Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Stamatina Kousidi
This paper explores the role of case studies in the design studio curriculum in connection with collective housing design. It argues that the critical comparative analysis of design precedents may lead to the definition of new architectural narratives on domestic space and foster a critical reflection on the design of spaces for cohabitation in the context of the contemporary city. It discusses a pedagogical project that examined the incorporation of the exterior space in the design of collective housing and set out to generate new conceptual and design definitions of threshold architecture, of spaces of transition, continuity sequence between public and private, internal and external, built and natural environments. It focuses on the methodological tools at stake, namely case study analysis and design speculation, and the ways in which they raised awareness among students about the relational dimension of architecture, about connecting adjoining spaces and environments of different qualities and competing interests, thereby prompting a rethinking of the ways we dwell in today’s urban contexts, collectively.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Teach.2023.45
Volume Editors
Massimo Santanicchia
ISBN
978-1-944214-44-9
