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CONTENT – INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
ABOUT THE SCHOOL
WELCOME
Dear students,
Welcome to Aarhus School of Architecture –and to a new academic community of almost 600 fellow students, more than 150 employees, and an exciting profession in continuous development.
At Aarhus School of Architecture, we strive to promote the sustainable development of architecture in a global perspective based on knowledge of our local Nordic nature, culture, and architecture. In the course of your fiveyear architectural education, we are going to give you, the architects of tomorrow, the skills and knowledge necessary for creating good living environments, and spaces that support a sustainable future.
We will help you work in an experimental and investigative manner while using researchbased knowledge. You will receive training in transforming complex and relevant problems in our society into architectural statements and solutions that relate to both history and contemporary conditions.
You will encounter the various disciplines and scales of architecture: from landscape architecture to urban development, building design, and the immediate scale – with a focus on reusing and transforming existing buildings.
We prioritize the well-being of our students highly. And therefore, we continuously work to strengthen our learning and study environment by accommodating differences and diversity. We believe this helps create the best possible environment for learning and developing.
Your base is an individual work station in the studio spaces from which you can share
knowledge and help each other through feedback and discussions - and create a unique study environment together.
You will have time for professional immersion in project work, while projects are also developed through shared discussions and reflection.
In 2021, we moved into a newly built architecture school. Today, this building and its state-of-theart workshops and facilities is the setting of our day-to-day community.
I hope your studies will get off to a good start –and that this student handbook will help answer any questions you might have.
Welcome!
Sincerely,
Kristine Leth Juul Rector
ABOUT THE SCHOOL
The Aarhus School of Architecture is an institution under the Ministry of Higher Education and Science and has as its objective on an artistic and scientific level to offer education in architecture until the highest level to practise artistic innovation work, and, on a scientific basis, to carry out research within the field of architecture.
The Aarhus School of Architecture has about 600 enrolled students of which 130 are international plus a staff of about 140. Rector Kristine Leth Juul Director of Administration Christian Koch Ramsing
CONTENT – THE STUDY PROGRAMME
THE STUDY PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
LEARNING FIELDS TEACHING METHODS
STUDIES ABROAD
INTERNSHIPS
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
Bachelor programme
The Bachelor’s Degree Programme is a threeyear programme that provides all students with an academic and architectural foundation. The first semester of the programme introduces the education’s six learning fields and the basic methods and tools.
In the following semesters, students work with the architecture through several themes with a special focus:
Semester 2: Landscape, Place and Building
Semester 3: Transformation, City, and Buildings
Semester 4: Home, Space, and Building
Semester 5: Transformation, Building, and Detail
Semester 6 gives students an opportunity to choose between an internship and a period of studies abroad.
Master programme
The Master’s Degree Programme is a two-year educational programme. The programme allows students to specialise in an area of architecture. Students choose an area by choosing a studio they then follow throughout the programme. In the studios, students work with a special architectural focus in connection with the courses of the programme.
LEARNING FIELDS
The architectural education is structured around six learning fields. This means all the components you need to complete during the programme are based on one or more of these fields.
The following is a description of the six learning fields: Insight into Nature is concerned with understanding the processes of nature in relation to the ground we build on and the climate and ecosystem of which we are a part. Architects should learn to build with nature and its material cycle rather than against nature.
Cultural Understanding is concerned with culture as an evolutionary process that embodies history and connects us with building cultures that are continually evolving. Social awareness, cultural heritage, and an understanding of context are fundamental, formative pillars for students of architecture.
Artistic Formation is one of the core competencies of architects. It is, first and foremost, beauty, achieved through artistic and aesthetic sensibility, that should ensure long lifetimes for cities and buildings. Artistic formation is tied to the history of the discipline and is connected with an understanding of craftsmanship, materials, spaces, and forms - but is also nourished by other artistic disciplines.
Architecture & Scale is concerned with the ability to understand and sense the many overlapping scales that underpin the planning, organisation, and design of our landscapes, cities, and buildings. The ecological crisis calls for a new understanding of scale that involves thinking in terms of contexts rather than isolated entities.
Architecture & Technology is intended to strengthen the students’ abilities to translate knowledge about nature and culture into aesthetically and socially relevant buildings and spaces through materials and constructions –articulated through a fundamental understanding of tectonic sensibility.
