Architectonic Characters in the City: Berlin

University of Kentucky

Students of the University of Kentucky explore the intersection of digital design and urban innovation and create interactive, animal-inspired installations in Berlin’s Tiergarten and groundbreaking housing prototypes for Schumacher Quartier.

Related Theme:

Just Living

Task

PROJECT 1: Fabricating Play: Berlin
Fabricating Play explores the use of the systematic processes of digital design and fabrication directed towards the development of large scale interactive objects. The prototypes consider the relationship to human scale and proportion, materiality, and method of fabrication and assembly, in this case flattened templates that fold into the final product. The result, architectonic characters based on abstracted animal forms presented as proposals for distribution on sites throughout Berlin’s Tiergarten.

PROJECT 2: Housing Prototypes for the Schumacher Quartier
The University of Kentucky (UK/CoD) architectural design studio led this summer by Associate Professor Jason Scroggin focuses on the development of new housing typologies for the Schumacher Quartier in Berlin. Each student worked through iterative modeling exercises to consider the potential of the building form to enhance the relationship between its inhabitants and the city by juxtaposition of a select public program and the private nature of living within the constraints of the urban context.

This university design studio is part of the ANCB theme Just Living.