Architectural Positions – Practices
Our assignment for the students was to imagine an entirely different development for a currently ‘vacant’ plot within the area of M4H in Rotterdam – one that is not market-driven, but that answers to local, national and even global questions, and that carefully considers all the site-specific conditions. Students had to form a critical position on how to ‘develop’ the site and define its potential through a range of explorative research methods, each with the focus on another topic.
The result is a collection of six different positions on how to approach a process of design of this specific site, combined into a book of guidelines, with a.o. a new scale, not based on humans, but on other life forms.
MSc1 Fall Semester 2021
Type: Teaching
Where: TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture, Chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination
Tutors: Alexandra Sonnemans and Caterina Viguera
Students: Xam Adan, Reem Al-Muraikhi, Johannes Bohn, Deying Chen, Yeonghwa Choe, Hidde Dijkstra, Bram van Eersel, Taha El Barazi, Emir Erolsun, Elodie Fabre, Louisa Hollander, Szu-Yin Huang, Ananda Jaganathan, Cristina Terricabras Jove, Rutge Kok, Max Lieser, Tom Oskam,Seraphima Papademetri, Kamil Parzychowski, Wiktoria Paszek, Marinde Reijman, Christin Sarra, Pim Smit, Panagiotis Varoutsos, Philomena Vida
Student workWe combined all the work in a bookletFor the final session we set up a playful round table to forge a dynamic exchange between the different positions, exploring contradictions and parallels. Student workStudent workStudent workStudent workStudent work