Design of hotel with recreational spaces. Investigate program, form and typology in relation to bodily and mental recreation. Investigate the buildings meaning for this recreation both formally, technologically and with regards to processes.
Investigate the relation between idea and tectonics.
Develop understanding and experience with regards to the relation between program and space, between architecture and recreation and between idea and tectonics.
Semester divided in two parts, where the student is to deliver a “normal” project 4-5 weeks before the final delivery. This first project is examined and the course-teachers are defining a new individual brief focusing on the tectonics. Excursion to Mexico City, weekly crits or corrections. Lectures
Final assessment based on delivered material and participation. Both deliveries must be passed to pass the course.
The course is assessed as pass/fail,
subject to the Regulations for Master's degree programmes at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, § 6-14.