Shelter. Studio project 09. 2023 – 07.2024
AVA
The goal of the first-year fall semester assignments is to introduce the prerequisites, causes, and possibilities of architecture. While solving the assignments, students are expected to explore and conceptualize the relationship between humans and their surrounding environment. The semester is divided into four parts.
In analog graphics, each student selects a small building and describes it using a chosen adjective, which is carried forward in various ways through all the assignments. Throughout the course, students must graphically depict the building’s most characteristic drawings, such as the plan, section, and elevation, based on which they create a mutation of the initial drawings based on the adjective.
In the following five-day VR studio, students will create a three-dimensional environment based on their chosen adjective, using a VR headset and other 3D modeling tools.
The main focus of the fall semester is architectural design, where students create a shelter based on their self-image. Since 2021, the shelters have been designed for Tartu.
For the first time, students had the opportunity to engage in material reuse and circular economy in-depth. The assignment was to design and construct a shelter using partially or entirely recycled materials and industrial leftovers.The rest is up to the students themselves.
The first year culminates in a summer construction practice, where students will build one of the designed shelters. Collective construction work helps students understand the complex relationshipbetween architecture and real construction while also creating a strong course spirit.
Thus the shelter of 2024: AVA was born.
Supervisors: Paco Ulman, Madli Kaljuste, Elina Liiva, Helena Männa, Margus Tammik.
Compilers: Nele Lisette Hera, Harriet Piirmets.
Estonian Academy of Arts Department of Architecture and Urban Design, 2025.
Supported by The Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
ISBN 9789916740385 (pdf)
ISBN 9789916740378 (print)
ISSN 2461-2359