LFU:online

Students can accomplish integrative tasks in architectural design and planning. They are able to critically formulate architectural concepts independently, situate them in the architectural discourse and realise them across a variety of scales. Students are familiar with a series of methods and special skills which are required to integrate aesthetic, functional, programmatic, urban, topological, technical and ecological aspects into their designs.

From what do we build? How should we build? What can we learn from the old?

What must we unlearn from the new?

How. Do. We. Build. Again.

The big challenges facing architecture are clear—resource scarcity, climate urgency—so our question is precise: How do we build without using new materials? By looking at materials and waste differently. By joining and processing better. By letting the old become the new. By questioning our aesthetic preferences. This studio invites you to think about how we can build again. We start with the materials and zoom out to the building. From close up to a finished project. From detail to building. Making the future from what is already here.

The studio will be organised in 3 actions, each anchored in a conversation reflecting on how do we build again, given current societal, economic and environmental challenges. For the first two actions, you will work individually, while the third action will be done in groups of two. Each action builds upon the previous, exploring making as thinking, starting from what already exists.

Find our BRIEF and PRESENTATION:

(for more information see https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/architektur/studium/entwerfen-2025w/)

You can also access the brief here: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15yocRaxKQjYwMSP1UwDJ7Kgx3YPb7qIz/view?usp=sharing

Course examination according to § 6, statute section on "study-law regulations".