822106 PJ Design Studio 1
winter semester 2024/2025 | Last update: 17.09.2024 | Place course on memo listA Piece of Fiction (Grounded in Reality)
The design studio follows the assertion that architecture produces a fictional work that is based on and anchored in real events and concrete situations. This work can span a wide range (as in the other arts): Sometimes it is a fantastic explanation of the world, sometimes it offers everyday, pragmatic solutions. In any case, architecture reacts to current discourses and intervenes in them.
If we understand the practice of architecture in this sense, competences become important that extend beyond the disciplinary and traditional craft and are associated in the broadest sense with theory and research, with observation and with analytical thinking and reflection.
In the design studio "A Piece of Fiction (Grounded in Reality)", students are taught the basics of a methodical approach. Using the tools of architecture - drawing, modelling, writing, etc. - the first step involves precise observation, comprehensive research and precise analysis. In a second step, fictions are extrapolated from this, which are shape-shifting between aesthetic, political, social and scientific knowledge.
The starting point for each project is a - more or less - surreal, fascinating image (of some kind of reality) that cannot be fully grasped, or is incomprehensible at first glance. In a first step, the students are asked to describe and analyse what they see in words and drawings, possibly also in models, and parallel to this to research the content of the image. This first phase ends with an interim presentation at the mid-terms. In the second phase of the project, the findings about the very reality of the picture are extrapolated into a design that recursively intervenes in the reality of the picture.
The weekly design and feedback sessions will be supplemented by an intensive workshop in week 44 (28.10 - 31.10) and a (voluntary) workshop in Vienna on 18 and 19 December.
Course examination according to § 6, statute section on "study-law regulations".
Will be discussed in the first lesson.