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REVERSE FORDISM

Studio Project, Summer Semester 2018

THE PROJECT

In celebration of 100 years of Bauhaus, the ‘REVERSE FORDISM’ project commissioned in the summer semester of 2018 in a joint effort by two studio groups; Studio ‘MISE EN SCÈNE’ and Studio ‘STRUCTURES’, (both first year Master students), aimed at striving to answer questions such as, how can severe economic pressure and standardization lead to a new junction of prefab product materials and qualitative architectonic space? And, how can we exploit the affordability to create space for the former incapable or use the reduction in price as an abundance of material that allows new spatial experiments? Furthermore, it was also aimed at promoting learning by doing while taking a closer look at a more forgotten side of modernism. Firstly, students explored some of the groundbreaking thoughts and methodological experiments of Architects such as Ludwig Mies van der Rhoe and Walter Gropius, of whom are said to be known as the pioneers and forerunners of the international style that has become extremely important to architecture to this day. They visited, illustrated and rebuilt the examples studied, while under the light of the current challenges as young architects as well as the present conditions of the rapidly expanding city of Berlin.

THE TASK

As expressed by Walter Gropius “not one single learning strategy is as powerful as 1:1”. For this reason, students were given the task of creating a 1:1 scale spatial installation based on the research conducted through the examination of 10 case studies of the old Bauhaus masters mentioned above. They attempted to learn, transcend and rearrange the most important qualities and characteristics under today’s circumstances of labour and production, social conditions and demands. Moreover, the research conducted of these 10 analyses was to be explored based on surrounding scenery and structural Integrity. Each student was expected to become the specialists of modules, span width, details and spatial knots while also representing the theorist and designer in this collective effort of investigating and defining the potential the materials.

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