After successful completion of the course, students are able to...
… to develop an independent, critical position in the contemporary architectural discourse and to consider building-relevant questions as an integral part of their architectural concept.
… to formulate intelligent architectural arguments (conservation of resources and sustainability criteria etc.) and understand and use them as the source for design processes
… to convert conceptual and structural design ideas into an architectural project: architectural design, high-tech project development in all scales up to design details
… to develop constructional solutions for specific, experimental challenges
… to provide future-oriented answers to central social issues
The decarbonized society of the mid-21st century has liberated itself from its dependence on fossil fuels. Fossils first remains only as tale from the past, mobility is de-individualized and of higher intelligence. The city is a green city; space resources from elapsed fossil days are disposable for new public uses of daily needs and pleasure. Petrol stations are just the most obvious option / resource.
For those plots in Vienna, that will have lost their current importance around 2050 and beyond, designs for the good life should be created: institutions for the common good, a public program for a society that has grown tired of hyper-consumption trying to relocate its cause of happiness.
The student`s independent choice of the site within the set parameters and the answer to the question: “What should we build?” will be the starting point of the design process.
The answer to this question will be located in the conflict zone between nature and architecture, densification and renaturation, resource conservation and construction / shell. Its architectural expression will lead to concrete-utopian, public-social spatial structures of the future: post-fossil, climate-resilient oases for the decarbonized society.
Because: everything could be different. Only positive visions create a positive future.
* title of a book by Harald Welzer, publisher S.Fischer, 2019
Guided Designstudio: discussions and presentations
Autonomous, independent and experimental processing of a design task
Development of plans - in all building-relevant scales as well as a spatial model
Suspension of classroom teaching and conversion to distance learning for the time being:
Upload of the project status to Tuwel, digital feedback from the course lecturers
Weekly group meetings and presentations are being conducted online
Conceptual + structural idea, presentation of the project through sketch / plan (floorplan, sections, elevation), scale depending on the project
Facade cross section, exemplary details 1:10
Structural engineering elaboration including statics and building services, depending on the project
Spatial presentation of the project qualities, in- and exterior: sketches, perspectives, visualizations
Presentation model, scale depending on the project
Detailed delivery requirements in accordance with advisors
