Official Course Description
Image as Tool
A space only becomes fully perceptible when it is physically entered. Its impact arises from the interplay of light, materiality, scale, proportion, and atmosphere - qualities that cannot be reduced to purely visual information. Spatial experience is embodied, situational, and temporal; it encompasses perception, movement, and mood at once. This leads to a central question: How can an image nevertheless convey these spatial qualities?
The seminar understands the digital image not as a mere representation of finished designs, but as a design tool. The three-dimensional model and the resulting images are employed as instruments for generating, varying, and testing spatial ideas, thereby becoming an integral part of the design process. Through a compact short-term design exercise, the fundamentals of 3D modeling and image production will be deepened, different types of images explored, and their respective effects examined.
Basic knowledge of 3D modeling is required. Participants must bring their own laptop (Windows or Mac, at least 16 GB RAM). The software used includes Archicad, Cinema 4D, and Corona.
- Lecturer: Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge
- Lecturer: Willi Wagner