INTERN KALENDER

Prosthetic

The work being exhibited is from ‘Phase 01’ of the semester, in which we asked the students to examine the human body (their assigned partner) as a ‘building site.’ In this phase we examined the following:

1.     Survey processes (scanning the body)

2.     The agency of digital fabrication methods (the influence of fabrication on articulation)

This ‘Bootcamp’ (this is what we typically call our first semester phase) was meant to both teach students methods in digital thinking while setting a precedence in subject and process for the rest of the semester.

The title of the semester assignment is ‘Domestic Prosthetics.’

The students are designing ‘caretaker’ residences for one of two building ruins:

1.     The Jarlshof prehistoric and norse ruin in the Shetland Islands, Scotland

2.     The Hald Ruin site in Viborg, Denmark

The prosthetics to be exhibited are one of many design influences (examined over the semester) meant to influence the students ability to design a 21st century prosthetic that houses an on-site caretaker.

Prosthetic / prɒsˈθɛtɪk/
Adjective

1. Denoting an artificial body part, such as a limb, a heart, or a breast implant.

2. Denoting a substance, item, or process used to transform a person’s appearance temporarily.

Noun

3. An artificial body part meant to compensate for an inefficiency or defect.

4. An appearance-altering substance or item applied to a person’s body.

Prosthetics provide countless analogs towards architectural exploration as they represent technological advancements at the intersection of analytical processes, material properties, and emergent machining systems – all to better a human condition. And while prosthetics are often defined as something meant to ‘compensate for an inefficiency,’ the actual definition is quite broad: Prosthetics can project and compensate for an emotional condition just as well as a physical condition – so long as the analysis of the body (the host) is a clear driver in the articulation of the apparatus.

Robert B. Trempe Jr

Dagmar Reinhardt

Claudia Carbone

And students from

Studio 2B

Vi bruger vores sanser til at danne en forståelse af os selv og verden. Udstillingen ‘Læs med hænderne’ viser avancerede fremstillingsmetoder, som giver os mulighed for at fremstille mønstre, teksturer og braille-tekst til historiefortælling ved hjælp af robotter.

Kom og udforsk de hemmelige meddelelser, der er indgraveret i træstolene, og afkod dem ved hjælp af berøring og syn.

Udstillingen er et samarbejde mellem Arkitektskolen Aarhus og Instituttet for Blinde og Svagsynede (IBOS) og vises på Dokk1 fra den 10. december til 6. januar 2020 med et seminar den 19. december kl. 15.00.

The lecture series The Ordinary Daylight aims to draw attention to the quality of daylight – rather than the amount of light required by building codes and regulations that sometimes can overwhelmingly hijack conversations about natural daylight in contemporary buildings today. The lecture series does this through focusing on architects who work consciously and qualitatively with the effects of daylight in architecture. Each lecture being an opportunity to share work and ideas, providing an insight into approach and methodology while collectively providing an outline of various ways to explore and engage with daylight.

On Wednesday, January 8th architects Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores will do a lecture in the series. The lecture is called “The Discipline Of The Existing”. Flores & Prats is an architectural office dedicated to the confrontation of theory and academic practice with design and construction activity. They have worked in rehabilitation of old structures for new occupations, in the design of public spaces with neighbour’s participation, as well as in social housing and its capacity to create community. Their work has obtained among others the Grand Award in Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts of London for their Mills Museum in Mallorca, the City of Barcelona Prize and the Special Mention at the Spanish National Awards for the Sala Beckett International Drama Centre and the City of Palma Prize for the Cultural Centre Casal Balaguer. They have been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Awards 2005, 2015 and 2016, and exhibited at the last four editions of La Biennale di Venezia. Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores are professors of Design Studio at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, at the RMIT of Melbourne and Guest Professors at ETH Zurich.

Previous lecturers in the series include among others Stephen Bates, co-founder of Sergison Bates architects (UK); Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen, founding partners of Pezo von Ellrichshausen (CHL); Johan Celsing; founding partner of Celsing architecture studio (SWE) and Hiroshi Sambuichi (JPN).

The lectures are a collaboration between the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and Aarhus School of Architecture and kindly supported by VELUX Denmark. Lectures will be held at both schools and will be open to the public, so students, faculty, practice, as well as other interested parties, will be able to take advantage of the knowledge and experiences presented.