Angaben zur Professur

Lehrstuhl 

Professur A. Theriot

Typ 

Professur für Architektur und Entwurf

Standort 

HIL

Webseite 

www.theriot.arch.ethz.ch

Assistierende 

Philippe Buchs, Adrien Comte, Charlotte Truwant, Alice Weil

Kontakt E-Mail 

comte@arch.ethz.ch

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

Thema 

Borderline(s) Investigation #3 QUICKNESS

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

CHAP 1: MYTHOLOGY At the beginning there is a myth, a reference project generating a narrative. The production of models, analytic drawings, photographs and fragments will support this narrative which ought to be subjective, personal and intuitive. The result of this research will be presented as a compilation of images: the “Mythology” of architectural quickness. CHAP 2: FINDING FREEDOMS We aim to seize economic requirements to transform constraints into levers, producers of qualities. These may well be tangible or intangible, prosaic or poetic, constant or unstable, general or occasional… as long as they are initiated by the economy and located far from any rationality -creating generosity, “excesses” that make strength and uniqueness of a place. CHAP 3: MOCK UP The mock-up is no longer a model, but neither is it yet the building. It is an abstraction and a hybrid device that suggests the building, but is also formally independent from it. It can be seen as an objet d’art, a temporary installation. Including several visits (in and outside the city of Zürich) and the following workshops: Fragments and abstraction with Karsten Födinger Photography with Johannes Schwartz 3D visualisations with Olivier Campagne Structure with Giotto Messi Façade and enveloppe with Arnaud Malras

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Konstruktion, Modellbau, Visualisierungen

Lernziele 

It all starts with a question. We are not looking for an answer, we are looking for a way to formulate it. The question is in itself a quest. To carry out this investigation, we walk on a ridge line, we put ourselves in danger, we take risks; we want to find what we are looking for. We are moving forward on a path, on the path of defining the great values - those of architecture but also those of the architect, those of everyday life, those that make it exceptional, those of the ordinary and those of imagination, those of yesterday and today, those of tomorrow’s world. This line on which we walk is the frontier of our discipline, which we test, which we extend, which we do not limit ourselves to. So we go elsewhere, we use all kinds of media, we use all kinds of tools, we call on all kinds of experts, on all kinds of scales... By flirting with the limits in this way, we find ourselves no longer being only architects but also a photographers, a filmmakers, sociologists, engineers, artists, philosophers, writers or poets... We only prioritise things according to the subjective value we give them. QUICKNESS "Quickness of style and thought means above all agility, mobility, and ease, all qualities that go with writing where it is natural to digress, to jump from one subject to another, to lose the thread a hundred times and find it again after a hundred more twists and turns." Italo Calvino "Quickness is a medium, an environment. We don't only inhabit the surface of the Earth, we inhabit quickness." Paul Virilio

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

052-1152-20

Zusätzliche integrierte Disziplin(en) 

Unterrichts-sprache 

English

Arbeitsweise 

Group work only

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

11.03.2020 and 22.04.2020

Datum Schlusskritik 

27.05.2020

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

18.02.2020 at 09:45 Zurich Airport, Arrival 2 (for a technical introduction)

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 150 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Seminarwochenkosten)

Verfügbare Plätze 

24

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

Plakat ansehen (PDF Datei)

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