UDSTILLINGER

In late February and early March 2019 a group of 60 students and tutors from STUDIO 3 and UNIT F´s made a joint venture to Cuba and accomplished a plan, including fieldwork, visits, lectures, excursions, and a conference.

Among many other discoveries, the multilayered architectural heritage of Havana, made of transformations, juxtapositions, and densifications over time, stands out as an extremely inspirational new way of looking at the constructed environment.

Enjoy the videos and the music in CANTINA CUBANA, and experience selected fragments of Cuba´s extraordinary daily life.

Studio 3: Sofie Pelsmakers, Nacho Ruiz Allen, Mads Nyggard, Tommy Bruun.

Unit F: Thomas R.Hilberth, Ula Kozminska, Eva Rosborg Aagaard, Kim Pretzmann Olesen, Troels Bach Thorbjørnson.

Udstillingen Under Større Byer præsenterer en række konceptuelle musikværker lavet af hiphop-kollektivet Sjakket der – med begrebet USB som nøgle til fordybelse – diskutererurbanitet og arkitektur. Værkerne udstilles indtil 19. juni.

USB er — udover at være en forkortelse for udstillingen og værkets titel “Under Større Byer” — også forkortelsen for “Universal Serial Bus.” Den universelle løsning, der samler og overfører data fra bruger til bruger, fra apparat til apparat. I udstillingen er USBen både den fysiske manifestation af musikken, samlingspunktet for værk, proces og beskuer og grundlaget for udstillingens visuelle udtryk.

USBen er det, som er tilbage når kunstnerne har forladt rummet. Udstillingen indeholder en række trykte plancher, lyrik og bagvedliggende proces, seks musikerstationer, hvorfra værket opføres og en piedestal med en USB–nøgle, der indeholder en digital udgave af værket. USB er med sin dobbeltbetydning og sit symbol nøglen til at forstå, formidle og dele udstillingen.

Om Sjakket
Musikværkerne er lavet af hiphop-kollektivet Sjakket. I Sjakket er hængerøv og hættetrøje byttet ud med håndspillede instrumenter og opslagsværker. Sjakkets syv medlemmer har de seneste syv år haft base på Institut for (X), hvor de har skabt deres eget laboratorium for byudvikling — mens Aarhus gearer sig til storbykulisse.

Med afsæt i den akademiske verden bruger de sampling — hiphoppens primære redskab — til at anskue den urbane musik fra en ny vinkel og skabe et nyt tekst— og lydunivers.

De musikalske rødder ligger — ligesom de akademiske felter — spredt i en kaskade af områder, der udelukkende forenes gennem deres forskelligheder. Som et kollektivt subjekt undersøger Sjakket arkitektur gennem konceptuelle greb. Med titler som “Modernitetserfaringer,” “Byvækst i Prioriterede Akser,” og “Begrebslig astigmatisme” samples arkitektur, arkitekturhistorie og -teori, byudvikling, modernitet og kulturarv.

Sponsor:
A. Enggaard A/S

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Kig forbi udstillingen om studentermagasinet KÅRKs udgivelse #35 Disruption. Onsite Gallery danner rammen om udstillingen med en totalinstallation og uddrag af teksterne fra magasinet.

Om KÅRK og #35 Disruption

Hver udgave af magasinet KÅRK udforsker et nyt tema. #35 Disruption undersøger betydningen af termen ’Disruption’, og hvordan det manifesterer sig i forskellige discipliner.

KÅRK udgives som et samarbejde mellem arkitektstuderende fra Arkitektskolen Aarhus og KADK. Magasinet er en kreativ platform, der søger at kaste lys over relevante arkitektoniske spørgsmål og belyse det fysiske miljø.

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Drop by the exhibition of the publication #35 Disruption from the student magazine KÅRK. Onsite Gallery exhibits an installation and excerpt of the magazine texts.

About KÅRK and #35 Disruption:
Each issue of the magazine KÅRK explores a new theme. # 35 Disruption examines the meaning of the term “Disruption” and how it manifests itself in different disciplines.

KÅRK is published as a collaboration between architectural students from the Aarhus School of Architecture and KADK. The magazine is a creative platform that seeks to shed light on relevant architectural issues and to illuminate the physical environment.

A stranger is far enough away that he is unknown but close enough that it is possible to get to know him. In a society there must be a stranger. If everyone is known then there is no person that is able to bring something new to everybody.
The Stranger, Georg Simmel, 1908

While waiting for a train to arrive, everything seems disordered and random, people running from one gate to another, a passerby that goes nowhere, a person sleeping at a bench and a loud speaker that announces something that is not fully understood. Train stations not only have constituted strong landmarks for cities and villages, but they have also been places where great architecture and technologies could be experienced and implemented. Some of the first train stations ever built displayed the latest technologies of machinery, ironworks, glass and time modifications.

Train stations have also been a great source of inspiration for writers, film directors and the meandering, curious citizen. While waiting, the traveller dreamt, imagined and fantasized with the next destination. Naturally, architecture has been a key part of these states. Today, however, it has become common for train stations to be places for consumerism, closer to shopping malls. In most cases, waiting consists in checking emails, making phone calls or accessing social media ‘killing time.’

Studio 2A continues to question and work with the technologies that surround us to reflect and propose an architecture that emerges from qualities of time, motion and place. We live immersed in a world of speed, virtuality and constant motion, we consume events and places through photos, ‘stories’ and ‘likes’ in matter of seconds.

Yet, do we ever stop to question these conditions from an architectural point of view? How does speed and instantaneity affect the places we design and experience? How can we think creatively with these conditions while still allowing a place for stillness and physical presence?

Along the train line between Aarhus and Struer, students have investigated hidden stories and speculative future scenarios for new stops. The proposed new stops will focus on creating an architecture that belongs to its location. Instead of designing more places for consumerism and globalized image, the project will emerge from the qualities of its context, culture and environment, as well as from its relationship to the fleeting and dynamic aspects of travelling.

The program for the proposals considers three temporal experiences for the visitor: a stay for one hour, a stay for the day, and a stay for a week. Much like in the tradition of the ‘trinbræt’ (“train step”), small stops with minimal program but full of character and regional as well as imported qualities, the new stop will be seemingly a stranger that discloses unknown qualities of the chosen site and region.

Med en passion for bæredygtige materialer har Johan Neve Klejs med nysgerrigt sind boret sig ned i jorden – som byggemateriale.

”Af jord er vi kommet” er hans første udstilling som arkitektstuderende. Med den håber han at inspirere andre til at se potentialet i det, der ligger lige for fødderne af os. Jordarkitekturen byder på mange svar til nutidens problemer, specielt på parametre som indeklima, åndbarhed, akustik, ressourceforbrug, cradle to cradle osv.

“Jeg er interesseret ikke bare i det byggetekniske – den poetiske dimension fylder også meget for mig. Jeg synes jord har en iboende poesi, og det håber jeg at kunne videreformidle i min artist talk.

Jeg kan nu også afsløre, at jeg af Boligfonden Kuben har vundet et legat til en byggeworkshop, som med lidt held afholdes i august dette år. Herigennem ønsker jeg at videregive den viden, jeg tilegnede mig sidste år, og at forme relationer til andre og nye jordentusiaster.”

Af jord er vi kommet kan opleves i arkitektskolens kantine 20. marts – 22. april, og den 21. marts klokken 15.00 afholdes en Artist Talk i kantinen med Johan Neve Klejs.

Architectural research occasionally requires extended travel and embedment into an extreme environment, where typical expectations towards transit and on-site operations are challenged. The preparation for such field work exposes extraordinary challenges and uncertainties that come face-to-face with normative practices in architectural research.

Exhibited side-by-side with documents and fragments from the field study itself, Remote Research presents an atypical architectural field study that visualizes planning procedures, logistics and safety protocols required to conduct research in a remote location.

Maarmorilik, Greenland hosts the world’s oldest marble deposits, at over two billion years old. The field work is connected to the Research Lab 2 project, Material Imagination, investigating the future of Nordic Marble and its possibilities for an architectural future.

This exhibition shows the preparation that went into a research trip to Greenland made by Jonathan Foote and Robert Trempe.

On the 14th of February, the two researchers will give an Artist Talk at 15.00 in the Canteen.

Hvorfor har vi brug for arkitekter? For en arkitekt er svaret indlysende, men er det også det for folk i almindelighed, for politikere, bygherrer og beslutningstagere? På afgangsudstillingen i Rå Hal kan du få dugfriske bud på, hvorfor vi har brug for arkitekter.

Afgangsudstillingen viser projekter fra det nye kuld af arkitekter, der arbejder med transformation, restaurering, planlægning eller nybygning i deres afgangsprojekter. Med afsæt i bæredygtige løsninger og eksistentielle overvejelser demonstrerer de, hvordan verden kan blive et bedre sted gennem arkitektur. Hvad enten det er i den lille skala, hvor et hospice skal designes, en flygtningelandsby etableres, eller hvor en plan for omdirigering af vandmasser ved stormflod bliver til en ny byplansstrategi. Hvad enten det er i Danmark eller i et af verdens mange brændpunkter.

Projekterne viser, hvordan de nye arkitekter bruger deres digitale, kunstneriske og rumlige kompetencer til at forudse og formgive fremtidens arkitektur og skabe langtidsholdbare løsninger. Udstillingen kan ses frem den 24. februar 2018.​ Der er gratis entré. ​

Åbningstider i udstillingsperioden

Dagligt 11.00 – 18.00.
Rundvisning hver dag kl. 15.00.

15 kandidatstuderende fra studio 3 kuraterer og udstiller deres semesterprojekter i samarbejde med Limfjordsmuseet i Løgstør.

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One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things
– Henry Miller
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Under den selvvalgte titel “Nye Fremtider” og med limfjordsbyen Løgstør som testbase, har de studerende kigget på potentialer og dilemmaer ved en arkitektur, der indskriver sig i et omskifteligt miljø.
Et miljø, der er et produkt af en virkelighed, hvor moderne livsstil og stigende klimaforandringer gør genovervejelse vedrørende emner som tidsperspektiv, kontekst, materialitet og bevaring indenfor arkitekturen højaktuelle.

Skal vi forebygge eller komplimentere de drastiske ændringer i landskabet?
Hvad bliver byens nye kystlinje, hvis byens lavtliggende områder oversvømmes?
Kan man udnytte erosion og omdanne kystsikring til vandrende forrådskamre?
Hvordan ser en vinterbadeklub ud i år 2100?

Alle er velkomne til at deltage i åbningen den 25. januar kl. 16-19 på Limfjordmuseet i Løgstør. Efterfølgende er udstillingen åben fra den 28/1-31/1 kl. 12-15:30.

Program
16:00 – officiel åbning, kaffe og kage
16:30-17:15 – 3 studerende vil præsenterer deres semesterprojekter
17:15-19:00 – åben udstilling, de studerende vil være til stede, og vil fortælle om deres projekter og ideer

Studerende:
7th, 8th and 9th semester fra studio 3
Vejledere:
Sofie Palsmaker, Mads Bay Møller, Mads Nygaard, Nacho Ruiz Allen

Læs mere om eventet her.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The human spirit must prevail over technology.
Albert Einstein

Studio 2A is doing an exhibition in the Canteen called Wonderful Automatons.

