Making

Making is a special course that combines research and design with practical hands-on workshops, focused on designing and making objects of concrete with specific, innovative properties and expressions.

Students will obtain theoretical and practical insight in the interdependencies between research, design, testing, constructing, making and final architectural expressions. Because, after all, the choice and knowledge of the material and its practical possibilities and impossibilities, have ultimate consequences for the performance, durability and aesthetics of the built object, and is as such a crucial experience for architectural education.

Through excursions and meetings, the course brings students in contact with the professional industry.

Tutorial once a week.

Tutors and invited specialists will assess the results in line with the specific theme and set goals.

Tangible results, presented in an exhibition setting, get a paramount role. Deliverables will include a collective research/design/workshop book, presentation panels and final concrete prototype models.

Regarding the final presentation students will be requested to have a complete narrative to defend their proposals, based on their research and experiments, well positioned in social, technical and global awareness.

Reflection on experiences, performance and processes will be taken into account, results can be published on the internet.

Course Evaluation

Evaluations will be based on the overall performance within the studio. The students performance will be determined by the quality of his/her work, commitment, teamwork, effort and improvement over the entire course of the semester. Concrete aspects for evaluation are; research work, argument formulation, hands-on experiments, design, and presentation.

The design project is awarded a grade that is a whole or half number between 1.0 and 10.0. Students pass the course with a 6.0 or higher. With a grade below 6.0: students who presented assessable work during the course are allowed to do a repair to change the grade into a ‘pass’. The repair is unsupervised and needs to be completed within 2 weeks after the end of the course. When the repair is unsuccessful, the student needs to follow the entire course again.