Surface beyond body,  Surface, body and architecture,
Spring School  | Bauhaus University Weimar, 2023

Tutors: Dr. Luise Nerlich, Manolis Iliakis

Duration: online-classes > January and February 2023 | on site in Weimar > March and April 2023

The course focused on how surface awareness plays a crucial role in space. Students were separated into groups and explored the surface content through multiple aspects in a spatial composition context.

The essence of architectural space was described in three stages: Vertical surfaces, Horizontal surfaces, and Irregular surfaces.

Physical experiments with the body and exercises with all the senses, helped participants to perceive the connection between context and design. If all our senses were activated and trained, we could then benefit by a wealth of experiences. As mentioned, students worked in groups. It was suggested that in each group students from different cultures work together.

Students: Mariana Rocha, Polina Moskovets, Martim Veiga, Diana Manolova, Inês Tavares, Hristo Tilev, Aylin Mustafa, Charis Koufakos, Alisa Aryutova, Svetlana Vejinovic, Carlos Figueiredo, Remy Yannoulatos, Jana Vlckova, Tea Lemberpuu, Viktória Nosáľová, Svetlana Vejinovic.

A. Drawing surfaces in the main building of Bauhaus University Weimar | Spatial mapping
Mapping surfaces and textures in the historical building, designed by Henry van de Velde and built between 1904 and 1911.

B. Five senses mindfulness exercises | Bring awareness to each of your five senses
1. Use the sense of smell and the sense of hearing to discover the building. Create your own acoustic space. Feel the surfaces and the textures of the building. 2. Discover surfaces with small mirrors. *working in pairs

C. Surfaces as reliefs | Find surfaces
Finding surfaces in the campus of Bauhaus University Weimar to create reliefs and photograph them. Make a triptych with 3 square pictures using surfaces, mirrors and your body.

Triptych: Jana Vlckova, Viktoria Nosalova

Triptych: Tea Lemberpuu, Carlos Figu

Triptych: Tea Lemberpuu, Carlos Figu

D. Surfaces as reliefs | produce moulds
1. Make moulds (15 x15 cm) with silicone and clay, on the surfaces you found in the campus or in the city of Weimar. 2. Fill the moulds with plaster in the “Plastik-Werkstatt Prellerhaus”, to get copies. Remove the silicone and clay moulds from the surfaces.

Ε. Presentation | Open Ateliers Exhibition 2023