Humans have dreamt with the existence of autonomous artefacts since time immemorial. From walking ducks to quasi-human robots, ingenuity has succeeded in the production of machines able to spark wonder. In literature from Ancient Greece, automatons (self-acting machines) are recorded to be cunning inventions intended for entertainment, religious and scientific purposes. Daedalus, coined to be the first architect in ancient mythology, is said to have sculpted forms with such grace that they would come out from the stone and walk.

Machines and their capacity of being both, extensions of our bodies and ‘bodies’ in themselves, have especially attracted architects throughout history and they remain to do so in our present day. In order to build and design, architecture greatly relies on machines and machines require architects to think with them wisely. In his Ten Books of Architecture, Vitruvius mentions the work of Ctesibius, who made hydraulic machines to perform as clocks, and the work of Hero of Alexandria, known as Michanikos, who is acquainted with the first automatic door and steam engine.

Vitruvius considered machinery as one of the fields of architecture, because it links directly with questions of technology, and thus making. The famous XX century motto by Le Corbusier “the house is a machine for living in” is one among many in the constellations of thoughts that have equated architecture with machines. Despite their obvious relationship to efficiency and production, machines have a long history in being objects of wonder.

Today, we live in a so-called ‘post-digital age.’ Machines, reigned by digital interfaces, software and algorithms are a natural part of our everyday life. Automated systems coexist with us in a constant dynamic flow that alternates between organized and chaotic occurrences. A tweet goes viral. Strange actions turn into unexpected habits. Big Data has become so obscure that special skills, much closer to that of wizards, are required to decode and filter information. We live immersed in a blurry set of interactions that are both physical and virtual, organized and aleatory.

In Studio 2A we ask the question: how can we imagine with machines? If our engagement with digital and mechanical technologies is so strongly rooted in how we work and produce architecture, this semester the studio focuses on pondering the role of machines as a creative tool for conceiving and reflecting upon architecture. As a first exercise, 33 students worked in groups of four to design a machine for drawing. Starting from the operational complexities of understanding coding via Arduino, students were challenged by the relationships between virtual orders and physical actions generated by motors and any extension attached to them. As with everything in the world of architects, for things to exist they must be designed and made. Students undertook the challenge of making beautiful, well-made artefacts, that in addition to their appearance, should generate, through particular performances, a wonderful drawing.

Through imagining with machines, students will continue to undertake the challenge of designing places for dwelling that emerge from their potential and sense of wonder.

Katrina Wiberg, cand. arch., ph.d. og adjunkt ved Arkitektskolen Aarhus, er blevet tildelt den nyindstiftede Dristighedspris på 50.000 kroner fra Statens Kunstfond for, med afsæt i sin forskning, på fornyende og modig vis at skabe almen interesse for arkitekturens kvaliteter. Hun modtager prisen ved åbningen af udstillingen FORSK!, hvor hendes prisvindende projekt også udstilles. Prisen overrækkes af Jens Thomas Arnfred fra Statens Kunstfonds arkitekturudvalg.

Hvordan forsker man i arkitektur? Og hvorfor gør man det? Det er nogle af de spørgsmål, som forskerne forsøger at svare på med udstillingen FORSK!, der fremvises i BLOX frem til d. 20. december

Titlen på udstillingen er en opfordring fra Arkitektskolen Aarhus til at forske. Forskning skaber viden, den inspirerer, den har samfundsmæssig relevans, og den medvirker til at flytte arkitekturen. Hvordan tilpasser vi vores byer, når vandet stiger? Hvordan kan digitale design- og produktionsformer bidrage til fremtidens byggeri? Og hvordan kan vi tænke udkant og opland? Det er nogle af de problemstillinger, projekterne berører.

Udstillingen viser projekter af nuværende og netop afsluttede ph.d.-studerende fra Arkitektskolen Aarhus. I plancher, installationer og teknisk nyskabende prototyper kan du opleve, hvordan arkitekturforskning aktivt udvikler arkitekturens elementer, vores landskab og planlægningen af fremtidens byer.

På udstillingen kan man opleve bidrag fra:

• Maya Lahmy
• Niels Martin Larsen
• Anders Kruse Aagaard
• Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag
• Polina Chebotareva
• Elizabeth Donovan
• Katrina Wiberg
• Jon Krähling Engholdt

Prisoverrækkelsen og udstillingsåbningen er åben for alle interesserede.

Udstillingen er støttet af:

• Beckett – Fonden
• Dreyers Fond

Starting on the 11th of October, Studio 1C will display an exhibition in the canteen. The exhibition is called White Elephant and will be on display until the 2nd of November.At the moment a worldwide discussion is ongoing regarding the long-term consequences for the host countries of mega events. Particularly, mega-events such as the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup tend to leave an enormous economic vacuum, especially when hosted in third world countries.
Prior to these mega-events, the host countries are requested to invest heavily in large-scale built structures and infrastructure that become obsolete at the end of the event.

The expensive on-going maintenance of the oversized, and, largely unusable, compounds are imposed the host countries for several decades subsequently. Therefore, these buildings are gaining a status as monuments of social inequality, and thus they result in public malcontent.
How to absorb these oversized sports facilities into the urban fragment instead of becoming an economic burden is sought addressed in the exhibited assignment proposals. Thus, the site chosen for the assignment is The Cape Town Stadium, which was inaugurated in 2009: Originally, it was built for the FIFA World Cup that took place in South Africa in 2010.Cape TownToday, Cape Town is a city of mixed, however segregated, cultures, due to a turbulent past primarily influenced by both the Dutch and the British colonial rule, not to mention the apartheid regime in the second half of the 20th century.
Despite initiatives such as The Act of Reconciliation the legacy of apartheid, however, is still represented in the built environment in Cape Town. It is not only the buildings of the apartheid regime that is being picked on. Thus, recently, the Cape Town Stadium, among other World Cup Stadiums in South Africa, became the object for severe criticisms. These criticisms are with great probability rooted in the social context as well as history.
Overall, the assignment aims at initiating a mixed-use program into the iconic large-scale sports facility. By stripping away the soft tissue and radically engage with basic structure by adding housing units and attached programs, the Cape Town Stadium is intended to be redeemed as a new housing community within the Green Point area in Cape Town.

Given the scale of the stadium as well as its iconic shape, the transformed stadium will reveal its former purpose even though it is transformed radically. Thus, the transformation into housing units is considered no more than another historic layer in a sequence of many. As such, the aim of the assignment is to design an intermediate state in the lifespan of a built environment rather than establishing a fully completed building complex. There will still be empty leftover spaces for future interventions in the final proposal. In other words, the ambition is to create a catalogue of possible solutions for transformation of obsolete large-scale sports facilities rather than to establish a new rigorous architectural entity.

Med Rådhusets arkitektur som fornemt back drop for fremtidens arkitektur præsenterer Arkitektskolen Aarhus afgangsudstillingen ALL – ROUND med 70 projekter af 80 nye arkitekter. Udstillingen åbner den 29. juni, og vil kunne opleves på Aarhus Rådhus frem til den 23. juli. Inden åbningen af udstillingen vil der være dimission til ære for de nyuddannede arkitekter. Både dimissionen og udstillingsåbningen er åben for offentligheden.

En afgangsudstilling markerer ikke bare afslutningen på et langt studieforløb, men er samtidig begyndelsen på en karriere, hvad enten de nyuddannede arkitekter vælger at søge beskæftigelse på en af byens mange tegnestuer, i en virksomhed, som offentlig ansat eller at starte som selvstændig arkitekt. Udstillingen er derfor et visitkort for de nye talenter som i årene fremover skal være med til at brande Danmark som en førende nation indenfor arkitektur og design.

I 2017 udstillede skolen med stor succes udendørs på Dokk1, og afgangsudstillingen i januar afholdtes i Rå Hal på Godsbanen og tiltrak over 1000 gæster til åbningen og var siden velbesøgt til de daglige rundvisninger i udstillingsperioden.Derfor er vi glade for, at vi har fået lov til at udstille i Rådhushallen på Aarhus Rådhus. Med Rådhusets arkitektur som udstillingsrum håber vi at nå endnu længere ud, både til praksis og i løbet af sommeren, også til de mange danske og internationale gæster med interesse i arkitektur, der besøger Rådhuset. Til åbningen af udstillingen vil skolens rektor, Torben Nielsen, holde tale, inden byrådsmedlem Camilla Fabricius åbner udstillingen, og åbningen er åben for offentligheden.

Fagets bredde og dybde

Temaet i år er ALL- ROUND, hvilket i al sin enkelthed går ud på at vise fagets bredde, dybde og relevans. ALL-ROUND oversættes med alsidig, mangesidig, talentfuld og universal og det er netop ord der kendetegner de studerende og deres valg af afgangsprojekter.

Afgangsprojekterne nytænker blandt andet byens industrilandskaber, transformerer vandtårne til folkebade, skaber helende arkitektur eller er engagerede i bæredygtige løsninger og iværksætterfællesskaber. Med afsæt i almene såvel som universelle og politiske problemstillinger demonstrerer de nye arkitekter både engagement og visioner. Eller som det udtrykkes med skolens motto: Engaging Through Architecture.
Udstillingen er støttet af Dinesen.

Hvor: Rådhushallen, Aarhus Rådhus.
Hvornår: Dimission fredag den 29. juni kl. 14.00, udstillingsåbning kl. 15.00. Udstillingen er åben frem til den 23. juli.

Aarhus vokser, og væksten kommer ikke mindst til udtryk langs byens havnefront. Siden arkitekt Knud Fladeland Nielsen i år 2000 vandt konkurrencen om udviklingen af Aarhus havn, er der gennemført talrige rumlige transformationer langs de bynære havnearealer, der spænder ud mellem Risskov og Marselisborgskoven.

Sydhavnskvarteret udgør en særdeles attraktiv brik i havneomdannelsen og udviklingen er i fuld gang. Med udgangspunkt i den aktuelle transformation er atten kandidatstuderende fra Arkitektskolen Aarhus blevet bedt om at udarbejde alternative fremtidsscenerier. Deres projekter er nu udstillet i Bylageret, Kalkværksvej 11 A-B, hvor de kan ses til og med den 27. juni.

En lang række bygninger er blevet revet ned, nye store bygninger er under opførelse, og i 2017 udarbejdede Aarhus Kommune både en udviklingsplan og kvalitetskatalog for Sydhavnskvarteret. Dermed er mange beslutninger allerede taget, men der er også stadig mange ubesvarede spørgsmål. Det gælder eksempelvis byens møde med vandet, koblingen til midtbyen og udformningen af områderne nord og syd for kulkransporet.

