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Studio 3: EXPANDED ARCHITECTURE: building ECOLOGIES<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n
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In Studio 3, you will explore how the fragility of our current times affects the ways we design, build and unbuild, reflecting on the qualities of spaces, construction techniques and material properties. Throughout the two-year program, you will be introduced to iterative exercises that will embrace new-build assignments, design new uses through adaptive reuse of existing buildings, and consider relational design approaches engaging in broader ecosystems.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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A rammed demolition waste wall study by Robert Luke Johnstone<\/div>A rammed demolition waste wall study by Robert Luke Johnstone<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Finally, you will formulate an individual program for your thesis, unfolding interest gained from previous assignments. You will explore how ecological thinking reimagines design processes, navigating between empiric and speculative approaches and lifecycle design methods to conceive environmentally responsible building design propositions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Unbuilding Can Lis by J\u00f8rn Utzon by Phuong Uyen Nguyen and Josias Jeppe Sanddal Lindemann<\/div>Unbuilding Can Lis by J\u00f8rn Utzon by Phuong Uyen Nguyen and Josias Jeppe Sanddal Lindemann<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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As the building economy shifts towards carbon neutrality and resource-saving approaches in Denmark and elsewhere, the studio considers new roles for future architects who will be inevitably engaged in working with the life cycles of buildings and materials. For us, this means exploring how buildings are designed, made, assembled, used, appropriated, repaired, disassembled and reused. We borrow concepts from other disciplines to consider new roles for caring architectural processes. We work closely with practice to develop a deeper understanding of materiality and material tectonics. We build a future-oriented set of skills and sensibilities both for research and design practice.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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A common living room in a former gas station in Aarhus, an exploration of regenerative strategies by Anna-Lena Mueller,<\/div>A common living room in a former gas station in Aarhus, an exploration of regenerative strategies by Anna-Lena Mueller, <\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Therefore, you will be exposed to different strategies and methodologies that will help you understand and manage how the complexity of our current times, including the climate crisis, is impacting architecture. You will consider temporal aspects and design projects that are critically sensitive to life cycles understood beyond their quantitative goals. Your creative processes will challenge a linear problem-solving approach as you move across different scales, geographies, and concerns to understand the impact of your design decisions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Study of salt-dripping cooling systems, by Bex Browne<\/div>Study of salt-dripping cooling systems, by Bex Browne<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Brown macroalgae prototype, by Anna-Lena Mueller<\/div>Brown macroalgae prototype, by Anna-Lena Mueller<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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You will be guided to consider the very notion of nature beyond a homogenous backdrop for human activities and buildings, beyond the making of isolated objects but entangled to a multitude of actors, processes, infrastructures, logistics, regulations, economies, etc. Drawings, models and prototypes, rigorously rooted in reality, will become fundamental tools to think through, visualize, test, inquire, narrate, and demonstrate a critical attitude that will allow you to keep questions open and ask, what if?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Transformation of a former stable house in Aarhus South Harbour into an electronics repair shop by Guro N\u00f8rsteng<\/div>Transformation of a former stable house in Aarhus South Harbour into an electronics repair shop by Guro N\u00f8rsteng<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Building with Danish agriculture by-product by Christian Buske<\/div>Building with Danish agriculture by-product by Christian Buske<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The studio culture is based on collective learning to develop an individual interest in the field. We complement design and research work with reading seminars, design workshops and lectures. The studio gives time and space for all to investigate and reflect on making architecture. Through regularly invited guests, we maintain a close relationship with practising architects, researchers and other experts in both Danish and international contexts.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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A supermarket in a former scooter shop in Aarhus - a study in adaptive and material reuse by Robert Luke Simpson Johnstone<\/div>A supermarket in a former scooter shop in Aarhus - a study in adaptive and material reuse by Robert Luke Simpson Johnstone<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Transformation of Aarhus Slaughterhouse into a \u2018metabolic\u2019 food facility by Tyra Matilda Rex<\/div>Transformation of Aarhus Slaughterhouse into a \u2018metabolic\u2019 food facility by Tyra Matilda Rex <\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Studio 3 is primarily taught in English.<\/p>\n

See the student work of Studio 3 on Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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CONTACT<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>
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Urszula Kozminska<\/a><\/h3><\/span><\/header>
Associate Professor, MSc.Eng.Arch., PhD
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