Invitation to the final review of the Master Project "Inside the Block" at the Chair of Urban Design and Housing:
This semester therefore we shall explore how a residential development could be organized within a deep urban block. We wish to propose scenarios that offer characterful daylight and special moments of communal engagement. Our motivation is to create a collection of fine rooms and interior spaces that invite rather than prescribe use. In preparation of this work we will travel to the Veneto and pace through the noble villas of Palladio, measuring and speculating as to the usefulness and appropriateness of a collection of well-defined and finely proportioned rooms to modern-day city living. We shall consider the interfaces between the very public character of urban space and the more private domestic space. The role of a courtyard or multiple courtyards, stairways and landings act as catalysts around which a community may thrive. Our task is to offer insights into how to make architecture that is dignified and humane in scale, rooted in place and metropolitan in character, based on an economy of means and an economy of energy, prepared for an unknown future, while at the same time confident with a powerful presence.
Guest critic and guest lecture at 18.30h:
Tom Thys - Tom Thys architecten, Brussels
https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/99121365312
Meeting‐ID: 991 2136 5312
Password: 101010
When:
08.02.2022, 13.30h
Where:
Online
Zoom
Meeting‐ID: 991‐2136‐5312
Kenncode: 101010