Mellem realisme og utopi

De studerendes forslag bevæger sig mellem realisme og utopi. På den ene side er de blevet bedt om at forholde sig til områdets bindinger og igangværende processer. På den anden side har de haft friheden til at tænke stort – og langt ud i fremtiden.Mandag d. 25. juni kl. 15.15 vil arkitektskolen være vært ved en reception, hvor alle er velkomne. Her vil der være mulighed for at drøfte projekterne med de studerende.De atten studerende, som udstiller, er: Francesco Cauda, Leon Wittmaack, Mark Gill, Qirui Liu, Robert Davis, Thorbjørn Crüger Klitgaard, Anders Kielsgaard Hansen, Anne Catherine Lyager Langer, Emilie Zinck Munksgaard, Haris Hasanbegovic, Idunn Hylland, Mathias Rieland Kanstrup, Pelle Juul Carlsen, Yue Wang, Jennifer Tran, Lena Duwe, Lucas Renson, Qiushi Kong.

Hvor: Bylageret, Kalkværksvej 11 A-B

Hvornår: Torsdag kl. 14-16, fredag kl. 10-12 samt første lørdag i hver måned kl. 11-15. Herudover vil det være muligt af få adgang til udstillingen ved at atge kontakt til Birthe Urup Nygaard/bun@aarch.dk eller Jens Christian Pasgaard/jcp@aarch.dk.

From May 29th to Juni 29th the exhibition ‘VINDUER: Parallel Particulars’ is displayed in the Canteen, and on the first day of the exhibition, an artist talk will highlight testimonies of architects’ memories, reflections and observations of windows from here and somewhere else. The exhibition will open with an artist talk on May 29th at 16.00 in the Canteen.

”Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window” is a quote from the poem “Windows” by Charles Baudelaire.

Living in different places brings common objects into a renewed state of awareness. Differently, to the impression that imagination is solely activated by novelty, this exhibition celebrates a common architectural element found anywhere: the window. In its universal presence, the window is also a character of particularities. Under such condition, the far and the near meet and converse, constituting places for recollection, discovery and ultimately, the architectural imagination.

The exhibition will consist of:

9 drawings by the author

These drawings are reconstructions and impressions of Danish windows, a graphic celebration of their aura and presence within the city.

9 sets of photographs by Milagros Sánchez Azcona

These photographs are snapshots of windows from Mendoza, the city where the author was born and raised.

9 short talks by

Anders Gammelgaard Nielsen

Angus Hardwick

Charlotte Bundgaard

Chris Thurlbourne

Claudia Carbone

Karen Kjærgaard

Naina Gupta

Nacho Ruiz Allen

Robert Trempe

These talks are testimonies of architects’ memories, reflections and observations of windows from here and somewhere else.

Opening day and artist talk: May 29th at 16:00 in the Canteen

Starting with an Artist Talk on April 26, Studio 2b presents ‘Proximate Nesting,’ displaying 1:1 constructs at the intersection of human behavior, computational articulation, and physical manufacturing.
These are constructions that examine acts in human nesting, generating analytical constructs inspired and instructed by an understanding of human behavior, from body to the territorial space occupied.

These are constructions that explore the strengths and weaknesses of procedural modeling towards concepts in aggregation; a contemporary technique in articulation that instills a methodology in assemblage.

These are constructions that test everyday materials, exploiting latent traits to create secure and robust personal environments from familiar textures and surfaces.
These are constructions situated in a compound of raw and unfinished spaces; an environment that instigates qualities of personal protection found in-and-through the act of nesting.

The exhibition will take place in The Canteen at Aarhus School of Architecture, and will be on display until May 25.

When: Artist Talk on April 26 at 15.00
Where: The Canteen, Aarhus School of Architecture

Hvordan tilpasser vi vores byer, når vandet stiger? Hvordan udvikler vi det såkaldte Udkantsdanmark? Og hvordan kan vi bruge digitale design- og produktionsformer i fremtidens byggeri? Det er blot nogle af de spørgsmål, som udstillingen FORSK! belyser.

FORSK! er en udstilling, hvor tidligere og nuværende ph.d.-studerende fra Arkitektskolen Aarhus viser projekter, der giver bud på tidens samfundsmæssige og arkitektoniske udfordringer.

Hvor: Rå Hal, Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3, 8000 Aarhus C
Hvornår: 13.-24. april, dagligt kl. 12.00-18.00 – officiel åbning: 13. april klokken 16.00.

Udstillingen foregår i Rå Hal på Godsbanen i Aarhus og åbner fredag den 13. april klokken 16.00, hvor Arkitektskolen byder på bobler og snacks. Alle er meget velkomne.

Efter den officielle åbning vil udstillingen frem til den 24. april dagligt være åben fra klokken 12.00 til 18.00.

Mens udstillingen foregår, vil der blive afholdt en række oplæg og debatter om de forskellige projekter.

Program:

• 13.-15. April: International konference CA2RE
• 19. april klokken 17.00-18.00: Robotter og arkitektur
• 20. april klokken 16.00-18.00: Åbning af Forskningens Døgn – Hvem forsker vi for? Offentlig paneldebat med udstillingens forskere
• 23. april klokken 17.15-19.30: Fremtidens arkitektpraksis
• 24. april klokken 13.00-15.00: Vand – Ressource eller problem?

Udstillingen er støttet af Beckett-Fonden og Dreyers Fond.

Logbits is an exhibition that pieces together a (re)collection of different impressions experienced during a longer stay in Australia (12 July – 26 November 2017) by the architect, Teaching Associate Professor at Aarhus School of Architecture, Claudia Carbone. During this period behavioural patterns were established to ensure that the accumulation of experiences added up to a plenitude of representations that in combination made up an architectural view of the world.

About the exhibition’s various elements, Claudia Carbone writes:

Stationary Stationery

A series of 54 cards displayed on an apparatus that offers an insight into sections in time and a given experience of the data in specific relation to the viewer. The cards are mnemonic devices, such as a drawn logbook, a depiction of a situation, information, and surroundings. Giving into the moment and the format of the cards, the stationery was appropriated as an aesthetic (fixed) backdrop for the collection of memories, as souvenirs.

Under pressure

Flatness as a result of the action of collecting, gathering and preserving under pressure as a device for building up a collection based on nature as well as on other items of a cultural origin.

The exhibited items, which are displayed under pressure, become one under a flat condition of the preserved geometrical layered and distorted forms and characteristics of nature and culture. The display aims to establish a restricted and manipulated new contextual condition, as the items are not arranged by means of a usual taxonomy. They are merely floating structures keeping same spacing in between – equal distance.

Fragmented natures (7 mins)

A flickering film made using a selective and distorted approach based on a vast material acquired using the digital camera as medium. The aim of the work is to enhance recollections as an archival, selective superimposition of impressions that is too smooth? to please.

Inside out

The architecture establishes relations from the inside, calibrating a particular atmosphere. The surroundings are captured as a desirable tableau, drawing in the world and the horizon as intangible views.

Claudia Carbone is an architect and a teacher, educated from Aarhus School of Architecture. Her interests within artistic production include the representation of the serial, the structures of the small, and the act of collecting and mapping.

Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, the canteen, Nørreport 18, 8000 Aarhus C
When:  22 February – 16 April, daily 09.00  – 15.00.  Artist Talk 16 March 15.00

Everyone is welcome to visit the exhibition.

27 kandidatstuderende giver bud på, hvordan byen kan udvikle sig. Fra den 5. til og med den 8. februar kan deres projekter ses i foyeren på Aarhus Rådhus.

Der er åbningsreception den 5. februar kl. 12, hvor byens udvikling vil blive diskuteret med rådmand for Teknik & Miljø, Bünyamin Simsek, og stadsarkitekt Stephen Willacy.

Aarhus vokser hurtigt. Der skal gøres plads til 4.000 nye borgere om året. I dag bor der 335.000 mennesker i Aarhus, og hvis prognoserne holder stik vil der være 375.000 i 2030 – og ikke mindre end 450.000 i 2050.  Det vil sige at midtbyen og forstæderne skal optage mere end 115.000 nye medborgere.

En sådan vækst sætter byens landskabskiler og grønne bælter under pres. Der er et behov for en robust helhedsplan for Aarhus. En plan der tager fat i de store linjer – hvor byens iboende kvaliteter kan bevares og hvor væksten kan udnyttes som en positiv katalysator for både midtby og forstæder.

Det er kandidatstuderende fra Studio Urban Design | Landscape Architecture, der har udarbejdet forslag til udviklingsscenarier for et specifikt område i Brabrand og Aarhus Ådal. Området rummer koblingen mellem by og landskab, og som mulig endestation for letbanens 2. etape og fremtidig nærbane til Silkeborg kan Brabrand blive en vigtig brik i byens fremtidige infrastruktur.

Området i Brabrand er således et oplagt udgangspunkt for en generel diskussion om Aarhus’ fremtidige vækst.

Nogle af projekterne foreslår en drastisk fortætning omkring Brabrand Station og ’Tulip-grunden’, andre foreslår Brabrand som en grøn oase, en bypark med stor attraktionsværdi for alle kommunens borgere.

Hvor: Aarhus Rådhus, Foyeren, Rådhuspladsen 2, 8000 Aarhus C
Hvornår: 5. – 8. februar 2018, dagligt 8.00 – 16.00 (mandag fra kl. 12.00)

Alle er velkomne til at besøge udstillingen.

A 65 metres long and 5.5 metres high arcade is the setting of this winter’s graduate exhibition at Godsbanen in Aarhus. In the space known as ‘Rå Hal’, Aarhus School of Architecture presents the exhibition RÅT – the visions of our raw and uncut architects for the homes, institutions and landscapes of tomorrow.

Here you can experience 50 very different projects, ranging from spaces that exist in between place and spirit over self-supportive food markets to retreats, refugee homes and landscape strategies for flood management.

The projects illustrate the way our new architects use their digital, artistic and spatial skills to anticipate and shape the buildings of the future and ensure long-lasting solutions.

Where: Rå Hal, Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3, 8000 Aarhus C
When: 2 – 25 February 2018, daily from 11.00 to 18.00.
Guided tours every day at 15.00
Graduation ceremony and exhibition opening: Friday 2 February from 14.00 to 16.00

Everyone is welcome – entrance is free.

Hvordan tager vi hensyn til landskabets mangfoldige kulturhistorie, når vi naturgenopretter? Dette spørgsmål tager lektor ved Arkitektskolen Aarhus,  landskabsarkitekt MDL, ph.d. Thomas Juel Clemmensen, op til diskussion på udstillingen KULTURNATUR, der kan ses i Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon til og med søndag den 4. februar.

Inspiration udefra

Omdrejningspunktet for udstillingen er en undersøgelse af de omfattende landskabsændringer, som fulgte med Skjern Å Projektet (1962-1968) og Skjern Å Naturprojektet (1999-2003). Thomas Juel Clemmensen præsenterer desuden et skitseforslag til, hvordan hovedkanalen fra 1960’ernes store og ambitiøse afvandingsprojekt kunne have været udnyttet konstruktivt i udformningen af den nye natur i Skjern Enge. Han har hentet inspirationen i Schweitz, hvor arkitekten Georges Descombes har stået i spidsen for et interessant naturprojektet, som på forbilledlig vis tilgodeser både natur- og kulturarv.

