2025S
Lara Lesmes
Institute of Architecture, Architectural Design 2
2024W, Künstl. Einzelunterricht (KE), 15.0 ECTS, 15.0 semester hours, course number S10266
Studio Space Popular is focussed on Transmedia Architecture through design and theory.
Transmedia Architecture defines the experience of space through multiple means:
physical and virtual. We develop architecture that considers physical bodies and virtual
beings equally.
Studio Space Popular works at the intersection of the built and the virtual environments.
We imagine alternatives towards responsibility and solidarity in the ways we design, build
and inhabit our buildings, cities, towns and villages, enabled by media.
Studio Space Popular is concerned with the civic implications of media in the built
environment. Our social lives occur across media – in transmedia spaces whose design
and regulation nobody takes responsibility for. Meanwhile our community ties online are
becoming as valuable and consequential as those offline. In the same way that we fight
for the safeguarding of social housing, public space, civic infrastructures, and overall
public services, we must take care of the civic dimension of our virtual environments.
The studio briefs are organised under four key themes: virtual craft, spatial data libraries,
transmedia gatherings, and virtual civic infrastructure. These topics involve architectural
design of both physical and virtual spaces, introducing a variety of tools and methods
that bridge the digital and analog in architecture.
The theoretical framework of the studio involves an array of topics currently organised in
the following sections:
PERCEPTION & EXPERIENCE
Affordances
Semiotics
BODIES & CROWDS
Haptics & Interaction
Representation of Self
SPACE & GEOMETRY
Non-euclidean Spaces
Navigation Systems
CRAFT & FABRICATION
Digital/Analog loops
Effort heuristics
VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Social VR/Virtual Gatherings
Hybrid Gatherings
(Venn Rooms & Global
Homes)
VIRTUAL URBANISM
Virtual & Augmented Cities
Civic Infrastructure design &
policy
REUSE & ADAPTATION
Media-driven lifestyle
transformations
Implications on geopolitical entities
ENERGY & RESOURCES
Internet Infrastructure
Internet Politics
HISTORY & CONTEXT
Media & Architecture
Aesthetic Ideologies in
Architecture
During the three year MArch programme students will have the opportunity of exploring
these four key topics during semesters 1 to 4, leaving semesters 5 and 6 for pre-thesis and
thesis work. Each semester starts with three to four weeks of collective work in the form of
workshops and seminars that contribute to an ongoing research archive. Students are
encouraged to shape their thesis around individual interests and draw from the collective
research archive.
The studio alternates yearly between two types of design and research: practical and
speculative. Semesters dedicated to practical work involve: experimental research, local
community engagement, and prototyping design projects; while semesters that are
dedicated to speculative work involve: historical and descriptive research, disciplinary
community engagement, and speculative design projects.
virtual reality, transmedia, gatherings, architecture, electronic media
From 26 August 2024, 00:00
Via online registration
Architecture (Master): Architectural Design: Architectural Design 443/001.01
Co-registration: not possible
Attending individual courses: not possible