After the introductory studio project in the first semester, the Typology Studio which is ‘Typologies of Anthropocene’ for this term, the following studio projects are offered by the different chairs of the architectural faculty.
These selectable design studios are re-scheduled each semester by the program coordinators and partially coincide with the regular English study program of the other Master’s program in Architecture. Below you’ll find an overview of all design studios offered for the winter term 22/23.
The Master Design Studio EVERYDAY MATTERS explores current transformations affecting the living conditions and daily routines at the margins of the cities through the lens of everyday routines. Looking at the fringes of urban agglomerations, the studio investigates new forms of urbanity that are developing beyond common classifications (suburbia, urban periphery, garden city, etc.), and that are currently shaping the subjectivity of urban dwellers. Based upon field studies in selected areas, subjective narratives serve as experiential knowledge for activist spatial practices in the form of site specific interventions ranging from domestic objects over building designs to common infrastructures.
Course Information
Design Studio 1/2 + PIV Integrative Seminar
15 ECTS
Contact
Prof. Rainer Hehl
FG HEHL
In times of crisis, many actors call for solidarity. However, ›solidarity‹ often only works as an empty signifier. At the same time, the pandemic, the current energy crisis, the war reveal the societal relevance and urgency of solidarity, particularly in the face of the social/housing question and immense social and political challenges, such as the precarization of work, racism and discrimination, growing social exclusion, and environmental pollution.
In this context, this studio asks which solidary practices can be understood as possible catalysts of a larger societal and urban transformation? Thereby, the studio focus lies on community spaces and housing for marginalized social groups in Berlin.
Course Information
Design Studio 1/2 + PIV Integrative Seminar
15 ECTS
Contact
Prof. Elke Beyer, Prof. Anke Hagemann
FG Habitat Unit
Streets in urban Africa are more than just a hard infrastructure. Particularly in central urban locations, they are a vivid space of interactions, culture and economy. While assuming multiple functions essential for the city, they are also character-ised by significant traffic congestion, lack of public transportation, CO2 emissions and safety issues resulting in a high number of accidents. This studio works towards merging the socio-cultural vivacity embedded in street life in Kigali, Rwanda, with a trans-formation approach oriented toward sustainable, ecological and safe transportation. The PIV component is realised in cooperation with Wuppertal Institut.
Course Information
Design Studio 1/2 + PIV Integrative Seminar
15 ECTS
Contact
Prof. Elke Beyer, Prof. Anke Hagemann
FG Habitat Unit
For decades a certain age group of young citizens – the teenagers – have obviously experienced a growing need for attention, evident also in the increasing need for psychological treatment. Changes in social structures, expanding virtual reality and latest the pandemic may be just some of the causes. The studio project is a facility that can promote rehabilitation, prevention, inclusion, selforganization within an existing situation in Berlin.
Course Information
Design Studio 1/2 + PIV Integrative Seminar
15 ECTS
Contact
Prof. Lars Steffensen
Architecture for Health (FG Steffensen)
Technological development is one of the main factors for innovation in architecture. The Chair of Building Technology and Architectural Design, under the direction of Prof. Claus Steffan, forms – in the fields of teaching and research – an interface between the various engineering disciplines and the architect as a team coordinator during an integrated design process. Graduates in architecture must have the technical expertise to understand the engineering disciplines, basic and specialist engineers to develop integrated and sustainable design concepts.Aspects of energy and building technology as well as building physics will shape Sustainable Design in the future more than aspects of building construction. Building technology will be playing a more significant role in the context of integral planning.Before this background, the department teaches architecture for more than 10 years, linking building technology and design.
Course Information
Design Studio 1/2 + PIV Integrative Seminar
15 ECTS
Contact
Prof. Claus Steffan
Buildig Technology And Architectural Design (FG Steffan)
Ethiopian cities have very high urbanization rates mostly due to rural-urban migration. The historical fabric of the city witnesses massive urban renewal, which results in the re-settlement of urban poor to the outskirts of the city. So far state-led social housing programs were not able to address this challenge. In collaboration with experts from Ethiopia we will propose a pilot-project for an alternative, low-cost approach to urban renewal that takes into account the realities of historically grown neighborhoods and their communities towards an inclusive modernization. Learning from traditional and vernacular space-making practices will be at the center of our studio. The municipality of Addis Ababa has shown interest in collaborating and eventually implementing a prototype.
Course Information
Design Studio 1/2 + PIV Integrative Seminar
15 ECTS
Contact
Prof. Claus Steffan
Buildig Technology And Architectural Design (FG Steffan)
