Studio Making
Studio Theme
This full-scale master studio works as a lab where different approaches are tested and evaluated - a bootcamp for the imagination and a testbed for new aesthetics.
Projects vary in thematics and methods but share one thing: site specific full-scale interventions. We explore what working with skilled craftsmen, municipalities and actual end users can do to inform the architectural project and process.
Learning by doing and full-scale building is key.
Studio Method
This semester we want to dig further into how things are made, and we want you to become familiar with production. We will visit some of the places that produce “the stuff that surrounds us”. We will learn from them and collaborate with them over the semester.
Studio Making will continue to investigate what practical knowledge can mean for architecture and our everyday work as architects.
The Studio will create full-scale architectural interventions for public display where many stakeholders are involved. Students will get a hands on experience in not only designing, but making architecture The meeting between the craftsman, the site, and the architect is the focus of both courses for the fall.
In the spirit of the Studio DKV - learning by doing and full-scale building is key.
We will start the semester with a pre-paid visit to Småland and its vast tradition and knowledge of producing architecture and furniture. After a series of wood workshops we will start sketching ideas for a number of temporary installations to be part of the Nobel Week Lights Festival in December. Through workshops, lectures and site visits we will come up with one collective design with individual fragments as part of the whole.
Competencies
Learn to embrace the complex relationship between the existing and the addition.
Understand the relationship between designing and hands-on production
Create new aesthetics
Develop architectural proposals through iterative design processes
Deal with weather, logistics, laws and regulations
Project 01
We will start the semester with a pre- paid visit to Småland and its vast tradition and knowledge of producing architecture and furniture. After a series of wood workshops we will start sketching ideas for a number of temporary installations at Tegelbacken/Klara Mälarstrand to be part of the Nobel Week Lights Festival in December. Trough workshops, lectures and site visits we will come up with one collective design with individual fragments as part of the whole.
Project 02
Construction and assembly of a series of structures will take place at Campus, transported and installed at Tegelbacken, inaugurated and celebrated, dismantled and transported back to Campus where it will be placed and become new meeting spaces.
Staff Bios
Main teacher: Per Franson
Assisting teachers: Peter Lynch, Anna Eklund and Researcher: Rodrigo Muro