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Design Studio: Raum

The studio Raum begins by inviting students to rediscover their everyday routines and their everyday environment as interlocking actions and experiences of making space and appropriating space. The seemingly familiar disappears in favor of again-to-be-discovered and redesigned spaces of possibility. Routiniers become discoverers and designers of the surprising in everyday life.

Exercise: Grundlagen der Entwurfslehre / Gebäudeanalyse

As accompanying exercise to the lecture series «Grundlagen der Entwurfslehre» selected buildings are analysed. The aim of the exercise is to study concrete architectural buildings from different times under specific aspects such as spatial structure and functional structure and to present them with drawings and models.

MASTER 

Entwurf: 0.3 von 11.000

Das Studio „0,3 von 11.000“ beschäftigt sich mit dem narrativen Endpunkt der neuen Seidenstrasse. Lokalisiert an der ca. 300m langen Villenstraße in Duisburg Rheinhausen fallen hier die Extreme der unterschiedlichen Maßstabs- und Bedeutungsebenen der Straße zusammen. Als Relikt der vergangenen Stahlindustrie, reihen sich an der Villenstrasse die Wohnhäuser der ehemaligen Krupp Direktoren auf. Trotz tiefgreifender Veränderungen der Umgebung ist die bauliche Struktur der Kolonie seit ihrer Errichtung 1910 nahezu unverändert geblieben.
Heute ist die Anlage eine Enklave, eingebettet in ein großmaßstäbliches Logistik Areal - dem Endpunkt der 11.000km langen Bahnstrecke von Shenzen nach Duisburg ist. Als essentieller Bestandteil der „Neuen Seidenstrasse“, der größten globalen Infrastruktur der Jetztzeit, verbindet diese Strecke China mit den westlichen Märkten.
Im Rahmen des Studios untersuchen die Studierende am Beispiel des Grundstücks Villenstraße die programmatischen und architektonischen Potentiale die durch räumliche Kollision von Stadt- und globaler Infra-struktur zu Tage treten.
Neben dem vorgegebenen Programm eines Handelszentrums, welches sich auf den globalen Maßstab der Seidenstraße bezieht, entwickeln die Studierende einen eigenen zweiten Programmbaustein, der in direkter Beziehung zur Stadt Duisburg steht. In Anknüpfung an den ehemaligen Status des Hafengebiets als Freihandelszone, darf das Gelände mit einer spezifischen rechtlich verbrieften „Freiheit“ ausgestattet werden.

ZKM, birth death and after-life

The ZKM project of OMA is the quintessential example of a project that achieved the utmost relevance while never being built. 
In 1989 the then rather unknown Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) won the ZKM competition in Karlsruhe. It took 7 years of gestation to declare its abortion. 
The seminar will investigate the development of this very influential project during these 7 critical years: How did the design change during that time? How did public opinion and politics play into its cancellation? How has its architectural narrative been formed? How did the design become as influential as it did? Where can we find its architectural traces today?
Research will be conducted based on archival and published material as well as interviews. Findings will be processed in text, drawing and models. The final output will be published in a zine. 

Regular meeting time: Thursdays 10:00-12:30
First meeting: 21.10.2021 10:00
Interim pinups:  02.12.2021, 20.01.2022
Final presentation: 24.02.2021
Language: German/ English 

Seminar: 20%

With the trend towards the home office, the office world is changing rapidly and fundamentally. Many companies want to further expand home working, which is why it is assumed that every 5th office in Germany will become obsolete. According to this assumption, in future approx. 75 million sqm of office space will be available. At the same time, there is an enormous lack of living space in all major German cities. 
The seminar develops basic strategies for the conversion of office buildings to residential purposes.
With this goal in mind, the basic structural aspects like circulation and lighting of selected housing projects are systematically examined and their regularity is made transferable to other buildings in the form of textual instructions. In a second step, these are then "projected" onto an office building. The results are models of the resulting structural overlaps.

Appointment: weekly on Thursdays 10:00 - 11:30, room to be announced
First meeting: 21.10.21
Reviews: 18.11.21, 23.12.21
Submission: 03.03.22, 10:00 - 13.00
Language: German/ English