After successful completion of the course, students are able to name and analyse criteria for spatial design from urban space to small-scale space and to understand interrelationships. Students can understand the parameters of space (material, light, colour, form) and their perception as individual design factors. Students can develop new spatial solutions and study the effects on users. Using an interdisciplinary exercise example, students can recognise the interaction between individual room parameters and consciously employ them as design elements. As one learning outcome, students know how to work on, describe and present a small planning task from the spatial context to true to scale detail solutions with special consideration of room shapes, daylight and artificial lighting solutions, use of colour and material and acoustic quality.
The lecture and exercise series begins with the subject of space, perception and sensation in the urban context. This is followed by the examination of intermediate spaces and threshold areas, spatial atmosphere and perception, spatial boundaries and spatial openings, space and movement. The aim is to systematise spatial features and to compile a repertoire of design elements of space.
Materials will be presented in terms of their form-giving factors and design possibilities as well as their material aesthetics. Material properties and qualities will be worked out and compared and their use examined.
Daylight and artificial lighting designs will be presented and examined on the basis of the essential points with regard to lighting, sunlight protection and glare, illuminants, colour rendering, service life and energy efficiency. Key factors and basic technical lighting parameters and planning parameters will be presented on the basis of applications in the fields of retailing, presentation, museum, office, square and facade design.
Polytopes and spatial stagings of light, colour, form, material and sound will be analysed, broken down into their design parameters and isolated and considered separately as individual factors. The experience and perception of space is discussed on the basis of selected spatial and artistic examples and related to architectural applications. Space and the staging of space will be presented using selected examples.
Theoretical content will be made practically experienceable and exercised in the form of selected examples of analysis and exercises, and will be applied, presented and introduced by means of small examples.
Visiting tours, lectures, excursions, company visits and guest lectures supplement the teaching content.
In the course of the interdisciplinary module-exercise topic, a design will be developed or architectural interventions will be tested in existing spatial situations. The aim is to implement the design or parts of it as a mock-up – if feasible on site or in the spatial laboratory – on a scale of 1:1.
