EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES FROM AN ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO ON NATURE & SPACE STRUCTURES

Authors

Nikos P. Tsinikas, Dimitris Antoniou, George Dimopoulos, Dimitris Kontaxakis, Ioanna Symeonidou

Keywords:

architecture, lightweight structures, membranes, inflatables, wire structures

SI-2019-03-039

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Excerpt

The paper describes an architectural design studio for the students of 4th year of studies in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It has been done since now as a workshop, where models of lightweight constructions are done with the presence of the tutors. The results are till now promising and erase certain educational issues and goals.

Introduzione
The course “Nature & Space Structures” is an architectural studio for the 4th year of studies in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It started 23 years ago and it still goes strong due to the fact that the students construct architectural models of lightweight materials in the studio. Such design experiments usually employelastic fabric for the construction of tents. Based on the precedent of Frei Otto’s studies withsoap bubbles for modeling inflatables, we introduced balloons, alongsideother constructions such as metal skeleton models, trees structures etc. […]