RMB 13.1 – Design Studio 3A

Recommended Prerequisites

N/A

Teaching Methods

Presentation of a 1.1 architectural intervention on site + reflection on the intervention translating it to a program of
possibilities, format is free (Text, Film, Graphic Design etc.) Final presentation (jury) similar as Mid term
Assessment focus points:
Analysis, concept and design work has led to a deepening of the task and question
Analysis of the task, the programme and the context are in-depth, show an understanding of the essence of the task
and lead to reasoned, appropriate, personal decisions, the design is appropriate, convincing, and original.

Learning Outcomes

Actively research and design on site and using the knowledge and skills from RMB 7 and 10 to transfer them into
methods that can be actively used on site: scenography methods, storytelling, scale 1.1 interventions
Exploring ways of active analysis and design skills, to be used in RMB 13.2.
To develop respectful design methods for acts of intervention in modern movement architecture, concentrating on
trying to foretell the effects of the design by implementing it in a provisional way in the object of adaptation.
The ability to present the project in an experimental way, using new media, installation techniques Learning to
transfer abstracted notation systems ( drawing, text etc) into real life 1.1. abstractions of a future intervention.
Develop a ´PROGRAM OF POSSIBILITIES´ for a building instead of working with a ´PROGRAM OF
REQUIREMENTS´.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The theoretical work of Bernard Tschumi, especially his use of the word Transgression is taken as a
starting point to work on site, in a 1.1 scale and testing a building's capacity for adaptation.
The start-up of the Design studio is an on-site workshop, to read and discuss the theoretical and practical
foundation for active research and design and to explore the site (Building) using learning to use various mapping
tools.
In the continuation of the workshop students will continue working on site on an individual basis or in their group.
In the Studio, they will report on the development of their interventions concept and strategy.
The documentation of the project shows the design as well as the design process
Modernist presentation techniques are practiced (Collage, Ready Made, Alienation) and transferred and applied in
1.1 scale and into relevant Contemporary techniques (Projection, Soundscapes, Scanning, GIS) Material, techniques
and details are considered in relevant scales.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Frequency: 100.0%

Bibliography

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Melenhorst, M.(2021) Action Research, Artez University of the Arts Zwolle NL
Michel Melenhorst, Goncalo Canto Moniz and Paulo Providencia (Eds.) (2018) “Teaching through Design”. 2nd RMB
Conference, University of Coimbra and Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Detmolder Schule für
Architektur und Innenarchitektur, Coimbra
Tschumi, B.(1996). Architecture and disjunction (1st MIT Press paperback ed.). Cambridge,Mass.: MIT Press
Tschumi, B.(1994). Architecture and disjunction. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press
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