WiSe 24/25
The starting point for our work at the Chair is an appreciation of what already exists; for us, this forms the foundation on which we can build in our work as architects. Our work is always in the context of a larger whole, so we see houses less as objects than as specific entities that are part of an organism, be it the built environment or nature.
With this in mind, we would like to devote our basic studies to the city of Dresden, the place where we live and work, to take a closer look at it and document it. The overlapping of historical layers has created a very special, fragmented urban structure in Dresden, a heterogeneous fabric formed from several epochs: The baroque and Gründerzeit buildings, the GDR modernist buildings and the buildings that have emerged since the 1990s. We intend to compile an atlas of Dresden's places and squares, which will grow over the years into an inventory of the city, highlighting its various aspects.
During the winter semester 2024/2025, we would like to deal with different typologies and look at them in depth on different levels. The starting point of our studies is the documentation of urban threshold spaces, which we would like to capture in connection with their context through drawings, photographs and short texts.
In the next step of our exercise, we will focus on selected buildings on the TU Dresden campus. Using floor plans and façade drawings, we will examine various aspects: How does the building show itself in relation to the city, how can a wall communicate with its surroundings through its proportions and the way openings are made, and what is the relationship between these openings and the spaces behind them. We explore the interaction of relief, materialization and construction and examine the significance of depth and shadow effects for the expression of a façade.
The exercises to be worked on in the course of the semester relate directly to our interest in perception and memory. Sensitivity to atmosphere and the feeling for a place or space are central to these documentations. The buildings are examined both on an urban scale and in detail at the level of an individual space. The precise graphic and photographic representation of the observed phenomena and their analysis is important to us; the care taken in drawing is an essential aspect of these works.
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Summer semester 2024
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Winter semester 2023 - 2024