378 EAAE no 35 Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design: Advances in Technology and Changes in Pedagogy
3 rd PROJECT
Conceptual stage Interim stage Final stage
3 rd project: conceptual model: planes of different materiality, interlocking in a dynamic
way. Those planes organise three types of parallel spaces, each of which corresponds
to different functions.
4 th PROJECT
Conceptual stage Interim stage Final stage
4 th project: The fourth and final project concerns the creation of space, through the
use of continuous surfaces. Specific functions are expressed, as small material capsules
within bigger empty volumes
Conclusion
Contemporary theories indicate the mental importance of the multi reference cog-
nitive and cultural association. Thus, the method proposed of a cross scale, multi
level teaching is nothing more but the acceptance of this psychological and cultural
reality as center of the educational communication between students and teachers
of architecture.
This acceptance offers the students the ability to purposely acknowledge and
use an “experiential framework” as a meaningful design generator. It allows them to
experiment with free associations and transformations through the whole spectrum
of architectural decisions of varied scales and partial objects, which finally compose
the complicated building of the project.
We strongly believe that this method of a cross scale, multi level teaching is extremely
important in a period of computer aided design, where electronic means positively