Process: Storytelling is a powerful tool to communicate and disseminate meanings. It expands boundaries of imagination and diminishes inhibitions acquired over time. Complex and dynamic social, political and ecological constructs become the settings for the narrative developed through AI tools to develop thematic positions, integrate global / regional concerns and structure diverse relations of a complex urban condition. Storyboards will be the primary design tool.
Theme: As architects engage with advocacy, urban regeneration foregrounds critical challenges for human societies. In particular focus are the exceptional educational institutions of the country that were established decades ago. These universities embeds rich and diverse narratives. However, the physical and architectural infrastructure has not been able to keep pace with the evolving educational structure, changing spatial and technological requirements, expanded student body and new emerging curricula. This studio is offered with a dual aim: to engage with narratives and positions that can be embedded within architecture in the context of urban regeneration, using the existing building stock for a re-qualification of an existing campus.