Udstillingen sætter spørgsmålstegn ved den nuværende naturgenopretningspraksis i Danmark og fremhæver landskabsarkitekturen som en kritisk og refleksiv disciplin. Ved at pege på, hvad man også kunne have gjort, udnyttes Skjern Å Naturprojektets status og prestige til at skabe en øget bevågenhed omkring naturgenopretningens kulturelle dimension. Udstillingen skal ses som en invitation til at gentænke vores naturgenopretning.

Udstillingsåbning og boglancering

Samtidig med udstillingen har Thomas Juel Clemmensen udgivet bogen KULTURNATUR, der uddyber hans tanker vedrørende naturgenopretning og gengiver materialet fra udstillingen. Bogen, der er på 154 sider,  er udkommet på Arkitektskolens Forlag. Den kan blandt andet købes gennem Architegn og  Arkitektfoeningen. Prisen er 150 kr.

Udstillingen kan som nævnt ses i Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon til og med den 4. februar. Adressen er Henning Larsens Vej 3, 6920 Videbæk.

Grab a pair of 3D-glasses and experience the exhibition Cognition, Representation and Anaglyphs that ponders the notion of seeing’s effect on objects through the technique of stereoscopic imagery.

The project is part of early-stage research by Jens Pedersen into representation, where the interest lies with the implicit information that makes it possible to represent objects (digitally) and how these can be used as a design approach.

The point of departure of the exhibition is to get a general understanding of how we see physiologically, and how this can be translated into a technological framework, where stereoscopic imagery can then be used as a means to enhance image perception in images or movies.

All images and animations in this exhibition were made to understand how stereo images work and to uncover their design potential. The images and animations were made through Rhino aided by Grasshopper3D.

Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, the canteen, Nørreport 18, 8000 Aarhus C
When:11 January – 16 February 2017, daily 09.00 – 15.00

Everyone is welcome to visit the exhibition.

Enjoy a world of digital drawings at the Drawing of the Year 2017 exhibition where you can experience the winners of the international student competition and a curated sample of the submitted drawings.

For the playful among the audience, the exhibition offers interactive drawing machines. On display is also a collection of personal videos that the participants submitted as supplements to their drawings.

Furthermore, the exhibition shows a variety of analogue drawing tools sponsored by architecture bookstore Archi Tegn and special edition classic fix pencils sponsored by Viking/Caran D’Ache.

When: 1 – 14 December 2017, Monday – Thursday: 10.00 – 15.00, Friday: 10.00 – 14.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, Exhibition Building, Nørreport 22, 8000 Aarhus C

Digital drawing machines

The exhibition features four interactive drawing machines from the workshop Drawing Devices where students used old printers or cheap electrical components to explore motion’s effect on drawings. The workshop was taught by teachers Jens Pedersen and Thomas Lee.

• Autonomous Paintings is a collaborative piece, where you can insert robots dipped in paint wherever you please in a painting. The machine negates the notion of an “artist” since the creating role of the painting is that of an autonomous agent, the paper and the initial placement of the robot. Designed by: Jens Pedersen.
• Seismograph. As the device is passed, registering happens, and the seismographic lines start to appear. The drawing thereby becomes the mapping; the device becomes the mapper and passers-by become the mapped. Designed by: Erik B. Bruntse, Morten Hagemann, and Frederik Valdemar R. Andersen.
• Speculative Perpetual Machine aims to constantly develop its output through several components, which work autonomously in cohesion to produce a drawing. The audience can interact with the machine by pressing various buttons. Designed by: Jacob Hersoug, Lotte Fredensborg, Marianne Nilsen, and Mathias Kruse.
• Moving Light produces abstract drawings dependent on how the machine’s four light sensors are affected. The machine is interactive, so the audience is encouraged to make a drawing by turning on the machine and using the flash on, e.g. a phone as the source of light. Designed by: Mille H. Christensen, Christine B. Steffensen, and Lars B. Jensen.

Drawing of the Year 2017

The competition has focused exclusively on sketches and drawings created with digital technology. The competition aims to explore new tendencies in architectural drawing and challenge the use of new techniques and mixed media.

Drawing of the Year 2017 has challenged the contestants to explore how digital drawing can push the boundaries of the perception of drawing as a craft.

The international student competition received 234 proposals from more than 48 countries. All entries have explored the competition theme Everyday Utopia.

Drawing of the Year 2017 is sponsored by schmidt hammer lassen architects, VOLA and the Danish Arts Foundation.

Ekstremt store datasæt er ikke kun vanskelige at indsamle, gemme og analysere. Store data er også svære at visualisere og kommunikere.

Udstillingen Big Data forsøger at vise store data på en måde, der giver mening til et publikum. Udstillingen er et kollektivt display der indeholder udstillingen One Hundred Years af ph.d.-studerende Elizabeth Donovan og Index Room af ph.d.-studerende Angela Gigliotti.

Hvornår: 10. – 28 . November 2017, dagligt fra 09.00 – 15.00.
Hvor: Arkitektskolen Aarhus, kantinen, Nørreport 18, 8000 Aarhus C

Artist Talk

Udstillingen afslutter med en finissage og artist talk den 28. november kl. 17.00 i kantinen.

Angela Gigliotti introducerer Index Room, et fysisk arkiv af hvem og hvad der var bag den danske arkitektoniske produktion, der blomstrede i “Velfærdsstatens gyldne år’’ (1945-75).

Elizabeth Donovan vil diskutere processen med at indsamle, organisere, digitalisere, destillere og repræsentere et hundrede års historie i bæredygtig arkitektur. Hun vil fokusere på, hvordan disse metoder har påvirket hendes forskning og hvordan engagement ændres, når disse oplysninger præsenteres visuelt.

The Big Data

Elizabeth Donovans ph.d.-projekt Theories of Sustainable Architecture samt Angela Gigliottis ph.d.-projekt Behind the Scenes of the Contemporary Modes of Architectural Productioner begge forskningsprojekter, der indebærer en overvældende mængde data, der digitalt analyseres for at afsløre mønstre, tendenser og foreninger, især i forhold til menneskelig adfærd og interaktioner.

Paris er en by fuld af modsætninger, forskelligheder og endeløse muligheder. Og så har den lokket to arkitektstuderende fra Aarhus til at tage et semester fri, for at arbejde med et selvstillet projekt om arkitektur og urbanisme.

Kandidatstuderende Emilie Zinck Munksgaard og Pelle Juul Carlsen har begge været i praktik i Paris. Efter praktikken valgte de at blive i Paris, hvor de har arbejdet på at kortlægge Paris’ udvikling og infrastruktur. De studerede de eksisterende forhold ved hjælp af en kombination af arkitekturteori og by-analyser, og kunne derfor også udvikle spekulative scenarier i byens spændingsfelter.

Emilie og Pelle kan nu dokumentere det færdige projekt i udstillingen Paris – En by i divergens. Udstillingen viser en model og to bøger, dels om projektets faser fra research til endelige tegninger og illustrationer, dels projektets teoretiske analyse. Udstillingen viser også et 10 meter langt kort over det Paris, de har kortlagt.

Hvor: Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Kantinen, Nørreport 18, 8000 Aarhus C
Hvornår: 5. – 31. oktober 2017, dagligt 9.00 – 15.00

Alle er velkomne til at besøge udstillingen.

Artist Talk

“Rejsen og projektet har helt sikkert gavnet vores studier – også fremadrettet. Projektet i Paris gav os en unik mulighed for dels at arbejde helt tæt på vores problemstilling, dels har vi haft mulighed for at fordybe os i relevant arkitekturteori. Og vi har kunnet sætte fokus på konflikten mellem centrum og periferi, som har stor betydning for nutidens samfund og moderne by,” siger Pelle og Emilie om deres projekt.

Har du lyst til at høre mere om, hvorfor de tog et semester fri for at analysere Paris, og hvordan man som studerende arbejder med et selvstillet projekt, som også skal finansieres, så kom til en Artist Talk med Emilie og Pelle i kantinen torsdag den 5. oktober 2017 kl. 16.00 – 17.00 i forbindelse med udstillingsåbningen.

Emilie og Pelle har inviteret to tidligere studerende Mathias Skafte Andersen og Niels Eli Kjær Thomsenfra Sleth til at deltage i arrangementet. Mathias og Niels fortæller om, hvordan der kan være stor faglig udvikling i at fokusere på egne initiativer og teorier i løbet af studiet.

At forstå Paris

Emilie og Pelles projekt opstod, fordi de ønskede at studere forholdet mellem arkitektur og urbanisme nærmere, og derigennem få en forståelse af byens udvikling. De ville forstå den konflikt der ligger i opbygningen og opdelingen af en Europæisk storby som Paris, hvor det historiske centrum adskiller sig fra den modernistiske periferi.

Ved hjælp af analyser af Paris og arkitekturteori og -historie har Emilie og Pelle udviklet et forslag til et rumligt projekt, som handler om, hvordan man ved inddragelse af byens mange historiske og morfologiske lag kan skabe ”ny” arkitektur i en by så divergent som Paris.

Emilie og Pelles projekt er støttet af Foundation Idella og Kirsten Spliid Pedersens Rejsefond.

Experience the exhibition The City as a Palimpsest that explores the question how was the city created and how will it develop in the future?

The exhibition shows 40 plaster models of major cities from the four corners of the world: Africa, Asia, America, and Europe. The models are designed and cast by 80 bachelor students under the guidance of Associate Professors Andriette Ahrenkiel, Thomas Hilberth, and Thomas Juel Clemmensen as well as research assistant Nacho Ruiz Allen and temporary lecturer Jane Willumsgaard.

The students have explored how traces of earlier events and history are embedded in the urban structure. And also how latent possibilities and potentials for a future development can be distinguished in the urban structure too. The students were challenged to reveal and identify these different layers to gain an understanding and knowledge of the urban essence itself.

When: 22 September – 13 October 2017, Monday – Thursday: 10.00 – 15.00, Friday: 10.00 – 14.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, Exhibition Building, Nørreport 22, 8000 Aarhus C

Entrance is free and everyone is welcome.

Besøg udstillingen Wasteland 2.0 hvor Lendager Group præsenterer genanvendelse af affald på en ny måde.

Publikum træder ind i en ikke så fjern fremtid. Bi-produkter vil ikke længere blive betragtet som affald, men i stedet som vigtige bygningsmaterialer, der indgår i udviklingen af huse, byer og samfund verden over. Facader af komprimerede aviser og gulv af korkpropper viser os, at huse bygget af affald ikke betyder, at vi går på kompromis med æstetikken.

Hvor: Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Udstillingsbygningen, Nørreport 22, 8000 Aarhus C
Hvornår: 13 – 29 september 2017. Mandag – torsdag: 10.00 – 15.00, fredag: 10.00 – 14.00

Udstillingen er gratis, og alle er velkomne.

