AA prospectus intermediate 16

London, United Kingdom

AA School London bedford square

Research

2016-17

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Status

Academic Teaching

Date

2016-17

Credits

Salwa Mikou, Selma Mikou et AA School

Authors

Mikoü

Editors

AA School : Philip Nazih Gharios, Wonyoung Jeong, Katarzyna Anna Lengiewicz, Weiyue Liang, Katayoun Nekourouymotlagh, Celine Elia Léa Lavinia Predborski, Ainhoa Tamara Schapira Perez, Yat Ching Marcus Yau, Jiahui Yuan, Xinyi Zhang
Thanks to our guest critics and workshop guests Ana Araujo, Doreen Bernath, Nerma Cridge, Susan Chai, Mark Cousins, Monia De Marchi, Ryan Dillon, Christopher Doray, Kenneth Fraser, Alistair Lenczner, Victor Orive, Lorenzo Perri, Mattia Santi, Francesca Silvi, Silvana Taher, Laura Vaughan, Bozar Ben Zeev

Architecture as a Catalyst for Transformation
As the ways we work, consume, transport, and entertain ourselves evolve, our understanding of communal living is also changing. Architecture must not only adapt to these shifts but also anticipate them. Intermediate 16 will explore how architecture can reinvent itself in response to these transformations.

Rehabilitation and Resilience of Territories
Students will examine the transformation and resilience of specific territories, particularly neglected urban areas, using a regeneration approach that encompasses programmatic, social, urban, and architectural dimensions. Guided by an exploration of the interplay between program, diagram, and architecture, they will develop a spatial strategy that integrates Louis Kahn’s idea of “spaces which serve and are served” with Rem Koolhaas’s concept of “stable and unstable spaces.” These frameworks will enable them to explore the potential of the program and create an architectural figure—a distilled representation of an idea that expresses a clear architectural intention.

The Hybrid as a Response to Metropolitan Change
In response to evolving lifestyles and the morphological shifts of built environments, the projects will investigate the concept of hybridization by reflecting on new typologies of metropolitan buildings. These plural, multifunctional buildings, positioned at the intersection of large structures and urban neighborhoods, blend and condense varied uses, blur spatial scales, and redefine spatial hierarchies, thus giving rise to a new form of urbanism. Rather than a static architectural object, these buildings are conceived as open, evolving processes. Students will begin by analyzing existing metropolitan buildings before incorporating this approach into their own designs.

AA prospectus intermediate 16

AA School London bedford square

AA prospectus Intermediate 16