AHO - Joints and Jigs - Teaching

Joints and Jigs

The aim of the course was to explore the process between design, material and making.

Driven by the profusion of building materials and components and the requirement to comply with time, building authorities and the threat of legal action architects often resort to a standardized or predefined solution.

In it self there is nothing wrong in doing so, but all too often architects do not ask themselves the question why something looks the way it looks, and the contribution the detail makes to the project as a whole.

On completion of this course the goal was to introduce each student to learn more about wood as a building material, through a series of lectures and discussions. Learn how to make a digital prototype, as well as use this as the basis for a physical one. Deduct a detail into sequences, what needs to happen before the consecutive step. Acquire the knowledge of constructing a jig and use such jig in the process of constructing a detail. Furthermore the course aim was to promote critical thinking towards how details are conceived and constructed. Finally learn how details are as much part of the project as the project in it self.

Aino Hakulinen, Julien Palisse, Thomas Barouh, Alexander Karim Tamer Minge Salim, Drenusha Blakcori, Silje Charlotte Damhaug, Olav Bog Vikane, Saimi Inkeri Järvinen, Clemens Pörtner, Mar Bartolomé Narbón, Angel Andres Fernandez, Iga Maselkowska, Anne Sofie Solberg, Albert Parera Sánchez, Maria Tarruella i Serra, Mathilde Grindland, Pia Straumsnes Tangen,

In charge: Christian Hermansen, Jan Kazimierz Godzimirski