Affald som ressource

På vejen mod en bæredygtig fremtid, er affald er en afgørende ressource. I Danmark producerer vi hvert år over 11.74 millioner tons affald, hvoraf byggeindustrien alene producerer hele 4.1 million tons.

Verdens befolkning vokser, og særligt i byerne, hvilket betyder at efterspørgslen på byggematerialer til nye huse stiger. Men hvad nu hvis vi så affald som en ressource, vi kan bruge til at udvikle nye bygninger med?

Udstillingen tager udgangspunkt i materialer, vi allerede kender – plastik, træ, beton, mursten, glas og metal. Vi følger materialerne i processen fra at være restprodukter, til de bliver værdifulde ressourcer af høj, arkitektonisk og æstetisk kvalitet.

Håbet med udstillingen er at give publikum en ny forståelse af affald som en værdifuld ressource, vi kan bruge til at udvikle vores fælles fremtid.

Udstillingen er udviklet og kurateret af Lendager Group, finansieret af Realdania, støttet af The Architecture Project og er en del af Rising Architecture Week 2017.

In a technological world, how can architects nurture our relationship with the directness of materials? 85 bachelor students from Unit C+D are examining this question in a workshop in Vennelystparken, where they are creating an architectural bamboo promenade.

The workshop focuses on building culture, technology, and habitation as a contested ground for our relationship with the physicality of architecture. The workshop examines the notion of Material Imagination – a way of thinking about architecture that begins with the inherent aspects of materials, e.g. their cultural, tectonic, and haptic qualities as an inspiration for architectural design.

The promenade is a supplement to the school’s exhibition Architecture Moves.

When: 11 – 15 September 2017
Where: Vennelystparken, 8000 Aarhus C

The bamboo promenade

Using a single material and a simple tectonic vocabulary, the students are constructing a large, collectively built 1:1 structure – an architectural promenade.

Within the promenade, a different groups will have an individual site of 2m x 2m. To complete the promenade, each site must comply with two pre-defined openings and each structure must provide a place for a single person to rest, sit, or lean. Each group is allocated a pre-determined amount of bamboo and jute, and possible tectonic operations include e.g. cutting, bending, and weaving.

Using the bamboo material as a starting point, the students seek to answer several architectural questions, e.g. what does it take to make an enclosure? How does one define an entrance or exit, or create views? and how does one define perceptions of inside/outside?

Workshop tutors: Teaching Associate Professors Peter Mandal and Ann Aloy Kilpatrick, and Associate Professors Jonathan Foote, Peter Dahl, Kätte Bønløkke Andersen, and Niels Martin Larsen

How does noted architect and scholar CJ Lim develop and execute his spectacular drawings?

CJ Lim sheds light on his creative process in the exhibition Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future? The exhibition opens in the school’s canteen on 1 September when the fall semester starts. You can explore the exhibition until 29 September.

The exhibition kicks off the international student competition Drawing of the Year 2017. The theme of the competition is Everyday Utopia. 

Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, the Canteen, Nørreport 18, 8000 Aarhus C

Everybody is welcome, no registration needed.

The exhibition

The exhibition displays 11 drawings that present an alternative future patterning of space.

Inspired by science fiction, the drawings establish hypotheses and strategies that promote a new paradigm for urban living in regions facing climate change of different degrees of severity.

Although the drawings in the exhibition begin life in the computer as digital lines, they have since been printed, collaged to fuse with spatial narrative, hand-traced to capture all of human’s creative nuance, scanned and digitally re-traced, and finally finessed with layers of textures and tones.

CJ Lim

CJ Lim is Visiting Professor at Aarhus School of Architecture and teaches with Temporary Lecturer Eva Rosborg Aagaard in Studio 3A. He is also Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bartlett UCL, and the founder of Studio 8 Architects – a multi-disciplinary practice in urban planning, architecture, and landscape focusing on cultural, social, and sustainability issues.

Drop by the library and experience delicate drawings by Associate Professor Jan Fugl. The exhibition shows examples of different kinds of measurements and survey drawings carried out in Aswan, Egypt; Sifnos and Lesbos, Greece; Can Lis, Mallorca; San Juan, Puerto Rico and St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands.

Most of the works and drawings have been carried out in relation to study trips with students from the school.

The working method has predominantly been nominal and analogue. The exception is the survey work on the old barracks on St. Croix in the former Danish Vest Indies. Here the students were introduced to digital methods such as photogrammetry and a mix between analogue and digital methods.

When: 1 – 15 September 2017. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 10.00 – 16.00, Wednesday: 10.00 – 18.00, Friday: 10.00 – 15.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, the Library, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus C

Regn er ikke bare irriterende en mandag morgen på cykel. Øget nedbør og hyppigere skybrud gør, at vi bliver nødt til at stille spørgsmål ved måden vi planlægger, bygger og bosætter os på.

Udstillingen Når Vandet Kommer er en arkitektonisk kommentar til klimaændringer og bosætningsmønstre og er baseret på forskningsprojektet Waterscapes of Value af ph.d.-studerende Katrina Wiberg. Her behandles forstadsbyen Lystrup, som i 2012 oplevede et skybrud, der skabte oversvømmelser af både veje og bygninger.

Når Vandet Kommer peger på det uafklarede forhold mellem den tørre by og den våde by. Den tørre by holder vandet under kontrol ved hjælp af dræn og kloakker, hvorimod den våde by træder frem, når veje og kældre oversvømmes.

Udstillingen viser, hvordan Lystrup ser ud som tør by, og hvordan byen ændrer sig, når vandet tager over.

Når Vandet Kommer åbner fredag den 25. august kl. 16.00.

Hvor: Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Udstillingsbygningen, Nørreport 22, 8000 Aarhus C
Hvornår: 25. august – 15. september 2017. Mandag – torsdag: 10.00 – 15.00, fredag: 10.00 – 14.00

Udstillingen er gratis, og alle er velkomne.

Når Vandet Kommer er en del af Arkitektskolen Aarhus’ udstilling Architecture Moves, som er skolens bidrag til Aarhus 2017 – Europæisk Kulturhovedstad.

Event: Den Blå Time

I udstillingsperioden kan du to gange opleve eventet Den Blå Time, hvor Arkitektskolen Aarhus’ udstillingsbygning forvandles til en blå oversvømmelse ved hjælp af lys og røg. Du kan prøve at stå midt i Lystrups dramatiske transformation fra tør til våd by, og gå en tur på byens veje i skala 1:414 i vand til knæene – men uden at blive våd.

Klimaforandringer, ressourceknaphed, affolkning i nogle områder og høj befolkningskoncentration i andre. Det er nogle af de globale udfordringer, vi står overfor.

Det kan virke abstrakt, men udfordringerne er konkrete og påvirker steder og mennesker direkte. Det har betydning for, hvor vi bor og arbejder. Hvordan vi arbejder. Det har betydning for huset, der ikke kan sælges. For industrien, der erstattes af luksusboliger. Og det har også betydning på lokalt plan.

Derfor blev Region Midtjylland udpeget som laboratorium for Arkitektskolen Aarhus’ undervisning i forårssemesteret 2017. 140 studerende er rejst ud i regionen og har arbejdet med bl.a. Lime, Lyngå, Skader, Skjød, Skørring. Med Silkeborg, Holstebro og Bording. Og med Anholt og Barrit.

De studerendes undersøgelser er mundet ud i udstillingen Architecture Moves, der sætter form på regionens fremtid og viser, hvordan arkitekturen kan bidrage med lokale løsninger på globale udfordringer.

Klimaforandringer, ressourceknaphed, affolkning i nogle områder og høj befolkningskoncentration i andre. Det er nogle af de globale udfordringer, vi står overfor.

Det kan virke abstrakt, men udfordringerne er konkrete og påvirker steder og mennesker direkte. Det har betydning for, hvor vi bor og arbejder. Hvordan vi arbejder. Det har betydning for huset, der ikke kan sælges. For industrien, der erstattes af luksusboliger. Og det har også betydning på lokalt plan.

Derfor blev Region Midtjylland udpeget som laboratorium for Arkitektskolen Aarhus’ undervisning i forårssemesteret 2017. 140 studerende er rejst ud i regionen og har arbejdet med bl.a. Lime, Lyngå, Skader, Skjød, Skørring. Med Silkeborg, Holstebro og Bording. Og med Anholt og Barrit.

De studerendes undersøgelser er mundet ud i udstillingen Architecture Moves, der sætter form på regionens fremtid og viser, hvordan arkitekturen kan bidrage med lokale løsninger på globale udfordringer.

Udstillingen er for dig, der er interesseret i, hvordan vores byer og landområder udvikler sig. Udstillingen inviterer dig til at gå på opdagelse i konkrete forslag og utopiske forestillinger om en bæredygtig fremtid.

Hvor: Vennelystparken, 8000 Aarhus C
Hvornår: 25. august – 15. september 2017

Udstillingen er åben hele døgnet, men bemandet af en studerende dagligt fra 12.00 – 19.00 – du kan kende ham på den blå t-shirt og det brede smil.

Vil du gerne have en grundig introduktion til udstillingen? Deltag i den daglige rundvisning kl. 15.00, hvor de studerende fortæller om de forskellige projekter. Vi byder på cookies og kaffe. Tilmelding er ikke nødvendig.

Vi tilbyder ekstra rundvisninger til større grupper, skoleklasser o.l.

Udstillingen er en del af Aarhus Festuge og samtidig Arkitektskolen Aarhus’ bidrag til Europæisk Kulturhovedstad 2017. Projektet Architecture Moves er sponsoreret af Fonden Aarhus 2017, BL – Danmarks Almene Boliger og Aarhus Kommune.

Udstillingen

I Vennelystparken kan du gå på opdagelse i fem blå arkader, to pavilloner og 36 trækuber, der viser projekter, film, tekster og modeller.

Du kan få en særlig ejendomsavis, hvor de studerende præsenterer nye boligtilbud, som er udviklet i samarbejde med Danmarks Almene Boliger.

I en arkade kan du mærke Anholts topografi på modeller af teaktræ. Og du kan besøge et langhus, hvor du kan undersøge konstruktionen i detaljer.

Du kan også se sommerens afgangsudstilling OUT, som tidligere er blevet vist på Dokk1.

Hvordan kan arkitekter og arkitektstuderende gentænke arkitekturen? I en af arkaderne kan du opleve dialogprojektet Letters to the Parliament og læse personlige breve til danske politikere med ideer, inspiration og forslag til ny arkitektur. Du kan selv prøve at være en del af et arkitekturparlament, når RISING Architecture Week åbner med en særlig udgave af Letters to the Parliament 11. september på Arkitektskolen Aarhus.

Architecture Moves kan også opleves uden for Vennelystparken i udstillingen Når Vandet Kommer i udstillingsbygningen på Arkitektskolen Aarhus.

Kontakt

Vil du vide mere om arkitektskolens bidrag til Europæisk Kulturhovedstad, eller vil du booke en ekstra rundvisning? Kontakt studielektor og projektkoordinator Anne Mette Boye.

