TA: Jay DarjiMicro communities -Culture, dwelling, space and form
This studio intends to examine and learn the following aspects of the relationship between culture, context and built environment.
1. What is it to dwell?
2. How does the collective behaviour translate into the culture of the place?
3. What is the influence of culture-place on the functional arrangement within individual dwellings?
4. What is the relationship between culture and the functional-spatial interrelationship of dwellings collectively?
5. What are the possible formal and experiential outcomes of this interaction between dwelling, culture and shared space?
To enable the learnings mentioned above, the studio process will begin with a comparative analysis of dwellings and communities through time and place, focusing on functional and spatial arrangements concerning culture, climate and technology. The studio will ask students to imagine specific communities formed of people with similarly professional, occupational, artistic, environmental or religious interests. Consequently, students will extract functional and spatial interrelationships of individual and collective behaviours within the community. The students will plan a dwelling concerning functional relationships, sizes, orientation and access, followed by clusters of dwellings relating to shared spaces, variations, structural continuity, circulation and form. Finally, assembling both outcomes through iterations to form a coherent community.
