Design studio
Within design studios and projects, students learn to spatially apply theoretical knowledge about open spaces, landscape areas, and open space systems, as well as their transformations at different scales, considering social, ecological, and context-specific aspects. They also reflect on these applications with a critical societal awareness.
Content
The course offers design training as a practice in dealing with complex urban planning tasks. The contents of the course include:
- Development of a spatial planning design concept and in-depth work on selected content and focus areas.
- Development of thematic concepts (building, open and green space, transportation) at different scales and integration into a detailed urban design/master plan.
- Presentation of the design concept in a massing model.
In supervised design groups, students have the opportunity to engage intensively with the design task. The focus is on conveying skills for the development and implementation of spatial ideas, as well as the visual representation of planning contents.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students are able to analyze a given project area and develop a spatial planning and urban design concept. They can practically apply the theoretical knowledge they have acquired interdisciplinary in concepts and designs at the level of a design plan. They are capable of thinking in a connected manner, translating urban planning visions into concepts, systematically developing alternatives, and effectively communicating their results in a comprehensible, traceable, and appealing manner.
Features
ECTS credits: 12
Semester: Winter Semester (WS)
Content
The practical implementation of integrative spatial development planning for a (city) region (generally offered at three scale levels [municipal, regional, neighborhood], but the role of landscape is subject to discussion) from problem- and planning-oriented inventory and analysis to the development of visions, guiding principles, development strategies, and implementation-oriented solution approaches, culminating in an integrative spatial development concept. The intensive networking with practitioners in the planning field in municipalities, regions, and cities is a particular highlight of this course.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students are able to independently create integrative spatial development concepts. They are also capable of applying the knowledge acquired in basic courses independently, cross-sectionally, and integratively, as well as problem- and task-oriented. Students can evaluate and design development opportunities from various spatial and actor-specific perspectives. Through the creation of the spatial development concept in small groups, students practice the competence to work in teams and communicate, as well as develop goals, standards for qualities, and projects through discourse.
Features
ECTS credits: 12
Semester: Winter Semester
Content
The project, which can be thematically specific as well as inter- or transdisciplinary, has an explicit spatial reference and is situated in a planning context. Regardless of the specific task and focus, the project must always include a minimum level of theoretical reflection, analytical-evaluative and spatial research components (e.g., processing and interpretation of suitable data and other spatial information), as well as conceptual and planning work (e.g., planning-related conclusions, concepts, and designs in an appropriate form of presentation).
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students are able to independently address and solve current tasks from the planning context in an integrated manner. They practice interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary project work and develop concrete strategic, conceptual, and design plans based on a theoretically, methodologically, and analytically well-founded preparation of the topic. They present the results to a professional audience and engage in critical reflection. The choice of topics is based on current issues from science, society, or planning practice, allowing for the investigation of specific questions.
Content
The design course imparts the ability to translate complex problems with continuously changing parameters into concepts that lead to physical form with spatial and tectonic structure or to the control of a spatial development process. Building on context-specific knowledge, creative design reflects social and ecological agendas with critical societal awareness and develops appropriate methods for planning and implementation.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students are able to develop a long-term vision for the development of urban/rural public spaces and, based on this, generate ideas and designs for specific locations and special thematic areas. They learn to work interdisciplinary between architecture and spatial planning.
Features
Semester Hours: 2.0/4.0/10.0
ECTS: 2.5/5.0/10.0
Teaching Format: In-person
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