Aim
To help participants, by use of a new experimental way of working, develop their ability to exploit spatial relations they discover or have in mind through sketching, marking out and modelling spatial boundaries, an approach that represents an improvement on the tools and methods architects have conventionally used in their design work.

To emphasize the capacity of space to serve as a coordinator of different approaches to urban architectural problems.

To create a new approach to dealing with spatial problems in designing, one based on use of opposing elements.

To free oneself of ingrained spatial typologies through emphasizing relations between spatial and construction elements in an urban context, relations that deviate from these.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• carry out certain projects of a complex character involving spatial design in an urban context.

• apply, under supervision, the newly developed creative approach referred to above as a tool for the realization of ideas of various types concerning spatial design in an urban environment.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to communicate architectural ideas effectively by pictorial means as well as by use of models.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

• that which is individual and that which is collective.

• that which abstractand that which is concrete.

• what is virtual and what is real.

Contents
The course is to serve as a forum for architectural experiments which allow developmental work of this sort to be carried out.

Three basic standpoints form the point of departure for this work:

1) Space being regarded as a construction.

2) Spatial design being viewed as a three-dimensional process.

3) Cities being seen to represent a continuity of different spatial relationships involving differing scales.

Cities are conceived as constituting organisms, in effect, that are in a state of continual change, the spatial changes this involves being based on transformations of initial states linked to specific locations in space.

The analysis of different spaces and spatial structures is carried out using digital photos taken at the locations involved. An overview of different methods of spatial design is provided.

Approach

The course is organized as an intensive course in architectural design. Urban space serves both as a study object and as a point of departure for the project. The workshop begins with an introductory lecture and ednds with a summary of the work that has been done.

Literature
The course literature is decided upon by the various guest-teachers invited to take part.