Almeria.Seaport.

The Autumn Semester 2017 brief focused on how to integrate obsolete infrastructure into an existing city. As technology evolves, the ways we work and live change. Cities, as a result, need to adapt their urban qualities to perform differently. The studio travelled to the Spanish port city of Almeria to explore the logistic and commercial potential of the waterfront. Students looked at the existing conditions of the site and its relation to the city.There the city was be understood as layers of information explored through drawing and mapping techinques, which fed into the students’ own design narratives. By analysing both tangible and intangible conditions, each student developped their own brief and targeted specific design challenges: re-introducing old infrastructure into changing urban areas.
Design proposals were be multi-scalar in scope, enabling architectural propositions to respond to a larger narrative relating to the aesthetic, programmatic and socio-economic capacities of the city and its infrastructure. Students were invited to explore their own aesthetic style as an outcome of the progress, and the ongoing dialogue between two- and three-dimensional representation revealled unpredictable qualities.

Students:

Seonggeum Hur
Napapat Lasavanich
Kaan Vanapruks
Cooper Robinson
Dora Ozel
Yirui Wang
Yang Gao
Rawan El Hariri
Kaiyuan Zhang
Chukwunweike Toby Onwudinjo
Nick Raap
Mrinal Jain
Yu Shang-Fang

Tutors:

Naiara Vegara
Marie-Isabel de Monseignat-Lavrov
Katya Larina