Group: N6702
Professor: David Bostanashvili
Themes for the semester: Pavillion, Shelter
Course project for I and II semesters, year 2, 2018-2019
The design assignment required from the students to design a pavilion and a shelter (forest retreat). Instead of attacking the design task directly, a range of larger themes and questions was offered. These questions range from the essence of architecture and it's cultural engagement to the syntactic means of space production. Column, Wall, "Table", uncommon materials are some of the topics concerned. These models have a simple context - a no place, the white space ob abstraction. After generating the iterations the images of the models are grafted onto cultural texts: well-known paintings and photographs. The main idea of the process was to replace the setting "Nature + Building" with "Geometry + Surface of cultural origin". Such work can be named as an intertext.
The main interest lies in understanding the formation processes of architecture. Solid surface of earth and gravity are the preconditions of all architecture. What could happen if those conditions are eliminated