Architecture Competitions StudioProduction in the city

AAHN06 Advanced Architectural Design II 15 cr. AAD 2018

New kinds of proximity by connecting the living and the producing

During the last decades, a lot of urban renewal has been taken place in Europe. We have successfully regenerated many wastelands of the post-industri-al era into attractive mixed-use neighborhoods.

But how much mixed is this new mixed-city actually?

In most cases housing was the main program. We wisely added some office places and public ame-nities, but were especially keen on including bars, shops and restaurants because we wanted every new quarter to be a ‘genuine vibrant urban neigh-borhood’. Looking back now, we can see how we systematically excluded one program: productive economy. Productive economy has left the city to the periphery, whether it is to the outskirts of the same city or to another end of the world. The urban renewal we have been doing under the auspices of the ideology of the mixed-city is less mixed than we make us to believe. Productive economy, manufacturing, maintenance and repair jobs, … in short bleu-collar activities make part of city life as well.

Our city today is not a complete city.

Of course we should not bring back steel factories to the city center. We should prepare for The Next Economy that will be more green, more local and more fair, and therefore can be more urban. We are already welcoming hipster kinds of small-scale urban manufacturing or food produc-tion. We can accommodate more of the recycling industry within the city itself. We could systemati-cally provide space for SME’s in our redevelopment areas. We should avoid that the plumber who lives in the city and who repairs our houses in the city, has to drive out of the city in order to find availa-ble storage space.

Production belongs to the city.

In a truly mixed city, we encourage, honor and ce-lebrate the presence of the productive economy.

Kristiaan Borret, Brussels Chief Architect,

Guest professor Gent University

The theme

How to bring back and integrate production in urban envi-ronments or how to adapt productive areas to accommodate housing, culture, education, offices and commerce in them?

Aim

Advanced Architectural Design during the Spring Term 2018 intends to develop individual skills for participating in archi-tectural competitions of certain complexity. Students will work on their readiness for independent participation and will focus on different matters such as interpretation of the clients´demands and the brief, giving easy answers to complex questions, presentation technique, dealing with deadlines, etc.

Two ways to approach Architecture Competitions

The semester consists of two parts where the first one is dedicated to research on architecture competitions, initiation exercises and providing an overview of possible strategies.This part is concluded with the participation on a real case internal competition and a later debriefing seminar.

The second part is the tutored studio work. It will be based on the participation on a professional advanced competition (not decided yet), reading the site, interpretation of the brief and presentation of a clear strategy with means of appropriate illustrations and models.

The two parts are consciously interwoven throughout the se-mester but the ”theoretical” part will have a central point in the initial period.

Internal and peripheral activities

Advanced Architecture Design´s proposal for this semester is a package of pedagogical activities which is based on the inte-raction of student oriented activities and external coopera-tion with different actors on an international level.

The core of these activities is thought to spin around the pro-posed Competition Course for the Spring Term 2018 where both teachers and students are supposed to cooperate into opening up the experiences and results of the course to the rest of the school and outwards by means of different public events in cooperation with our partners.

Most welcome to AAD - Spring term 2018!

Studio´s fields of study: International/Swedish Contemporary Architecture Competitions

Main Topic: The Productive City

Program: Winery Architecture. Visitor´s Centers, production, exhibition and commercial spaces among other things.

Study Trip: Rioja and the Basque Country, Spain.

Responsible: Professor Christer Malmström, Head of School of Architecture - Lund

Tutors: Christer Malmström Andreea Marcu Jesús Mateo Alex van de Beld

Important dates:

15/16th of January 9.00 am_INTRODUCTION AAD and Integrated Design

28th of February- 2nd of March_STUDY TRIP - Rioja/Basque Country 21st of March_LAS 2018 SYMPOSIUM

16th -17th of May_Final reviews

18th-25th of May_ AAD Internal Competition

25th of May_Exhibition 30th of May_FINAL DELIVERIES

31st of May- 8th of June EXAMINATION

Studio Activities_AAD Spring Term 2018

Theoretical studies, analysis of competition results, types of competitions, typology studies, seminarium, tentative design, etc.

Lectures about ”Competition Architecture”

First project: Winery Architecture in collaboration with wine producers.

Main Project: International Competition (still to be decided but relevant in scale and complexity to the topic of the course)

Third Project: Internal one week individual competi-tion with debriefing seminar.

Study trip RIOJA-BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN