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Primitive Hut
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UNFOLDING CONDITIONS OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN – METHODOLOGY – Engaging with two sites towards augmented understandings of the instruments of architectural production
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W1 INFRASTRUCTURE AND ITS DERIVATIVES – IMAGE – Augmenting architectural representation through projection of the generic into the particular installing immersive production logics
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H1 CONCEPTIONS OF THE STANDARD – TEXT – Investigation into standards as ambiguous and self-assertive means of control in the emergence of the Danish summer house
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W2 PERSISTENT MODELLING OF THE BUILT – MODEL – Approaching a decaying brick structure through persistent workflows of digital simulation and physical intervention
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H2 NOTATIONS ON THE PRIMITIVE HUT – DRAWING/MATERIALISATION – Physical and notational experiments with intrinsic qualities of wooden textures and tectonics referencing the concept of the Primitive Hut
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Exhibition and Final Presentation
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ON CASE STUDIES – Methodology and four inquiries
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On Case Studies
Frank Bauer, Lasse Skafte. Berlin, Germany
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Name of work in English
On Case Studies
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Name of work in original language
Unfolding Conditions of Architectural Design
Prize year
Young Talent 2018
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Work Location
Berlin, Germany
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Author/s
Frank Bauer, Lasse Skafte
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School
Architecture / College of Architecture, Media and Design - University of the Arts Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
Young Talent 2018 YT Nominees
On Case Studies
Unfolding Conditions of Architectural Design
Program
Ephemeral - Cultural & Social
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Labels
Installation
What ensues when architecture emerges from neither purpose nor programme, but from the very conditions of its production? Encountering the realities of two specific sites, we engage with the instruments of architectural production. From what is commonly overseen or deemed irrelevant, we begin our take on the complexity of the built environment.
Our work is built upon the hypothesis that by breaking with prevalent realities of contemporary design and planning culture and their customs within the discipline of architecture, potential for the complex and unpredicted emerges. In confronting conventional, consecutive and scale-based mechanisms of problem solving our approach outwardly contradicts result-oriented perspectives to the practice. The study is based on two cases, a 19th century farm complex in Brandenburg, Germany and a 1960s summer house in North Zealand, Denmark. Within the context of these modest environments, we identify a nonfinite list of architectural interests, which we encountered as the problems, notions and themes constituting each case. Employing core instruments of the architectural practice (image, model, concept, drawing & materialisation), we explore them as active and reflective agents within the design process. The convergences of interests and instruments form inquiries (W1, W2, H1, H2) constituting experimental processes of architectural production. The fragmental outputs from these paths are conceived as authored responses consolidating our findings. Arguing from a holistic standpoint, we embrace the complex makeup of architecture in its various contexts, and desire to explore more manifold systemic networks of causes and effects. Following an approach which intends to remain both methodically diverse and open, we will further an understanding where it “it is rather through a synthesis of heterogeneous and even competing findings from which innovative, surprising and conceptually complex design solutions can emerge.” We will allow for non-linear, erratic and dynamic processes, in which envisioning, performing and revising design is part of the solution. Engaging with an open process of creation, we are insisting that the process carries autonomy as opposed to its results. We set ourselves on a quest for the autonomous and intrinsic qualities of our chosen instruments, and hope to encounter what is unexpected and unimagined, but inspiring after all.