Workshop 1 in Cottbus

Spatial Strategies: Transformation MfS-building Cottbus

09.11.-16.12.2010
The SPATIAL STRATEGIES workshop has the unique opportunity to use the former GDR-Ministry of Secret Service building in Cottbus as a space to create and implement customized projects.The course will focus on artistic and scientific methods of analysis and on the understanding of the history and its' traces; we will experiment different approa- ches of architecture and artistic transformations and discuss    design in the fields of history of structures and buildings, as well as a various range of artistic work - primarily SPURENSUCHE ( individual search for traces of his- tory). In this methodological frame, we will examine the reflection of spacial, political, historical and sociocultural components of the building and its immediate surroundings. The participants will learn to create documentation and interventions for implementing a design born of a transformational idea in a project tailor-made to their specific interest, for example, site-specific artistic installations, performance or architectural design and transformation of the place and building.

The workshop is a 6-week component of the new Master Studies Program: ARCHITECTURE. STUDIUM.GENERALE. The majority of the students come from different European partner universities; 10 regular BTU students from Faculty 2 are invited to participate.

Architektur.Studium.Generale V.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dagmar Jäger in cooperation with:  Dpt. sculpture and space Prof. Jo Achermann and Yvonne Wahl,
with Guest Lecturers Stephanie Kaindl, architect Berlin, Carola Ebert, architect and lecturer Berlin/Kassel, Barbara Ludescher, architect Studioberlin, V.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Schwarting, Chair of History of Architecture, Dipl.-Ing. Eva Krapf, Chair of building Structures and Structure Systems.

Site visit & Introduction: 09.11.2010
Lectures: Lectures 'Reading History':  10.11.2010
First Building Reading, Pin up: 16.11.2010
Design Concept 1, Iterim Presentation: 26.11.2010
Realization Process, Pin up: 08.12.2010
Final Presentation & Exposition : 16.12.2010

Design Methods prepares for the workshops at eight different design schools, to develop and acquire a repertoire of analytical skills and tools for heterogeneous approaches in project work for dealing with urban and architectural assignments as well as for making theoretical and self-reflective observations. The students’ heterogeneous background from different countries, diverse cultures and various schools of thought and design provides the foundations for taking a superordinate look at diverging positions and approaches. In a comparative discourse, we discuss artistic and scientific methods of analysis from the areas of design methodology, interdisciplinary and creative teamwork, building research methods, design research and the artistic search for evidence.

Working Tasks:

1 Voyage Diary

2 Space of Architecture

3 Interdisciplinary Design Methods

Vernissage + Welcome Party

4 Voyage Diary II

Film: Design processes in art and architecture: Wednesday Evening

ArchitekTour 1-5: Different Topics are the starting point for one-day architecture excursions.

 
04.10.-03.11.10.2010 | Design Methods 9 Lectures

serve to discuss different approaches of strategies and methods in design, architecture, landscape architecture, town planning and political european development within the first 5 weeks of A.S.G.: 1 Collective design strategies in art and architecture within the 20th century: V.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dagmar Jäger | 2 Designing Programmes for competitions (Schinkel Wettbewerb) or in dialogue with future owners (Museumspavillon Leipzig): Dipl.-Ing. Stephanie Kaindl, architect Berlin | 3 Designing Programmes in order to pre-structure architecture processes as choreography of the complexity: V.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dagmar Jäger | 4 Spacial Planning Instruments of Bauausstellungen [international building exibitions] in Germany, IBA Fürst-Pückler-Land: V.Prof. Brigitte Scholz, urban planner | 5 City Gardens in Cottbus. Urban Strategies of Appropriation: Dipl.-Ing. Christiane Schwarz, landscape architect | 6 European Planning Landscape, Instruments of regional and transnational development: V.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Knippschild, urban planner | 7 Urban Strategies: V.Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Schwartze, urban planner | 8 Design positions in the 60th and 70th. The Critical design method: Dipl.-Ing. Carola Ebert, architect.

06.10.2010 | Design Methods TASK#1 Voyage Diary 1

First artistic voyage documentation of the students to explore the diagrammatic possibilities of architecture experience within the Propedeutic architecture, Design Methods – taugth within the first five weeks by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dagmar Jäger. Exibition in Building 2D, BTU Cottbus.

