Academic Year 2014/2015

The detailed course planning will be presented in more detail when Studio Project 1 starts on Monday 15 September 2014. The first couple of weeks will be in workshop format - some modifications to the presentations below will take place.

Welcome to Studio 4!

Ori, Charlie, Farvash and Nandi

Studio projects 1-2 are linked to each other. We will run workshops and invite guest lecturers from relevant research areas to facilitate the understanding and application of these new issues.

Studio Project 1: Materiality in architecture & new architectural materials

(Week 1-2): Choose a building material you like. Explore it and push it to its limits, way beyond its conventional usage by modelling and testing. At which point does it change character? How can you describe and represent its qualities and limitations? Produce a thorough account of the potential of the material, in a physical artistic expression. Tools: eyes, hands, mass, sketching tools.

(Week 3-4): Choose a completely new material, a substance you never saw used in a built environment. The task is to investigate its potential and to find its usage for the built environment. Use suitable tools for the exploration of the material.

(Week 5-6): Based on the previous investigation and a given programme for new headquarters and a research and production unit, you will develop a first concept sketch and a model.

Studio Project 2: Building for extreme conditions. Design the building, based on your explorations in Studio Project 1. Pin-ups every two weeks.

Studio Project 3: KTH Space Pavilion. Design a showcase pavilion for Space and extreme conditions, to be built on KTH campus. The activity is aligned with an international astronaut conference in September 2015 hosted by KTH Space Centre, European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA.

Studio Project 4: A Competitive Edge. As in previous years, the students of Studio #4 will participate in an international architectural competition. However, a few students will instead develop their pavilion designs (from Studio Project 3) into work drawings for planned construction in August 2015.