Architectural Design V-IX: City, Apartment, Furnishing/Building in - Zurich (M. Peter)

Abstract

Along with guest lectures during the semester, which highlight the key protagonists and currents of this discourse in Europe, we form the starting point for our semester topic: Hugo Häring and Hans Scharoun in Germany; Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in France; Caccia Dominioni in Italy; Josef Frank and Adolf Loos in Austria,

Objective

The interiors of another project are worked on alternately in an intermediate exercise. In doing so, the appropriation of the given substance is to be checked and the dialogical relationship between structure and extension, or apartment and furnishings, is to be examined in terms of design.

Content

In our time since the 1960s, we have actually observed a separation between architecture and interior design, a separation between structure, shell and interior design. In the extreme, the elementary architectural relationship between structure and shape, or light and space, is abandoned. The question of whether home furnishings belong to architecture leads us directly to elementary demarcations, which ended in sometimes violent controversies in the separation and delimitation of architecture and interior design within the development of modern architecture. From the tradition of a unity of interior and architecture to a total work of art, to the dissolution of any relationship between interior and furnishings with the elimination of everything "superfluous" and reduction to standard furniture. Along with guest lectures during the semester, which highlight the key protagonists and currents of this discourse in Europe, we form the starting point for our semester topic: Hugo Häring and Hans Scharoun in Germany; Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in France; Caccia Dominioni in Italy; Josef Frank and Adolf Loos in Austria The semester task lies at various locations in the city of Zurich and is to be understood as an insertion into the Tessuto of the built city. The primary morphological setting and ordering of structure, shell and access creates the basis for the residential building as a complex organism in order to take on the role of interior designer in the next step. The interiors of another project are worked on alternately in an intermediate exercise. In doing so, the appropriation of the given substance is to be checked and the dialogical relationship between structure and extension, or apartment and furnishings, is to be examined in terms of design.

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