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    ARK-E1021 Housing Design Studio 2024


    Aerial image of Turku Linnanniemi area.


    NOTE! Attending the parallel lecture course ARK-E3521 Building Design Lecture is strongly recommended.

    Schedule: Wednesdays 13:00–17:00, 10.1.2024–22.5.2024
    Teachers: Antti Lehto, Havu Järvelä, Tiina Antinoja, Hanna Mattila
    Credits: 18
    Language: English

    This studio designs a housing quarter that considers both spatial flexibility and intact demolishability. The foremost objective is to study design for disassembly and creative adaptability, easing upkeep and transformations. In addition, the students will have the opportunity and freedom to choose from several relevant circular design strategies, such as reuse or maintainability. The studio produces knowledge of how Design for Disassembly -oriented, adaptable housing differs from the existing practice: What are the functional, aesthetical, and processual ramifications of circularity for the architectural design process and the resulting housing architecture? What kind of novel opportunities and challenges arise?

    The design task is to conceptualize and design a mixed quarter to Turun linnanniemi area. The concept and architectural design should aim towards easing changes in future spatial layouts, including multiple usage scenarios and allowing for utilizing new construction as a demolishable material bank. The dwelling architecture should provide social integration: fostering interaction between people, belonging to a community, and preventing segregation.

    The task is approached first through familiarizing with the existing research and practical knowledge of DfD and adaptability, and only then adapting the acquired knowledge to the architectural design practice. This process enables understanding of the existing needs and shortcomings of current practices and promotes basing the architectural design on substance-informed and holistic approaches.