09.10.2010 | ArchitekTOUR | 5 BTU Students - 5 Architecture Tours

Exploring architecture and city qualities of each Country and its regional surroundings guided by one of the BTU students each.
Tour 1: Cottbus - Spotting sights of  architectural significance: The Art Nouveaux State Theatre by Bernhard Sehring, the Dieselkraftwerk, an ancient power plant rebuilt as an art museum by Berlin’s office Anderhalten Architekten and the splendid Park Branitz by Prince Pückler, a landscape garden form the 19th century. Output: Photography, Drawings, Montages.

13.10.2010 | Design Methods TASK#2 Space of Architecture

Individual spatial experiences of 8 different towns were presented to the group within an output of imagery narration; an atmospheric model without scale and a technical drawing was to show up different approaches of interpretation by personal spacial experience of the heterogenious cultures and countries. Guest: Arch. Stephanie Kaindl

15.10.2010 | ArchitekTOUR 2 | Berlin

Within a city promenade we had a closer look at Berlin’s ‘Mitte’. Starting at Alexanderplatz with its TV Tower built in 1965-69 and the red bricked City Hall, the tour led through the reconstructed Nikolaiviertel and the Museum Island with its 5 museums from 1830-1930 by among others the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The new Berlin Town Houses towards the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in contrast to typical court yards such as Hackesche Höfe or the Dutch embassy by Rem Koolhaas from 2003 as well as the Kunsthaus Tacheles. After serving as a Nazi prison, the building was taken over by artists in 1990. Exhibition visit – ‘REALSTADT. Wünsche als Wirklichkeit’. Output: Photography, Drawings

22.10.2010  | ArchitekTOUR 3  | IBA Fürst Pückler Land – Großräschen

Visit of the IBA Terraces, the information centre of the International Building Exhibition in Lausatia, the coal mining region around Cottbus. Through 30 exemplary projects and EU-projects, the IBA gives economical, creative and ecological impulses for the required structural change of the industrial landscape transformation. The final presentational year is 2010. Exploring the changing landscape during a windy tour into a former coal mining pit. Output: Photography, Drawings, Montages

27.10.2010 | Design Methods TASK#3 Interdisciplinary Design Methods

The two week work started by a dialogical teamwork for a presentation and analysis of an individual, as exemplary design project in the course of methodical reference. The aim is the process oriented self-reflection in the context of the individual strategy to discuss the different approaches, schools and educations of the master students which come from universities of Tallinn, Patras, Lisbon, Detroit, South Korea, Sevilla a.o. The empirical results of the process analysis, 19 diagramms, show up the range between mind maps, objectivating methods, spacial functional strategies or artistic, diagrammatical or metamorphological inspired strategies. Guest: Arch. Carola Ebert.

29.10.2010 | ArchitekTOUR 4 | Dresden

Due to its distruction in the 2nd World War and its complex reconstruction until today we made a tour through the city centre of Dresden. Remarkable positions such as the reconstructed Frauenkirche, opened in 2005, the reconstructed Dresden Castle with its contemporary roofed courtyard by Dresden Architect Peter Kulka, the new Synagogue completed in 2001 and designed by Wandel Hoefer Lorch architects and the UFA cinema Kristallpalast, 1996-’98 by Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au have been part of this tour. Output: Photography, Drawings.

03.11.2010 | Design Methods TASK#4 Architekten Reisen

19 famous architects of the 20th century of the greater Europe from le Corbusier, Friedrich Kiessler, Adolf Loos to Fernando Tàvora are the starting point to reflect the influence of voyage and foreign experience on spacial and architecture production within the 21st century. Output: Diagrams.
Exibition in LG  2D.

05.11.2010 | ArchitekTOUR 5 | Dessau

The Bauhaus Dessau, famous art school typology designed by the architect Walter Gropius, is visited as well as the ‘Siedlung’ Dessau Törten, one of the first neighbour hoods with mostly modern esthetic characteristics like horizontal windows, flat roofs, steel material in profiles of windows and common gardening, designed by Gropius 1926-28. The Bundesumweltamt by the architects Sauerbruch and Hutton regards the nowadays actual aspects of ecological low energy architecture.

Publikation zur Ausstellung im Stasimuseum Berlin: "Stadt in der Stadt. Transformation MfS Areal Berlin Normannenstr." Mai 2010 Download als PDF (24 MB)