After successful completion of the course, students are able to develop an independent architectural-constructive position on specific spatial requirements. Questions relevant to building construction should be addressed as an integral part of the architectural concept. They have the skills to identify areas of action in an urban or rural context and to develop appropriate architectural solutions. Students can conduct independent research and collect topic-related fundamentals. They have the ability to develop design concepts, and to present them comprehensively in the form of design plans and models.

The content of the bachelor's degree and the skills acquired from it are combined to create complex architectural tasks. Students are taught the ability to understand architecture as a process in which the requirements and goals of a design task are addressed architecturally, constructively and in terms of urban planning. A design is developed on the basis of an urban spatial concept and taking social, sustainable and ecological requirements into account.

The theme of the draft is densification in rural areas. In view of the increasing need for space and the problematic sealing of agricultural land, sustainable concepts for the multiple use of already built-up areas are to be examined. Hybrid strategies are to explore constructive and urban typologies that are suitable for offering alternative approaches to the current problems.

Specifically, two motorway sections of the A1 in Thalgau and Mondsee are being considered, which in terms of spatial planning occupy the high-quality areas of a south-facing slope and pollute the surrounding area with noise and fine dust particulate matter. The municipalities are currently reacting to the increasing need for space by repurposing agricultural land, which is looking for alternatives due to the current results of soil sealing. In Thalgau, flood protection was implemented in the area of the Fuschler Ache with funds from the federal and state governments, which has made the adjacent agricultural areas ready for repurposing as building land. These dystopian developments allow for alternative approaches in the form of building over the motorway on the south slope, which should be examined for their sustainability in the overall environmental influences of the habitat.

DATES

The introductory event will take place on Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 9:00 a.m.

Regulary meetings are weekly on Thursday mornings at 9:00 a.m.

Designcourse with personal support, interim critiques and final critique. Analysis, reflection, model building, experimenting, sketching, designing, planning, constructing - project meetings and presentations in all phases

Immanent exam exercises as individual work.

Additional consultation with specialist supervisors on the subject of construction, building physics and sustainability is mandatory.

Working through the task in the form of draft and detailed plans in the required, relevant scales.

- Site plan, floor plans, sections, views, diagrams, sketches

- Project description

- Renderings

- Presentation model in a meaningful scale