METHOD / Research the problem, fast design of the architectural solution. TECHNIQUE / Collage, sketches, drawings, visualisation, physical model. AIMS / To research and design an emergency architecture in chosen context. STRENGTHS / Understanding the need for a shelter in different emergency contexts and situations (refugee, natural disasters, homeless). Creating a possible scenarios and solution. Wroclaw University of Science …
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ARCH: Texture, Rhythm, Pattern.
METHOD Understanding the historical dynamics and characteristic features of the urban built heritage and the interaction with its dwellers in the process of developing a personal interpretation of the city through the eye of the camera. TECHNIQUE Students will use their camera in the exploration of urban patterns, textures, visual rhythm, contrasts, contextual interrelations and …
ARCH: Public adaptive reuse
CONTENT / The church of Bethlehem was built in 1959 by German architect Joachim Matthaei and is considered as a prime examples of northern German post-war modernism architecture. Desacred in 2005 the former church building houses a kindergarten since 2011. The award-winning transformation was planned by Stoelken and Schmidt architects. While interior fit out and open …
ARCH: Machinery Landscapes
METHOD Search for machine aesthetics as a system, create an imaginary landscape based on machinery and make a collective landscape. TECHNIQUE A collective landscape based on machinery will be produced by drawings and collages. AIMS To encourage to look at architecture from another perspective, to enhance critical and relational thinking, to empower collective work. STRENGTHS …
ARCH: Reuse / Retake – Democratic Architecture
METHOD Reinterpreting the notion of architecture through reuse of existing buildings and areas. TECHNIQUE Through exploration of existing and underused buildings and areas in the city we would like to discover new infinite places reinterpreting the notion of commons in the EU cities. AIMS To reflect on the role of the architecture and explore new …
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ARCH: Discovering place through unfamiliar language
METHOD Storytelling – interpreting place through imagination and language. TECHNIQUE Through using the rhythm, tone and intonation of language explain and question place in words from language(s) you are not familiar with. AIMS To use languages and words that students are not familiar with to create a story that helps a listener to read a place, even if that listener does not ‘speak’ the language. …
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ARCH: Build the emptiness
METHOD / Thinking and seeing at emptiness as a design strategy that supports the construction of a place. TECHNIQUE / Emptiness is a tool and a method of experimentation that allows the identification of strategies that improve a physical place that human can occupy spiritually. AIMS / Working from a context that reaffirms the importance of emptiness in …
ARCH: Psychoanalysis of creativity 3 Path to the library
METHOD Analyses & Self-reflection on different creativity styles. Based on 3 frameworks of design. 3 pre-recorded lectures about theory of creativity and workshops will be given as base for the exercise. TECHNIQUE First week will be desiccated to production of fast ideas, drawings/sketches based on theory and workshops. Second week will be dedicated to refine …
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ARCH: treatment
METHOD Students will work around the possibility of transforming urban space and its perception and imagining the shape of the public space. TECHNIQUE All techniques of urban project are allowed. AIMS regenerating / redeveloping the undecided or degraded spaces of the historic city. STRENGTHS Students and teachers from different cultural areas of the project disciplines …
ARCH: graphic anthropology
METHOD Use drawing as a tool to understand the experiences of people in place. TECHNIQUE Build a relationship with a participant in the neighbourhood you are studying and make a series of drawings of their experiences/stories/histories. AIMS To challenge the generic idea of ‘the user’ by understanding the nuanced and complex experiences of people in …
ARCH: before me, the deluge
METHOD Identify and analyse the topographic condition you would like to work with in response to the brief (eg: land that becomes an island, land/water edge, open water). TECHNIQUE Through models, physical and digital, develop ways of dealing with unpredictable water levels to propose a structure for shelter, be it attached to land and responsive …
ARCH: cognitive mapping
METHOD Mappings (hybrid drawings). TECHNIQUE Through models, physical and digital, develop ways of dealing with unpredictable water levels to propose a structure for shelter, be it attached to land and responsive or amphibious or buoyant… AIMS To appreciate cognitive mapping as a tool that assigns preferences, determines attitudes and predicts possibilities. STRENGTHS To transcend the …
ARCH: competition / research: MATTER ON LINES. MARBLE
CONTENT / What it is relevant on Architecture and Art, talking about objects is the matter. Matter as a physical substance that create atmospheres, relations and light. The proposal for the workshop is to create matter with lines in order to design a “Material City”. As a second attempt for this workshop, using the definition of …
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ARCH: architectural cornerstones
CONTENT / The corner plays a very special role in any architectural scale. From the micro to the macro. It is the boundary of architectural spaces, both inside and outside. Corners define places and transitions; they mark beginnings and ends. Corners are the exceptions of any rule. However, the corner has, for a long time …
ARCH: spatial agency: a detail
CONTENT / Architectural details are often seen or even reduced to tools for solving technical issues and other things related to construction. Or they are described in relation to architectural styles. But what happens when we look at the detail and use the detail as a form of spatial agency? Agency has to do with …
ARCH: inside outside – contaminating architecture and landscape
CONTENT / Today, architecture, public spaces, gardens and landscapes are experiencing moments of contamination like never before seen in the history of these disciplines. Probably, during the Renaissance and soon after, major projects such as Versailles brought together the disciplines of architecture and landscape, creating physical connections and visual relationships between garden spaces and the …
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ARCH: working with the existent and the non-existent
CONTENT / Everyone has a favourite architect and artist and we would like to live two days and at least a night in one of the designed dwellings in an urban context by her or him. In this case we can understand the spaces of the house in the phenomenological way and know how it …
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ARTS: moving bodies – on art and walking
CONTENT / In this workshop we will explore different approaches and methods in relation to moving and sensing bodies. We will look briefly at how artist and thinkers have used walking as a means to think, create and converse different terrains. Together we will examine how walking in certain situations affects our knowledge, that we …
ARCH: housing Europe – challenging sameness
CONTENT Housing forms the rooms, neighborhoods and cityscapes of our everyday lives. Housing is where our most personal happiness and societal well-being originate and find their expression. Simultaneously housing illustrates personal dramas and social ills. The Question of Housing (referring to Engels, Friedrich: Zur Wohnungsfrage. Leipzig, 1872) is increasingly reduced to the phenomena of the …
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ARCH: rivers – ecological, economic, cultural & ideological links between faraway lands – living connectors.
