Architectural space is shaped from the dialogue between the world of facts and the world of ideas and one cannot exist without the presence of the other. The design studio starts from the belief that architecture is the expression of its time and that architects translate, through the medium of space, their own awareness of a specific way of living in a specific geographical context.

Students will be asked to take a position towards existing buildings in an existing context questioning the hidden potential for a possible new life. A strategy will be then formulated and translated into space, defining a new living form for the existing building(s), rooted in the interpretation and awareness of the context.