MSc2 Public Building Design Studio Multiplicity and Identity

In envisioning radical solutions for the public domain, the MSc.2 Public Building Design Studio investigates the emergence of new building typologies as a response to the urgent problems that many cities face nowadays: climate change, environmental pollution, spatial segregation, invasive privatization, etc. More specifically, the Studio focuses on architecture's ability to resist shocks and adapt to future changes. In other words, the Studio tackles resilience as a tool as well as a design goal.

Emphasis will be placed on hybrid complexes where different functions and users coexist, embedded with a wide range of spatial articulations, including living, working, leisure and culture. Topics such as climate-adaptability, design for disassembly, and flexibility will be explored. The Studio adopts multiplicity as crucial property of architecture and its elements. Multiplicity endows built environment with more conducive, transformative, and resilient qualities: it provides conceptual tools for creating new places, buildings, and building elements; reinvents conventions, and questions the present toward the future.

Each year, the Studio is set in a different city, exploring the unique site conditions as a foundation for innovative architectural proposals that act as a catalyst for new urban dynamics.