After successful completion of the course, students are able to

• refine their perception of form of three-dimensional objects in relation to their concrete sculptural reality and to be self-critical of their own creative work
• recognize the creative scope of given rules and to set up their own rules for their design approaches
• translate essential formal and spatial qualities of their form wishes (imaginations, concepts, ideas) into working models and to experimentally test and reflect them in physical space determined by gravity
• use process oriented idea development for one's own design intentions and to generate procedural and sensorimotor knowledge from it
• broaden their understanding of the conditions of form (possibilities and limitations) of a three-dimensional object, depending on sensory perception, the tool used, the material chosen and the production possibilities associated with it
• bring together the elements gained from the analysis of form into a sculpturally effective, compositionally successful and thematically fulfilling study of form

The exercise examines the form conditions of sculptural objects as a function of perception, design tool, material and associated manufacturing conventions. It places the physical (working) model and the analytical drawing as design tools in the foreground of a thematically founded, analogous investigation of form. The exercise concludes with a sculptural form study, which should correspond to the following criteria: Recognizability of the semester topic, quality of composition and development in space, appropriateness of choice of material, degree of abstraction, surface qualities and precise craftsmanship.

• analytical form investigations (= subdivision into concise form elements) with the help of drawings, geometric concepts and working models as home-exercises
• the initial adherence to given design rules and the resulting establishment, adherence to and qualitative evaluation of one's own rules
• getting to know and experimenting with different model construction methods based on the material used
• the exploration of the aesthetic and creative possibilities and properties of various materials and manufacturing conventions through playful, operative handling of the manufactured objects in space (e.g. spatial location, spatial volume vs. mass volume, etc.)
• the detection of the qualitative creative potential in the interplay between part and whole of a composition through contextualization within a compositional space
• the examination of the possibilities of the spatially and sculpturally effective staging of a form study for the exhibition (display)

Introductory lecture:

The introduction to the lecture and the exercise will take place on Thursday, 1.10.2020.  from 14.00 to 16.00 Uhr in the lecture hall  "Informatikhörsaal, Treitlstraße 3 (ground floor), 1040 Wien.

All further lectures will take place on Wednesday  from 11:00h to 13:00h in the lecture hall. "Informatikhörsaal".

Exercise topic: will be announced at the latest by the introductory lecture.

Programme and tasks: from the introductory lecture on

http://e2642.kunst.tuwien.ac.at/index.php?idcatside=1063

Admission requirements:

please read file 3dg_2020w_Zulassungsbedingungen.pdf  (TISS Kommunikation/Unterlagen)

Admission to the 3D Design exercise is determined by a whitelist of students who meet the following requirements:

Students from WS 2013:

Positive completion of the StEOP new (= 18 ECTS, whereby the orientation course is obligatory and the remaining 15 ECTS must come from the pool of StEOP-LVAs, whereby at least one exercise (VU) must be included).

Students before WS 2013:

- Orientation course: 250.162 or 253.568

- Contemporary Architecture: 251.083 or 259.287

- GK Design theory: 263.013

- GK Descriptive geometry: 113.077

- GK Structural engineering: 270.016 or 253.735

- GK Structural gauge: 254.040

- GK CAAD: 272.071 or 259.266

Registration modalities:

please read file 3dg_2020w_Anmeldemodalitäten.pdf  (TISS Kommunikation/Unterlagen)

The registration for the UE takes place exclusively in TISS via group registration.

Registration: from 17.09.2020, 7:00h to 01.10.2020, 9:00h

In coordination with the important courses of the 3rd semester (Raumgestaltung, Tragwerkslehre, CAAD2 and Hochbau), the groups from the summer semester 2020 were included in the 3DG exercises in order to avoid or minimise overlapping timetables for the 3rd semester.

All students who were assigned to a group from A01 to E20 in the summer semester 2020 are already transfered into the 3dg-groups A01 to E20 and thus registered (supervisors and supervision times are assigned). Students who do not wish to attend courses in WS20 in which they have been transferred, please deregister from these courses independently. Those who did not meet the requirements for completing 3dg will not be registered. Students who are accepted by us have a secure place on a certain week date. The transfer to another group is free from the start of registration, but the guaranteed place and the freedom of overlap (timetable) are lost.

All other students who meet the requirements can fill up the groups that still have free places from the start of registration.

Master students

Students from abroad or from Austrian FHs who are studying for a Master's degree at the Vienna University of Technology and who have to do 3dg-exercises, should should send a scan of their admission notice (with matriculation number) to fridolin.welte@tuwien.ac.at by e-mail till 01.10.2020, 9:00 a.m. at the latest and indicate their group preferences. Groups that are already full cannot be requested.

Erasmus students

A participation is only possible if there are still free places after registration deadline on 01.10.2020, 9:00h. (with group size = 25). Provided that this is the case, you can express your interest (with matriculation number) and express a group wish by e-mail to fridolin.welte@tuwien.ac.at till 1.10.2020, 9:00h. Groups that are already full cannot be requested.

Overview of the supervision times and supervisors: please read file 3dg_2020w_Betreuungszeiten.pdf
(TISS Kommunikation/Unterlagen)

• attendance and participation in weekly meetings(videostream or at our facility when required), where feedback is only given if work performance is evident in the form of sketches and working models
• chronologically kept work diary (sketchbook, ringbound drawing block) throughout the semester, which is presented at each meeting; the work process itself is an important part of the evaluation and must be documented
• three to four building up subtasks, which are briefly presented and graded on mandatory deadlines
• submission of the tasks, which have been developed in the sub-tasks, in the form of a concrete, sensually perceptible 1:1 object which should correspond to the criteria described in the course content (Lehrinhalt)
• for the final grade, all sub-grades are taken into account
• the semester exercise is carried out exclusively in individual work

Admission requirements:

Students from WS 2013:

Positive completion of the StEOP new (= 18 ECTS, whereby the orientation course is obligatory and the remaining 15 ECTS must come from the pool of StEOP-LVAs, whereby at least one exercise (VU) must be included).

Students before WS 2013

- Orientierungskurs: 250.162 or 253.568
- Gegenwartsarchitektur: 251.083 or 259.287
- GK Gestaltungslehre: 263.013
- GK Darstellende Geometrie: 113.077
- GK Hochbau: 270.016 or 253.735
- GK Tragwerkslehre: 254.040
- GK CAAD: 272.071 or 259.266