New exhibition: JAKARTA

The annual Architecture and Extreme Environments Exhibition is organized by the 4th year students, exhibiting the class prototypes and work from their field trip. Videos of their fieldwork experiments are exhibited along with their prototypes and design process.

Where:
The Royal Danish Akademi - Library and in the entrance A space of building 68.

When:
May 12 – June 22 2023

Extreme Environments - Jakarta

Every year, students of Architecture and Extreme Environments venture to a region in the world, where communities are negatively impacted by present world challenges, in order to propose sustainable solutions for tomorrow’s architecture.

In 2022 the destination was Indonesia, whose capital Jakarta experiences regular flooding from four different directions: monsoon rains, sea level rise, subsidence, and flash floods from the mountains.
The extreme environment of Jakarta leads to various challenges which students aim to tackle in their first semester through experimental prototypes, and second semester through architectural design.

Aim

The aim of the fieldwork is to empower students with the strengths of experimentation, artistic exploration in consideration to site and local culture. This accumulated knowledge and method can then be applied to any context, at home or abroad. Students bring the 1:1 prototypes they have developed in the 2 months leading up to the fieldwork, to be tested on site with local collaborators. Test results and evaluation of the project become a fundamental part of next semester’s architectural work.

Biennale Venice

For the 18th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, the Danish Pavilion theme “Coastal Imaginaries” will be exhibiting explorations tackling global changes like flooding.This year, work from students of Architecture and Extreme Environments, will be part of the pavillon exhibit. The Biennale will take place from May 20th to November 26th, 2023.