| authors |
Koch, Volker and Russell, Peter |
| year |
2000 |
| title |
VuuA.Org: The Virtual Upperrhine University of Architecture |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2000.023
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Promise and Reality: State of the Art versus State of Practice in Computing for the Design and Planning Process [18th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-6-5] Weimar (Germany) 22-24 June 2000, pp. 23-25 |
| summary |
In 1998, architecture schools in the three nation region of the upper Rhine came together to undertake a joint design studio. With the support of the Center for Entrepeneurship in Colmar, France, the schools worked on the reuse of the Kuenzer Mill situated near Herbolzheim, Germany. The students met jointly three times during the semester and then worked on the project at their home universities usng conventional methods. This project was essential to generating closer ties between the participating students, tutors and institutions and as such, the results were quite positive. So much so, that the organisers decided to repeat the exercise one year later. However, it became clear that although the students had met three times in large groups, the real success of a co-operative design studio would require mechanisms which allow far more intimate interaction among the participants, be they students, teachers or outside experts. The experiences from the Netzentwurf at the Institut für Industrielle Bauproduktion (ifib) showed the potential in a web based studio and the addition of ifib to the three nation group led to the development of the VuuA platform. The first project served to illuminate the the differences in teaching concepts among the partner institutions and their teaching staff as well as problems related to the integration of students from three countries with two languages and four different faculties: landscape architecture, interior design, architecture and urban planning. The project for the Fall of 1999 was the reuse of Fort Kléber in Wolfisheim by Strasbourg, France. The students again met on site to kick off the Semester but were also instructed to continue their cooperation and criticism using the VuuA platform. |
| keywords |
Virtual Design Studio, CSCW, International Cooperation, Planning Platform |
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eCAADe |
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| more |
http://www.vuua.org |
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Elger, D. and Russell, P. (2000)
 Using the World Wide Web as a Communication and Presentation forum for Students of Architecture
, Proceedings of the 18th Annual eCAADe Conference, Weimar, Germany
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Forgber, U. and Russell, P. (2000)
The E-Talier: Inter-university Networked Design Studios
, Proceedings of the 18th annual eCAADe Conference, Weimar, Germany
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Russell, P., Kohler, N., Koch, V., Forgber, U. and Rügemer, J. (1999)
Interactive Representation of Architectural Design: The Virtual Design Studio as an architectural graphics laboratory
, Proceedings of the 17th Annual eCAADe Conference, Liverpool UK pp. 459-465
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