Tuesday, January 7th, 2025, 6PM
Campus Sint-Lucas Gent
(Hoogstraat 51, 9000 Gent, rooms 240 and 241)
Prototypes of Window Details:
the Room within the Window within the Room within the Window
This studio is a critical reflection on standardized architectural thinking and an act of resistance against it. Hereby it is the aim to push boundaries through rigourous material investigations of experimental and provocative architectural (window) details that go beyond the normative and the ‘acceptable’. Architecture should not be fenced in by the paralyzing anxiety for ‘the thermal bridge’ and its liated techno-political correctness.
Architecture is Art, and as such its freedom of speech and expression, of thought and action should remain unlimited, and definitely so in the fundamental research this studio is pertaining to. By doing so, this studio aims to breach the threatening stagnation of architectural practice and its risk of (self) imposed censorship that claims to be based on ‘common sense’.
Students: Yili.Zhou, Lanxi Li, Ying Sun, Tong Xue, Xinzhuo Jiang, Hannah Vieren, Arthur Bamelis, Lisa De Sloovere, Seppe Pylyser, Bahar Kizgin, Mahta Rose Aminali, Siavash Safari, Shan Wang
Image: door detail, WoSho project, Jo Van Den Berghe architect (2018).