Group X

Building design studio 2, 2018 — The Art of Heat: Architecture and fashion controlling temperature

The Art of Heat studio at Aalto brought architecture, interior, and fashion students together to design a Deepmoss shop in China. The course explored controlling heat through architecture, interiors, and clothing while creating a unified design concept across disciplines.

Modern interior with wooden curved ceiling, hanging lights, plants, and a small indoor pond with lily pads.

Introduction

Autumn 2018
Architecture and clothing design both have the same function: to control the heat of the human body.
Without this protective mechanism, we would all die.

Aalto University Department of Architecture presented:

ARK-E2005 Changing Topic in Building Design, 10 sp (for the students of interior design or fashion design)
ARK-E2003 Building Design Studio 2, 10 sp (for architecture students)

It was a design course for master level students: five in architecture, five in interior design, and five in fashion design, divided into three student groups.

Periods I-II 14/09/2018 - 14/12/2018, teaching on Fridays 13:15-17, location: Väre J301 & J302 (level three, module J).
Contact teaching per student: 42h (including four seminars: course introduction, two intermediate critiques, and final critique, each 3h and obligatory to all) + group work 225h.

The course was a collaboration with Shanghai International College of Fashion and Innovation (SCF), at Donghua University, where there was a parallel formal study course (Visual Merchandising, 3rd year Interior Design undergraduate students).

The task was to design a shop for a fashion company in China, including possibly other spaces, such as a small coffee spot, a small event space, a small library, or other functions suitable for the concept. The company was called Deepmoss.

The course included a workshop with the Donghua students in Shanghai on September 16th-21st, 2018. Each student received flight tickets bought by the university. Accommodation and other travel costs had to be paid by the students themselves. By being accepted to the course, a student made a binding reservation for this trip. In case of cancellation, the student paid the cancellation.

The fashion and architecture students worked together in order:

to analyse contemporary tendencies and trends related to the task,
to define an integrating creative concept to tie the fashion design and the architecture of the company together.

Individual phase:

The architecture students designed a building with an emphasis on fashion-related aspects in the building and the company's activities, in addition to normal architectural design.
The interior design students designed interiors, which design could be applied to several locations if needed.
The fashion design students designed a new clothing range for the company, all based on the same integrated concept.

The students were selected according to their portfolios, which had to be sent to antti.ahlava@aalto.fi and pirjo.hirvonen@aalto.fi by Aug 30, 2018.

Responsible teachers: Prof. Antti Ahlava (architecture) & Prof. Pirjo Hirvonen (fashion design).

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