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 series of lectures and exercises begins with the topic of space, perception and sensation in an urban context. Subsequently, interstices and threshold areas, spatial atmosphere and perception, spatial boundaries and openings, space and movement will be examined. The aim is to systematise spatial features and to compile a repertoire of design elements of space.
Materials are presented with regard to their structural factors and design possibilities as well as their material aesthetics. Material properties and qualities are worked out and compared and their use investigated.
Daylight and artificial light plans are presented and examined on the basis of the focal points with regard to lighting, sun protection and glare, illuminants, colour rendering, service life and energy efficiency. Key factors and basic lighting parameters and planning parameters will be presented using applications in retail, presentation, museum, office, square and façade design.
Polytopes and spatial stagings of light, colour, form, material and sound are analysed, broken down into their design parameters, dissected as individual factors and considered separately. Experience and perception of space are discussed on the basis of selected spatial and artistic examples and related to possible architectural applications. The space and the staging of space will be presented using selected examples.
Theoretical content will be practically experienced and practised in the form of selected analysis and practice examples and will be applied, described and presented on the basis of small examples.
Visits, lectures, excursions, company visits and guest lectures complement the teaching content.
In the course of the interdisciplinary module exercise topic, a draft 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 on a 1:1 scale – as far as is feasible on site or in the spatial laboratory.
