Design and Representation / Space, Body, Event

SA - Design and Representation
The course is dedicated to surveying a fragment of an architectural reality. Specifically, it will revolve around the city of Basel. The exercises assigned will examine certain architectural elements of private or public buildings of the historic center of the city. Each student will have to study the object of the representation through the documentation collected during a site inspection (survey, sketches, photographic material, etc.). Then a series of pencil exercises will be developed to evoke form, textures, light and shadows. The final work will be a staging of the part of the façade chosen using pictorial techniques to evoke a true emotion.

SP - Space, Body, Event
During the course, students learn to deal with space through physical movement exercises and to build artefacts that amplify what the body, as a motor, puts into action through its interaction with a place. The exercises, which produce a “full-scale” experience, conclude with a public mise en scène. 
During the semester there will also be theoretical lessons with guest lecturers, at which participation, as for the other activities, is compulsory.

SA - Design and Representation
At the end of the course, students are able to use drawing techniques as a tool for investigating the territory and reality with the specific aim of deepening the importance of the relationship between idea and knowledge. In particular, during the course, students learn to use new representation techniques to analyse, know and describe the reality that surrounds them.

SP - Space, Body, Event
Develop constructive expertise through the knowledge of the relationship between matter and mechanics and of geometry as a language of abstraction at the basis of the project.

In presence

SA - Design and Representation
15% Lectures
5% Seminars
80% Practical exercises

SP - Space, Body, Event
20% Lectures
80% Practical exercises

SA: Final deliveries and oral examination
SP: Final deliveries and participation in the Mise en scène

• Basilea, 22.09.25 - 22.09.25 (Compulsory)