Université de Montréal 2023
In this studio, students proposed a medium-sized storage building (art storage, library, self-storage, data storage) in a dense urban environment. The architectural themes built upon those of the same studio offered last year, namely how to produce iconic imagery in anonymous building types. Students were asked to think about the relationship between use and form beyond obsolete concepts of form/function and instead in terms of contemporary themes such as suburb/city, machine/building, generic/specific, and the role of digital representation in the design process. At the start of the semester, students used generative AI to create a single image that represented an end goal that drove the work throughout.