A-Part

Students: Justus Schaefer, Maja Liro, Noëlle van Kouwen, Ramona Buia, Roos Scholten, Sepehr Asadi

Title: A-Part

Semester: 2023

Teachers: Dr.ir. Angeliki Sioli, ir. Pierre Jennen

“The Space of Words” is a new experimental design studio funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. It addresses a novel topic of architectural education: modelling atmospheres of space through the use of written and oral language.

Given that a spatial atmosphere can influence people’s reactions or decisions, and the way people feel in a given space can impact their short and long term physical or mental health, the study of atmospheres is a pressing contemporary concern. Language is the most direct way to approach atmospheres, as it can strikingly depict emotions in space, feelings and sensations of the built environment.

In the first stage of the design studio, the students worked, both in their mother tongue and English, through a variety of assignments that triggered their architectural imagination. These assignments were translated into scale models of domestic atmospheres.

During the second stage of the project, the students developed the domestic atmospheres already studied into a 1:1 installation and built in the building of the Faculty.

A-Part is a place to be A-PART of and from the faculty. A place to retreat, rest, and take a break. Walk in, climb up, find your spot – move the shutters and make it your own. Inhabit it, experience it, but please do not enter it with more than two people.

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