DKV 67
Studio Theme
The situation of being located in an abandoned building will inform both themes and methods for Studio DKV. What kind of expressions are produced when the existing building and materials at hand become the starting point? In the near future architects will to a larger extent work with existing buildings and materials. Being located in such a building we will try to understand what this can mean for architecture and the everyday work as architects. Today adaptive reuse is discussed as a new way of producing architecture, but the reuse of materials and spaces is nothing new - the Romans reused parts of buildings when creating new ones in quite an unsentimental way. This creates new possibilities, patterns of matter out of place, and strips for example a column of its representational connotations. Closer at hand is the nomadic sami tradition where buildings are dismantled and reassembled over and over again. The joinery and how things are put together becomes the main interest rather than the parts themselves. This tradition lives on today in a kind of arctic adoration of the joint in the shape of duct tape, cable ties or whatever is at hand. An economy of effect.
Studio Method
Studio DKV will work as a lab where different approaches will be tested and evaluated - a bootcamp for the imagination and a testbed for new aesthetics. We will work with architecture hands on. 1:1 test, redo, demolish, try again. Projects will vary in thematics and methods, but share one thing: scale 1:1. We will explore what working in scale 1:1 can do for the architectural project and process. During the semester we will also study and examine a number of terms and concepts through seminars and lectures. In the spirit of the Studio DKV - learning by doing - students will in groups create and hold small lectures for the studio.
Teachers: Fredrik Stenberg, Per Franson