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MSc 2

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MSc 2 Studio Border Conditions -  Architectural Body - Transcriptions  (AR0310)
Tutor: ir. Sang Lee  

This free-choice studio deals with the tectonic making of surfaces and their application in architectural design. The studio exercise will rely on a syntactic approach in order to reflect and to register tectonic transformations vis-à-vis the site and programmatic vari­ables. The primary focus is on the relationship between the tactile practice of making and from it how to implement and articulate sur­face conditions. The initial exercise will be focused on the physical construction of index models and tectonic units as an informant of architectonic configurations. Subsequently the design work will be focused on how the index models can be assembled and permutat­ed according to given variables of the site and the program. This will primarily involve trans-scribing of urban conditions into architecton­ic elements using the units organized within a syntactic structure.

The studio’s primary objective is to produce the mediation between an urban context and the conception-production of architectonic transcriptions, and ultimately to propose a strategy of architectural construct that has given way from the clarity of static geometry to the complexity in dynamic variability, that of aggregate accumula­tion toward the making of “place-form.”

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MSc 2 Seminar - Transcriptions (AR0475)
Tutor: ir. Klaske Havik

This free-choice seminar is offered in connection to the MSc 2 studio Architectural Body - Transcriptions.
The seminar Transcriptions investi­gates the use of literary methods, such as narrative, character, close reading and scenario writing in re­gard to site research. Transcription is seen, in this context, not only as a process of translation and conversion from one medium to another, but also as an investigation into how insights from research can be transcribed to design. The seminar includes both theoretical investigations, such as discussion of literary texts (Calvino, Perec), critical analysis of existing experimental projects (Hejduk, Tschumi, Koolhaas), and ac­tive production of text and models.

 

MSc 2 Public Realm - Public Space and Beyond  (AR0480) - start in autumn semester (Q1)

     The goal of the MSc2-designstudio Public Space and Beyond is to bridge the gap between architectural theory and architectural design, especially dealing with the urban discourse on public space and the public realm. The notion of the public realm refers to the ideal of different people inhabiting public space, which bears the possibility of the exchange ideas, opinions and beliefs between those people. The discourse concentrates on the decline of the public realm, while simultaneously the very same public realm is defined as essential for (Western) democracy. The studio starts with a short introductory seminar on public space and public building in a condition of modernity and globalisation, which is finalized with an essay, specifying the role of architecture within the contemporary urban condition. This essay will be the starting point for the design part of the studio: an intervention in the city-fabric of Amsterdam (public building) ranging from urban planning and architectural concept to its materialization. [more info]