Aim
To utilize effectively a newly developed procedure allowing one to take account of changes in the spatial conditions being considered while sketching, diagramming and modelling spatial relationships of interest.

To develop, applying and utilize more effectively tools and methods useful to architects in their designing work.

To call attention to the role space itself can play in coordinating the solutions to various urban problems in architecture.

To create a new basis for spatial design centered on the use of opposing elements.

To free oneself from spatial typologies, placing emphasis instead on neglected aspects of the relationship between spatial considerations, urbanism and what unexploited construction procedures can provide.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• carry out a number of supervised projects of complex character involving spatial design in an urban environment.

• utilize with the help of supervision various newly developed creative approaches as tools for the realization of various conceptions regarding urban design.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• demonstrate the ability to communicate architectural ideas by means of models and drawings.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

• that which is individual and that which is collective in character

• that which is abstract and that which is concrete in character

• that which is virtual and that which is real.

Contents
The course serves a forum for architectural experiments in which developmental work of the sort described can be carried out. Three basic assumptions are made:

1) Space itself is a construction.

2) Spatial design is a three-dimensional process.

3) A city represents a continuity of spatial relations of differing scale.

A city is conceived from a holistic perspective in which spatial continuity is created through the relationships found between different scales.

The city is conceived of in the course as an organism subjected to a continuous process of change in which developments in space are based on transformations of initial states found at specific locations.

Space and spatial structures are analyzed with the help of digital photographs of locations of interest.

An overview is provided of different methods of spatial design.

Approach

The course is organized as an intensive project in connection with architectural design. Urban is dealt with both as a study object generally and as the point of departure for the project. The workshop begins with an introductory lecture with a summary of what has been done.

Literature
The course literature is decided upon by the person invited to serve as guest teacher for the course.