| Beschreibung |
Spatial adaptations to seasonal rhythms and local surroundings are not a new phenomenon. Rather, they demonstrate situated and historically embedded approaches to current and future architectural challenges – long before climate became an explicit analytical category. How did holistic, dynamic processes of adaptation between people, buildings, and their surroundings unfold in the past? Under which ecological, social, and political conditions did they emerge, succeed, or fail? If so, what can we learn from them for climate-resilient, future-oriented architectural practice today? Using selected case studies, students will examine reciprocal, context-sensitive adaptation processes. These include diverse nature–culture relationships, spatial, and social adaptation patterns, co-design, temporary modifications and flexible boundaries to the surroundings, spatial interaction and communication, as well as practices of care and maintenance. Students will develop narrative isometries — architectural scenes that explore the spatial, temporal, social, and ecological dimensions of adaptation. By integrating human and non-human actors, these architectural representations reveal the complex interactions in adaptation processes. The visualised case studies enable critical reflection and the development of imaginative, site-specific design approaches and adaptive practices in times of intertwined climatic, social, and political crises. |
