Building Visions 2023
MSc2 Design and Research studio ‘Building Visions’ investigates buildings in the age of novel technological conditions. The advancements in the use of open data, the assistance of artificial intelligence in different phases of buildings, sensor environments, and digital twins influence the evolution of building typologies and the ways in which they are designed. The studio makes use of the double meaning of Building Visions. On the one hand, (new) building visions concern the evolution of architectural typologies and their future potential. On the other hand, the visions of building refer to the emerging visualization techniques as design interfaces which alter the perception of the building as a data body both in material and as an exact digital model. The studio builds visions on the relationship between architecture and the new technological conditions by looking at the past and understanding the present. We investigate these shifts in different phases of design, construction and operation, with the collaboration of various stakeholders.
The studio investigates the following questions; How does new technology influence the architectural typology of civic buildings such as future transportation hubs and facilities for higher education and healthcare? Which architectural design principles must they comply with? The course is structured in studio sessions and seminars. Based on a well-defined research question coming from the seminar, students will work on a design assignment for a civic building to reflect upon the implications of new technological conditions in architecture for the design profession. The design scales range from the building scale to the key building fragments and interiors spaces. The studio theme is studied at the frame of civic typologies, which represents their time and society. The studio envisions building futures embedded in the new technological condition. The developed insights should enable speculation on both building developments expected in the data driven near future and the ways in which architects practice.
