With a small workshop for one person as its subject, the studio this year has investigated the spatial conditions, structure and narrative of a small space dedicated to mental work, hand work and rest in the walled city of Nicosia.
The studiuo was divided in three parts. In the first part the students formed groups and were assigned with a specific role from a list of seven diferent roles for the analysis of the wider site: The archeologists, the hoarders, the spies, the prosthetisists, the acrobats, the hydrologists and the botanologists. Each group, was looking for qialities of the city according to its distinct role and way of thinking and looking into things.
In the second part each student had to choose a specific site and program for the workshop and develop spatial concepts according to team work in part 1, their selected program and the selected site. They also had to develop in detail the narrative of their intervention according to program, references of similar programs and specific qualities of the project site.
In the third part the students had to develop their individual projects by looking at specific categories of architectural design such as: use, movement, materiality, structure, atmosphere, relation with the city, public and private. During the third part the students also had to develop their ability to investigate a design issue through models and drawings, to communicate clearly their design intentions and to interpret architectural categories with the use of architectural means.
