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Condition_Lab is a Design Research Laboratory based within the School of Architecture at CUHK. Established in 2018, our primary focus is to improve people’s lives through design.
The Lab’s research resolves around designing socially responsible architectural prototypes. By working hand-in-hand with local partners on real sites, our aim is to develop projects that foster a better sense of community. The prototype acts as a vessel to generate new knowledge about how people inhabit their environment.
Our philosophy revolves around the paradox embedded into the word “condition”, as a noun it refers to a context, a circumstance, or a situation, while as a verb it implies change - to condition something based on an original state.
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Condition_Lab is a Design Research Laboratory based within the School of Architecture at CUHK. Established in 2018, our primary focus is to improve people’s lives through design.
The Lab’s research resolves around designing socially responsible architectural prototypes. By working hand-in-hand with local partners on real sites, our aim is to develop projects that foster a better sense of community. The prototype acts as a vessel to generate new knowledge about how people inhabit their environment.
SNU DAAE 4.1
Seoul, 2014
Seoul, 2014
Transformation vs. Preservation
The notion of Tabula Rasa, for so oft en the preferred form or urban develop-ment in most Asian cities, is rapidly being questioned on the grounds of eradi-cating the traces of historical development. No country testifi es to this eradica-tion of local heritage more than China in the last 30 years with their aggressive economic policies.
For this reason, our joint 4.1 Design Studio will be based in Hangzhou, ChinaOur Department has decided that all students should at least once in their 5 years undergraduate studies work on a design project that is outside of Korea. The first semester of the Fourth year has been allocated as the right studio to carry out this project. Th e aim of the project is to subject SNU students to foreign conditions and absorb diff erent cultures, as to better prepare them for an ever changing profession where as graduate architects they will be expected to work in a multitude of various situations.
Studio Instructor
Prof. Peter W. Ferretto
The notion of Tabula Rasa, for so oft en the preferred form or urban develop-ment in most Asian cities, is rapidly being questioned on the grounds of eradi-cating the traces of historical development. No country testifi es to this eradica-tion of local heritage more than China in the last 30 years with their aggressive economic policies.
For this reason, our joint 4.1 Design Studio will be based in Hangzhou, ChinaOur Department has decided that all students should at least once in their 5 years undergraduate studies work on a design project that is outside of Korea. The first semester of the Fourth year has been allocated as the right studio to carry out this project. Th e aim of the project is to subject SNU students to foreign conditions and absorb diff erent cultures, as to better prepare them for an ever changing profession where as graduate architects they will be expected to work in a multitude of various situations.
Studio Instructor
Prof. Peter W. Ferretto
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