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Advanced Studio Urban Design and Spatial Development: Living Campus: Designing Tomorrow Together

Advanced Studio Urban Design and Spatial Development: Living Campus: Designing Tomorrow Together

Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Bachelor's degree programme in Architecture
Master's degree programme in Architecture
Project Description
The Advanced Studio - Urban Design & Spatial Development focuses on the design of urban spaces and systems in various densely populated territories. Students develop urban design projects that are generated from prototypical solution approaches, strategic intervention methods and the physical realities of the city. The foundations for understanding urban transformation processes are laid and thinking on different scales is encouraged.
Teaching Method
Guided project work in the design studio. A seminar week focussing on the studio topic is an integral part of the design studio.
Learning Outcomes The students...
Professional Competence
  • understand the broad issues of sustainability, especially the careful and quality use of raw materials and space.
  • carry out complex defined and self-defined research, development or investigation projects and identify and implement relevant outcomes.
  • develop a spatial idea into a sustainable proposal, carefully considering the historical, theoretical, environmental, cultural, economic and social context of the project.
  • communicate and articulate ideas and information fluently in English and work comprehensively in visual, oral and written form.
  • give formal presentations on specialised topics to an informed and general audience.
  • exercise autonomy and initiative in carrying out set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study.
  • demonstrate the ability to manage time and physical resources in relation to set project briefs and self-directed study programmes as an individual and as a group member.
  • deal with complex ethical and professional issues.
  • show confidence in analysing case studies and to derive principles and motivations.
Methodological Competence
  • develop and evaluate advanced design and organising principles.
  • formulate complex ideas and concepts under guidance and to generate and further develop space-creating solutions based on these.
  • carry out literature research, evaluate collected information and link it with their own project work.
  • communicate the complexity of their own project work convincingly using plans, models and various media as well as in oral and written form.
Social Competence
  • work creatively and effectively in groups on the same task.
  • justify, argue and defend their own point of view in the context of the group and the topic.
  • evaluate and criticise their own performance and the performance of others.
  • make compromises to find solutions.
Personal Competence
  • argue and defend a reflected ethical stance and personal values in the context of the climate emergency.
  • scrutinise and further develop their own design solutions and identify, justify and defend sustainable alternatives by applying different approaches to the same task.
  • learn from experience, acquire new knowledge and develop a critical relationship to their own design work.
  • set themselves clear objectives and a timetable for their realisation.
  • realise their design project with a high degree of autonomy.
  • carry out their design project with creativity, diligence and in a discipline.
  • think and act in an interdisciplinary way.
Technology Competence
  • operate suitable tools safely and use them appropriately for the task and material.
  • use the digital tools available at the university (e.g. scanning devices, CAD, digital lasers and printers).
Requirements (formal)
BSc AR 24: Successful completion of all four foundation studios (Grundlagenstudios)
MSc AR 24: none
Requirements
Successful completion of all four foundation studios
Assessment Methods
Compulsory attendance according to the Study and Assessment Regulation BSc/MSc Architecture, continuous assessment, midterm and final reviews.
The final grade is calculated according to the weighting of the following components: design project (80%) and final presentation (20%).
Module number:
6212164
Semester:
WS 26/27
ECTS Credits:
16
Courses:
144 L / 108 h
Self-study:
372 h
Scheduled Semester:
5