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 SD: THU, 5 October 2017, 2:00 pm, space laboratory.

ATTENTION: The presentation of EXERCISE 1 as well as bringing the 1:50 scale advance model of the predetermined, abstract space (advance performance) is required as early as part of the introductory lecture.

(Model-building plans and precise details on the contents of exercise 1 will be sent out in time via TISS or else the relevant instructions are available in the TISS download area)

Workshop introduction: THU, 5 October 2017, 4:30 pm, space laboratory.

The workshop introduction takes place following the introductory lecture on the module in the space laboratory. The workshop introduction is obligatory and a precondition for participation in Module SP.

Exercise blocks, corrections:

Thursday afternoons, 2:00-6:00 pm in the space laboratory

For dates see schedule module SD (documents TISS)

Exercise blocks: MON 16 October 2017 to FRI 20 October 2017 and MON, 23 October 2017 to WED, 25. October  2017

Lectures: see lecture agenda from Oct to Dec 2017

For dates see schedule module SD (documents TISS)

Final delivery, final review: THU, 18 January 2018, 9:00 am ¿ 1:00 pm in the space laboratory.

Please compare further dates with the module programme in the download area of 253.364.

The schedule for the module incl. all lectures, lectures with exercise, exercises, presentations, excursions, meeting points to excursions, submission dates, intermediate and final presentations is available at TISS in the download area and is continuously updated.

Important: please consult the continuous announcements via TISS.

Viewing tours as part of the spatial design module

Precise dates and meeting points will be announced at the beginning of the term when the module is introduced.

Dates see schedule module SD (documents TISS)

Project

Registration will be open only in the application pool