Berlin Summer Studio
University of Kentucky
25.05. – 01.07.2026
The University of Kentucky returns to Aedes with 11 architecture and interior design students for a six-week design studio exploring how formal investigations can be translated into site-specific architectural interventions within the public realm of Berlin.
Task
The studio explores architecture as a process of translation: from formal investigation to site-specific intervention. Through the interplay of structure, material, circulation and spatial experience, students examine how conceptual ideas can be transformed into inhabitable spaces that respond to both place and community.
Working at the Question Arch site in Berlin, participants develop small-scale public interventions based on a series of spatial studies exploring aggregation, surface, enclosure, circulation and pattern. Each student designs an individual proposal for a community-oriented programme embedded within the site’s evolving urban context.
The studio culminates in a public presentation at Question Arch, accompanied by the construction of full-scale prototypes for a modular deck and mobile kitchen. Designed in collaboration with the Question Arch team and built from salvaged materials, these installations provide hands-on experience of collective making while contributing to the ongoing development of the site.
Key Themes
- Architecture as translation: from formal exploration to spatial intervention
- Public space and community-oriented design
- Site-specific strategies within Berlin’s urban context
- Material experimentation, reuse and collaborative construction
- Spatial experience, representation and prototyping
Studio Coordinator
Prof. Jason Scroggin with Emilie Rice, Teaching Assistant
