Sammendrag
At NTNU Faculty of Architectural Design and Fine Art we have more than 12 years of experience in challenging the first year architecture students to build full scale struc-tures in regional wood. Through the terms somaesthetic and aesthetical thinking, the full scale building projects will in the following be discussed both on a general level, but also by compar-ing two specific years which represent rather different pedagogical approaches to aesthetical questions. The challenge introduced by the two aesthetical concepts is to go far enough, asking the larger and more open ended questions. Building full scale is the architecture student’s first assignment, and during four weeks they both design and build the structure. The projects are based on a public program depending on a chosen event of the year, usually using the campus park as site. Various groups of teachers con-sisting of four to five architects participate, each year introducing a new location and master plan. These twelve projects together represent a comprehensive reference library of architecton-ic possibilities. How do full scale projects contribute to the students’ learning, discussed in the light of the two concepts of somaesthetic and aesthetical thinking?
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