Third year design studio
University of Edinburgh, 2020
Co-instructor: Victoria Lee
In this studio, students analysed environmentally-consequential, built case study projects from 1990-present as a means for imagining an environmental architecture for our uncertain future. Through analytic drawing and digital and physical models, they subsuming the gigantic domain of the earth’s environments into the miniature domain of architectural representation.
The first half of the semester focused on analysing existing case study ‘techno’ and ‘critical’ environmental projects. The second half of the semester students adapted case studies into new speculative proposals that respond to consequences of climate change including global mean temperature increases, rising sea levels and associated coastal flooding, increasingly erratic weather patterns and increasingly frequent natural disasters, honing a sensibility that was both technologically informed and radically speculative.