Installationen er en del af det biotekniske projekt Aarhus Wet City. Projektet har til formål at samarbejde om den nye anvendelse af digital – og bioteknologi til byområdet i Aarhus. For at nå dette mål er en levende installation installeret ved havnen, som virker som en inkubator for mikroøkologierne i byens sejlrender.Installationen vil gøre sådanne økosystemer synlige for alle og indlede visioner af en fremtid, hvor mikroorganismer bidrager til byens egen udvidede forbrænding ved at filtrere byspildevand, fordøje organisk affald, dyrke biobrændstoffer og producere superfood til mennesker og dyr.Samtidig foreslås en ny berøringsflade i byplanlægningen for at høste den kollektive intelligens af Aarhus’ befolkning i udformningen af den fremtidige blågrønne plan for byen.

Projektet drives af ecoLogicStudio og ADAPT-r ph.d.-stipendiat Marco Poletto, som i øjeblikket gennemfører sit ph.d.-projekt Systemic Architecture: From cyber-gardens to bio-cities at Aarhus School of Architecture.Læs mere om Aarhus Wet City-projektet: En ny blå/grøn plan for Aarhus.

53 engagerede, nyuddannede arkitekter står nu klar til at forme fremtidens arkitektur og design. Det er nu, de skal UD at prøve kræfter med det virkelige liv. Det er nu, uddannelsens teorier skal omsættes til praksis og drømmene blive til virkelighed.

Slå et smut forbi sommerens afgangsudstilling OUT foran Dokk1, hvor de nyuddannede arkitekter viser resultatet af 5 års studier med en række samfundsrelevante projekter.

De nye arkitekter stiller kritiske spørgsmål ved det eksisterende og kommer med relevante bud på ny arkitektur, der kan skabe forandring. Fra nytænkning af nordiske begravelsestraditioner til murstenskonstruktioner skabt ved hjælp af robotter. Fra kulturarvsprojekter på St Croix til nye boliger i Klitmøller.

De nye arkitekter har igennem uddannelsen tilegnet sig tekniske, videnskabelige og teoretiske færdigheder og er modnet gennem diskussioner om arkitektur, teori og praksis. Og de har lært at balancere mellem det arkitektoniske og det kunstneriske udtryk, som udgør en væsentlig del af uddannelsens fundament.

Afgangsudstillingen OUT, som er placeret foran hovedindgangen ved Dokk1, giver skolen mulighed for at bringe arkitekturen UD i byen og vise, at arkitektur er en del af vores måde at opfatte byen og os selv på. De mange afgangsprojekter viser, at god arkitektur gør en forskel for os alle.

Hvor: Dokk1, Hack Kampmanns Plads 2, 8000 Aarhus C
Hvornår: Hele døgnet fra 30 juni – 7. juli 2017

The construction of an architect moves in different tempi like the construction of a building. From semester to semester the bachelor students change and develop, some faster some slower, but all moving forward.

The bachelor exhibition Under Construction reflects this continuous development of the architects in the making. The exhibition itself will also be under construction as it changes and develops during the opening period.

The exhibition opens 2 June with a display of projects by 2nd-year students. During June the projects will gradually be replaced by bachelor projects from 3rd-year students in pace with their graduation.

The exhibition officially opens and closes with a so-called finissage on 23 June from 15.00 – 16.00 with a reception and cold beers for all.

When: 2 – 23 June 2017, Monday – Thursday: 10.00 – 15.00, Friday: 10.00 – 14.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, Exhibition Building, Nørreport 22, 8000 Aarhus C

Drop by the canteen and explore the exhibition Collective Harvesting by master students at Studio 2A. The exhibition shows the results of the studio’s work in the village of Barrit.

When: 5 May – 25 August, daily 9.00 – 15.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, The Canteen, Nørreport 16, 8000 Aarhus C

Everybody is welcome, entrance is free.

Collective Harvesting

The students at Studio 2A focus on learning from obsolescence and creative thinking through technologies and environmental awareness. During their field work in Barrit, the students explored the following questions:

• Is traditional farming becoming obsolete in Denmark?
• How can we think and speculate on a different future for farming and the Danish countryside?

The exhibition Collective Harvesting display mappings of Barrit. The mapping includes themes like culture, environment, economy, politics and perception.

The exhibition also shows the studio’s “conceptual programme” which consists of ideograms, manifestoes, and architectural desires. The programme leads towards an architectural response to complex contextual situations.

Finally, the exhibition includes a documentary film from a town meeting in Barrit, where citizens were invited to talk about the future of the village.

The Barrit project is a contribution to the school’s Aarhus 2017-project Architecture Moves.

Udstillingen 3XN Behind the Scenes: The Simplicity & Complexity of Architecture går “bag scenen” på tegnestuens arkitektur, og udforsker nogle af de mindre kendte historier og processer i processen, der opstår, når 3XN udvikler projekter.

Udstillingen består af bygningsmodeller, tegninger, planer, fotos og andre elementer, der alle udforsker flere forskellige temaer.

3XN Behind the Scenes: The Simplicity & Complexity of Architecture er inspireret af filmverdenen og de mennesker, der, ud over skuespillere, er med til at skabe en film. Sådan er det også i arkitektverdenen, og udstillingen synliggør den kompleksitet, der ofte ligger bag et byggeri.

Udstillingen viser et udvalg af 3XNs projekter, der repræsenterer virksomhedens strategi, blandt andet projektet Lighthouse på Aarhus Ø, som tegnestuen netop har vundet.

Hvor: Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Udstillingsbygningen, Nørreport 22, 8000 Aarhus C
Hvornår: 2 – 17 maj 2017. Mandag – torsdag: 10.00 – 15.00, fredag: 10.00 – 14.00

Der er gratis adgang til udstillingen og alle er velkomne.

Om 3XN

3XN har omkring 100 ansatte på kontorer i København, Stockholm og New York. Firmaet er i dag en væsentlig spiller på den danske såvel som den internationale arkitekturscene og har designet en lang række høj profilerede bygninger.

Ikoniske byggerier fra 3XN tæller blandt andet Lighthouse i Aarhus, Royal Arena i København, Den Internationale Olympiske Komités hovedsæde i Lausanne, Quay Quarter Tower i Sydney, boligbyggeriet Aquabella i Toronto og Cube i Berlin.

I 2007 etablerede 3XN en intern innovations- og forskningsenhed, GXN, som arbejder med udvikling og implementering af grønne og innovative løsninger indenfor arkitektur og design.

We are proud to present an exhibition by Architect, Computational Designer, and Guest Researcher Corneel Cannaerts at the Library.

Corneel Cannaerts’ work and research explores the negotiation between the agencies found in matter, machine and code in a design process mediated through computation and digital fabrication, and situates this within architectural practices of drawing and making.

The exhibition consists of three interlinked media:

1.At the tables: A series of fabricated artefacts, and smaller test models, fragments of architectural designs exploring materiality of specific fabrication technologies
2.On the wall: 11 drawings
3.At the screen: An autonomously running software that shows close-ups of point clouds and meshes of scans of the artefacts

When: 24 April – 12 May 2017. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 10.00 – 16.00, Wednesday: 10.00 – 18.00, Friday: 10.00 – 15.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, the Library, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus C

The research behind the exhibition

“Architecture is increasingly designed, materialized and disseminated through digital technologies, habitual ways of designing and building are disrupted through technological innovations in the simulation, fabrication, and communication of architecture,” says Guest Researcher Corneel Cannaerts and continues:

“The discourse on digitalisation of architectural practice stresses the positivist impact of these technologies – better-integrated workflows, higher precision, uninterrupted flow from design intent to material artifacts.”

However, as he notes, computation and digital fabrication technologies are not neutral tools for designing architecture, they are design media that bring their own specific agencies to a design process.

“Architects have relied on drawing as the main medium for exploring, communicating and materializing design ideas. The adoption of computational design, digital fabrication and robotics are challenging this central position of drawing in architectural practice, but it also frees architectural drawing of its purely instrumental and representation role,” Cannaerts says and elaborates:

“Rather than dismissing architectural drawing, the exhibition explores what role it might play in an architectural design process mediated through computation and digital fabrication. It demonstrates how these technologies allow for new linkages between the encoding drawing and making and demonstrates how traces of code, fabrication processes and materially are intertwined.”

What is EASA and how do you get involved?

Drop by the Library and see an exhibition about the European Architecture Students Assembly (EASA) and learn about one of the most important European organisations for architecture students.

When: 21 March – 4 April 2017. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 10.00 – 16.00, Wednesday: 10.00 – 18.00, Friday: 10.00 – 15.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, the Library, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus C

About EASA

EASA is run by students, for students – no hierarchy, no salary, no guarantee but the students involved that the assembly will keep on living.

The atmosphere of the assembly allows for ideas and thoughts to take shape in a free and open environment, where experimentation and innovations are the key drivers of the annual summer workshops.

Since 1981, 3 – 500 architecture EASA-students from all over Europe have met every summer for workshops, networking and socialising. EASA covers more than forty countries and two hundred different schools of architecture.

In 2017, EASA is held in Denmark for the fourth time. To kick off the planning process and the opening for applications to participate, help or organise, EASA want to welcome all interested to the exhibition.

On Friday 17 March, a unanimous jury announced young architects Brian Vargo, Jonas Snedevind Nielsen and Mathias Palle the winners of the Restricted Design Competition for the new school of architecture in Aarhus.

The winning project received praise for its pragmatic and flexible features as well as the powerful design.

But what does the new school of architecture look like, how will it interact with Godsbanen, and what about the fabrication facilities?

You have the unique opportunity to explore the winning project in an exhibition where all the participating projects in the Restricted Design Competition are on display.

The projects are presented with posters as well as a large model of the winning project and smaller scale models of all the five participating projects.

When: 17 March – 21 April 2017. Monday – Thursday: 10.00 – 15.00, Friday: 10.00 – 14.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, Exhibition Building (1st floor), Nørreport 22, 8000 Aarhus C

Everybody is welcome and entrance is free.

We are very proud to announce a new collaboration with the Swiss Embassy.

As part of the initiative Open Embassy, Aarhus School of Architecture will present the exhibition The Competition, The Book & The Table at the Pavilion at the Swiss Embassy.

The exhibition is based on Aarhus School of Architecture’s international student competition Drawing of the Year. For the last three years, the competition has attracted more than a thousand participants from all over the world.

The exhibition consists of a curated sample of all drawings submitted for the competition over the years as well as a large 56 x 78 cm book, which contains a curated range of texts and images from Drawing of the Year 2015. A specially designed table will accompany the book.

On display is also a digital presentation of all the drawings submitted for Drawing of the Year 2016.

When: 9 March – 12 April 2017. Tuesday and Thursday: 10.00 – 12.00, Friday: 13.00 – 17.00
Where: Embassy of Switzerland in Denmark, Richelieus Allé 14, 2900 Hellerup

Everyone is welcome to visit the exhibition. Entrance is free.

Drop by the canteen and experience an exhibition by Studio 2B that visualises the quantitative data and qualitative characteristics that have shaped Anholt Island.

