A Promise
Instructor(s):
Ruben Castro
Engagement:
Craftsmanship
Location:
Gent
Language/Taal:
English
Semester:
First phase Fall 2025
Description/Inhoud:
During this studio one will learn how to make a sensitive representation of ones ideas to execute and visualise your design visions. Knowledge on materials, colours and observation will be gained in order to explore ones imagination. Models and drawings are the most important and unfiltered tool of an Architect, and the making process is fluid, constantly evolving and sophisticated.
Line of inquiry/Onderzoekslijn:
Material Reality / For Real / Practice as Study / Working With
Topic, Thematic Focus/Thema:
Site and context
Your inner voice as an architect
Model as a tool for the start and development your idea, not as an outcome.
Key Questions or Provocation/ Centrale vragen en provocaties:
A promise to explore (architectural) dreams
A promise to translate by making
A promise to unlock the inner voice
A promise to prototype
A promise to represent
A promise to provoke
In colour, materiality and scale
Methodologies or Formats / Methodologie:
During the studios course, we communicate primarly with models.
The model is our tool.
You do not need to know anything about model making. This course is for beginners or veteran model makers alike. We will give a introduction lecture about models, how to use them as tools and guide you along your proces.
Design / Expected Outcome(s) / Ontwerp / Verwachte Resultaten:
Research based project definition
Positioning yourself as an architect
Communicating your proposal as precise as possible with an architectural model
Deliverables / In te dienen documenten:
A model in scale 1:20 (fragment or whole) and 1:1 (fragment)
A minimum of one image of your model as a model image showing your proposal from Human Perspective
Journal of your trajectory
- Find the full studio brief as pdf here.
Picture: Nervii Coin – Gallo Romeins Museum Tongeren