After successful completion of the course, students are able to work on a design task that as a starting point focuses on the concept of space and the understanding of spatial correlations. They learn to critically examine basic questions of museum space, in particular through examining a specific context and the resulting questions dealing with the location and existing buildings as well as culture and the history of urban development. Through a scientifically and methodically reasoned research on historical as well as contemporary art spaces they will be able to deduce appropriate design principles and to use them for their own design work. They will be able to comprehensively show and present project concepts in the form of drafts and detailed plans.
Dialogue
For the collection of the MUMOK (Museum of modern art, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna) the former house and sculptor studio by Gustinus Ambrosi is to be rebuilt and extended by a new building. The building in the Augarten, designed in 1957 by Georg Lippert, has in the meantime housed the TBA21-Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and has been empty since 2017.
The conceptual basics of designing constitute subjects and insights which have been elaborated in the framework of the Kunst:Raum module in the summer term of 2020 by examining artists‘ positions from the field of Conceptual Art and Institutional Criticism such as those by Michael Asher, Daniel Buren or Andrea Fraser. By addressing the context of the exhibition space as place of difference and frame and by deconstructing the mechanisms of exhibiting, they shift the observer’s view and at the same time involve them in a multifold dialogue.
In language, context (Latin contextus, to weave together) refers to the surrounding text through which the meaning of a word or a passage is first understood; context refers to the general connection and the linkage of the parts.
In architecture, the context is initially the material framework such as the surroundings, the landscape or the city with its buildings, squares and paths: a network of physical measurements and space that defines the figure-ground relationships and is constantly being formed and reformed through the dialectical confrontation between ideal types of the architectural building theory and the conditions of a specific location. Beyond the built reality, the architectural context is the immaterial framework providing evidence of the dependence on cultural, social and historical causalities.
The examination of context clarifies different contexts and brings them into a dialogue with one another. This is true particularly for building in existing structures, which require a closer examination because of their many different spatial and historical levels.
Theoretical basics and analyses of selected historical and contemporary examples form the entry point into the design task. The designs in individual work or at most in groups of two are elaborated exclusively on the basis of physical working models and sketches. The working model is employed as design instrument which is used to examine and develop different design subjects.
Einführung am Mittwoch 07.10.20
Weitere Termine
Konzeptkritik Mi. 04.11.20
Zwischenkritik Mi. 16.12.20
Endpräsentation Do. 28.1.21 – Fr. 29.1.21
Die Entwurfsbesprechungen finden mittwochs (oder, abhängig von der Gruppengröße, zusätzlich montags) zwischen 9:00 – 15:00 Uhr statt.
Für die Entwurfsbesprechungen gilt eine Teilnahmepflicht!
Anmeldungen mit einem Portfolio werden bevorzugt aufgenommen!
Terminänderungen vorbehalten!
