Den

Students: Ana Carolina Mello, Arvind Lachman, Babette van Tilborg, Christopher Clarkson, Marianna Angelini, Selma Beltifa, Sem Verwey

Title: Den

Semester: 2023

Teachers: Dr. ir. Angeliki Sioli, ir. Pierre Jennen

“The Space of Words” is a new experimental design studio funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. It addresses a novel topic of architectural education: modelling atmospheres of space through the use of written and oral language.

Given that a spatial atmosphere can influence people’s reactions or decisions, and the way people feel in a given space can impact their short and long term physical or mental health, the study of atmospheres is a pressing contemporary concern. Language is the most direct way to approach atmospheres, as it can strikingly depict emotions in space, feelings and sensations of the built environment.

In the first stage of the design studio, the students worked, both in their mother tongue and English, through a variety of assignments that triggered their architectural imagination. These assignments were translated into scale models of domestic atmospheres.

During the second stage of the project, the students developed the domestic atmospheres already studied into a 1:1 installation and built in the building of the Faculty.

Den: a secluded place designed to provide you with a moment of domesticity. Crawl in, sit or lay down, hear, smell and wonder.