This module encourages students to develop their own critical stance towards the design process in architecture, allowing the act of making to inform and develop ideas rather than simply convey them. We will explore how a creative attitude towards the use of media, techniques and narratives drive an architectural process that contains iterative rigour.

The module will build on and extend ways of physical model making through applied skills and ask the student to respond imaginatively through their own unique sustained outcome. Students will be asked to situate their approach within the broader context of theoretical and architectural design practice.

This module asked students to question the role of the architectural model and in particular its contribution to the design process in architecture. Rather than treating the model as the natural conclusion of design, we re-tooled the model as an agitator for ideas, concepts and speculations. Can a model provoke the imagination of space rather than instil a fixed version of it? Can the process of making, remaking, and making again help develop a design approach and shift the relationship between representation and building?

Module convenor: Sayan Skandarajah

Workshop Team: John Jack, Tom Williams

External Guests: Xuhong Zheng