Angaben zur Professur

Lehrstuhl 

Gastdozentur A. Antonakakis

Typ 

Gastdozentur Entwurf

Standort 

HIL F 74.3

Webseite 

www.doz.arch.ethz.ch/gastdoz

Assistierende 

Katerina Koutsogianni, Filippo Santoni

Kontakt E-Mail 

santoni@arch.ethz.ch

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

Thema 

The cabin and the field

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

Introduction The studio investigates a contemporary version of a cabin with an “extended bed” and a field understood as a different public realm. These two architectural conditions even if still unnamed, show already existing tensions of the social sphere produced while different relations occur between users and the network. The cabin and the field to be designed is also the design of oneself stabilized in front of the network. Both the cabin and the field in which it is included become increasingly visible while massive populations of different categories move, while people's lives relate to shifting environments, and while people increasingly inhabit temporary spaces. They show two conditions related to this instability in a strange way; somehow they capture something stable in the realm of this instability; they crystallize body poses in front of the individual spectacles provided by the network. Intentions of the studio and tensions of the current social sphere The aim of this workshop is to articulate the team position and some responses in relation to this description of the current social phenomena. Sociality is represented here as a function of isolated cabins in a common but uncanny social living room. This common field is also consumed as a space of the infrastructure. This social field functions as depending on the network and as an extension of it. It is named for the working hypothesis of this studio the “infrastructure village”; and the purpose of the “infrastructure village” is to install an imaginary relation with unexisting locations where humans find a meaning to spend their time. Related or not to “real” locations and pragmatic backgrounds, “Elsewhere” -a non-place beyond the bed-desc-position is proposed as the banality of this common field (where the exotic seems to play a significant normalizing role). Elsewhere is a key element for the structure of the post-network "cell of interconnected domesticity". It is the ever transposed core of the cabin and the field; and this continuous transposition is viewed as a dramatic emptiness. A study of the evolution of ‘modern domesticity’ in architecture, the meanings of its microscale and its expansions, will lead to representation and transformations of the material studied. A few numbers of examples will lead the research. Domesticity had an important role in shaping modern architecture; the rationalization of the city is related to expansive forms of the domestic. Modern domestic settings drove to transformations of the urban landscape. A different domesticity can be presented as already forming city cells and common fields that push the urban phenomena to radical transformations. Formal, material and social experimentation touch the social and political imaginary that could shape a different urban reality. This shaping is not exempt from a certain theatricality. This study is organized both allegorically and literally, elaborating material in a practical and a theoretical level; it is introduced as an inhabitable set design where many performances can take place. The stability of the “infrastructure village” is so different from Aldo Rossi’s “scena fissa” (stable scene).

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Konstruktion, Staedtebau, Landschaftsarchitektur, Modellbau, Visualisierungen

Lernziele 

The students will demonstrate the following learning objectives upon completion of this studio: An experience of working in an intellectual climate, which understand design as a set of questions and a relevant research around them. The studio will first organize its frame on issues related to the investigation around contemporary domesticity; it will produce settings for extended beds included in more or less open cabins. Designing extended bed surfaces instead of homes is the first part of the research. In a second parallel level, a living common field of a larger scale is asked to be designed, in immediate relation to the individual cabins and with the possibility to host common activities of diverse kinds. After the choice of an existing semi - abandoned site a projection of the remarks will be done to complete the investigation. Finding a site is a first important research. The studio will provide such interesting sites in the cases that this is not easy for the participants. An ability to work collaboratively toward synthetic design resolution which integrates an understanding of programmatic considerations, contextual connections, technological systems, and theoretical meaning. An ability to communicate both the technical, spatial, and conceptual aspects of one’s design through comprehensive modes of representation including digital and analog drawing, physical modeling and other forms of media; as well as the ability to clearly articulate written and verbal expression. Experimental formats of presentation could include dioramas, animated drawings, models, videos, axos, and vector images and books including the produced material and texts. Experimental formats of presentation could include dioramas, animated drawings, models, videos, axos, and vector images and books including the produced material and texts. Ability to successfully complete an option-based directed design research sequence, pursuing the individualized exploration of advanced and emerging topics.

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

052-1103-19

Zusätzliche integrierte Disziplin(en) 

Unterrichts-sprache 

English

Arbeitsweise 

Individual and group work, thereof 5 or more weeks group work

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

Datum Schlusskritik 

17/12/2019, 18/12/2019

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

17/9/2019, 11:30 am HIL F 75

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 100 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Kosten für Modellbau und Seminarwoche)

Verfügbare Plätze 

24

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

Plakat ansehen (PDF Datei)

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