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40 530 Coexistence: An Animal Sanctuary

Credits: 
24
Full course name in Norwegian Bokmål: 
Coexistence: An Animal Sanctuary
Course code: 
40 530
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching semester: 
2019 Autumn
Assessment semester: 
2019 Autumn
Language of instruction: 
English
Year: 
2019
Maximum number of students: 
15
Person in charge
Lisbeth Funck
Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS)

It is highly recommended to participate in the "Animals" elective course together with this studio course.

Course content

Studio Positions:
The studio aims at investigating different approaches to the making of architecture by change of position, facilitating movement and different viewpoints, as the spatial term position indicates.

Studio Positions offers 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 challenges our understanding of historical and contemporary buildings and the time/culture in which they are produced. We are preoccupied with not only how architecture is made but also the presence of architecture and the affect (aesthetic experience) it produces.

The studio has a research-based teaching, were the student is encouraged to develop an individual formal language, and through different medias investigate architectural issues/questions based on a given topic. 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.

Coexistence: An Animal Sanctuary

The task for the fall semester is to develop a structure that critically discusses the relation of public and private space in terms of ownership – an assemblage of the natural landscape, the cultivated landscape, and the responding architectural spaces and constructions in conscious correlation.
Inspired by the 18th century concept of the Ferme Ornée, a “farm” designed for both utility and beauty, the concept shall be challenged and informed by contemporary discussions as utility and beauty, paradise, approbation, ownership, economics, ecology, resources, rewilding, co-existence, involution, luxury, scarcity, etc.
The main aim is to critically discuss architecture in an ecological context – through an architectural construction related to the concept of co-existence, that is to say, the state or fact of living or existing at the same time or in the same place, and related to a specific place and (all of) its inhabitants.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:
• Practice based research
• Awareness and ability to gain knowledge from own sensual experience of existing buildings and use this subjective experience in the making of architecture.
• Ability to generate spatial structure towards an architecture based on aesthetical and or spatial concepts.
• Knowledge and reflection on architecture fundamental elements; substructure, structure, material and space, and how they are assembled. Abstract geometry versus individual and intuitive design decisions.

Skills:
• Ability to deal with issues of construction and thematic intent
• Increased knowledge and skills in: Investigation methods, architecture programming, architectural properties
• Use of references: to draw new connections, to interpret anew, to further develop by clarification.

Competence:
• Ability to reflect on own work verbally and in writing
• To develop an architectural position

Working and learning activities

Course structure:

1 semestertask
4 seminars/workshops
4 reviews
Final review with external sensor
Study trip to England in August/September

Activities:

• Individual written assignment
• Group Reviews
• Pin-ups presentations

Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Project assignmentIndividualPass / fail Architectural design. Individual investigation. Final review with external examiner.
Vurderinger:
Form of assessment:Project assignment
Grouping:Individual
Grading scale:Pass / fail
Comment: Architectural design. Individual investigation. Final review with external examiner.
Workload activityComment
AttendanceParticipation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars, announced studio meetings and workshops is expected. There will be 4 seminars/workshops and 4 reviews ( 1-2 with invited external critics) during the semester.
ExcursionStudy trip to England in August/September. Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in excursion will receive a task / a project that replaces this.
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Workload activity:Attendance
Comment:Participation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars, announced studio meetings and workshops is expected. There will be 4 seminars/workshops and 4 reviews ( 1-2 with invited external critics) during the semester.
Workload activity:Excursion
Comment:Study trip to England in August/September. Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in excursion will receive a task / a project that replaces this.