MASHRABIYA, Ma’ Malqaf Modernization

AIMS / To understand traditional Architectural elements in Islamic world that are used to create environmentally comfortable and healthy buildings. To be able to design new elements inspired by traditional ones. METHOD / Groups of 2-3 persons will be established to: choose one element, create 2min analysis presentation video -Design a modern element for the …

URBAN MUSICAL DEVICE: Music pavilion

AIMS / Interpreting Public Place and Local Heritage; designing a thematic (music) small ephemeral architectural structure for the Cultural Capital of Culture 2027. METHOD / Students will be paired with international colleagues: select an historic urban space in Évora and propose an urban device to enable people (locals, visitors, etc.) to enjoy music that place. …

MEDITERRANEAN URBAN SHELTERS. Alicante study case

AIMS/ Year after year, climate change underline the lacks of the cities urban planning and the disconnection in between architecture and the urban fabric in terms of its insufficient adaption to the climate change demands. The aim of the exercise is to search and found, urban situations inAlicante where climate shelters would improve the urban …

RADICAL ENCOUNTERS. The city as a laboratory

AIMS / Learning from the relationships between us and our urban environment students will conceive the program as an open framework, generating new radical scenarios in the city through architecture. The aim of this workshop is to build upon what has been explored in the previous workshops. METHOD / SEMINARS: Reflecting on the architectural program …

RUSIELIENCE- RUral reSIELINCE

Rusilience, is a workshop aims to achieve RUral ReSIELINCE, through developing traditional rural housing by locally feasible structural/construction systems. CONTENT / Climate change resisting strategies and rapid transformation in developing countries focus on designing systems which modernize cities and make their structures resilient in the face of natural disasters. Unfortunately, the process neglects rural areas …

BUILD THE EMPTINESS

METHOD / Students will work around the possibility of creating a space and its perception and imagining the place to built. TECHNIQUE / Collages, sketches, drawings, photo, physical model, CAD drawings, tools that allows the construction SILENCE, TRUTH AND POETRY. AIMS / Working from a context that reaffirms the importance of emptiness, which constantly confront the constructed …

INTERWEAVINGS

CONTENT /  We are situated within complex interweavings of event; environmental, human, non-human, digital.  Our urban spaces are complex relational realms in a constant state of becoming; a thick space of overlapping narratives set in both physical form and mercurial digital form. Ambitions for the evolution of the metaverse, avatars, and the expansion of our …

BIOTOPES

A biotope is an area of uniform environmental conditions providing a living place for a specific assemblage of plants and animals.   The proposal is to redesign a network of Biotopes in Tabarca to project a future for the Island. The improvement of the biotopes through the project, as a network of connections, must effectively …

A.I.DENTITY

METHOD The course will help identifying and visualizing the distinct characteristic architectural traits in an urban environment, understanding what makes our context individual.   TECHNIQUE Using their cameras, students will explore their urban environment for recurring unique patterns. Then, using their findings, students will synthesize an imaginary signature collage of their city with the aid …

ARCHITECTURE, CREATIVITY AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE DAWN OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

METHOD Future of architecture and urbanism will be greatly influenced by AI, but first, we need to know what kind of tools will be available and how to use them.   TECHNIQUE – Searching for the tools, apps, protocols… – Analyses of what is about to happen, short essay. – Using the tools for rapid …

TREES ARCHITECTURE FOR MOVABLE CITIES

METHOD The course will explore the immaterial meaning of trees for moveable future scenarios in cities. Trees are used as metaphors and tools to explore cities’ contexts according to new utopia creativity.   TECHNIQUE We explore our ideas using hand drawings, digital drawings, and other media.   AIMS Imagining different and unexpected methodologies of communication …

NEW VISION OF PERFECT PLACE TO GIVE A BIRTH

METHOD Students create an idealistic vision of place which do not exist: ‘New Vision Of Perfect Place to Give A Birth’ and spend time before and after. Opposite of conventional – hospital which are focused on doctors, machines, and medication. Forget about it!   TECHNIQUE First week: the aim to produce series of sketchy ideas. …

ARCH: MAPPING THE IMAGE OF URBAN GAIA

The Gaia hypothesis (/ˈɡaɪ.ə/), proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet. It was formulated by the chemist James Lovelock and the microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s. Learn more about …

ARCH: Radical futures_Contemporary Edens

Athanasius Kircher, Garden of Eden in Arca Noë, 1675   CONTENT / Paradise comes from the latin paradisus, from the greek paradeisos, from the persian pairidaeza or “enclosure”, from “pairi” (meaning “around”, in Greek it’ll derive to “peri”) and “daeza” (meaning “wall”). Paradise or Eden was, therefore, first of all, a fortress, a place to …

ARCH: Ecosystemic Relationships

CONTENT / Situation. In the city people, ideas and objects cohabitate. Some have attracted the others, but their relations remain difficult and the potential profits of their cohabitation remains largely unrealized. In the article “Do it by yourself” published in L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui in 1970, Tschumi and Montès developed a reflection on interaction in architecture underlining how …

ARCH: Re: Enactment

CONTENT / ‘Re:Enactment’ is the latest chapter in a series of workshops exploring the various interpretations and potential in narrative architectural photography, following workshops from the previous semesters: ‘Texture, Rhythm, Pattern’ & ‘Visual Storytelling’. Students once again use their photo cameras to capture their personal interpretation of human interaction with the architectural environment, and the …

ARCH: Before Me the Deluge

Hokusai’s Great Wave. Photograph: British Museum CONTENT/ Last summer, biblical floods in northern Europe washed away houses, undoing roads, revealing subterranean services. If our environment is unpredictable because of human or celestial activity is irrelevant: the reality is that water, while vital, is for architects a design constraint. Keeping water where it needs to be is …

ARCH: Rusilience

Rusilience, is a workshop aims to achieve RUral reSIELINCE, through developing traditional rural housing by locally feasible structural/construction systems. CONTENT / Climate change resisting strategies and rapid transformation in developing countries focus on designing systems which modernize cities and make their structures resilient in the face of natural disasters. Unfortunately, the process neglects rural areas …

ARCH: Liminal: Digital Landscape

Liminal: an intermediate state, phase, or condition: in-between, transitional CONTENT / We live suspended between the digital and the physical, in a liminal space. The pioneers of digital landscapes we navigate realms unfettered by physical constraints. A place where stories can construct and reconstruct themselves at will, where time is not just static but can …

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. During the Renaissance and soon after, major projects such as Versailles brought together the fields of architecture and landscape, creating physical connections and visual relationships between garden spaces and the monumentality …

ARCH + ARTS: COMPETITION / RESEARCH: Venice in metaverso

CONTENT / what it is relevant on Architecture nowadays is talking about SUSTAINABILITY AND DIGITALIZATION. WATER as a physical and digital substance that create new environments, relations and horizons.   The proposal for the workshop is to create a sustainable space with lines, agents and objects in order to design a project inside the “METAVERSO”. …

ARCH: Homeland Miniatures: A Collective Digital Travel book

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 …

ARCH: 2043 a dinner with Churchill in the Metaverse

CONTENT / Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister (1940-45, 1951-55) in his speech to the meeting in the House of Lords on October 28th, 1943 said “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us,” requesting the House of Commons, bombed out in May 1941 during the World War II, be reconstructed exactly as before. …

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: 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 …