TY - JOUR A1 - Finkenberger, Isabel Maria T1 - Bodenpolitik als Instrument strategischer Transformation JF - UrbanLab-Magazin : Fachzeitschrift für Stadt- und Quartierplanung Y1 - 2019 VL - 2019 IS - 05 SP - 18 EP - 25 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Finkenberger, Isabel Maria A1 - Veil, Katja T1 - Räumliche Transformation JF - RaumPlanung : Fachzeitschrift für räumliche Planung und Forschung Y1 - 2020 SN - 0176-7534 VL - 205 IS - 1 SP - 6 EP - 11 PB - IfR (Informationskreis für Raumplanung) CY - Dortmund ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ebert, Carola A1 - Schneider, Tatjana A1 - Stapenhorst, Carolin ED - Mieg, Harald A. ED - Ambos, Elizabeth ED - Brew, Angela ED - Galli, Dominique ED - Lehmann, Judith T1 - Undergraduate Research in Architecture T2 - The Cambridge Handbook of Undergraduate Research N2 - Architecture is a university subject with educational roots in both the technical university and art/specialized architecture schools, yet it lacks a strong research orientation and is focused on professional expertise. This chapter explores the particular role of research within architectural education in general by discussing two different cases for the implementation of undergraduate research in architecture: during the late 1990s and early 2000s at the University of Sheffield, UK, and during the 2010s at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. These examples illustrate the asynchronous beginnings of similar developments, and also contextualize differences in disciplinary habitus and pedagogical approaches between Sheffield, where research impulses stemmed from within the Architectural Humanities, and Aachen with its strong tradition as a technical university. KW - the University of Sheffield KW - RWTH Aachen University KW - currriculum KW - design research KW - research by design KW - profession KW - dscipline KW - hybridity KW - research in architecture KW - architectural education Y1 - 2022 SN - 9781108869508 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108869508.049 SP - 355 EP - 362 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stapenhorst, Carolin ED - Callegari, Guido ED - De Giorgi, Claudia ED - Occelli, Chiara L.M. ED - Palma, Riccardo T1 - The didactic experimentation on housing modules for cycle travellers T2 - MAACC. Modulo abitativo autosufficiente per cicloviaggiatori e camminatori. Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-88-6242-778-4 SP - 40 EP - 44 PB - LetteraVentidue Edizioni Srl CY - Siracusa ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stapenhorst, Carolin A1 - Geßner, Stephan A1 - Woerd, Jan Dirk van der ED - Bögle, Annette ED - Grohmann, Manfred T1 - ArchitecTours – a close look on structures around us T2 - Proceedings of IASS Annual Symposia N2 - Architects and civil engineers work together regularly during their professional days and are irreplaceable for each other. This co-operation is sometimes made more difficult by the differences in their disciplinary languages and approaches. Structures are evaluated by architects on the basis of criteria such as spatial impact and usability, while civil engineers analyze them more closely by their bearing and deformation properties, as well as by constructive aspects. This diversity of assessment criteria and approaches is often continued in both academic disciplines in the view on structures. Within the framework of the Exploratory Teaching Space (ETS), a funding program to improve teaching at RWTH Aachen University and to promote new teaching concepts, a project was carried out jointly by the Junior Professorship of Tool-Culture at the Faculty of Architecture and the Institute of Structural Concrete at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. The aim of the project is to present buildings in such a way that the differences in perception between architects and civil engineers are reduced and the common understanding is promoted. The project develops a database, which contains a collection of striking buildings from Aachen and the surrounding area. The buildings are categorized according to terms that come from both disciplinary areas. The collection can be freely explored or crossed through learning trails. The medium of film plays a special role in presenting the buildings. The buildings are assigned to different categories of load bearing structures as linear, planar and spatial structures, and further to different types of material, functional programs and spatial characteristics. Since the buildings are located in the direct vicinity of Aachen, they can be visited by the students. This makes them more sensitive to their environment. Intrinsic motivation, as well as implicit learning is encouraged. The paper will provide a detailed report of the project, its implementation, the feedback of the students and the plans for further development. KW - structural systems KW - perception of structures KW - interdisciplinary student projects KW - education KW - collaboration of architects and structural engineers KW - teaching of structures Y1 - 2017 SN - 2518-6582 N1 - IASS Annual Symposium 2017 "Interfaces: Architecture, Engineering, Science", 25. - 28.9.2017, Hamburg, Germany PB - IASS CY - Madrid ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Stapenhorst, Carolin T1 - Concept : a dialogic instrument in architectural design N2 - Concept - this is a key term in architectural discourse. However, all too often it is used imprecisely or merely for marketing purposes. What is a concept actually? This publication moves between design theory and design practice and follows the history of the definition of concept in architecture, leading to the formulation of a specifically instrumental and operative definition. It bases concept in architecture on its strategic potential in design decision-making processes. In the changing profession of the designing architect, decisions are increasingly made in multidisciplinary groups. Concept can serve as a dialogic instrument in the process, making it possible to process heterogeneous information from a range of spheres of knowledge. The effective presentation of selected information becomes a relevant interface in the design process, which has a significant influence on the quality of the design. Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-86859-364-8 PB - Jovis CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stapenhorst, Carolin ED - Schmitz, Thomas H. ED - Häußling, Roger ED - Mareis, Claudia ED - Groninger, Hannah T1 - Grids. Projektdokumentationen als Denkinstrument T2 - Manifestationen im Entwurf Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-8394-3160-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839431603-009 SP - 185 EP - 216 PB - Transcript CY - Bielefeld ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stapenhorst, Carolin ED - Frank, Ute ED - Lindenmayer, Verena ED - Loewenberg, Patrick ED - Rocneanu, Carla T1 - Robustheit T2 - Hiatus. Architekturen für die gebrauchte Stadt KW - Typologien KW - Stadtentwicklung KW - Urbanismus Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-0356-1386-5 SP - 155 EP - 164 PB - Birkhäuser CY - Basel ER - TY - THES A1 - Stapenhorst, Carolin T1 - The concept as an operant instrument within the interdisciplinarity of the architectural design process N2 - In the introduction to their book "What is philosophy?" Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari deplore the inflationary and trivialised use of the term concept: "Finally, the most shameful moment came when computer science, marketing, design and advertising, all the disciplines of communication, seized hold of the word concept itself and said: 'This is our concern, we are the creative ones, we are the ideas men! We are the friends of the concept, we put in our computers.' " This doctoral thesis shares the concern of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, but still, it is a thesis in architecture and thus collocated within the field of the representatives of the "ideas men". It engages in architectural design theory, and refers in particular to the investigation of methodological approaches within the design process. Therefore, the thesis will not contribute to the philosophical dimension of the term, but intends to overcome its imprecise use within the architectural discourse, in compliance with Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's admonition relative to vague definitions: "Dans les arts, et dans l'architecture en particulier, les définitions vagues ont causé bien des erreurs, ont laissé germer bien des préjugés, enraciner bien des idées fausses. On met un mot en avant, chacun y attache un sens différent." The term concept in architecture is very often used as pure marketing collateral, it serves to sell an idea, a product, a design. Its functional applicability is reduced to a special manner of illustration, produced as one of the various design presentation documents at the end of the design process. In contrast, the original contribution of this thesis aims to give a precise, instrumental dimension to the term concept: the concept is the expression of a specific logic, capable to guide the decisional sequences of the process and thus to improve the quality of the designed projects. The motivation to define a specific instrumentality of the concept is closely connected to the issue of interdisciplinarity in the architects’ profession. The interdisciplinary character of the architectural field is widely accepted and discussed as such, but the thesis intends to give a more precise definition of the various kinds of competences involved by classifying them into either the internal or the external group. The traditional notion of interdisciplinarity, predominantly seen as collaboration between architects and technical experts, and, most notably, the historical, sometimes contentious, relationship between architects and engineers is described. Referring to recent developments, the transformation of the architect’s role within the professional sphere, marked by an increasing importance of diverse influences and linked to a growing risk of marginalisation, is illustrated. The thesis describes different ways to adapt to this specific kind of interdisciplinarity, which generally requires the architect’s ability to connect and to integrate various contents, different points of view and diverse scales. On the other hand, the big potential which is implicit in the interdisciplinary field is exposed: architects can inform their core competence, the design, by extracting contents of different disciplinary competences, pertaining or not pertaining to their own professional field. They have the possibility to cross fields of external competences in a selective way and by doing so they can build up a corpus of knowledge capable to generate and communicate guidelines and systematic methodologies for their design. At the end, the analysis of these two aspects allows the definition of a more specific professional profile of the architect as specialist of interdisciplinarity. The thesis is concerned with the theories around the design process. The design process is seen as open to inspection and critical evaluation, with major focus on the decisional sequences which characterise it. It concentrates on the process’ descriptiveness and the degree of self-conscious approaches applied within it. The importance of regulative, strategic mechanisms is illustrated by testimonies taken from a series of design researches and leads to the functional definition of the figure of the concept as representation of a coherent set of ideas, as generator of a project-specific system of rules and as communicator of decisional strategies. The concept's function is furthermore defined as communicative interface which generates and transmits the system of rules authoritative for all the disciplinary competences involved in the design process, a communicative interface which constitutes a basis of shared convictions capable to increase the efficiency of collaboration. Furthermore, the concept's capacity to explore and elaborate the contents of external disciplines is identified as a possible methodological approach to innovative design thinking. The approach to a specific functional definition of the concept is continued by the description of a series of instruments that are simultaneously generating and communicating it. It is outlined to which degree the concept itself is already the result of an ideational process, collocated within the initial phase of the design proceedings, serving as a guideline to them, but still continuously evolving and adapting in its progression. In addition, it is illustrated how all the diverse instruments of the concept are operational media through which the knowledge transition between different disciplines can occur. The considerations about the concept as operational instrument of design are elaborated with regard to a number of examples of didactical applications that are particularly involved in the development and teaching of specific design methods. These examples illustrate the interrelations between design theory and design education. They are derived from very different schools of architecture and diverse mindsets, but all of them transmit models of conceptual design thinking. KW - methodologies KW - instruments KW - interdisciplinarity KW - architectural design process KW - design theory Y1 - 2012 PB - Politecnico di Torino CY - Turin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Stapenhorst, Carolin A1 - Meerbach, Kerstin T1 - Studie zur forschungsbezogenen Lehre an der Fakultät für Architektur der RWTH Aachen KW - Architekturforschung KW - Forschungsorientierte Lehre KW - Didaktik KW - Architekturwissenschaft Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18154/rWth-2019-06163 PB - RWTH Aachen CY - Aachen ER -