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Singular Building Systems
Science & Engineering Program
Alicante, Spain
Dates: 9/8/22 - 12/24/22
Singular Building Systems
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: University of Alicante
Location: Alicante, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Architecture
Instruction in: English
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 400
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 60
DESCRIPTION
Singular Building Systems understands technology as an indissoluble part of the process of architectural creation. The specific topic of this subject is industrialization in architecture. The objective is to use light prefabrication technologies, composition based on modular frames, construction with three-dimensional cells, aggregative systems, etc., as tools to generate new project ideas and formal compositions.
The contents and concepts will be worked in a practical way: the course orbits around a Project that the student will have to face, solve and define as if it were a real case, emphasizing materiality, and defining all necessary details so that the project can be built.
The course follows the self-described "I + CT method"; we think that Architecture is both Idea and Construction, "Art and Technique" as Gropius defended in the Bauhaus, or "Built Idea" in the words of Campo Baeza. We also rescue and reinterpret concepts of Metabolist Movement and the Archigram Group that are closely related to the main goal of the course: Unique Constructive Systems.
Course will consist of 60hrs of in class work and 90 hrs of independent work outside the classroom.
The contents and concepts will be worked in a practical way: the course orbits around a Project that the student will have to face, solve and define as if it were a real case, emphasizing materiality, and defining all necessary details so that the project can be built.
The course follows the self-described "I + CT method"; we think that Architecture is both Idea and Construction, "Art and Technique" as Gropius defended in the Bauhaus, or "Built Idea" in the words of Campo Baeza. We also rescue and reinterpret concepts of Metabolist Movement and the Archigram Group that are closely related to the main goal of the course: Unique Constructive Systems.
Course will consist of 60hrs of in class work and 90 hrs of independent work outside the classroom.