Architecture is an experience! Only Michelangelo’s painting can depict this touch to the immaterial… 

But how can we gain this touch?

 

The design studio is oriented towards the acquisition of fundamental skills in architectural designing. And how every motivated student, young architect, PhD student independently can master the apparatus of the architectural designing. Also, how to gain the skill to be calm upon starting a new project, even with quite an arduous functional programme of a complicated and unknown building, that he will have a clear system to follow, without it confining him creatively.

 

In the name itself is set the architectural game, up to which we showed the students how they can achieve it step by step. This is the additional value, when working with the particular method, which you will receive - the ability to play with architecture. 

 

During the event the students met new people, experts in the practice, who introduced them to the recent trends in some technologies for better architecture. The students worked and studied for themselves, their future, and their architectural skills for a successful realisation in the field. 

 

The two-week intensive work was like a stepping-stone for their future university educational activity; it made it comprehensible, interesting, intensely motivating and highly effective. We depend on this!

 

The shared experience with you is based on the great successful collaborative work with the Professor’s method, the work in his team of the experimental “DESIGN STUDIO” - FAEUS - the First Architectural Educational Undergraduate Studio in Bulgaria, as well as the joint work on grand real projects and realisations with it. 

 

The design studio highlights its work on the principles for creating an architectural project, on the architectural analysis, all of which are set in Pr. Dr. Arch. Stefan Popov’s method for architectural design - “THE NEW ARROACH”. Together we went through the steps of a complete process, with a conceptual project for a children’s cultural educational centre. 

 

The focus of our joint work was in the direction of mastering real practical skills, how they can design on their own, how they can find their way in this complicated process of designing, and how they can be beneficial to themselves and the society in the future.

 

The duration was 24.08.2020 - 05.09.2020. The manner of conducting the workshop proceeded mainly online in its lecture part. The period generally was two weeks, from Monday to Saturday, 8 hours a day. The exercises were conducted in person in order to monitor, with mentors, the development of the project.   

 

All of the participants received a certificate for their work at the end of the workshop. An independent panel appointed Tsvetomira Kasabova’s development, a student in the 3rd course, University for Architecture, Construction and Geodesy. She received a money price and the special diploma/certificate “Prof. Arch. Stefan Popov”.