Course detail

Workshop on Hybrid Forms of Housing

FA-HFH-WEAcad. year: 2023/2024

The specific topic and content of the course in the summer semester 2023/2024 is "Futures concerning collective and collaborative and hybrid housing; its evolution, orientation, typological issues, up to contemporary questions". Under the guidance of a visiting teacher, students will research and analyze typologies of Brno apartment buildings from different periods – houses built during the Austro-Hungarian period, functionalist cooperative housing from the 1920s and 1930s, post-war prefab concrete construction up to contemporary development of projects led as a profitbased business. Subsequently, students in the team will create an imaginative project of an apartment building, where approaches to housing from all the investigated periods will be included within one building.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. arch. Radek Toman, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Monument Care (UPP)

Entry knowledge

Not applicable.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

  • Submitted seminar work is evaluated.
  • Participation in all face-to-face teaching blocks announced at the beginning of the semester is mandatory. In the event of an excuse for serious reasons, replacement is possible, and with the consent of the teacher, absence or replacement in a distance form is permissible.
  • Completion of a seminar paper is mandatory. During the semester, the work will be processed by students both individually and as a teamwork.
 

Aims

The course aims to gain insight into the current topic of the housing crisis in European cities. The current topic is treated with creative and/or research methods. The entire semester will be taught as part of the seminar and on days 12th to 19th April 2024, an intensive workshop will take place at FA BUT. Both, the seminar and the workshop will be led by Radek Toman and Jacopo Gresleri.

Learning outcomes:

  • Students are introduced to a creative approach to the topic of housing.
  • Within the subject, students deepen their knowledge of appropriate tools and techniques for analyzing the current topic.
  • Students can clearly articulate the acquired knowledge and present it (verbally, in writing or graphically).
  • Students can process individual projects and further develop them within the team into the resulting collective proposal.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

A+T RESEARCH GROUP. 10 stories of collective housing: graphical analysis of inspiring masterpieces. 2013. ISBN: 978-84-616-4136-9. (EN) (EN)
KOOLHAAS, Rem. Elements of Architecture. Taschen, 2018. ISBN: 978-3836556149 (EN)
KLÍMOVÁ, Barbora. My jsme tím projektem žili: Stavba rodinného domu v období normalizace. Zlatý řez, 2011. ISBN: 978-80-87068-07-6. (CS)
TEIGE, Karel. Nejmenší byt. Vydavatel Václav Petr, 1932. (CS)
GRESLERI, Jacopo. Cohousing: esperienze internazionali di abitare condiviso. 2015. ISBN: 9788895459226 (IT)
GUZDEK, Adam. Brněnský fenomén Lesná. Vutium, 2021. ISBN: 978-80-214-5742-3 (CS)
Bydlení je nad zlato. Alarm, 2020. dostupné online: https://rosalux.cz/wpcontent/uploads/2021/04/Alarm_bydleni_CZ.pdf (CS)
Housing Over Gold. Alarm, 2020. available online: https://rosalux.cz/wpcontent/uploads/2021/04/Alarm_bydleni_EN-1.pdf (EN)
Brněnský architektonický manuál. dostupné online: https://www.bam.brno.cz/ (CS)
CHING, Francis D.K.. Architecture. Form, Space, & Order. Wiley, 2015. ISBN: 9781118745083 (EN)
HERTZBERGER, Herman. Lessons for Students in Architecture. 010 Publisher, 2005. ISBN: 9064505624 (EN)
MORETTI, Luigi. Structures and Sequences of Spaces. In "Oppositions" 4/1974, pp. 123-139. ISBN: 0815008120 (EN)
UNWIN, Simon. Analysing Architecture. Routledge, 2014. ISBN: 9780415719179 (EN)
UNWIN, Simon. Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand. Routledge, 2015. ISBN: 139781138781054 (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N_A+U Master's, 1. year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. arch. Radek Toman, Ph.D.

Field training

30 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. arch. Radek Toman, Ph.D.