Syllabus 2009/2010 AAKN01

Syllabus academic year 2009/2010
(Created 2009-08-11.)

ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY: CITY SPACE DWELLING SPACE 1

AAKN01

Higher education credits: 18. Grading scale: UG. Level: A (Second level). Language of instruction: The course will be given in English on demand. AAKN01 overlap following cours/es: AAK165, AAK165 och AAK165. Optional for: A4. Course coordinator: Associate Professor Bernt Nilsson, Bernt.Nilsson@arkitektur.lth.se, Inst för arkitektur och byggd miljö. The course might be cancelled if the numer of applicants is less than 10. Assessment: Active participation at all course sections such as studiowork, reviews, lectures and seminars. Further information: To this course is associated the deepening and compulsory course City Space - Dwelling Space 1, theoretical deepening, 6 hp.

Aim
One of the aims of the course is to build upon knowledge which is common for all architecture. This touches questions about spatial relationships, construction, material, light, measures, and scale. Secondly to develop specific intentions for architectural design. Intensions which is based upon a broad reading of spatial demands and how this can be expressed in architecture.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

from gathered experiences of urban spatial organisation and its capacity for use develop the specific competence to design places and buildings in its context.
understand the history behind the development of the urban built fabric
understand how different choices of spatial structures give savings of resources.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

show an self-governing and independent way of working.
be able to apply a method of working which is characterised by transformation and addition to existing physical space.
visually and verbally communicate the design in a rich way.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

show ability with a holistic view to treat the relationship between social, aesthetic and ethic aspects in the work.
evaluate and make use of relevant theories studied.

Contents
The project is a detailed design in an urban or suburban context. The interest is focused on the relation between specific buildings and the global context. We explore in what way a specific insertion in a built fabric can affect and support the vital existing layers of significance. Issues at all levels of scale will be dealt with.

Overall building structures, climate and topography will be treated with the same attention as the buildings expression, form and detailing.

Continuous critic is given at table in groups and to support the design process there are lectures, seminars and study trips (see the compulsory theoretical deepening course).

Literature
A lot of abstracts from books and reviews will be delivered before the seminars.