
Erasmus Intensive Program 2010 - Concrete
Tectonic studies and material experiments are based on a succession of theoretical and practical group works. Within a well-defined space and time, the workshops confront students and teachers from different regions of Europe with physical laws of a seemingly well-known material. Preliminary studies and excursions provide the related cultural background for materiality and tectonics in highlights of traditional and contemporary architecture. The workshops give an intensive, academic, cross-cultural experience that breaks down barriers between idea, thinking and making, and it ends up with full-scale objects for local benefit.
The Erasmus IP 2010 workshop took place at locations related to The Danish Design School in Nexø, Bornholm. The program aimed to study concrete’s unseen potentials, primarily by use of textile as a most flexible form material. Form investigations were made in gypsum and details were tried in full-scale concrete, before four 1:1 full-scale projects were realized on site; a bridge, a wall, sitting sculptures and store places for firewood.
Partner Universities: Royal Academy Copenhagen (Organiser), Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, Sint-Lucas Belgium, Universitat Polytécnica de Catalunya, NTNU Trondheim, University College Dublin, University of Ljubliana