Landscape
and Architecture (Design studio, 2nd
year, 2nd semester, 6 hours / week)
“Landscape and architecture” combine a design studio,
interrelated workshops and a series of lectures on analysis and understanding of
the landscape, in relation to architecture. The
course deals with the creation of a dialectical relationship between place and
architecture.
‘Landscape and architecture’ integrates knowledge and
techniques both from landscape and architectural synthesis. All these are
combined to formulate an architectural design, conceived as continually
modulated by the spatial dynamics and characteristics of the existing place.
During the semester, students negotiate with issues of
identification of landscape, through the architectural synthesis. The understanding of
the landscape is achieved, by designing structures that “grow” without
exhausting the selected site in each case, but indeed by creating
the conditions for coexistence and integration as
"there have always been there." The place, thus,
operates as a platform for design
and inventing specific installations.
With this approach the subject(user) and
the construction, relating to him, are the link between
the idea and the physical reality and at the same
time the catalyst for the creation of space. The
role of architecture is not confined to the object itself
(construction), but it also extends to the
"potential space", generated around the object, by the
action of the subject.