Institute Institutes - Fakultät für Architektur - TUM

Semester Semester
WS 2011/12
Gastprofessor Visiting Professor
Christian Derix
Semester Semester
SS 2012
Gastprofessor Visiting Professor
Michelle Addington
Lehre Study
Implicit Space - Refelection Space
Space by Reflection (or Immaterial Space) attempts to create spatial depths and
use through the application of controlled reflections of light from surfaces. Multiple
overlaid reflections from various surfaces create the sensation of additional
depth and can be designed-in to enhance simple spaces. The intention was to
design one static arrangment, not a dynamic surface.
The project stemmed from mapping the reflections in the HFF and the Store
Front Gallery in NY. Both were translated into physical louvre-system models
for analysis and design simulation by code.
Contingent Architectures
The design task of this studio is for each student to develop and ‘build’ a material
installation to be located at existing sites on the TUM campus. The installations,
which may be either physical or computational, will each negotiate a specific boundary
condition. Although the installation will be constructed as a constituent material
system, it must be capable of creating multiple contingent environments. These
environments will be contingent upon both the physical environment--for example
the position of the sun--as well as the physiological condition--for example contrast
in the retinal receptor field. Leading up to the final installation, students will complete
a series of focused design exercises/experiments to develop their understanding
of material characteristics and phenomenological behaviors. The ultimate objective
of the studio is to produce a single (and minimal) physical intervention with multiple
perceptual manifestations.
FINAL PROJECT: Constituent Installation / Contingent Architecture
The two major design exercises are intended to develop the students’ conceptual
understanding of ‘double’ contingency – both perceptual and physical – and to
develop their knowledge of material interaction with physical phenomena. In the
final project of the semester, students will apply these lessons to the design of physical
interventions on the TUM campus. The intervention must address a condition
of “difference” and do so through a designed negotiation. Rather than a geometrically
constructed boundary, this negotiation must causally (not casually) instrumentalize
a material installation to physically choreograph the perceptual passage/
transition across the conditions of difference.
116 Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies
Perception synthesis diagram and path, Begum Hamzaoglu, Gabriele Menconi,
Iremnur Tokac, Victor von Beck
Digital Transparency, Donal Groarke / Material Studies with Hologram Paper
Courtyard Installation by Tracy Shum
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