Architekturentwurf

Fredrik Hellberg
Institute of Architecture, Architectural Design 2
2024W, Künstl. Einzelunterricht (KE), 15.0 ECTS, 15.0 semester hours, course number S10267

Description

Architectural Design 2

Studio Space Popular

Heads: Univ.-Prof. Fredrik Hellberg, Univ.-Prof. Lara Lesmes

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. 

Key Words

virtual architecture, Virtual Gatherings, VIRTUAL URBANISM, REUSE & ADAPTATION, architecture

Course Enrolment

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