INSIGHTS: BRIDGE DESIGN STUDIO: THE ARCHITECTURE OF TRANSITION
| Title | ΕΜΒΑΘΥΝΣΕΙΣ: ΔΙΑΣΥΝΔΕΣΕΙΣ: Η ΣΥΓΚΡΟΤΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΕΤΑΒΑΣΗΣ / INSIGHTS: BRIDGE DESIGN STUDIO: THE ARCHITECTURE OF TRANSITION |
| Code | 09EM18 |
| Faculty | Engineering |
| School | Architecture |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600017779 |
Programme of Study: PROGRAMMA SPOUDŌN 2020-21 EŌS SĪMERA
Registered students: 45
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses belonging to the selected specialization | 9 | 5 | 12 |
| Academic Year | 2024 – 2025 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 8 |
| Class ID | 600258367
|
Course Type 2016-2020
- Scientific Area
- Skills Development
Course Type 2011-2015
Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
- Distance learning
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600258367
- At the Website of the School: https://www.facebook.com/Hyperlocal-Architectural-Education-for-Shutdown-Realities-105350377884779
- eLearning: https://elearning.auth.gr/course/view.php?id=7677
- Other: https://www.facebook.com/pages/BRO-The-Architecture-of-Transition/1885666571657893
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
The course focuses on the reasoning of the interconnections between individual, environmental and material / non-material networks. During the course, students are invited to critically explore the implications of the suspended linear forms for transport, observation and recreation and to explore alternative environments (technologically mediated urban places and objects) in order to maximize the operating program of the bridge.
Upon successful completion of the course, students are expected to:
• be introduced with the key features of constructing transitional patterns upon water and to understand the role of architecture in the form-making process of the bridge
• understand the role of transitional theories (from the philosophical and psychological to the technical and spatial field) and its particularities within the architectural education
• familiarize themselves with the design and organization of public space above water
• practice themselves in the analysis and interpretation of the synthetic process through the production of cross-sections in physical models
General Competences
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an international context
- Generate new research ideas
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The studio introduces the 9th semester students to the design thinking and process of the construction of Transition - namely Bridging Design. It explores critically the role of the form in the construction of the transition "at the other side", shifting the compositional process and the specific conditions of the place, such as the act of hovering over the natural, being detached and distant from the ground, negotiating with the indifferent void that marks the internal paths of the bridge. The students are asked to investigate the design of a mediated spatial experience above water which, according to Bachelard, belongs to the phenomenology of the verb inhabit: an emerging type of space-appropriation in the city characterized neither by the mere bodily presence in open space nor by the stereotyped program of the bridge as a linear transport and movement tool. As a respond to this emergence, the design studio explores the synthetic, multifunctional and social dimension of the mediated alternative: a collective form of living above the water that enhances the transitional passage “at the other side”.
The methodological approach of the studio can be summarized in two different -but interrelated- pathways: first, those projects aiming to identify the meeting point of architecture with its material limits and second, those who exceed these limits, approaching an inaugural dialectic between the transition and its phantasmagoria.
Keywords
Bridge Design, Transition, spatial inquiries
Educational Material Types
- Slide presentations
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
Teaching as well as studio work employs information and communication technologies through university's e-learning as a platform for information, communication and student work submission. During the academic years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 the studio is part of the research platform for distance learning in architecture with title «Hyperlocal Architectural Education for Shutdown Realities» (https://www.facebook.com/Hyperlocal-Architectural-Education-for-Shutdown-Realities-105350377884779)
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 112 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Reading Assigment | 20 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Project | 168 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Total | 300 |
Student Assessment
Description
Research task (paper) and design project development. Scales: from 1:20 to 1:100
Student Assessment methods
- Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
- Labortatory Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Λεξιλόγιο της μεταφυσικής στον σύγχρονο αρχιτεκτονικό σχεδιασμό
Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 50661297
Συγγραφείς: Νίκος Σκουτέλης, Γιώργος Περράκης
Προσαρμόσιμη Αρχιτεκτονική. Δυνατότητες και Παράγοντες Σχεδιασμού Μεταβαλλόμενων και "Ευφυών" Χώρων
Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 12779032
Συγγραφείς: Γιαννούδης Σωκράτης
Bridge Design: Concepts and Analysis
Author(s): António J. Reis José J. Oliveira Pedro
First published:5 April 2019
Print ISBN:9780470843635
Additional bibliography for study
Carlos Smaniotto Costa and Konstantinos Ioannidis, The Making Of The Mediated Public Space- Essays on emerging urban phenomena, http://209.177.156.169/libreria_cm/archivos/pdf_1711.pdf
Smaniotto Costa, C., Šuklje Erjavec, I., Kenna, T., de Lange, M., Ioannidis, K., Maksymiuk, G., de Waal, M. (Eds.) CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology:New Approaches and Perspectives, 2019, Springer
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-13417-4.pdf
Klaske Havik, Urban Literacy: A Scriptive Approach to the Experience, Use and Imagination of Place, 2012, TU Delft
Lars Marcus, Alexander Ståhle, Malin Dahlhielm, Architectural Knowledge and Complex Urban Space: Analysis of Five Proposals for Slussen in Stockholm, Journal of Space Syntax, 177-198, 2010, v1.
Last Update
09-11-2020
