The studio focuses on four important aspects of dealing with questions of tectonics in architecture and more specifically the question of building language. Firstly, building up the ability to visualize structural force. Secondly, building up the ability to apply the form of materials onto the force diagram. Thirdly, the ability to construct an expressive detail for space and lastly, the ability to draw in a way that can be referred to as a construction drawing as well as communicate the qualities of spaces.
Pedagogical attempt to assess how a small detail expresses when one scales up was critically investigated. The final workshop project became a testing ground to employ the bottom-up approach to accommodate the structural systems along with details to achieve a building language. The aim was to express space as an articulation of details as well as expressing program and form as a seamless relationship of space and structure.
