The studio offers a research-based teaching, with focus on in-depth individual research into an architecturally relevant topic. The student is encouraged to develop an individual formal language, parallel to a written reflection, and to experience and acknowledge spatial structure as a tool to investigate any architectural issue.

The spring 2016 course will be the first in a series of two. In the spring 2016 the course will study the relationships between the architectural categories: structure, space and material and the continuously shifting hierarchies between them. Course two, fall semester 2016, will have similar content, but in addition the project will be confronted with a psychical context.

Positions, is a spatial term that indicate movement and change of position, facilitating a different stand and a different viewpoint. The semester is organized in 4 faces, where the material of each face is understood and completed but at the same time, the start for the next level/face. After each face the work will be confronted with new information, which is to be implied on the project from previous face, and thus develop the project further.

Discussions on:
Geometric ordering, the immanent potential in the matter, relations of building entities, forces and appearances. Transformation - the new and the residual. Architecture as an instrument of culture and architecture as an autonomous form.