The primary aim of this studio is to understand a phenomenological approach to an ‘architecture of a place.’ It takes on a deeply attentive process for making a built environment rooted in the place.
The design process begins by understanding a heavily context-driven site by observing, recording, and analysing it first-hand. Students will extract a core intuitive design response from their site observations and learn to express and materialise it through a built form.
This process of place-making will begin from larger concerns such as placement on site and spatial organisation, gradually leading to tangible aspects such as scale and proportion, materiality, structure and enclosure culminating in a meaningful architectural experience.
The secondary aim is to discover a unique design process based on the student’s dominant personality traits. While the overall studio structure is common for all, the process will be shaped to respond to individual strengths such as introspection or observation, analysis or spontaneity, abstraction or detail orientation etc.
Thus, the studio aims to understand both external and internal worlds, blending them to form a narrative of a contextual design response, arrived at by channeling innate strengths.