CONTENT / Once hugely determinant in the development of shoreside urban areas, the evolution of city structure, and vital in the survival of the local communities, the role and hence the appreciation of urban riverfronts largely diminished, somewhere in the last century. With the development of infrastructure and the general social and economic transformations, rivers …
ARCH: sharing the voids. reuse and reactivation in architecture
CONTENT / In his book Construire autrement in 2006, the builders, architect, artist, planner (…) Patrick Bouchain reflects on alternative way of building societies: “I believe in temporariness and mobility of things, in exchange. And I work in order to create, in architecture, a situation in which construction could be achieved in another way and …
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ARCH: the ‘review of reviews’
CONTENT This workshop is for students who want to overcome a worry about presenting design work It is deliberately designed to be relaxed and to build confidence The architectural review is ritual in education in which the student presents work to academics in public for legitimisation but which research has shown to be a frightening …
ARTS: small scale and isolated occurrences – on art and the precarious
CONTENT / In this workshop we will pay attention to the margins of our visibility: the precarious, ephemeral, fragile, unstable. Based on the radicality of contemporary artistic practices, participants will be invited to reflect on their daily lives. Each participant will be proposed to use video as a privileged tool to document ephemeral actions, small …
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ARCH + ARTS: competition / research: MATTER ON LINES. MARBLE
CONTENT / What it is relevant on Architecture and Art, talking about objects is the matter. Matter as a physical substance that create atmospheres, relations and light. The proposal for the workshop is to create matter with lines. MARBLE IS A HARD ROCK THAT HAS A PATTERN OF LINES GOING THROUGH IT THAT CAN BE …
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ARCH: pop up
CONTENT / In the Cambridge Dictionary “to pop-up” means to appear or happen, especially suddenly or unexpectedly. This word is also used to describe a shop, restaurant, etc. that operates temporarily and only for a short period when it is likely to get a lot of customers. Similarly, like a three-dimensional folding object that suddenly …
ARCH: homeland miniatures: a collective digital travelbook
CONTENT / In architectural education, one of the most common and universal representation technique is central perspective which was discovered during Renaissance period. The rational world that Renaissance offered us helps to create a universal language in the field of architecture and enables to represent our thoughts on space so as to create a dialog …
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ARCH: evolution of forgotten – ignored wisdoms
CONTENT / The rapid developments of the urban realms and the monstrous evolution of the socioeconomic systems together with the invading globalization deprived the people from the sustainable way of living which was forged by local conditions through the centuries. The workshop will revisit existing, forgotten or lost worlds and traditions or vernacular architecture not …
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ARCH: ephemeral architecture: urban follies
CONTENT / We live in a time of change. What we took for granted in the summer of 2019 is now an enormous uncertainty. Each day we sick for answers to questions such as when can we travel? When can we visit a museum? And I ask how can I introduce students, here and worldwide, …
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ARCH: psychoanalysis of the design process – three paths to a library
CONTENT / The science on various design methods and processes is a fascinating branch of knowledge which architects perhaps do not study enough. The knowledge of design methods could organise and systematise your work, offer an X-ray vision, real psychanalysis of yourself as well as other designers and your tutors. This science may also help …
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ARCH: architectural narrative – event
„Dancing and architecture are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.” Havelock …
ARCH: permissive city
CONTENT / In many cities, globalisation has contributed to the emergence of new urban environments which, over very short periods of time, have replicated similar and homogenous spaces, evacuated public ownership, erased local singularities and produced what may be defined as a generic and franchised city. Most of these cities retain urban environments developed on …
ARCH: treatment
CONTENT / In many different ways, European cities have suffered a common fate: the compulsive increase in buildings, the financialization of the real estate market, the enslavement of urban space to cars. Despite the diversity of individual national events, these are the distinctive traits of the contemporary city that have left on the ground portions …
ARTS: maps of memory (places of remembrance)
CONTENT / TO COME IN CONTACT with ourselves and with our to have become through lifetime (bonnländer 2019): Places of Remembrance – A practical experiment to reconstruct memories through developing a city map People who suffer from dementia, for example Alzheimer’s, suffer from memory loss. Events that occurred long ago, but which can be emotionally …
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ARCH+ARTS: the space for learning as a landscape of life
CONTENT / Many changes have been in the architecture profession since Journey to the East was written: A diary of Le Corbusier’s trip in 1911. This book is a collection of visual notations, or impressions perceived by Le Corbusier as a visitor to a number of cities in Southeast Europe. Later, the acquired disciplinary knowledge …
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