课程简介

Bringing together research, collaboration and pedagogy, the goal of the project is to interrogate the relationship between sound and space through a dialogue between two distinct disciplines: architecture and music. Sound may be invisible, but it can be understood as an architectural material like wood, glass, concrete or light -- shaped and enclosed by design. With recent attention from both architects and musicians turned toward challenging longstanding techno-acoustic understandings of sound space, the project will expand on existing discussions through collaborative explorations between musicians and architects, students, practitioners and researchers.

Starting with Sounding Architecture (2016), the questions aim at investigating and researching how first-year architecture students examine their learning experience by means of the building of an instrument, especially one that reflects their engagement and participation in the process, affordance, and function of the building. How do we use this method to assess the success or failure of their engagement? We study the questions first. As we constructed architecture, we made a number of models and drawings that provided explicit and implicit types of notation. The initial step is to have the students engage with the instruments to understand how they perform. The second is to have them design and program in the form of compositions, asking us to use the instrument they designed and write a composition for it at the end of the semester. This will assist the students in comprehending the use of a building as a tool to assess its structural strength, aesthetic appeal, resilience to various forces, and composition of its inherent programming.