Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design

Socrates Stratis University of Cyprus, Department of Architecture, Nicosia, Cyprus 367

to facilitate such a leap, rather difficult indeed for the design process, the students

were assigned to construct a section model that would enhance their preferable

public-private relations and begin to react to the given context of the site. Plus,

they had to begin to design possible interfaces between the X-small of the insert

and the X-large of the shopping centre. As references they had a parallel study they

did in relation to the notion of the parasite in its biological sense and how it takes

advantage of the organism on which is plugged on and at the same time serves it.

Furthermore, they had to analyse forms of living through architectural references

that could use them for their project. The students chose various ways to manage,

the coexistence of extreme conditions:

In Case Study No1, Pastry shop, one student chose to open another entrance to the

supermarket through the site and to use that as the driving force for the design of

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