© Fanni Aliz Florian und Lukas Aschauer
The field of design is currently facing a radical shift. Simulation tools have introduced a new approach to materialisation in design and unleashed an enormous potential for interdisciplinary experimentation. Nowadays, material is no longer considered as a downstream concern that comes into play only after the formal design process is finished but is considered as an active design generator and a source of research and innovation.
© Roland Snooks
This semester we will investigate fibres and their spatial, aesthetic and performative potentials in Architecture. We will develop individual design methods through a systematic feedback of digital simulation and analogue material testing. We are especially interested in spatially complex, permeable spatial formations that show unexpected and surprising behaviours and performances. In a second step we will translate our findings to an architectural scale and develop a proposal for a vertical building typology.
We will question the discursive field of material systems which is deeply grounded in utility. Functionality and efficiency are no adequate criteria for the evaluation of creative production. By including unproductive outputs such as waste, excess, expenditure and failure we will widen the scope of our experimentation.
Tutorials, Software-Workshops and Crits every Friday 13.00
Introduction: 10.10.2014, 13 pm - Seminarraum Architekturtheorie, Wiedner Hauptstr. 7/Hof/Stg2/1.Stock,
www.soma-architecture.com
www.mueller-christoph.com
