Bachelor’s design studio
In the Bachelor’s design studio, the curriculum of the Bachelor’s program and the studio courses are integrated along with the skills acquired through them, to address complex architectural design challenges. The course teaches students to understand architecture as a process in which the requirements and objectives of a design task are addressed from architectural and urban planning perspectives. A design is developed on the basis of a creative concept while taking into account social, spatial, structural, and technical requirements.
The design projects seek answers to relevant and pressing questions of our time through the medium of architecture. Our task is to foster and facilitate a free, creative, and independent design process (conceptual, programmatic, structural, and practical) that operates within the context of building construction using well-founded, up-to-date knowledge. Our approach is interdisciplinary: integrative design projects are carried out in collaboration with the Institute for Architectural Sciences—Research Division Structural Engineering and Timber Construction (ITI) and Building Physics and Building Ecology, as well as with other departments as required by the specific task at hand.
Objectives:
- Cultivating a comprehensive understanding of architecture that integrates architectural and structural considerations
- Composing intelligent architectural arguments (based on resource conservation and sustainability criteria) as the driving force behind the design process
- Establishing conceptual and structural design ideas across all relevant scales of an architectural project—through to the detailed design
- Developing independent, critical positions within the discourse on building culture that can provide sustainable answers to current societal issues
