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MBIArch Notes: Spectral Process

Architectural Design

The third of the 2011-12 MBIArch short design studios began this afternoon with Swiss architect Philippe Rahm introducing his group of students to the goals and objectives of the studio he will be leading titled Spectral Process.
 
With the other two short design studios focused on the creation of an architectural imagery for tourism (Détournements, Cecilia Puga) and the process of transformation in cities (Catalan Metabolism, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto), Rahm’s studio aims to research meteorological architecture and its implicitly scientific approach to architectural thinking and design. Students participating in Spectral Process will first decompose or dissociate the “whole” in order to recompose it while considering new elements, priorities and needs.
 
As Rahm explains, “our interest, the disintegration of the real and the synthesis of it with just two or three chemical and electromagnetic components, is not only an aesthetic project. More significantly, it is necessary for the re-evaluation of the historical and fundamental reasons behind the human landscape which causes certain kinds of architecture, urbanization, and ways to develop territory. It is also a method to re-think architecture and urbanism without triteness and the picturesque to reach some sort of truth, economy and beauty.”
 
Spectral Process, which is supported by Adjunct Professor Renata Sentkiewicz, has been organized in two parts: the first will be dedicated to the analysis and dissociation of a well-known program in Barcelona while the second will be used to redesign these spaces applying only two or three of the discovered elements.
 
Be sure to watch Adjunct Professor Javier García-Germán’s interview with Philippe Rahm on BIArch’s Vimeo Channel where they discuss the notions behind climate in architecture. Rahm will also be reviewing the ideas associated to the short design studio with BIArch Assistant Director Cecilia Obiol in the third installment of this Fall’s BIArch Conversation Series: Contemporary Approaches to Architectural Practice and Theoretical Dissertations, scheduled for December 14th.

*Photo by Timothy Brennan

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