Make Encounter is a class that positions making as a mode of thinking, an approach that begins with careful observation and evolves into spatial intervention. The class invites students to engage deeply with an existing building, understanding its form, material language, and lived conditions.
The first half of the semester, students analyse the building through analogue methods, translating spatial qualities into paper-based explorations. These acts of making become tools for reflection. It slows down the process of seeing and builds a tactile understanding of space.
In the second half, the studio shifts toward speculation. Students reimagine new encounters with the building, altering function, materiality, or spatial relationships to propose alternative futures. The outcomes, expressed through models and photographs, capture each student’s interpretation of what the space could become.
Make Encounter fosters a design ethic rooted in attentiveness, learning to observe before intervening, and to design with sensitivity to how spaces can evolve for future generations.
The first half of the semester, students analyse the building through analogue methods, translating spatial qualities into paper-based explorations. These acts of making become tools for reflection. It slows down the process of seeing and builds a tactile understanding of space.
In the second half, the studio shifts toward speculation. Students reimagine new encounters with the building, altering function, materiality, or spatial relationships to propose alternative futures. The outcomes, expressed through models and photographs, capture each student’s interpretation of what the space could become.
Make Encounter fosters a design ethic rooted in attentiveness, learning to observe before intervening, and to design with sensitivity to how spaces can evolve for future generations.