Course No.: 848106 – Group 0
Teaching: Andreas Körner & Jade Bailey
In ‘Hothouse’ (1962), British science fiction author Brian Aldiss envisioned a future Earth as a veritable hothouse where plants filled almost all ecological niches. Inspired by this utopia (!), the studio will investigate architectural notions of greenhouses and conservatories. Rather than conceiving them as functional spaces, we will see them as architectural thresholds between the inside and the outside. In Innsbruck, such extensions on building facades often act as winter gardens and are commonly constructed from alternative materials to the main structure. The studio will consider such vertical attachments as seasonally changing spaces with migrating functions and varying extremes.
