Teaching assistants: Ida Hammarlund, Caroline Dieden, Andreas Amasalidis.
The workshop is interested in exploring innovative, potential architectural expressions of a current discourse through techniqe elaboration and obsession of excess, under the notions of beauty, aestthetics, etc, as an ultimate condition of design.
The goal of the workshop will be to keep developing the notion of geometric variations at a level of spohistication so that questions towards beauty and relevance can begin to be understood in a contemporary setting, and emerging paradigms of aesthetics, the grotesque and the horrific. Through the investigation into the potential of software to allow for control over sophisticated geometries, we will attempt to negotiate the question of topology within the condition of surface and how the surface condition emerges through controlled expert geometries. The workshop forces each student to operate within an expertise towards intuition through software and advancement of the discipline through a precise contemporary understanding of architecture's reliance on surface, performance, and emotion to expand its discourse.
‘What is missing in Lund?’
The workshop is a continuation of a semester project led by John Cramer. The idea is to find and propose an intervention in Lund, under the name ‘architecture as performance’. The students previously developed movies to find a site and integrate their intervention.
The intention of my workshop is to deliver this proposal by the exploration of form through imagery and teaching them techniques in animation software. Each intervention is carried out as an individual project and all explore multiple aspects of possible architectural conditions. My interest is for each of the students to explore ideas of typologies and innovative topologies and how these concepts depend and interact back and forth with one another. The process of design being pushed forward is the use of imagery and exploration of 3D-mentional designs, which then are dissected for the extraction of parts and understanding of the multiples system of fragment assembly. Each of the projects proposes something different and they vary in scales and suggestion of architectural program.
