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.

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 presents:

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).

A design course for master level students: five in architecture, five in interior design and five in fashion design, in three students' groups.

Periods I-ll 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 (incl. four seminars: course intro, two intermediate critiques and final critique, à 3h obligatory to all + group work 225h

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

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

The course includes a workshop with the Donghua students in Shanghai on September 16th -21st, 2018. Each student will get the flight tickets bought by the university. The accommodation and other travel costs must be paid by the students themselves. By becoming accepted to the course, a student makes a binding reservation to this trip. In case of cancellation, the student pays the cancellation

The fashion and architecture students will work together in order to:

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

Individual phase:

  • The architecture students will design 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 will design interiors, which design can be applied to several locations if needed.
  • The fashion design students would design a new clothing range for the company, all, based on the same integrated concept.

The students will be selected according to their portfolios, which should 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).

Tutors:

Laura Juslin (/MA fashion designer)

Lilli Maunula (architect / BA fashion designer) Natalia Vladykina (architect & interior architect)

Tiina Rytkönen (interior architect)

Visitors: Martti Kalliala & Anna-Mari Almila

Teachers from Group X: Antti Ahlava, Natalia Vladykina

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