STUDIO BRIEF

The studio will explore the territory where the expansion of the digital age, the dissemination of information technology, and pervasive media-entities change the way we perceive and we inhabit space. An ever expanding threshold of speed, efficiency, and meaning is changing our experience of the space.

Accordingly, the dynamism of new forms will search for structures that are malleable enough to adapt to the changeable and ubiquitous contemporary life-style.

Flexible requirements will afford innovative and hybrid spatial configurations that respond to actual exigencies of virtual environments (seating here and been there, places and non-places).

Phase 1: The sensitivity of a room

The room is the beginning of architecture. You do not say the same thing in one room as you do in another, that’s how sensitive a room is. A room is a marvelous thing, a world within a world. It’s yours and offers a measure of yourself. What slice of the sun enters your room? You feel the privacy of it, you feel that sun belongs to you…… Louis Kahn

Develop a comprehension of given “enclosures” by blurring their spatial boundaries, through the exploration of their sensorial potentialities, leading to new redefined spatialities.

A solid, a room, a sequence of adjacent surfaces, or an oriented object will be affected and dissolved by the movement of light/shadow across the interior space. Consider the light in terms of slots, pools, bands, etc.

Manipulations of the surfaces of the volume will intercept/trap/redirect the light developed from student’s narrative.

Phase 2: Patterns as systemic generators of organizations

Investigate through an analytical process the potential of patterns and their rule based organizations, relationships of units, and techniques for variation. Exploring and uncovering underlying transformations which are already within the pattern geometry foster the possibility for varied diagrammatic repetitions.

Phase 3: Integration

Design three different types of units/rooms/ solids/spaces, as synthesis of the previous phases. They should be interconnected in order to configure inhabitable, dynamic, interchangeable, and flexible organizational structures. Parameters :

- Given modular dimensions (ex. 1, 1 1/2, 2 modules)

- Spatial flexibility over time (ex. Possible combination of more units). Growing organism.

- Horizontal and vertical (stacking) combination of the units, variety of solid/void

- Sectional interlocking possibilities

- Diagram of densities

- Idea of adjacency

Requirements:

Proceed by constructing both physical and virtual models and drawings according to the different episodes of the assignments. Develop spatial construct through a reciprocal series of 2D and 3D transformations using both computer generated and material projections.

3D Studio, Autocad, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat.

Other requirements discussed in the syllabus.