KS Studios | "Over The Edge" Live Online Architecture Course

Designing Sculptural Buildings

Over The Edge

LAST GROUP OF 2022!!!

STARTING: October 13th| ENDING: December 1st

on Thursdays, 16:00h – 18:30h, via Zoom
(SA time zone, GMT+2)

Our “Over the Edge” Online Architecture Course makes designing sculptural buildings with straights and curves possible. We keep you mentally and emotionally engaged from the get-go to the very end. We connect as fellow designers in large and small groups, and one-to-one: sharing ideas, insights and stories! It’s challenging, varied, detailed and we’ll be with you all the way.

You’ll need a stable Internet connection to join our Zoom classroom! Join us now!

Our architecture course is accredited by SACAP as a 6CPD’s course, Category 1.

For foreign countries, participants can get 60 credits (Equivalent UIA CPD credit value) or the respective credits according to the institution responsible for Continuing Professional Development system in the country.

Course themes

Week 1 - Introduction: Edges and Surfaces

When designing we conventionally outline surfaces, so our design method is primarily conceptual not perceptual, ideas not visual experience. This is fine for buildings composed of flat surfaces arranged orthogonally, but is it adequate for sculptural architecture? Answering this question is fundamental to our design methodology. In this session we re-exam the limits of current design methodology, in the light of sculptural forms.

Week 2 - Vocabulary of Surfaces

Becoming surface literate is essential to understanding and design sculptural forms. We’ll be bringing the flat slab to life by presenting a full lexicon of singly and doubly curved surfaces – an essential understanding to documenting and construction.

Week 3 - Form follows Feeling

The challenging task of experiencing how the form affects feelings. The idea that “Form follows function” is pragmatic and widespread but omits the most important quality of architecture: humanness. Comprehending the psychological experience of forms in relation to feelings, including the experiential distinction between rectilinear and curvilinear forms, which is equivalent to the difference between a major and minor scale in music.

Week 4 - Documenting for Construction (2D)

How to clearly document irregular plans for the contractor? Your builder won’t go around the bend when your drawings are around the bend. Techniques to document irregular shapes: one of the limits preventing architects from designing organic forms. We want you to be able to translate your creative design in an understandable and buildable way for the contractor to construct accurately. We take the guessing work out of building dynamic and irregular shapes.

Week 5 - Documenting for Construction (3D)

Taking the previous session a bit further, from 2D to 3D! Learning techniques for documenting in elevation, in volumes and with irregularly warped surfaces, including synclastic and anticlastic surfaces.

Week 6 - The Art is in the Details

Designing sculptural buildings is super cool, BUT how can I apply it to real life: with bricks, wood, and concrete? Getting real about getting it together. Practical design session, detailing for construction of non-orthogonal forms

Week 7 - Design Methodology

This is a design session: final project begins and before we document it we will take your creativity to the next level! Humanising the building by treating it as a personality; followed by clarifying a palette of materials and forms appropriate to the function and feeling of the project and spontaneously design in 3D. And a million-dollar question: How to design co-operatively giving feedback without criticism but adding and complimenting the process with further creative input as opposed to analysis and criticism?

Week 8 - Going Over The Edge

Time to wrap up. Let’s revise the whole content learned so far, share impressions, insights and think about ways to move forward and together. With this range of tools and a clear sense of direction the architectural world is your creative oyster!

Over the Edge

Starting: October 13th, 2022
Ending: December 1st, 2022
Thursdays, 16:00-18:30h
(SA Time, GMT + 2)

Payment options

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What they say

"This course does not only add critical tools to your design skill, but it will also potentially re-wire your brain. The material is covered thoroughly and the practical exercises are a great help. Thanks, Keith and Gabi."

"A surreal and amazing course. Look at the reality that surrounds us to discover ourselves and how our life can be influenced by the spaces in which we live. Knowing and recognizing shapes and how they change us is essential for us architects. Trust and let yourself be surprised."

"I’ve had a design block for the past couple of years. This rut left me bored with my work and worried that I had lost my design mojo/creative edge. This course opened my eyes to; the importance of working with surfaces as opposed to edges as I was used to, the fact that curves and irregular shapes are simple and achievable once understood and how a spectrum of shape and form is actually natural and pleasant to the human experience. I feel equipped to move forward and become creative again!"

"For a CPD course "Over the Edge" was a breath of fresh air. A wonderful, engaging and highly interactive course that will leave you thinking long after the course bell has rung."

"A refreshingly challenging course that kept me active, engaged and interested from start to finish. Very well planned and conducted. It has me looking at just about everything from a different more exciting point of view. Looking forward to the next one!"

“It's both fascinating and delightful how this course touched all facets of my life: personally, creatively and spiritually. These short course never fail to 'dust away the cobwebs' and re-expose the verities of life and re-establish a platform from which I can go forward with renewed sight and sensitivity. Always a pleasure.”

“This course exceeded my expectations. We learnt techniques to understand and document surfaces and then integrate that with a feeling understanding of those forms. It was a much deeper way of understanding the subject."

Our architecture course is SACAP accredited (6CPD’s, Category 1).
For foreign countries, participants can get 60 credits (Equivalent UIA CPD credit value) or the respective credits according to the institution responsible for Continuing Professional Development system in the country.