BACHELOR

Design Studio: 8/StS 06/V:A / 39

Studio Raum II focuses on institutional spaces. How do these spaces embody social rituals and rules and how are the latter formalized with their help? The institutional context of Karlsruhe provides the framework: BGH/KIT/BST/ZKM/HFG/BVG.
In the current semester, the studio focuses on the institution of the Archive and in particular on its ambivalent character as a hermetically sealed storage-space and as a public infrastructure.
The State Archive, the vessel of our cumulative memory, stores material from authorities, courts and their functional predecessors and makes it publicly accessible for unlimited time. The oldest documents in the State Archive Baden-Württemberg are medieval charters from the 9th century. Since then, the archive material has been growing exponentially and requires more and more storage space. Today, the State Archive stores approximately 320 shelf-kilometers of parchment and paper. At the same time, the archive is confronted with increasing digitalization, which promises the protection of valuable unique items as well as their access from anywhere ant any time.
The studio takes on the challenges of the current exponential growth of analog archival materials and the inherent promises of its digitalization in order to sound out the future social relevance of the archive as a public infrastructure.

Regular Meetings: Wed-Thu, 2:00-6:00 pm, Bldg. 20.40
First Meeting: 31.30.2022, Bldg. 20.40
Pin-Up: 04.05.2022, 01.06.2022
Submission/Presentation: 30.06.2022/06.07.2022

Seminar: Shape Grammars

The seminar is part of the research project "Typological Resilience". Based on so-called "shape grammars", floor plans of canonical residential buildings are made geometrically describable and transferable. New floor plans can be generated based on them. Using a basic grammatical framework developed by R+E this process of translating will deepen your understanding of relevant principles and examples of housing plans. It will also address the following questions regarding the use of shape grammars:
How specific do the grammars have to be in order to describe the respective housing floor plans structurally unambiguously and make their qualities transferable?
To what extent can the shape grammars reveal unifying structural principles between the architecturally very different canonical reference floor plans?