Instructors: Marjan Colletti, Peter Massin
Design Studio 2 – 2nd year Master
“Super High-Res Assembly” focused on the excessive processing and elaboration of a simple organizational architectural task. The theme responds to an acute imbalance in the current building culture.
Just as modernity and its pioneers reacted to the myriad of opulent buildings of their predecessors, we have to react nowadays to the countless aftermaths of modernity. The qualities of simplicity, clarity, and particularity have become the tristesse of the white thermal insulation compound dictatorship. Thus, in response to this reality, the natural balance between opulence and austerity/simplicity must be restored.
Over the last decade, contemporary academic architecture has increasingly abandoned the discussion about the large-scale form. It again focuses on materialisation, fabrication techniques, and the sociocultural aspects of architecture. This has also led to a visible change in the notion of scale. The discussion focuses more on the innovative joining and the quality of the materials.
At the same time, developments such as Industry 4.0 take place in other disciplines, which is also linked to a hyper-individualized production of semi-finished parts to finished parts. Not only for the industry, but also for architects those circumstances open up an endless repertoire of objects. Standardization has long since overtaken itself. We use this quantity as a qualitative basis for a successful assembly strategy.
Due to the oversupply of planning resources (architects and the CAD systems) and the change of the authorship in architecture (the obsolete notion of the Albertian architect), the depth of detailing designs has risen enormously.
Those frameworks, coupled with the varied industrial possibilities of the potent CAM technologies, enable architects to achieve a significant increase in resolution down to the smallest scale. Detailed planning to understand a high resoultion is a historical tradition and craft in architecture as one can observe in the (unfortunately) only highly exclusive buildings of all epochs.
