Reading Response 3

Krøyers Plads is Denmark’s first eco-labelled residential building complex. Krøyers Plads won the Green Good Design Award in 2017. It created a dialogue between old and new among the Copenhagen warehouses and uses materiality and form in a conscious way to create buildings that were sustainable and enhanced well being.

Fields of Study:

1. Architectural Drawing- Creating a familiarity in hand drawing in regards to proportions and angles
2. Digital Drawing- Drawing with digital devices for precision
3. Physics for Architects- understanding the physicalities and processes for buildings
4. Architectural Design- learning the forms and technical aspects of architecture in relationship with design
5. History of Architecture- understanding the architecture of the past to better create for the present/future
6. Architectural Construction- combining design, physics, ideation
7. Environmental Systems- learning to enhance human well being in built environments through technology
8. Sustainable Building- Learning about sustainable materials and building processes that are starting to become more relevant

Invented Course: Designing for the Public

Implementing the knowledge from previous courses, redesign a public space/building and be as experimental in form and materiality as you want. This course is meant to push the student’s creativity while also being conscious of the issues that surround public space in relationship to people to people and people to built environment interactions.

An architects design has the ability to affect the mood, health, productivity, and behavior of people. In many design fields, it is helpful to have a target audience that is specific and niche. To design a public space will challenge the students to create a building/space that is not only functional, aesthetically interesting, and innovative, but a place for all people to feel welcome and safe. For example, hostile architecture is an intentional design strategy that often exists in public spaces and targets the homeless and youth and may be one aspect of public space for students to keep in mind while designing.

This course will be useful to the architectural education by pushing students to think for the general public instead of a specific client, it will most likely be an upper level course.