The exhibition is a result of a three-week workshop during which students explored a design pipeline process while taking control of manufacturing methods and techniques.

When: 3 March – 1 May 2017, daily 9.00 – 15.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, The Canteen, Nørreport 16, 8000 Aarhus C

Everybody is welcome, entrance is free.

An architectural Rosetta Stone

The presented mahogany models and drawings are the architectural version of a Rosetta Stone. They are constructs that record layers of information through virtual and physical techniques, where each step and mechanical process imparts and inscribes knowledge beyond the 1:1.

The models and drawings are visual keys that are used to inspire and influence all decision-making processes in a design project.

The architectural Rosetta Stones record and amplify quantitative information about a site on Anholt Island through qualitative means. They are tools for uncovering realities previously unseen or unimagined and will be used for decision making about the location of a building programme, the aesthetic of the building, and even the construction of a 1:1 habitat.

The Anholt Rosetta Stones play an important role in Studio 2B’s contribution to the Aarhus 2017 project Architecture Moves. The Anholt Rosetta Stones are the first step in developing an urban pavilion expressing Teaching Programme 2’s engagement with the rural, combining various aspects and scales to uncover new as well as forgotten qualities in the Central Jutland Region.

What is a Rosetta Stone?

Discovered in 1799 (with its construction dating back to 196 BC), the Rosetta Stone records a decree issued on behalf of King Ptolemy V in Memphis, Egypt. The decree was transcribed in three languages: Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Demotic Script, and (Ancient) Greek.

While the message of the decree, establishing the divine cult of the new ruler, carries historical value (the 1:1), what is more powerful is the way the layering of text has led to a complete understanding of Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

The ability to examine the syntax (character and position) of the Greek text in relationship to that of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs provided scholars with a system of reference and referral that unlocked the hidden secrets of an extinct language.

Through a process of visual layering of information, information that was translated and evolved based on language, the Rosetta Stone has operated as a key to specificity in context; a tool that is continually referenced when questions arise about meaning and direction.

What happens when you combine cutting-edge fabrication technology with intrinsic material knowledge?

A  group of staff, researchers, and students attended the four-day workshop Soft Structures where they explored the digital materiality of complex concrete building components through iterative full-scale design and fabrication.

A sample of the process and results is now exhibited at the library.

At the workshop, architectural wall designs were rationalized and subdivided down to a small design space and fabricated in sequence using a fully parametric fabrication workflow. Industrial robots mounted with hotwire cutters were used to efficiently cut through square EPS foam blocks, resulting in negative concrete formworks.

The workshop instructors Research Assistant Ryan Hughes, PhD-fellow Asbjørn Søndergaard, and Teaching Assistant Professor Anders Kruse Aagaard introduced the participants to a large variety of surface treatments, and the workflow of mixing, casting, and demolding concrete elements.

The pieces on display in the library range from the finished pieces to the early sketch formworks.

When: 1 – 15 March 2017. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 10.00 – 16.00, Wednesday: 10.00 – 18.00, Friday: 10.00 – 15.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, the library, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus C

Everyone is welcome to visit the exhibition, entrance is free.

We all know cities like Skanderborg, Silkeborg, and Randers.

But what about Møldrup, Vinderup, or Åskov – smaller settlements that make up a large part of Region Midtjylland? How many of us are aware that the region has a large number of communities with just 50-400 inhabitants?

On 2 February, 140 Master Students visited more than 40 settlements in the Region and brought back drawings, photos, and findings that will be the foundation for discussing the future(s) of Region Midtjylland and how architecture can make an impact.

The student’s field trip was part of a three-day workshop that kicked off Aarhus Schools of Architecture’s contribution to Aarhus European Capital of Culture 2017.

You can explore the artefacts, a great photo wall, and a collection of videos from the various communities in the exhibition Encountering Places in the canteen.

When: 10 February – 1 March 2017, daily 9.00 – 15.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, Canteen, Nørreport 16, 8000 Aarhus C

Entrance is free, and everybody is welcome.

What is architecture? The graduation exhibition seeks to answer this crucial question. And based on the exhibited graduation projects the answer must be:

• Architecture is engaging with society
• Architecture is ethics and poetic expression
• Architecture is social involvement
• Architecture is political
• Architecture is imagining futures
• Architecture is artistic depth and digital competencies
• Architecture is defining new territories and filling in the gaps

Visit the exhibition and experience projects about transformation, sustainability, and habitation. You can also explore the projects online: Graduation projects winter 2017.

Entrance is free, and everyone is welcome.

When: 3 February – 31 March 2017. Monday – Thursday: 10.00 – 15.00, Friday: 10.00 – 14.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, Exhibition Building, Nørreport 22, 8000 Aarhus C

Hvad sker der når intellektet slipper og kroppen og landskabet former sin egen rytme? Når det perifere syn dominerer og fødderne varsomt undersøger jordskorpens teksturer.

Oplev dialogen mellem det store landskab og mennesket i udstillingen Wide open space- Walking in the landscape som viser en række landskabsfotografier af lektor Anders Gammelgaard Nielsen.

Fotografierne er alle 2 meter lange og viser udstrakte panoramiske ørkenlandskaber fra det nordlige Fuerteventura på de Kanariske Øer.

Hvor: Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Kantinen, Nørreport 16, 8000 Aarhus C
Hvornår: 2. januar – 3. februar 2017, dagligt fra 9.00 – 15.00

Udstillingen er gratis, og alle er velkomne.

Are you interested in digital architectural drawing? The drop by the Drawing of the Year 2016 exhibition where you can experience the winners of the international student competition and a curated sample of the submitted drawings.

On display is also a collection of personal videos that the participants submitted as supplements to their drawings.

When: 2 – 22 December 2016, Monday – Thursday: 10.00 – 15.00, Friday: 10.00 – 14.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, Exhibition Building, Nørreport 22, 8000 Aarhus C

Digital drawing

The overwhelming amount of participants in this year’s Drawing of the Year competition suggests that the discipline of digital drawing is alive and thriving. The international student competition has received no less than 365 proposals from more than 64 countries. All the entries have explored the competition theme Habitation.

For the last three years, Drawing of the Year has focused on hand drawing as a celebration of the architect’s oldest tool. Previous submissions consisted of everything from the most delicate pencil sketches to complex metabolic renderings.

This year we wanted to explore the complexities of the drawing even further. Therefore Drawing of the Year 2016 focuses exclusively on sketches and drawings created using digital technology. The competition hereby challenges the perception of the digital drawing as being either “technical” or formulaic.

Drawing of the Year 2016 is sponsored by schmidt hammer lassen architects, VOLA and Danish Arts Foundation.

At the 21st Triennale of Milan, the Italian drawing office Onsitestudio made a big impression with their delicate exhibition Honor imperfection as a hidden intention.

Thanks to a donation by Petersen Tegl, this small, but highly relevant and aesthetic exhibition, will now be brought to the school and exhibited in the canteen.

The exhibition is organised by Research Lab 2 / Teaching Program 2.

When: 7 – 30 November 2016, daily 8.45 – 15.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, Canteen, Nørreport 16, 8000 Aarhus C

About Honor Imperfection

Honor imperfection can be described as a small Wunderkammer, that examines certain aspects of making architecture. Through the careful arrangement of different sets of objects, finished or unfinished things, production tools, surfaces, couplings, moulds, raw materials – all elements that have the charm of the catalogue and their own objective beauty at the same time – the exhibition reflects on the present possibility of granting architecture physical presence, applying both industrial production and craftsmanship.

The investigation thus focuses on the atmospheric qualities of materials and the possible ambiguities between industrial production and craftsmanship. Through the observation of this series of industrial elements, a latency of human presence emerges. The careful presence of “inaccuracies,” even within serial industrial processes somehow detached from any human interaction, attempts to maintain a human dimension of these objects and the buildings they can be used to make.

In relation to the strong virtualization and hyper-industrialization of production processes, architecture loses materiality and the sense of it. This leads to the need to recover the physical quality of buildings, the sensation of their materials, the perceptive qualities related to variations and imperfections of bodies (constructed or otherwise).

This may happen by going back to the working tools, reasserting craftsmanship in the concrete presence of the unfinished materials, coming to terms with the physical quality of architecture, made of materials that are always different, like the people who produce them.

The exhibition is created by Onsitestudio: Giancarlo Floridi & Angelo Lunati with the support of Francesco de Agostini.

The project is made possible by Petersen Tegl, Agrob Buchtal, and Edilbeton.

Kig forbi udstillingsbygningen, og se innovative bud på, hvordan vi skaber løsninger, som opfylder samfundets behov for bæredygtige indemiljøer. 66 nyuddannede arkitekter fra Arkitektskolen Aarhus og Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole i København har deltaget i konkurrencen Saint-Gobain Award 2016: Comfort and Architecture med deres afgangsprojekter.

De nye arkitekter skal efter endt uddannelse ’ud at bygge’ og skal dermed tage stilling til materialer, isolering, varmeregnskaber osv. Sammen med de indkomne forlag viser udstillingen derfor et stort udvalg af almindelige byggematerialer som gipsplader, glasuld, isolering og glas. Den gode, bæredygtige arkitektur er afhængig af et godt kendskab til materialer, detaljer og viden om byggeriets processer og vilkår.

Vinderne af konkurrencen

Vinderen af Saint-Gobain Award 2016 blev Angus James Hardwick fra Arkitektskolen i Aarhus. Hardwick modtog en pris på 50.000 kr. med projektet Paradoxes of the Pellucid, en futuristisk svævende forskerbolig i tilknytning til et eksisterende museum i London. Andenpræmien på 20.000 kr. gik til Rasmus Bruun fra Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole i København med projektet Microclimatic habitats in search of atmospheric aesthetics, hvor han har skabt en bæredygtig industribygning. Og tredjepræmien på 5.000 kr. gik til Lyn Poon fra Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole i København med projektet Thermal (Mass) Customisation, som er en bypark med klimazoner.

Saint-Gobain uddelte også prisen Upcoming Bachelor Prize til to bachelorprojekter af Hanna Højgaard Molden fra Arkitektskolen Aarhus og Frederik Kastrup Østerberg og Adrian Hildrum fra Kunstakademiets Arkitektskolen i København. Vinderne modtog hver en pris på 5.000 kr.

Udstillingen løber indtil 18. november.

Åbningstider

• Mandag- torsdag 10.00 – 15.00
• Fredag 10.00-14.00

Udstillingen Conditoriet præsenterer ph.d.-studerende Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krags arbejde fra ph.d.-projektet Transformation on abandonment: A new critical practice?

Ph.d.-forskningen udføres som en serie af transformationer af forladte bygninger, der prototypes i fuld skala i forskellige affolkede landområder i Danmark. Som et alternativ til nedrivning er der forsøgt at etablere en modbehandling med radikal bevarelse.

