The workshop will examine important modern architectural
buildings in Gdansk in different political, cultural, economic
and environmental contexts. The students will be divided
into groups. Each group will be led by the curator of the
exhibition. They will identify and evaluate the architectural
values of the building through analyses, deconstructions and
syntheses, focusing on understanding the basic principles of
architecture and establishing the language to preserve them
from possible future investments.
Modelling, definition of materials, structure, textures,
patterns, social context and technology are some of the
investigative data. All investigations will be recorded and
explored using models at various scales - from whole
building to 1:1 detail.
Each group of students will produce an exhibition of the
architectural models with a catalogue.
The aim is to enable the students to understand the
importance of the heritage, its values and its reuse with the
new users and appropriate programmes as part of the future
challenges and opportunities of the new generations. They
will learn how to deal with the heritage in the future,
learning through the models and critical dialogue through
the public discussion and exhibition.