AD2835 Stockholm Urban Lab II 7,5 hp

The course comprises a large scale complex urban planning project in Stockholm developed in intense studio work supported by assistant teachers. As further support lectures seminars and site visits will be conducted specifically chosen of relevance to the theme and site chosen for each year. A central teaching mode will be repeated crits with teachers and invited guests where the student will train their ability to present, explain and argue for their projects.

To give the students the experience of working with strategic urban design and operative-critical analysis through a large scale urban planning exercise. The students will be trained in organizing, evaluating, criticising given programmatic information in relation to the existing physical, historical, social, ecological, etc. surroundings of the site. The students will also be trained in discussing their proposals in relation to current and historical trends and reference projects. The project-site is situated somewhere within the Stockholm area and chosen in relationship to actual on going developments.

After completing the course the student will

-be trained in organizing a large scale urban project and handling the many different kinds of information that makes up the starting point for each kind of design intervention

-be trained in describing, communicating, discussing and evaluating design proposals, both orally and graphically.

-have a basic knowledge in contemporary European design strategies 

120 p from architecture, landscape architecture or planning programs on graduate level. 

120 p from architecture, landscape architecture or planning programs on graduate level.

Will be announced at Course Start 

När kurs inte längre ges har student möjlighet att examineras under ytterligare två läsår.

• PRO1 - Project, 5,0 hp, betygsskala: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
• SEM1 - Seminar, 2,5 hp, betygsskala: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Examinator beslutar, baserat på rekommendation från KTH:s handläggare av stöd till studenter med funktionsnedsättning, om eventuell anpassad examination för studenter med dokumenterad, varaktig funktionsnedsättning.

Examinator får medge annan examinationsform vid omexamination av enstaka studenter.

Complete Design proposal (5 c) 

Critic, seminar (2,5 c)

Per Fransson

• Vid grupparbete har alla i gruppen ansvar för gruppens arbete.
• Vid examination ska varje student ärligt redovisa hjälp som erhållits och källor som använts.
• Vid muntlig examination ska varje student kunna redogöra för hela uppgiften och hela lösningen.