A42A2B Advanced Design - Studio 4:2 12.0 credits

Design Tasks: Cultural Institutions
Project 2 (continued from project 1): The first task, which span over the whole autumn term, is to design a Concert Hall with 900-1000 seats in the city centre of Lund. Lund is an old University town in an expanding urban region close to the European mainland. Recently the European Spallation Source, a European research facility for material science, biology, chemistry and physics, by using a neutronsource, a 100million Euro investment, has been proposed to be located to Lund. Lund is also one of the candidates for the European Cultural Capital 2014. In this light the feasibility for a Concert Hall should be good. It would be a way of developing and strengthening Lund as a cultural venue, rivalling (or complementing) larger cities like Malmö and Köpenhamn. It is an ambitious architectural task: to create a large space, handle the different flows of people and goods and develop a representative exterior and appropriate atmosphere. We will also discuss the relation between form, representation and construction; look for coherence and discrepancies between them.
The first two weeks we will do case studies covering a range of types of concert halls. The third week we will make an excursion to Lund and Malmö, introducing the site and the city context, as well as seeing some
buildings of particular interest. During the term we will also make a number of visits to concert halls in the Stockholm area, as well as other buildings illustrating aspects of representation and public institutions.

Representation and Architecture
Project 2: Concert Hall in Lund (2)

Overall goals
The project is part of the Advanced Design Studio.
Studio Description: This studio deals with advanced architectural tasks, the development of complex projects as a synthesis of social, spatial and technological considerations.
2. The course/project goal is to increase the student's knowledge in this area/field and skills/knowledge in the field of architecture in general. The students will enter the project with varying degrees of knowledge/skills and will subsequently end up at different levels at the end of the course/project.
 3. The individual student must show an increase in the particular skills/knowledge offered in the studio and in the field of architecture in general.

Course goals
(four projects)
Method: Open Process
We encourage students to take on their own critical studies on the limits and possibilities of architecture in society, as political tool and aesthetic discipline. This year’s theme of representation and architecture is a way to structure seminars and design tasks.
The core of what´s taught in the studio of advanced design is the ability to design a building from a complex set of issues, to keep several considerations open in a parallel process, for the best possible outcome. I.e. it means moving from ideas of atmosphere and character to spatial organisation and structural analysis and back again. It also implies using different design tools, testing ideas in different ways – moving from cad and digital images, to hand sketches and workshop crafted models, alternating slow and fast ways of working. We do not follow a set agenda for a certain kind of form. We believe in an open process where the student should develop her personal skills and engagement into the work.
The weekly rhythm of individual tutorial is important for the students to develop their proposal in depth and detail.
Tutorials will be complemented with workshops focusing on certain aspects, such as construction, facade detailing, inhabitation, daylight and materiality. Every year we make a close survey, making measurement drawings and documents of a building in Stockholm of particular interest.

Bachelor’s Degree, or an equivalent level, within the field of Architecture

Bachelor’s Degree, or an equivalent level, within the field of Architecture

References/ Reading list (procects 1-4):
Text Compendium on Representation and Architecture
Recommended literature
Learning From Las Vegas, R Venturi and D Scott Brown, MIT Press
Ornament and Crime –Selected Essays, Adolf Loos, Ariadne Press
Surfaces Architecture, D Leatherbarrow and M Mostafi, MIT Press
Architecture Oriented Otherwise, D Leatherbarrow, Princeton Architectural Press
Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation, Dalibor Vesely, MIT Press
The Feeling of Things, A Caruso, Ediciones Poligrafa
Constructing Architecture -A Handbook, ed A Deplazes, Birkhäuser
Brunolleschis Kupol, Ross King, Historiska media
Atmospheres, Peter Zumthor, Birkhäuser
Arkitektur som symbol, Josef Frank, Lund Ellerström förlag
Architecture Writings, Alvaro Siza, Skira
Papers 2, Sergison & Bates, 2 G

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• PRO1 - Project part 1, 9.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• PRO2 - Project part 2, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

The course consists of two parts; a fulfilled and delivered project work (9 credits) and a passed final assessment (3 credits). There is at least one intermediate assessment during the course.

a) Presentation requirements
See further information, available at the course start.

b) Examination
80% attendance. Active participation in lectures, tutorials, and seminars etc. Passed intermediate and final assessments. Compulsory attendance during the assessment reviews.
Completion: The project work shall be delivered and, if necessary, reworked within the set time limit.  See general directions.
(Overall principle: Autumn term projects must be approved during the following Spring term: Spring term projects must be approved before the start of the following Autumn term. The reworked projects must be delivered at least one week before the time limit.)
The project work is to be documented in a portfolio, including drawings, analysis and models. The work process shall be legible.

Per Fransson

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Incoming exchange students within an architecture agreement can select this course.

No other exchange students are allowed to select this course.