Studio 13

Bathing 2.0

Hella Wigge

This studio is available to students enrolled in ABPL90142 Studio C, ABPL90143 Studio D, and ABPL90115 Studio E.

Studio Description

This studio explores our experience of space and tectonics as embodied beings through the highly charged environments of an inner urban Public Bathhouse.

Architects throughout time have cultivated analog techniques of expression to help generate and present ideas, hone their skills, train their eye, as well as provide some more instant gratification within the generally long-winded architectural process.

This studio will introduce you to a range of analog graphic media, model-making and model photography as tools of design and expression.

Focusing on colour and texture, composition and proportion, and light, you will embark on an iterative process of poetic, meaningful making alongside more conventional architectural research and explorations.

This will set the foundation for you to generate, refine and present ideas for an architecture high in spatial and sensory quality.

Studio Outcome

You will be designing an inner urban Public Bathouse, a schedule of spaces will be provided, which you will formulate into a brief to best suit our site and your personal interests for your bathhouse.

A series of explorations using analog media to help you hone your skills, train your hand and eye will form a part of your studio design process and outcomes.

Assessed components will be a digitally curated journal and the formal design presentations, both will be assessed at interim and final. The journal will be built incrementally throughout the semester. It will document your explorations, research and, most importantly, your reflections on your process, thinking and designing; as well as all analog poetic making and design process.

Presentations will be paper based with an extensive atmospheric component and a series of detailed, hand crafted physical models.

Studio Leader

Hella is an architect and artist, she has lived and practiced in Australia and Europe and has been teaching since 2006.

Her primary design principles are based on phenomenology, focusing on materiality, spatial qualities and atmosphere. She is deeply passionate about the effect architecture has on the human body, mind and spirit, as well as upon the urban and greater environments.

A practicing artist with an interest in up-cycled fashion, she has a love and keen eye for colour, composition and proportion. In her teaching she sets out to inspire her students to find their passion and voice in architecture.

Readings & References

• Gruetter, J 2012, Architektur + Wahrnehmung, Architecture + Perception, Niggli, Sulgen.
• Holl, S, 2006, Luminosity / Porosity, Toto, Tokyo
• Meerwein, G, Rodeck, B, Mahnke, F 2007, Color, Communication in architectural Space, Birkenhauser, Basel
• Pallasmaa, J 2005, The Eyes of the Skin, Wiley Academy, Chichester.
• Plummer, H 1995, Light in Japanese Architecture, Architecture and Urbanism, Tokyo.
• Plummer, H 2009, The Architecture of Natural Light, Thames & Hudson, London.
• Tanizaki, J 1967, In Praise of Shadows, Leete’s Island Books, Sedgwick.
• Zumthor, P 2006, Thinking Architecture, Birkhäuser, Basel.
• Zumthor, P 2006, Atmospheres, Birkhäuser, Basel. *Zumthor, P 2007, Therme Vals, Scheidegger&Spiess, Zürich.

Schedule Mondays 18:15-21:15 and Thursdays 18:15-21:15 in MSD Room 240

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