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textbausteine - a music school
A Literature-based Design Strategy | Berlin 2008

based on: U. Sturm, J. Zillich, I. Watzlaw, G. Barczik //
"From Words into Space: A Literature-based Design Strategy with a Focus on Perception"

"[...]

(i) Describe first, Design later.
The first task was to describe key settings within the building, like a director’s instruction in a theatre play. Our aim was to have the students work out the characteristic qualities of the building solely by – poetically – describing them. Graphic or sculptural representations were forbidden at the outset. The students thus had to write the explanatory text before they designed the building. All descriptions were full of atmospheric moments, which guided the ensuing design process. [...]

(ii) Think Emotion, Mood, Atmosphere – not Shape.
The following task was to develop images from the written text. We asked the students to neglect the shape at the outset and to picture emotions, moods, and atmospheres first. Freed from the task of shaping, the students could concentrate a lot more on the specific character of the space.

(iii) Think User, not Architect.
In the subsequent step the students transformed words and images into spatial structures. They had to build three-dimensional models that still expressed the spatial character developed in the previous steps. We asked the students to describe and think their building from the perspective of everyday users. This simple change of perspective helped the students to think of a space not in abstract terms but as something filled with and used by people.

(iii) Think Perspective, not Object.
As a building can almost never be grasped in a single perception, the students were asked to work out different perspectives within the future building first. Only then they were allowed to produce the object, i.e. the building itself.

(v) Think the parts first, and the whole building later.
In a last step the students had to work out the spatial and functional needs of the building without loosing their atmospheric images out of sight. The different settings were collaged from individual parts that had been thought out first.

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