Spatial Translations

The built environment is perceived by each individual through a subjective lens that is informed by experience, interest and habit, creating places with multiple faces. Whether we navigate through the public or the private, the interior or the exterior, we all have fostered our own way of understanding and observing space.

As architects we generate buildings through drawings, however, this is generally done prior to construction and therefore does not consider the reality of the existing scenarios outside the drawing. As a collective we will investigate and test how buildings and their surroundings can be captured with their unique identity through a personal language of architectural representation. Choosing a specific urban fragment in Munich students will work through documentation, observation and interpretation to reproduce an existing scene and to draw their own translation of space.

Engaging with various modes of drawing such as the plan, the axonometric and the perspective, the final output will be a printed series of three images including an intricate line drawing, a three dimensional fragment and a constructed atmospheric scene. All three mediums will be used to convey different information and will focus on various parts of the same scene. Throughout the course we will work with multiple drawing and image production tools including softwares such as Rhino, Illustrator and Photoshop.

We will meet every other week.
This course will be held in English.

First meeting and introduction:
Thursday, 10.10.24, 10:30 am, room 208