Architecture & Practice is intended to mature the students’ understanding of architecture as a scientific discipline and professional practice based on interdisciplinary collaboration, promoting the development of an independent professional expertise and identity in architects.
Web Find the academic regulations on the school website: Aarch.dk/studieordninger-og-bestemmelser Email studieadministrationen@aarch.dk
TEACHING METHODS
Throughout the education you will encounter several teaching methods. The first semester of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme is a coherent course comprising lectures and exercises.
Following this, all semesters in the programmes are structured to consist of two course blocks of three weeks each, followed by a project course.
The compulsory courses of the programmes are courses that introduce students to knowledge, theories and methods through lectures, typically supplemented by individual and group-based exercises and self-study based on reading.
In both the Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree
Programmes, some course blocks contain study trips. The study trip involves working with architecture in its built form – in conjunction with an understanding of history, theories, and context. For study trips, students choose between several offers, making it possible for students to adjust the education.
The Master’s Degree Programme allows for further specialisation by means of elective courses. The electives allow students to further individualise their specialisation by choosing from among a range of elective courses offered by the school.
After two course blocks of each three weeks, the project-oriented courses begin. In these
courses, students work individually to create a project based on a predefined assignment within the theme of the semester. We call this mode of teaching design studio. Teaching involves individual supervision in connection with the students’ work on their projects. A significant part of the learning is the result of peer to peer feedback among students.
Students are assigned a work space in the school’s studio spaces. For courses, students are places together with students who follow the same course, and for design studio courses they are placed together students who are in the same design studio. In design studio courses, students work on projects in the school’s studio spaces, where they also receive individual supervision.
STUDIES ABROAD
Studies abroad have become an integrated part of the planning for many students of architecture.
Various support programmes and Aarhus School of Architecture’s participation in different networks have opened up so that it is possible for the students to have cultural and professional inputs through studies abroad.
Studies abroad can be approved during the 6th semester of the Bachelor programme and the 2nd semester of the Master Programme.
Information about possible institutions and rules on possible support options are changing all the time, so it will be necessary for you to be
given further counselling by the international coordinator of the school.
Email jhel@aarch.dk
INTERNSHIPS
Aarhus School of Architecture makes a determined effort to prepare you for the professional reality that awaits you when you have finished your studies. Therefore, the internship (or exchange studies abroad) is an obligatory part of your 6th semester.
The purpose is to strengthen your project development skills and give you the ability to focus your further studies. Internships therefore give credit points.
The period of internship is five months.
CONTENT – SUPERVISION & ASSESSMENT
SUPERVISION & ASSESSMENT
ACADEMIC SUPERVISION
ASSESSMENT
CONTENT – SUPERVISION & ASSESSMENT – ACADEMIC SUPERVISION
ACADEMIC SUPERVISION
The supervisors are the employed teachers of the school, professors, associate professors, assistant professors, professional assistants and occasionally PhD students as well as guest lecturers or variable external tutors invited to perform specific educational courses.
Supervision can be individual or group based. Individual tuition is most likely to take place at your personal station in the unit/studio and should be a discussion of your research, ideas, sketches etc. between you and your teacher.
ASSESSMENT
The education consists of a number of educational components concluded by an assessment. Each component is assessed separately. The assessment form of each educational components is described in the academic regulations for the Bachelor and for the Master programme, respectively.
Marking
Educational components are graded as approved/not approved, or with a mark based on the Danish 7-point grading scale.
ECTS credits
All programme elements have been given a number of ECTS credits (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System). The system is to ensure comparability within further and higher education programmes in the EU. Full-time studies for one year correspond to 60 ECTS credits.
Web Find the academic regulations on the school website: Aarch.dk/studieordninger-og-bestemmelser
STUDY ADMINISTRATION
SUPPORT
STUDY COUNSELLING IT-SUPPORT
JANITORS
KARRIEREVÆRKSTEDET
STUDY ADMINISTRATION
This is where you can have almost any question answered regarding studies, admission, SU (The Danish students’ Grants and Loans Scheme), Special Educational Support, practical training, studies abroad, sabbatical leave, course administration, final examination, etc.
You can always call or email – and if you need to talk, we can make an appointment.
Email studieadministrationen@aarch.dk
Web Find staff from The Study Administration at the school website aarch.dk under ‘Staff’.
STUDY COUNSELLING
You can talk with the student study advisors, the school student counsellor or a psychologist. You are welcome to contact us whenever you need.
You can contact us if there are issues that affect your study. Our conversations will always be confidential.
Topics can range from talking about various rules and study-related choices to your wellbeing at the study programme. The session will, of course, be based on your needs.
See what we offer and who you can contact:
Student study advisors
- Admission
- Planning of courses of study
- Various study related choices - e.g. choice of educational programme
Study counsellor
- Rules and exemptions
- Leave
- Special support needs
- Study techniques
- Doubt about your study choice
- Lost motivation
- Stress Psychologist
It is possible to get free psycological counselling through Studenterrådgivningen
Student study advisors
Telephone 8936 0149
Email studentervejleder@aarch.dk
- 13.00 in Meeting Room M4
Study counsellor Stine Skou Nielsen Telephone 8936 0150
Email ssn@aarch.dk Psychologist
You can book an appointment with Studenterrådgivningen through their website: www.srg.dk
IT-SUPPORT
The IT-team will be ready to help you. Support is free on services made available by the school: Connection to wireless net, printers, shared drives and questions about your user/ e-mail account.
Communication on practical matters, study activities, etc. mostly takes place digitally via e-mails and Intra. All students are automatically given a mailbox at the school.
Your e-mail address will be your user-id@stud.aarch.dk, and you can read your e-mails on https://webmail.aarch.dk.
It is your responsibility to check your e-mails regularly and, in case you forward e-mails, to have a valid forwarding address.
Print account
On http://printpay.aarch.dk:9191/user you can log on to your printing account and add money using a credit card. Request for refund of prints not being printed can be found under ‘Recent Print Jobs’.
JANITORS
The janitors will help with practical matters. The janitors are responsible for the school building and outdoor areas.
If you have any questions or if you need help with big or small problems, you can always write an email to drift@aarch.dk.
Building Maintenance Email drift@aarch.dk School Janitors Jens Hornsberg Pedersen Telephone 8936 0161 Andreas Andersen Telephone 8936 0164
KARRIEREVÆRKSTEDET
Our focus is work+life of young architects of today and tomorrow, and we invite you to join our careeractivities throughout the year.
Keep an eye on posters, your student mail and meet us in KarriereVærkstedet on Level 3.
Join in to get inspired and spot career options in architecture, gain knowledge on work+life in architecture and access professional network.
Also feel free to join in on:
• OPEN LUNCH MEETINGS / young architects share experience with work+life in architecture
• ON LOCATION / an afternoon visit at
architect offices / dialogue and networking
• 1:1 CAREER MEETINGS / personal meetings with the school’s career counsellor
• PORTFOLIO / fellow students show presentation portfolios aiming at internship and job
• TRANSITIONPOINT / lunch meeting for new graduates including information, network to navigate and inspiration to engage in architecture as a professional in Denmark
InSpe
InSpe is an integrated student run part of KarriereVærkstedet. You can reach the student coordinator at inspe@aarch.dk.
Contact Misja Barnow
Telephone 8936 0132
Email mb@aarch.dk
FABRICATION LABS
FACILITIES
MLAB
ARCHITEGN
CANTEEN
LIBRARY
MAP ARCHIVE PRINT SHOP
FABRICATION LABS
At Aarhus School of Architecture, we take pride in our good workshop facilities - and they are an integral part of teaching at the school. In the school’s workshops, you can explore a wide range of different materials, and you can produce models and designs in full scale. We have different facilities for different material types and processing techniques. The workshops are staffed by people who can help you with the machines in relation to your project. The machines must always be cleaned and all leftovers removed after use.
Mock-up
The mock-up is where you can build quite large structures, and it is where you can
arrange workshops. The location and duration of all activities in the mock-up need to be agreed on with the person in charge of the workshop beforehand.
Model Workshop
On each of the three floors of studios, a room has been specially arranged for model work. Here you can use hot wire cutters, and several small 3D printers can be used free of charge.
Wood Workshop
The wood workshop contains machines for processing wood. Apart from some hand tools, there are circular saws, surface planer machines, thickness planers, stationary milling cutters, lathes, and various grinders.
Mock-up and Model Workshop
Contact Kasper Kronstrand Telephone 89360316 Email krj@aarch.dk
Wood Workshop
Contact Therese Winther-Hansen Telephone 8936 0337 Email twh@aarch.dk
CONTENT – FACILITIES – FABRICATION LABS
Metal Workshop
The Metal workshop contains machines for processing metal, e.g. a metal and a plate cutter, a bending machine, a pillar drill, and a welding plant. Apart from an introduction to the workshop, using the welding machine requires a special safety course, “Arbejdsmiljø og sikkerhed, svejsning/termisk”offered by e.g. Aarhus Tech.
Robot Lab
We have a large and several smaller ABB robot arms. The determining factor in what the robots can work with are the tools mounted on the robot. For instance, milling tools for working in wood or band saws with diamond blades for working in stone. Please contact the person in charge if you have an idea for something you would like to test in The Robot Lab.
CNC Machines
We have a 5-axis CNC machine for milling larger elements in wood based on a 3D model. Please contact the person in charge if you have a project you would like to do.
Cutting Machines
We have three different digital cutting machines that can be used for cutting sheet material based on a digital drawing.
• A laser cutter: Cuts through a combustible material such as cardboard or MDF boards using a laser.
• A digital cutter: Uses an oscillating knife tool to cut elements in e.g., cardboard sheets.
• A digital cutter: Capable of cutting elements from e.g., MDF boards, plywood, or aluminium.
Metal Workshop and Cutting Machines
Contact Kasper Kronstrand
Telephone 89360316
Email krj@aarch.dk
Robot Lab
Contact Jakob Sieder-Semlitsch
Telephone 8936 0339
Email jss@aarch.dk
CNC Machines
Contact Tom H. Bruhn
Telephone 8936 0338
Email tbh@aarch.dk
Casting Lab
In the casting lab and the area located next to it, you can work with concrete and plaster casting. These materials require special sewer conditions. At the school, you are consequently only allowed to work with these materials in this area, and it is essential that the room and equipment are handed over completely cleaned after use.
Dust from gypsum and concrete is harmful to your health if inhaled. We therefore recommend you always use dust masks when handling powdered materials.
3D Printing Lab
The school disposes of several different types of 3D printers, located together in a workshop on the second floor. Here you will find an EOS 3D printer for items that require particularly high quality in terms of surface and material
strength. Several small 3D printers have also been installed in the three model workshops.
Spray Room
A special room at the school has been arranged for working with spray paint and spray adhesives. A wall with strong exhaust ventilation makes it possible to work with these products in an environmentally sound manner. Working with spray paints and spray adhesives is only permitted in this room.
Casting Lab and Spray Room
Contact Kasper Kronstrand
Telephone 89360316
Email krj@aarch.dk
3D Printing Lab
Contact Jakob Sieder-Semlitsch
Telephone 8936 0339
Email jss@aarch.dk
CANTEEN
The Canteen is where students and employees meet and eat together.
The canteen serves meals at affordable prices - prepared using good and often organic ingredients.
LIBRARY
At the library you can be assisted in seeking information and relevant materials for your studies, or you can browse the shelves by yourself and explore our large collection on architecture, design, urban planning, etc.
You can also use the library to read the latest magazines, or maybe you want to dig into our vast video collection.
The Library is a part of the study environment at the school, and it contains both quiet study places and space set aside for group meetings and project work.
The Library also includes an exhibition area, where students can display their work.
Before you can start checking out materials, you need to be registered as a loaner and have your account activated. You register by choosing APPLY FOR MEMBERSHIP in our online catalogue.
Make sure to read the library regulations first, as you agree to these when registering.
The staff is looking forward to welcoming you all at the Library.
MLAB - THE MATERIAL LAB
MLAB is located on the ground floor of the Library. Here you can familiarise yourself with both the classical and the most recent materials.
As the collection grows, it will be continuously updated and include material data properties, fabrication techniques, and extensive knowledge about usage.
Samples are categorized by their core material, and you navigate these by searching our library database online or by browsing through the physical materials exhibited.
MAP ARCHIVE
Aarhus School of Architecture have access to a variety of printed and digital maps.
Printed and historical maps can be found at the Library and digital maps can be accessed via the network drives by using a dedicated GIS application.
The Digital Map Archive is physically located in the Library, here you can get help and guidance with regards to the use of digital maps.
PRINT SHOP
In the Print Shop you can colorcopy and print on high-volume laserprinters and large-format Inkjet-printers from size A5 up to A0.
We also offer access to a number of finishing machines.
NB: Students have 24-hour access to a largeformat cuttingmachine, two large-format scanners and three plotters at the 24-hour print shop – all you need is your key tag.
Print Room 1 24-hour access
Staff is only available during Archi Tegns opening hours
Print Room 2 24-hour access
For technical issues contact IT or The Print Shop
ARCHI TEGN
The shop sells almost everything for drawing and model building. Furthermore, it is a specialist architectural bookstore, with a large selection of publications from Danish and foreign publishers.
INSPE
CONTENT – ASSOCIATIONS
KÅRK
ASSOCIATIONS
STUDENT COUNCIL ARKIBAL
KONTUR
INSPE
InSpe is the student run part of KarriereVærkstedet. We focus on the work life of the young architects of tomorrow.
During the year we invite you to join our career activities.
If you have ideas or questions, feel free to contact the InSpe Coordinator at inspe@aarch.dk.
Email inspe@aarch.dk
STUDENT COUNCIL
The Council of Architecture Students is the voice of the school’s students. We strive to make the education at Aarhus School of Architecture even better. Furthermore, the association relates to educational policies, local politics, and other policies relevant to students of architecture. The Council of Architecture Students is a member of the National Union of Students in Denmark (DSF).
Our meetings are open to all students of Aarhus School of Architecture. We look forward to seeing you, regardless whether you want to attend regularly or only once, because you are interested in a particular case or problem that you want to address.
Apart from students from the school’s various units and studios, representatives of the students from the school’s various bodies also participate in the meetings (e.g. The School Board, The Study Board, and InSpe). So, regardless of the nature of your issue, there is a good chance we can help you find a solution.
Email studraad@aarch.dk
Facebook facebook.com/DARaarch
ARKIBAL
ArkiBAL is the school’s event association. We create inspiring and festive settings for the school’s parties, Friday bars and other social events.
We are big on theme parties. We love creating fun and playful decorations for the parties and are very ambitious. We usually build different decorations in the afternoons while we listen to music and have a cosy time together.
ArkiBAL is a great place to meet students from different years and get to know each other. The work in ArkiBAL has many sides to it - we have different teams that work with different aspects e.g. the bar team, the tech team and the building team.
In ArkiBAL, you have the opportunity to go crazy and try new things like building a 1:1 elephant, learning to DJ or managing a bar.
This is a place to have fun with friends and break loose from your architecture studies. We also spend time together and hang out just for fun - sometimes we throw a private party, eat dinner together or even rent a summer house for a weekend and go away together.
We have a weekly meeting every Tuesday during lunch break in New Neighbour, and you are always welcome to join!
You can follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
Email arkibal@stud.aarch.dk
Facabook facebook.com/arkibalaarch Instagram @arkibal_
KÅRK
KÅRK is published by architecture students for anyone with an interest in architecture. A student-run initiative with the editorial board in Aarhus and Copenhagen.
With the publication, we aim to provide a mirror projecting outwards, and between each other, what is produced and worked on within the walls of Aarhus School of Architecture and The Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation.
The magazine is a place for exhibition as well as discussion. For thoughts and reflections. With contributions from students and staff, we wish to inspire and be inspired and hopefully learn from each other.
Every issue explores a different theme. Through the reflections of academics and students associated with our institutions, we gain and create knowledge, shed light and raise questions. Within one of three sections, themerelated material is packed in one continuous collective conversation - projects, articles, interviews and speculations come together, create new perspectives, new visions.
Each issue of Kårk is launched as a two- and three-dimensional dialogue between the two institutions - magazine, exhibition, celebration.
Email kaark@stud.aarch.dk Instagram kaark_magasin
KONTUR
KONTUR is the art and culture association at Aarhus School of Architecture. We aim to create a framework for a hybrid creativity outside the school schedule.
In KONTUR we meet for the joy of expressing ourselves creatively in an inclusive community.
We meet every Wednesday at 12 where we plan various events, ranging from croquis to film screenings to exhibitions.
Everyone is welcome to join the meetings, and we always have fun and a great time together!
Instagram @kontur_aarch
Facebook Kontur
Mail kontur@stud.aarch.dk
SAFETY
COMPETITIONS & WORKSHOPS
CONTENT – WORTH KNOWING
ARCHITECTURE
WORTH KNOWING
COMMUNICATION
RUSTOUR
SMOKING
UNIONS & ASSOCIATIONS
SAFETY
Teachers and students may come in contact with materials and products that can be harmful to their health and when used the wrong way dangerous. Therefore, they must be handled with care and attention, and the safety instructions must be abided by. If this is not the case, teaching can be stopped immediately by the head of security at the school.
Product and information folders
Teachers as well as students are under an obligation to familiarise themselves with the contents of the information folders placed in central spots at the school. The folders contain information about the individual products, user guides and
instructions on how you should conduct yourself in case of accidents.
Special precautions
Use of various spray products and paint MUST take place outside or in the facilities with mechanical exhaust ventilation arranged for this purpose. Work with foam material where electric wire cutters are used must also take place in the specially arranged facilities.
These facilities MUST be cleaned up on a daily basis. You are only allowed to work with plaster, cement, mortar and similar materials in the casting workshop – and users must tidy up and clean daily.
COMMUNICATION
Aarch.dk
On the school’s webpage aarch.dk you will find news from and about the school, information about public events, exhibitions, academic regulations, etc. You can also read more about studies and supplementary education offers, research, the library and our fabrication facilities.
Intra (Ziik)
Intra (Ziik) is the school’s intranet where you will receive informations related to yor studies from the administration and management. And you can find regulations and information relevant to you as a student.
You can log on Intra in a browser with your school email and password. And you can download Intra
as an app to receive notifications on your phone.
The app is named Ziik.
Moodle
Moodle is an internal communication system. It is primarily a platform between students and teachers. Here, teachers post assignments and students post their work. Everything related to studies is published here: guidance, critiques, lectures, study tours etc. – along with any changes to programmes.
You can also find us on Instagram and LinkedIn where we continually post news from the school and updates about architecture related subjects. Further we have a video channel on Vimeo.
Website aarch.dk
Moodle moodle.aarch.dk
Intra aarch.ziik.io Instagram @aarchdk
LinkedIn linkedin.com/school/aarhus-school-ofarchitecture/ Vimeo vimeo.com/aarch
RUSTOUR
Every year before the beginning of the autumn term the freshmen event welcomes new students to the school.
The positions as lead planners are announced in April and the lead planners are to arrange and manage the event and hire the co-planners.
The team of 50 student volunteers warmly welcomes the new students with a week of events. The rustour is a social event that introduces the students to the school, each other and the different organizations at the school.
Email rus@stud.aarch.dk
Website rusforeningen.aarch.dk
COMPETITIONS & WORKSHOPS
As a student of architecture you are qualified and have the opportunity to compete in national as well as international competitions and take part in various workshops and courses.
Aarch Board
On the school website aarch.dk, you find Aarch Board, where you can see current student jobs, internship proposals, competitions, and events relevant to school students.
Submissions are published by architecture companies and others who want to reach the school’s students with their announcements.
Website aarch.dk/aarch-board
SMOKING
Smoking is not allowed inside the school, on the school’s terraces or around the building. Instead, there is a smoking area nearby at Onsite Gallery.
UNIONS & ASSOCIATIONS
Forbundet Arkitekter og Designere
The Union of Architects and Designers (FAOD) manage payment negotiation and working conditions for architects.
As a student of architecture you can get a membership of FAOD and gain advantages in counselling, membership activities, magazines and insurance discounts.
www.faod.dk
Arkitektforeningen
The Danish Association of Architects is an independent association with the purpose to support and promote architectural quality. The association counts about 7.000 qualified architects, who are entitled to use the protected title MAA.
With a student membership you have the privilege to attend events of the association and gain discounts on magazines, insurance and more. As a member you will also receive the specialist journal “Arkitekten”.
www.arkitektforeningen.dk
OPEN24 - ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL
The returning OPEN architecture festival continues the critical and investigative approach to architecture in a changing world, encouraging the important dialogue between Practice, Business and Academia. The festival is curated by curator Karen Kjaergaard and cocurators, Margarida Waco, and Simon Strøyer.
All activities at Aarhus School of Architecture is dedicated to the festival event on Friday 20 September. Students and staff are all kindly invited to join – REMEMBER to book your free ticket here.
What
to expect?
The festival is dedicated to the emerging, established and radical voices within the architectural field. The programme features
thematic panel talks, interviews, lectures, performances, exhibitions, and artistic interventions together with DJ, street food and relaxed atmosphere.
The Ocean In Which We All Swim
In a compelling exploration of hydro experiences, OPEN24 ventures onto a liquid journey unfolding as a canvas on which architecture and water coalesce, threading together the individual and the collective.
Through myriad ways of seeing and sensing from emerging and established positions, OPEN24 foregrounds architectural, environmental, geo-political and philosophical lenses to carve out the contours of our planetary futures.
Website aarch.dk/open24
Visit the event website to explore the programme and see the many speakers joining OPEN24.
GET READY FOR STUDY START
Together with The Study Counselling Service, Aarhus School of Architecture has created an online course for new bachelor students. The course introduces what it is like to be a student at our school. We have chosen to call the course ‘Get ready for study start’ (Bliv klar til studiestart).
The aim is to help new students to get ready for their studies at Aarhus School of Architecture. Participating is voluntary, and new students can access the course content when they want to, but we recommend that students complete it before the actual first day of term - or shortly afterwards.
The material consists of four modules, which in different ways provide an introduction to what it means to be a student at the school - the modules are called:
• From pupil to student
• Study habits
• Motivation that lasts
• Academic communities and working together
Bliv klar til studiestart
The online course will be available on the platform Moodle.
As a bachelor’s student, you will receive an email with further instructions to gain access.
NEW NEIGHBOUR
New Neighbor is a white, three floors container building located between the school and Institut for (X). On the first floor, the school’s student associations have established a joint, academic and social housing community with office facilities, meeting room and kitchenette. The second floor’s office space and meeting room are used for special purposes.
Before the school moved into Exners Plads, we established a temporary learning space at the construction site for teaching, project work and workshops. The building was part of supporting the new neighborliness (hence
the name) and over the years, it has housed a number of small creative startups.
Spant Studio has designed New Neighbour; the building is constructed with a framework of Pro-Tran site hut elements on a custommade steel structure between four 20’ high cube shipping containers with a total area of 350 sqm.
CONTENT – MAPS
MAPS
1. SAL / 1ST FLOOR
2. SAL / 2ND FLOOR STUEN / GROUND FLOOR
3. SAL / 3RD FLOOR
CONTENT – MAPS – STUEN/GROUND FLOOR
STUEN / GROUND FLOOR
BYGNINGSDRIFT
DIDAKTEK AUDITORIUM
MOCK-UP
PERSONALE
BIBLIOTEK
STILLESTUDIERUM
IT PRINT 1
SPRAYRUM
TØMRER
KØKKEN
METAL ROBOT
SLIBERUM
VAREINDLEVERING
ARCHITEGN M.2 M.1
1. SAL / 1ST FLOOR
SEMINARRUM 1.3
SEMINARRUM 1.4
1
SEMINARRUM 1.2
SEMINARRUM 1.1
BIBLIOTEK
PROJEKTRUM 2
MODELRUM 1 LEDELSESSEKRETARIAT / KOMMUNIKATION
PROJEKTRUM 1
TEGNESAL
2. SAL / 2nd FLOOR
SEMINARRUM 2.3
SEMINARRUM 2.4
SEMINARRUM 2.2
SEMINARRUM 2.1
PROJEKTRUM 4
PROJEKTRUM 3
TEGNESAL 2
TEGNESAL 3
3D-PRINT
3. SAL / 3rd FLOOR
SEMINARRUM 3.1
TEGNESAL 5
MODELRUM 3
PROJEKTRUM 5
KARRIEREVÆRKSTED
DIDAKTISK LAB
TEGNESAL 4
M. 20
ENGAGING THROUGH ARCHITECTURE
