Exhibition: Magic of the Box
16 January 2023 00:00 till 03 February 2023 00:00 - Location: Hallway around Oostserre - By: Communicatie BK | Add to my calendar
During the "Magic of the box" exhibition, view boxes made by students can be viewed in the corridor around the Oostserre. The view boxes are results of the Bachelor course BK3GR3 in which exemplary housing projects were analysed. Besides finding out the architectural, urban planning and landscape architectural design ideas, they also looked at how they represent social ideas about private, public and the collective.
What is it about the architectural composition or the ideas about urban life that make a housing project so special? How can 'Living in a box' be represented? Answers to these questions can be found amongst 84 plan analyses on display at the Oostserre from 18 January until 28 January 2022. The analyses are made by bachelor students Bouwkunde, who studied the design problems of 45 canonical housing projects within the course BK3GR3.
The analyses are presented by a 'show-box', a hybrid composed of models, drawings, and other media. The boxes open up ways to explain and interpret the architectural and urban qualities in a three-dimensional representation. The student's pleasure and creativity radiate from the collection of boxes.
Residential neighbourhoods are one of the most important assignments in our faculty's domain. Architectural and urban design constitutes and facilitates use, spatial qualities and the identity of everyday life. The way individual dwellings are assembled into a row, a block, a courtyard, a street, or other urban configurations determine the private, public and collective and represent architectural and urban expressions.
Architectural ideas include social notions too, like collectivity, community, privacy, or anonymity. The way a project is embedded in its location offers opportunities to express views on men and nature, men and metropolis, the individual, the public and collective. Typology, morphology, and configuration are the instruments to analyse and discover them.
More information
- On Youtube more explanation about the course BK3GR3 can be found.
- For more information, please contact Willemijn Wilms Floet
