Design Studio (Master)
Übung im 7-9. Semester

Solveig Furu Almo

Museum of the Ordinary
Was war, was ist und der präzise Eingriff

This studio focuses on the phases of the built structure: constant transitions that show that architecture is alive, changing, moving. The combination of two materials, the rhythm of light and shadow, the break in a surface — every detail reveals the qualities of the existing materiality.
We ask: How do we manage our built environment? What phases shape it? How can architects observe, record, recognise, restore, renovate, refurbish and learn from it?
Before anything new is invented, there is observation. This semester, we map atmospheres, analyse materiality, track light and sound. We learn to read our built environment. From this grows an atlas of the ordinary. 
In the final project, ‘Museum of the Ordinary,’ each student develops an architecture that combines and reframes collected fragments. A place where the everyday is transformed into something extraordinary through precise juxtaposition and conscious composition.
The studio understands architecture as the reading of meanings and the precise placement of interventions to enable transformations that preserve and renew our environment.

Topic presentation on Thursday 25.09, from 9am, HS A/1.OG, Kopernikusgasse 24