Msc2 Design Studio at TU Delft - Spring 2024
The digital turn has created a new reality in the fields of design, research and knowledge dissemination. In this studio, we have collectively envisioned the architecture museum of the future, delving into the intersections of the virtual and the real, the physical and the digital.
The studio starts from the architecture archives of the Nieuwe Instituut as our collective disciplinary memory. Reactivating historical design knowledge helps to set the stage for the design assignment for a Virtual Architecture Museum: a mixed reality environment that combines plan analysis, narrative storytelling, and speculative design
The first phase consists of case-study analysis. We examine archival documents, drawings and texts to create interactive Virtual Reality narratives that explain the projects to the visitors. Then, we design the pavilions that compose the physical museum, placed through the Lijnbaan shopping street, at the very centre of Rotterdam. This individual structures act as entry portals to the virtual narratives and together connect into the new museum.
The end result is a collectively produced design for a Virtual Architecture Museum where the city itself becomes the museum, connected through the realm of digital technologies.
The studio involved a series of workshops with the Architecture Archives of the Future and the VR Lab in TU Delft, and the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. Students acquire skills to create interactive VR models and develop a critical perspective to reassess celebrated spatial experiences from architectural history.
Dirk van den Heuvel
Alejandro Campos Uribe
Hans Hoogenboom
Stefan van der Spek
Nikoletta Kyprianou
Katarzyna Prokopiuk
Shanice Soeroredjo
Anan Tian
Ziyue Yu
Shuyu Zhang
Aleksandra Belitskaya
Eytan Mann
Paula Strunden
Technical Support
Ákos Sárkány
Organised by
Architecture Archives of the Future
and VR Lab
In collaboration with
Nieuwe Instituut