Day 01

After a brief introudction to the workshop’s synopsis, schedule and structure.

Prof. Francesco Ducato started the journey with a lecture on “Architecture and Ligh”. Focusing on the relation in between space and light during different historical ages and in the actuality (digital age and sustainable emergency). Every age has been related to built projects and different theoretical approaches.

Students had a time to start thinking and working in first sketches.

After that it was necessary to start Brain storming phase by Prof .Aref Maksoud through a lecture “Fashion of Architecture α – Geometry Lessons “in which the body-space relation is furthermore expanded in the perspective of the interconnection between fashion and architecture, with a closer look as dresses as architectural devices and their strategies of body adaption by form through the use of geometry (plications, tessellations, folds).

With the aim to help the students creating an installation or pavilion in some visible (public) space in the university.

Students were divided into groups.