Design Build Course

This Summer University project focuses on exploring Berlin through analog hand drawing and then using drawing and model-making methods to design and construct a small building project. The emphasis of the first week of the course will be set on drawing as a tool for understanding an analysis. The subject of analysis will be the city of Berlin, the city fabric, micro-urban situations, and the Design-Build project site. Through this, the students will not only obtain the skill of hand drawing but also master an analytical method. The course attendees will be able to replicate and reapply this method in their later academic and professional work. The Design-Build part of the project focuses on the realization of a small building project for a special community in berlin. The students wi...