BACHELOR 

Design Studio: Raum 

The studio Raum begins by inviting students to rediscover their everyday routines and their everyday environment as interlocking space-use, space-perception and space-building actions and experiences. The seemingly familiar, skillful and usual volatilize in favor of again-to-be-discovered and redesigned spaces of possibility. Habitats and Routiniers become discoverers and designers of the surprising in everyday life.

Appointment: Mo-Fr, 02:00 PM–05:15 PM, 11.40 R127
First meeting: Fr, 11.10.2019 ,11:30 AM, 11.40 R127
Excursion: Berlin 23.10.–26.10.19
Submission/Exam: 05.02.20

Lecture: Basics of Design Theory 

The lecture series "architectural thinking" deals with relevant architectural topics and serves as a foundation for your architectural vocabulary.

Appointment: We, 11:30 – 13:00, 20.40., Fritz-Haller Hörsaal (HS37)
First meeting: 30.10.1911:30 -13:00
Submission/Exam: 25.02.2020

Exercise: Basics of Design Theory

As accompanying exercise to the lecture—Architectural Thinking—selected buildings are analyzed. The aim of the exercise is to study con-crete architectural buildings from different times under specific aspects such as spatial structure and functional structure and to present them with drawings and models.

Appointment: We, 09:45 AM–11:15 AM, 20.40 20.40 Grüne Grotte
First meeting: 16.10.2019 09:45 AM–11:15 AM, 20.40 Fritz-Haller Hörsaal (HS37)
Submission/Exam: 22.01.2020–29.01.2020

MASTER 

100.000m³ Studio

In his 1995 essay, 'Bigness, or the Problem of Large', Rem Koolhaas described a new reading of architecture: when a building reaches a certain critical size, it leaves the scale, perception, and functionality of architecture to function as pure density, a collision of differentprograms, as a self-referential inner world without an exterior. Bigness is a theory of complexity that does not follow the logic of architecture but the purely physical logic of the mass and the program it contains. 
In 1989, Bigness almost came to Karlsruhe. OMA‘s competition-winning design for the new ZKM (Zentrum for Kunst und Medientechnologie) proposed a 43 x 43 x 58 cube to be sited next to the Hauptbahnhof. Their concept for the 'Electronic Bauhaus' brought together multiple cultural programs with a trans-European transportation hub, contained in 100.000 cubic meters of space. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, cultural budgets in West Germany were cut, and the project was abruptly canceled. 
A potential Bigness already exists in many German cities: the department store from the 1960s and 70s. Thei generic facades hide an inner world of consumption which represented the dreams and wishes of the post-war German middle-class society. Now with competition from online retailers, the department store has lost its potential  To capture the consumerimagination. Whether or not its demise is inevitable, the department store volume represents new architectural possibilities for the German city center. 
The 100.000m³ studio appropriated the strategies of Bigness to develop, through a speculative outlook, new programmatic and structural scenarios for a possible future for the large volumes left behind by the post-war department store. 

100.000m³ Seminar 

The seminar 100.000m³ deals with Rem Koolhaas' design for the ZKM in Karlsruhe, which, although not realized, has become an icon of recent architectural history in the last 30 years. 
Based on the original model M 1:100, the design will be revised in a double meaning.
The aim is to develop an exhibition which, using texts, plans, photographs and other sources, places the design in context with its time of origin as well as with our present day and thus makes it readable in a new way.
This seminar is also the deepening of the design of the building "100.000m³".
Participants of this draft must attend this seminar and automatically have a seminar place.