>>>>>[P2] ‘The art of inhabitation’/ Constructing a place:

>>>Duration: 5 weeks

>>Space has no room; time not a moment for us. We are excluded.

In order to be included- to help our homecoming- we must be gathered into their meaning (we are the subject as well as the object of architecture).

Whatever space and time mean, place and occasion mean more.

For space in our image is place, and time in our image is occasion<<[1]

Aldo Van Eyck

Place and Occasion

YONA FRIEDMAN: The Flatwriter [2]

In the previous phases you have defined the users and the program, as well speculated about some possible scenarios. Design is not to be understood only in terms of imagination, invention or production. It is inextricably related to negotiation. To design means to negotiate the best conditions. The limitation of size of the micro-unit seems to limit its configuration. However the orientation, the relation with other units in combination with public spaces, as well as the openings (location and type of windows), generate spatial and atmospheric diversity.  Using the material extracted from the site, as well as individual research and interpretations, you will be asked to re-develop the micro-unit as a part of a complex organism (the site and other programs)- and to generate a contemporary form of habitation that allows its occupants, as well as visitors, to experience a building and the city that operate between the public and the intimate, the real and the imagined.

>>Architecture is not just a matter of technology and aesthetics but the frame for a way of life- and with luck, an intelligent way of life.<<[3]

Bernard Rudofsky

[P2.1] 2 Weeks - General proposal 1:100

This phase will start with an investigation of innovative built proposals of collective housing. Each team will be asked to explore one example (focusing on both the building as a whole and one chosen unit typology) and to present it following the given template. A special emphasis will be put on the relation between private and public spaces as well as the role of the opening as a mediator between them.

Drawing upon the initial research a speculative proposal will be developed as a scale working models 1:100. 

[P2.2] 2 Weeks- General proposal development 1:100

[P2.3] 1 Week- micro-unit 1.50 

Each student will be asked to adapt one of the micro-units to the specific inhabitant (defined in the [P1.2]).

YONA FRIEDMAN: Ville spatiale, 1959–1960. [4]

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[1] VAN EYCK, Aldo: “Place and Occasion” in VAN EYCK, Aldo: Writings, pg. 471

[2] FRIEDMAN, Yona: “About the Flatwriter” in FRIEDMAN, Yona: Pro Domo, Actar, 2006, pg. 136

[3] RUDOFSKY, Bernard in PLATZER, Monika (Ed): Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky. Life as a Voyage, Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, Berlin 2007, pg. 11

[4] Yona Friedman’s drawing: in FRIEDMAN, Yona: Pro Domo, Actar, 2006, pg. 54