An open-use townhouse in serial construction
LVA 253.O59 BA Design Studio S26 15.0 ECTS
Supervision: Josef Saller
An open-use townhouse in serial construction. Today’s approaches to serial construction are generally characterised by material separations – we currently still think, as is customary in conventional construction, in sections. To think in a systemic way in construction will in the future mean asking how concepts in the design process can be understood as a kind of “interface” of the various elements of the series. Connecting and separating individual components will be the essential content of the systemic working method.
If one wants to reflect on new concepts of seriality, one must learn to think systemically. That is to say, the elements are part of a larger whole and stand in mutual relationship with one another.
Within the framework of the design programme, the potentials of industrial prefabrication are to be explored. The approach should initially be understood as open to technology. In the sense of a showcase project, however, aspects of the life cycle as well as the question of reuse, disassembly, recycling and resource-conserving dismantling should be pursued as essential components of the design strategy. If it succeeds in embedding these thematic focuses into systemic thinking, then in an age of increasing spatial demand new possibilities of variability within the series in dense space become possible.
In the future, serial space can be a kind of hybrid entity. Due to the multitude of possibilities and their transformability, even within the series, it becomes a dynamic spatial structure.
