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The students can independently formulate and implement architectural concepts. They can convincingly communicate their designs, present them in detail and position them within their respective theoretical or creative context.

Working on an individual complex design project, reflection of the specific subject-specific contents and methods as well as their application in the design through intensive supervision of the students and knowledge transfer in small groups.

Vascular Strata

The Yokohama Ferry Terminal building by Foreign Office Architects was designed in 1995 and built in 2002. It has been an icon of digital architecture, embodying the paradigms of computation, smoothness, and fluidity. Now, almost three decades later, the studio invites students to rethink those paradigms. While the movement of passengers through the building was form-giving parameter for the terminal it was also an analogy to the flow of water. In this studio, students will investigate fluidity as something dynamic, erratic, and seasonally changing. Rather than building hydrodynamic shapes, we will explore the process of water making its way through matter. We will investigate this erosive process as a tool to program space horizontally, vertically, and over varying stretches of time.
While the before-mentioned example of architecture was focussed on humans and their interactions, this studio is concerned with ecological considerations around the topics of wildness, materials, and seasons. The resulting architectures are vascular (alive, succulent, and thick) and striated (layered, folded, textured). The first term picks up the organic and biological analogies that are so often the source of inspiration for architects. The latter honours our current ecological epoch, the Anthropocene, as a time where we are increasingly aware of our imprint on both climate and terrain.

A more detailed brief (PDF) can be downloaded here.

Course examination according to § 7, statute section on "study-law regulations".

Will be discussed in the first lesson.

Information on how to register for the Design Studio courses can be found at: https://www.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten-servicestelle/standorte/technikerstrasse/studium.html/