Architecture Competitions StudioProduction in the city

AAHN06 Advanced Architectural Design II 15 cr. AAD 2019

New kinds of proximity by connecting the living and the producing

During the last decades, a lot of urban renewal has been taken place in Europe. We have suc-cessfully regenerated many wastelands of the post-industrial era into attractive mixed-use neighborhoods.

But how much mixed is this new mixed-city actually?

In most cases housing was the main program. We wisely added some office places and public ame-nities, but were especially keen on including bars, shops and restaurants because we wanted every new quarter to be a ‘genuine vibrant urban neigh-borhood’. Looking back now, we can see how we systematically excluded one program: productive economy. Productive economy has left the city to the periphery, whether it is to the outskirts of the same city or to another end of the world. The urban renewal we have been doing under the auspices of the ideology of the mixed-city is less mixed than we make us to believe. Productive economy, manufacturing, maintenance and repair jobs, … in short bleu-collar activities make part of city life as well.

Our city today is not a complete city.

Of course we should not bring back steel facto-ries to the city center. We should prepare for The Next Economy that will be more green, more local and more fair, and therefore can be more urban. We are already welcoming hipster kinds of small-scale urban manufacturing or food production. We can accommodate more of the recycling industry within the city itself. We could systematically provide space for SME’s in our redevelopment areas. We should avoid that the plumber who lives in the city and who repairs our houses in the city, has to drive out of the city in order to find available storage space.

Production belongs to the city.

In a truly mixed city, we encourage, honor and celebrate the presence of the productive eco-nomy.

Kristiaan Borret, Brussels Chief Architect,

Guest professor Gent University

The theme

How to bring back and integrate production in urban envi-ronments or how to adapt productive areas to accommoda-te housing, culture, education, offices and commerce in them?

Aim

Advanced Architectural Design during the Spring Term 2019 intends to develop individual skills for participating in archi-tectural competitions of certain complexity. Students will work on their readiness for independent participation and will focus on different matters such as interpretation of the clients´demands and the brief, giving easy answers to com-plex questions, presentation technique, dealing with deadli-nes, etc.

Two ways to approach Architecture Competitions

The semester consists of two parts where the first one is dedicated to research on architecture competitions, initiation exercises and providing an overview of possible strategies.This part is concluded with the participation on a real case internal competition and a later debriefing seminar.

The second part is the tutored studio work. It will be based on the participation on a professional advanced competition (EUROPAN), reading the site, interpretation of the brief and presentation of a clear strategy with means of appropriate illustrations and models.

The two parts are consciously interwoven throughout the semester but the ”theoretical” part will have a central point in the initial period.

Internal and peripheral activities

Advanced Architecture Design´s proposal for this semester is a package of pedagogical activities which is based on the interaction of student oriented activities and external coope-ration with different actors on an international level.

The core of these activities is thought to spin around the proposed Competition Course for the Spring Term 2019 where both teachers and students are supposed to coopera-te into opening up the experiences and results of the course to the rest of the school and outwards by means of different public events in cooperation with our partners.

Most welcome to AAD - Spring term 2019!

Studio´s fields of study: International/Swedish Contemporary Architecture Competitions

Main Topic: The Productive City

Program: Europan 15 International Competition for young architects

Study Trip: more information in January

Responsible: Professor Christer Malmström, Head of School of Architecture - Lund

Tutors: Professor Christer Malmström (course-coordinator/examiner) Architect Andreea Marcu Architect Jesús Mateo Architect Alex van de Beld Architect Pawel Szychalski

Important dates:

21st/22nd of January 9.00 am_INTRODUCTION AAD and Integrated Design

4th-8th of March_STUDY TRIP 20th of March_LAS 2019 SYMPOSIUM

23rd -24th of May_Final reviews

27th of May-5th of June_ Presentation/Communication working week

28th of May_Exhibition 5th of June_FINAL DELIVERIES

5th of June- 14th of June EXAMINATION

Studio Activities_AAD Spring Term 2019

Theoretical studies, analysis of competition results, types of competitions, typology studies, seminarium, tentative design, etc.

Lectures about ”Competition Architecture”

Main Project: International Competition for young architects Europan 15. Site: still to be decided but relevant in scale and complexity to the topic of the course.

Study trip