ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE BODY. A Collection of Pedagogical Experiments
FUNDAMENTALS studio is defined as a laboratory to introduce, explore and experiment with the disciplinary knowledge of architecture, where the design process is at the center of the practice and the human body is used as a thinking tool for research and design. The studio works as scaffolding system providing a methodology based on artistic, technical and conceptual explorations, where thinking with the hands and body translates into learning by making. The studio practice focuses on the exploration of space, material and atmosphere starting from the relation with the human body in order to produce spatial explorations articulating body, space and environment. Architecture through the body unfolds alternative ways to think about architecture, dealing with its fundamental elements: body/space, gravity/light, and matter, revealing new potentials about the discipline: architecture as a performative discipline, architecture as a practice of embodiment, and architecture as a process and method(s).
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Context of Investigation
The studio ethos defines a unique approach to initiate the architectural journey from an experiential and embodied perspective, and it is guided by two concepts that drive the exploration and evolution, thinking through the hand and thinking through the body.
Thinking through the hand means thinking through the material, understanding its properties, translating ideas into matter, concepts into processes, invisible into visible, where thinking and making happen simultaneously.
Thinking through the body means activating the senses, going beyond the visual towards a holistic experience, becoming aware of the weight of the body in relation to its surroundings, as well as its movement and behavior.
Studio Agenda and Methodology
The pedagogical structure is based on continuous, iterative, generative and hands-on experiments, that combine theoretical, technical, and methodological tools.
The experimental process evolves from abstract to concrete, from concepts to objects, from traces to spaces, from ideas to materials, revealing the complexity embedded within the architectural discipline, as a corporeal practice, as a process, and as a discourse. The intention of this journey is to resituate how to approach, learn, immagine and craft architectural spaces based on embodiment, interaction and phenomenological experience.
Teaching team: Carla Collevecchio (course responsible), Robin Durand, Ali Onat Turker, Stefan Raam.
Latest update: 2024-09-02