Studio Positions provides an arena for students to concentrate and develop their own position in relation to architecture, inspiring them to delve into the social and cultural challenges that mark our time, and reflect on how these challenges have influenced our relationship to architectural space and how we use it.

COEXISTENCE III: RE-PRODUCTION

            How do we define an individual position as architects in relation to the       history of architecture – on what to continue and what to leave behind?
            What kinds of values do we want to take with us into the future?

To embody history within the new

Reaction, Reintroduction, Relation, Reproduction, Resonance, Recurrence, Repetition, Recombination…

Course content
In the fall semester 2020 the studio will continue to investigate coexistence. This time the focus of the discussion will be on the notion of the “new” in architecture.

The confrontation with and interpretation of existing architecture, and discussions on the relation between architecture and contemporary culture, will inform the study of how ideas of structural and material assembly are inseparable from the formation of characteristic and “new” spaces. 

A series of selected buildings act as a starting point for the investigations. The students are to study architectural drawings as well as visit and sensually experience the buildings. Inspired by these subjective experiences and analyses, the students are asked to develop an architectural project and position themselves in relation to the new.

Task
The semester task is to develop one, or several, autonomous spatial structures based on the notion of the “new” in architecture. The selected buildings’ substructures (historical, political, philosophical, typological), their construction, materiality, surface ornament,and spaces will serve both as an immediate inspiration, and as case studies to be analysed according to the given task. 

An individual architectural program is to be developed, framed by each student’s findings/interests in the building/s.  Relevant topics to be discussed throughout the semester will be; to alter, to renew, to remain, to repeat, to substitute, recurrence or recombination.

The projects will be develop in large physical spatial structures, that will be studied in photo, film and architectural drawings (in scale 1:1, 1:10, 1:20, 1:50, 1:100, 1:200)

PHASE 1. PREPROJECT
Introductory task
                        To develop a new spatial structure in reaction to a given building

Posit 1. Choose that what you find interesting and characteristic about the given                           building, that being; the organisation of the plan, the window-frame, the                        handrail, the overall proportions, the surface treatment, the construction                         principle, etc.
Posit 2.                  Investigations:     To alter, to renew
Posit 3. Investigations:     To remain, to repeat
Posit 4. Investigations:     To substitute/replacements: Discussing the new
Posit 5. Investigations:     Recurrence or recombination

PHASE 2. END PROJECT
Posit 6. Investigations:     Internal boundaries, privacy, community
Posit 7. Investigations:     External boundaries, privacy, community
Posit 8.                  Writing task

ARCHITECTURE & CULTURE_STUDIO POSITIONS
 

Studio Positions offers in depth studies of the structures that make up architecture and how these structures relate to their environment. The studio aims at investigating new approaches to the making of architecture by change of position, facilitating movement and different viewpoints, as the spatial term position indicates. The studio draws on established knowledge but also challenges our understanding and knowledge of existing buildings and the environment. We are preoccupied with not only how architecture is made but also the presence of architecture and the affect (aesthetic experience) it produces.

1. Making as culture: architecture and the production of presence - Architecture as autonomous structures.

2. Architecture as culture: Architecture understood related to contemporary and historical culture: architecture, sociology, philosophy, literature, and art. - Architecture as carrier of traditions and architecture as challenger of the established culture.

Pedagogy: Artistic research in architecture

Studio Positions provides an arena for students to concentrate and develop their own position in relation to architecture, inspiring them to delve into the social and cultural challenges that mark our time, and reflect on how these challenges have influenced our relationship to architectural space and how we use it.

The studio has a research-based teaching, were the student is encouraged to

1.      Develop an individual formal/architectural language through both a research-informed and sensuous approach, and through different media investigate architectural issues/questions based on the given topic and

2.     Place/position their project within a larger cultural context, and to develop a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of architecture.