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ZHUuGROUND14 : Critical Skills and Social Interaction at CityU

Dahl, Per-Johan LU (2014) In HKIA Journal p.32-35
Abstract
ZHUuGROUND14 was an architectural workshop pursued at the City University of Hong Kong, 17-19 May 2014, and in collaboration with the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture (RIEA.ch). Taking the retaining wall as intellectual
compound, the workshop engaged in a large scale modelling exercise, which had been orchestrated to improve the critical skills of the architecture students. ZHUuGROUND14 merged undergraduate students with Ph.D. students and PostDoctoral researchers to instigate social interaction through design. And it deployed the tectonic aptitudes of bamboo material and detailing to render an experimental design and fabrication process. This article explicates the background, the learning objectives, the execution,... (More)
ZHUuGROUND14 was an architectural workshop pursued at the City University of Hong Kong, 17-19 May 2014, and in collaboration with the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture (RIEA.ch). Taking the retaining wall as intellectual
compound, the workshop engaged in a large scale modelling exercise, which had been orchestrated to improve the critical skills of the architecture students. ZHUuGROUND14 merged undergraduate students with Ph.D. students and PostDoctoral researchers to instigate social interaction through design. And it deployed the tectonic aptitudes of bamboo material and detailing to render an experimental design and fabrication process. This article explicates the background, the learning objectives, the execution, and the conclusions of ZHUuGROUND14. The article argues that critical skills are becoming increasingly important for both academia and the industry, thus feasible to be implemented through open ended exploratory design and fabrication processes; it elucidates the RIEA.ch presence at CityU; it clarifies the intellectual premises of the retaining wall; and it describes the tectonic approach of the workshop, which, through social interaction, eradicated the normative barriers between theory and practice. ZHUuGROUND14 marks RIEA.ch's entry into Asia. Drawing
from the legacy of Lebbeus Woods, the workshop suggests a new form of collaborative learning labs feasible to be implemented through Hong Kong's architectural community. (Less)
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69
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32 - 35
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  author       = {{Dahl, Per-Johan}},
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  keywords     = {{RIEA; CityU; Experiment; Pedagogy; Method; Design thinking}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{69}},
  pages        = {{32--35}},
  series       = {{HKIA Journal}},
  title        = {{ZHUuGROUND14 : Critical Skills and Social Interaction at CityU}},
  year         = {{2014}},
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