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 observation, documentation and interpretation to reproduce an existing scene and to draw their own translation of space. Engaging with various modes of spatial reproduction such as drawing, 3D-modelling and atmospheric image making, the final output will be a carefully crafted composition in which the different mediums will work together in transition.

Students will require and engage with softwares such as Rhino, Illustrator and Photoshop. We will meet every other week.

This course will be held in English.

First Meetings and introduction:
Thursday, 27.03.25, 02:00 pm, room 212