Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design

224 EAAE no 35 Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design: Advances in Technology and Changes in Pedagogy

via Internet. Designing a house for a consumer we have to adapt the given space
to the consumer’s mentality in a most complex way. We have to create a space no
consumer will resist.”

Collaborative design method

The exercise consists in designing and building an object in real size (1:1) with con-
sideration of all stages of building process: the concept, the design and construction
of the object.

Collaborative design process of the project consist of the following stages:

• stage I : organizing of the group, the group integration – working togather, ideas,
  the ideology, field work, the seek of the sponsor


• stage II: decopmposition of design problem, team formation, partition assigments:
  project management plan, project vision, project design, the temporary schedule,
  the realization of chosen ideas


• stage III: small schock, the dazzle, the learning from errors, the rising of the final
  ideology


• stage IV: introduction with material, the contact with the box, the spatial exercise
  with boxes, the precious expierience. Rejecting the stereotypes of perceiving the
  construction material. The design of new building and constructon materials was
  intended to drive students’ atenntion away from typical solutions, which employ
  traditional materials. Invention in the use of new materials is one of the basic
  conditions for creating new architecture which satsfies the needs of the contem-
  porary man and his lifestyle


• stage V: organizing of the construction, the manual work, material realizing of
  the project. Students tested their knowledge in 1:1 building engineering. This
  allowed the verification of previously learned architectural and construction rules
  in the application of new material in real object. Students also verified traditional
  concept of the parts of building components:
  
  
  • foundation – “Euro” pallets (12 pieces)
  
  
  • walls-honeycomb and solid, made of coca-cola containers ( 400 boxes) isolated
    with air-bubble film (60 m²)
  
  
  • ceilling-honeycombed, “densely boxed” with the span of 3mx4m
  
  
  • door-air bubble film filled with air
  
  
  • floor-chipboards covered with mosaic (8,5m²)
  
  
  • roof-air bubble film and regular film – two layers, with the roof pitch on
    external walls
  
  
  
  


• stage VI: preparation to the exibition in the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw:
  improvements, the promotion, the manual work. The experiment was repeated
  
  
  • Museum of Architecture, in order to improve it and remove flaws discovered
    previously
  
  
  
  


• stage VII: recapitulation, conclusions, evalution, plans for the future