Roots: Shaping African Urbanities: Kigali, Rwanda

Abstract

Thematic and Methodological Emphasis Urban Tool Box: Analogue and Digitial Tool Development, Architecture and Urban Design, Representation (Digital and Physical 3D-Modeling, in combination Film, and Graphic Design) Learning Objectives Students will emerge in our Chair’s “method-design” to step by step develop their individual prototypical design projects. They will address both architectural urban scales and will be guided to collaboratively develop a baseline scenario. Mapping, identifying existing and future challenges and opportunities, students will take the role of stakeholders and translate their demands and resources into different scenarios. They will design urbanistic concepts and translate them into an evidence-based architectural project- intervention. This prototype is the synthesis of a process in time and space on different scales. The design project will be framed as a narrative that is consequentially visualized and communicated in analogue and digital graphic representations. The project concept will be tested and upscaled through urbanistic design-policy recommendations.