IMPORTANT NOTICE:
This studio, that has been running from the beginning of this academic year, will not be continuing into the Spring Semester 2012. Due to the specialist nature of the work, and the working partnership with the Sydney school, we have desided to put this studio on pause until the next academic year.
But watch this space
The computer and the resultant means of production will have an enormous influence on the way we think and develop architecture for many years into the future. Potentially, the development in digital tools and methods of manufacturing will influence the way we think and build architecture in the same way that Brunelleschi’s discovery of perspective changed spatial understanding and consequently the discourses of architecture.
With this as the general motivation, the focus of the master programme will be on developing qualitative suggestions for an architecture based on digital design, generative principles of tectonics and computer controlled methods of production. The clearly outlined aim is to create a concrete architecture by means of the latest digital technologies. Based on “learning by doing” we will examine and not least develop new potentials and opportunities in the intersection between digital media and the concrete production of physical architecture. This will be done on the spatial, methodical, technical, theoretical, tectonic and production-related level.
The digital tectonics programme is going to function as a laboratory for the abstract as well as for the practical realistic. The tectonic aspect is given a central role. However, this does not mean that all parameters of a specific architecture will always be examined in our work. This experiment often requires problems to be isolated and solved out of context. The project will, consequently, not always be carried out as a ”realistic” project. This will, however, allow us to go in depth with our projects.
Teaching during the Programme will be research-based, and the project work carried out will be experimental in nature. This means that project development will be carried out in direct cooperation with researchers, and it will be emphasized that students should define and find their own approaches through this cooperation. The programme is defined using a methodical frame and not by a delimitation defined by scale.
The Digital Tectonics Studio has a broad interdisciplinary orientation: producers and manufacturers, architectural and engineering firms, as well as national and international cross-institutional co-operations will be included as much as possible and in as topical a way as possible. This, furthermore, means that a number of external teachers and lecturers, from Denmark and from abroad, will participate in the programme. Consequently the principal language will be English, supplemented by Danish.
