Date: 30 may – 8 july 2022
Architectonic Characters in the City: Berlin
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky design studio at Aedes Berlin explores urban innovation through two exciting projects: interactive, gestural installations for Berlin Zoo and pioneering housing prototypes for Schumacher Quartier. The students integrate human scale, materiality, and urban context to reshape Berlin’s cityscape.
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PROJECT 1: Fabricating Play: Berlin Zoo
Berlin Zoo proposes a series of friendly objects to be distributed throughout the city. Each proposal seeks to reflect and engage its context through a gestural form. These prototypes are developed considering the relationship to human scale, use, materiality, and building systems resulting in architectonic characters occupying the leftover spaces of Berlin.
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.
What if..
”Berlin's hidden corners came to life with interactive and visionary housing designs?
Studio Coordinators
Jason Scroggin
Chloe Kelley
Students
Students
Photos © Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory
