PHYSICAL PLANNING CAPSTONE -“EVERYBODY AGES” UP 631 | WINTER 2012 TAUBMAN COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING - THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Aldo Van Eyck
COURSE OVERVIEW
The Physical Planning and Design Capstone Winter 2012 will collaborate with Arch 562 Architecture Systems Studio: EVERYBODY AGES, under the 2012 Vertical Cities Asia International Competition. Sponsored by the National Singapore University, the competition invites ten international schools (1) to address the contemporary dilemma of housing an aging population in sustainable and highly dense environments. The competition brief (2), with the details on the site and planning guidelines, will be public on January 1st, 2012. Building on the comprehensive nature of the agenda established by the Taubman College, the urban planning students enrolled in UP631 will collaborate with five different Architecture Studio Sections (3) in a highly coordinated setting. The semester is structured to ensure a dynamic learning structure, where students will alternate leadership roles in a collaborative environment. In addition, planning students will benefit from the lecture series by the Architecture Studio faculty, and other events sponsored by the Architecture Program. The architecture - planning partnership will have different gradients of intensity over the semester, in order to accomplish the pedagogic goals as framed in each program. On our side, capstone students will address the planning and design of sustainable physical environments to assist social interactions across scales, considering multiple agents and agendas, and the cultural frameworks at play. The semester will incorporate the development of urban design schemes including infrastructural systems design, studies on building typologies, and programmatic and performative considerations in the design of open public spaces. The course positions graphic representation as a powerful tool to organize and communicate information associated with complex problems with precision and clarity to a wider audience. The course requires advanced graphic representation skills to facilitate the development of the analytic and propositive phases in the course of the semester. The course will not include software training, but the instructors will be happy to facilitate extra workshops per students request. The classes are structured to ensure a dynamic learning structure, and include technical workshops, weekly lectures, desk critiques, group discussions, and public presentations and reviews with guest critics. (1) Chinese U of Hong Kong, Tonji U of Shanghai, Tsinghua U of Beijing, U of Tokyo, National U Singapore, U of Michigan, UC Berkeley, UPenn, ETH, TU Delft. (2) Last year brief required to house 100,000 people living and working in 1 km2, which brings overall densities of roughly 300 units / ha. (3) The five architecture studio sections are: Over [populated] & Under [valued] Lars Graebner + Julia McMorrough allsystemsgo! Jen Maigret + Geoffrey Thun New aged Collective Vivian Lee + El Hadi Jazairy Part to Hole Daubmann + Wigger The Room, the Street and the Human Agreement Mick Kennedy + Tony Patterson
INFORMATION
INSTRUCTORS/CONTACT
Monday & Thursday, 1.00 - 6.00 pm Studio Space 3rd Floor (unless otherwise noted) Group email | UP631w2012@umich.edu María Arquero de Alarcón, Assistant Professor Paul Fontaine, Lecturer Office hours, by appointment.
e. marquero@umich.edu e. paulfont@umich.edu
c. 6178211719 c. 7348346344
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