Today s building supply center has become incomprehensibly vast. New products appear daily, their development spurned primarily by technological and market considerations, leaving the design issues often unresolved. The course s aim is to foster an experimental approach with materials, to experiment with spatial forms using industrial products within a framework of lectures and exercises.
Analysis of the materials promoted at building supply centers in terms of their design criteria and formal properties, as well as aesthetic and economical ones. To explore the visual, aural, and tactile material qualities of industrial products. To extract, transform, and displace the unique properties and qualities of a material. To compare natural and synthetic materials. To create both ready-mades and material objects without scale or association.
Knowledge of materials, multiple visits your own to building supply centers, the satisfaction in experimenting with industrial products. Cooperative work with representatives from the building material industry, product presentations and lectures on the aforementioned content, and the application of a palette of building materials in a design exercise. A graded certificate of achievement will be based on the work of the course exercises.
MODUL SCHEDULE
Introduction module RG: MO, October 10th, 2016, 10 am - 1 pm, Raumlabor.
Introduction workshop: MO, October 10th, 2016, 12 am, Raumlabor.
The introduction to the workshop is mandatory for those wanting to participate in the module RG
Viewing of the building site: THU, 13 October 2016, 09:15 a.m.
The viewing of the building site takes place in the morning.
The meeting point is in the space laboratory at 09:15 a.m.
Exercise blocks, critiques: always Wednesdays afternoon, 2 pm - 6 pm in Raumlabor
For dates see the schedule for the module RG
Exercise blocks: WED, October 12th, 2016 until WED, December 14th, 2016
For lectures see lecture schedule from October until December 2016
Please check the module schedule in the download area of 253.364 for additional appointments.
The schedule for module RG with all exercise blocks, lecture appointments and meeting points for fieldtrips will be available at the end of September 2016 in the download area.
INSPECTIONS in context of the module Spatial Design
Exact dates and meeting points as well as further planned excursions will be announced at the beginning of the term (see "Module Programme" and time schedule in the download area 253.364)