Om [CONDITORIET]

I foråret 2016 blev arrangementet og udstillingen [CONDITORIET] implementeret i Hurup, og er det seneste af seks afsluttede generationer af transformationsstrategier. Det blev gennemført som en begivenhedsbaseret omdannelse af en forladt konfekture til en teaterinstallation. Tidligere spillede konfekturen en stor rolle som et samlingspunkt for lokalsamfundet. På trods af, ar der er fordømt til nedrivning, har det stadig i dag en central position midt på gågaden i kommunens næststørste by.

Den omdannede konfekture genåbnede i to måneder i løbet af sommeren 2016. I denne periode var det en katalysator for udveksling af minder om stedet blandt lokale beboere. Den måde, hvorpå bygningen blev bevaret i den kollektive hukommelse, kunne også have påvirket samhørigheden med samfundet. Dermed repræsenterede [CONDITORIET] et forsøg på en immateriel bevarelse af de truede værdier, som var indlejret i den forladte bygning før den forestående nedrivning.

[CONDITORIET] blev udført i samarbejde med Teater Nordkraft, lokale beboere og Thisted Kommune og blev finansieret af Kulturaftale Nordjylland, Statens Kunstfond og Spar Nord Fonden.

FORSK! udstillingsserien

Udstillingen af Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag er en del af udstillingsserien FORSK!
Tidligere udstillinger i serien omfatter værker af ph.d.-stipendiater Espen Lunde Nielsenog Anders Kruse Aagaard.

365 DAYS – Daily Didactics is an exhibition about didactics and a student’s first 365 days at Aarhus School of Architecture.

The exhibition is a chronological presentation of the exercises, workshops and projects the school’s first-year students participated in over the past year. It includes everything from plans, model building, mapping and study trips to architectural theory.

The exhibition paraphrases a studio with drafting tables and an architectural mix of works, accessories and leftovers from large and small projects – from the admission test and the first tentative sketches to the student is introduced to the basic tools and work process of architects. All of which helps give students a thorough introduction to the discipline.

To many students, the studio becomes a hub for both academic and social development, and it assumes a central position in the daily life of students. The studio is a place that can accommodate both the unrestrained and the focused: there is room for disappointment and frustration as well as surprise and enthusiasm.

When it comes to the education at Aarhus School of Architecture, the fact is that what we worked with yesterday provides the basis of what we do today – and naturally influences what we will be working on tomorrow.

Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, Exhibition Building, Nørreport 22, 8000 Aarhus C
When: 30 September 2016 – 28 October 2016

• Monday – Thursday: 10.00 – 15.00
• Friday: 10.00 – 14.00.

The exhibition is open to everyone and admission is free.

The creative process

Problem solving can be challenging. See a first-year student struggle with the creative process.

Right now the Library hosts a brand new exhibition of models made by students at the spring course HARD CO(u)R(s)E.

Inspired by the topic Skin & Bone, second-year students have been working with glass and bronze creating some spectacular objects.

The glass shapes originate from sculptures formed out of clay. The sculptures were scanned using a 3D scanner, and the scans were then modified in Rhino and AlphaCAM to generate code for milling the glass forms on the CNC milling machine.

To create the bronze structures, the students used an old technique called cire perdue or lost wax. 3D prints combined with other materials, such as wax, were cast in a mold made from a mix of plaster and grog. The glass and bronze were fitted together for final assembly.

The impressive results can be seen at the library.

The HARD CO(u)R(s)E was conducted by Teaching Assistant Professor Kasper Riis Jensen, Research Assistant Joel Letkemann, and Associate Professor Jonathan Foote.

When: 5 September – 26 September 2016. Monday – Thursday: 10.00 – 16.00, Friday: 10.00 – 15.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, the Library, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus C

Drop by the school and experience nine timber blocks in solid oak. Experience the objects, the space they occupy and the space created in between them. To do so you need to make use of your body. Therefore you are allowed to touch the objects and measure them with the scale of your body.

Each block measures 450 x 450 x 2100 mm and is proportionally subdivided horizontally and vertically. Within the subdivision all possible forms are investigated. The blocks are organised in a grid formation. The exhibited formation is one out of 362,880 possible.

When: From 1 September 2016
Where: Exhibition building foyer, Nørreport 22, 8000 Aarhus C

Homage to Hertzberger

In 1986 Herman Hertzberger submitted a proposal to the Urban Redevelop Plan for Bicocca-Pirelli in Milan. The proposal consisted of a series of towers that was formerly interrelated and organised in a firm grid structure. All towers were geometrically “carved” out of the same “standard block” and hereby forming an integral composition.

Ever since the project has come to Anders Gammelgaard Nielsen’s knowledge the distinctive geometric expression deriving from simple cuts of a “standard block” has been of great inspiration. Likewise the strong spatial identity of the spaces occurring as the units are organised in the firm grid. Mass and void coexist inevitably and can be sculpted simultaneously.

Barcelona, Ilulissat, Seoul, Aarhus, Wuhan, Randers, Kolding, Hunsfos, Ebeltoft, Nissum Fjord, Fredericia, Budalen, Frederiksberg, Thy, Hyttå, Detroit. These are just a few of the locations the new architects address in their final projects.

More than 80 graduating students have spent months scrutinizing and critically examining their graduation projects. Now, finally, the projects are presented to a broad audience in the curated AFGANG Exhibition Addressing Architecture.

Diverse and relevant projects

Through the investigation, comprehension and finally realisation of such diverse projects as a kindergarten made out of stamped moraine clay, a space for spiritual resilience in the city, a youth prison, integration and diversity, a critique of modern society, a new mosque, and empowerment of abandoned spaces in Detroit, the graduation projects demonstrate the ubiquitous relevance of architecture within today’s society.

The new architects

The new architects master innovative and sustainable thinking. They know how to cast, to run a robot, and do 3D prints. They know how to make a cool graphic design for a written critical reflection. And whether they express themselves through delicate hand drawings or hardcore digital tools – or use both to add personal and artistic style – the projects within this exhibition are of a liberating, visionary and ambitious character.

Despite living in an unbelievably tumultuous time, moments of turmoil often prompt creative minds to make extraordinary things. So, please welcome the new architects, still in the shaping, ready to address architecture.

Opening hours

The exhibition opens Friday 1 July after the graduation ceremony. The exhibition is closed during the rest of July, but reopen from 1 August – 16 September.

• Monday – Thursday: 10.00 – 15.00
• Friday: 10.00 – 14.00

In Hurup lies the former Krabbes Conditori (Krabbe’s Confectionery) in a house ready for demolition.

Together with Teater Nordkraft and Thisted Municipality, PhD Fellow Mo Krag stages the gradual disappearance of the building through an on-site installation. The installation is made of dissections and uncoverings, light, sound, pictures, and stories from the citizens of Hurup. The installation is located partly in the old confectionery in Hurup and partly at Teater Nordkraft, where the house in Hurup is mirrored in elements taken from the building itself.

The ambition of the project is for the house to be the main character in a story that takes elements from the past, connects them to the present and helps prepare for an unpredictable future. The story of Krabbes Conditori will tell the story of greater societal developments in Denmark and all of Western Europe.

The project is supported by Spar Nord Fonden, Kulturaftale Nordjylland, and Statens Kunstfond.

Both exhibitions can be visited from 4 June. Entrance is free, and everybody is welcome. This autumn the old confectionery will be demolished to make room for a green area and an outdoor stage.

When: 4 June – 31 July 2016
Where: Bredgade 121, 7760 Hurup and Teater Nordkraft, Teglgårds Plads 1, 9000 Aalborg

Opening hours: 

• Monday – Friday: 10.00 – 17.00
• Saturday: 10.00 – 12.30
• Sundays: 12.00 – 16.00

Opening event

The opening of the exhibition is marked by an event that takes place both in Hurup and at Teater Nordkraft. We will be serving coffee and pastries.

When: Saturday 4 June 2016 at 14.00
Where: Bredgade 121, 7760 Hurup and Teglgårds Plads 1, 9000 Aalborg

Download invitation (PDF in Danish)

Right now, the library hosts a collection of works by 2nd-year students who attended the course Contemporary Nomads – Uninhibited Inhabitation.

The course Challenged the notion of dwelling, where discussions about the modes of inhabitation in the contemporary city were central, creating an archive of new possibilities.

The exhibited works include a series of postcards and a selection of models. The models are designed and produced by Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen, Thorbjørn Crüger Klitgaard, Michelle Rosenvinge, Nana Nørby Alrø, Laura Høgh Jensen, Rikke Helbo Mogensen, Sofie Bak Jørgensen, Søren Østergaard Andersen, and Viktor Forchhammer.

Teaching team: Claudia Carbone, Izabela Wieczorek, and Louise Linthwaite.

When: 30 May – 20 June 2016, Monday – Thursday: 10.00 – 16.00, Friday: 10.00 – 15.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, Library, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus C

Our new exhibition B – Bachelors At Work address the crucial question: How do you become a bachelor of architecture?

The exhibition presents 30 bright green worktables with models, drawings, and sketches from second and third-year students.

The worktables are arranged in changing directions, just like the students tone and develop their skills, get inspiration and seek new ways during their studies.

The worktables create the atmosphere of a real drawing office, and the light green colours of the tables symbolise the spring season; a season students miss out on every year because of the hectic exam period.

The exhibition also presents six custom-made books containing critical writings by the bachelor students – one book for each of the school’s bachelor units.

Also on display is a special time-lapse video of a hectic day and night at a bachelor studio where students struggled to meet their project deadline.

When: 13 May – 3 June 2016. Monday – Thursday 10.00 – 15.00, Friday 10.00 – 14.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, Exhibition Building, Nørreport 22, 8000 Aarhus C

As a special occasion, the exhibition will be open during the weekend 28 – 29 May 2016 from 11.00 – 15.00.

Do you want to learn how the 3D printing lab can be a tool to expand the potential of your work? Then come by the library and check out a collection of 3D-printed objects made by students and teaching staff.

The school is equipped with state-of-the-art 3D printing and scanning technologies in our 3D lab. During the last year, several new machines have been added and new processes developed. Students and staff even found their own working methods and uses for the technology.

The various processes enable extremely diverse methodologies and modes of design research and development, from representation and visualization of architectural models of whole buildings, landscapes, components, or details to one-to-one prototypes and assemblages and reverse engineering and rationalization of physical objects through scanning.

The exhibition presents all this and more.  You can also experience live printing as an Ultimaker 2 printer will be working in the library during the exhibition.

When: 10 – 27 May 2016. Monday – Thursday: 10.00 – 16.00, Friday: 10.00 – 15.00
Where: Aarhus School of Architecture, Library, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus C

Through experimentation and artistic practice, we focus on rethinking architecture and design to improve people’s everyday lives in a society of constant change.

Using history as a catalyst for new experimentation, the school exhibits a curated selection of unique works in Ventura Lambrate during Milan Design Week 2016. Structures in straw, brick, glass and wood together with robotic thatching, casting and CNC milling address a reflective knowledge and interest in materials and discuss the potentials for architectural design.

All exhibited works are produced by bachelor, master and PhD students at the school’s fabrication facilitiesin close collaboration with the teaching staff and partners from the industry.