.  

The studio enables in depth studies of the four fundamental architectural categories that make up architecture; substructure, structure, space and material and how these categories together relate to an architectural program. The studio draws on established knowledge but also challenge our understanding of historical and contemporary buildings. We are preoccupied with not only how architecture is made but also the presence of architecture and the affect (aesthetic experience) it produces.

Title of course: Studio Positions #6 _Parallax

The semester task will be to develop a spatial structure, which can accommodate a public activity, based on the concept of parallax in architecture.

Parallax, from Greek parallaxis, “change”, is defined as the displacement of the apparent position of a body, due to a change of position of the observer. In the middle of the eighteenth century, an interest in parallax occurs becoming one of the prime sources for the establishment of modern architectural space.

The studio will discuss the concept of parallax in architecture, that is to say, the awareness of how the relation between humans and humans and humans and built structure changes through movement where different positions creates multiple spatial, structural and social relations. The concept of parallax will work as an inspiration and generating force in the development of an architectural structure.

Parallel to the development of the project the students are asked to produce reflecting texts and a final project text.

Pedagogy

With a practice-based research and a sensual approach to technical challenges, we aim at a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of architecture and thus position oneself in the continuous architectural discourse.