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.