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: THU, 11 October 2018, 10:00 am, HS13
Exercise blocks, corrections:
For dates see schedule module RG (documents TISS)
The schedule for the module incl. all lectures, lectures with 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.
