Studio 1st year, 1st semester "From a single element to the residential unit", Interior Design studio courses, Bezalel External Studies.

From a single element to the residential unit

Studio 1st year, 1st semester Interior Design studio courses, Bezalel External Studies.

Humans refine and develop their living environments, this is how they define themselves as well as their environment. The same process can also be found in the evolution of nature, an example of this can be found in the development of Darwin's moth which has an extremely long trunk, which developed at the same time as a species of orchid which gradually lengthened its petals. Cities and buildings change in relation to environmental and human needs: climate, density, economy, technology, in that they are repeatedly required to redefine themselves. 

Studio Elements will function as a laboratory that will examine, in an accelerated process and in a controlled environment, the change of basic elements that make up our living environment. In the laboratory we will look at two parallel views of the element - once through functional and historical research and a second time as a concept that charges the object with additional meanings, the combination between the two will form the basis for a small-scale project. The studio will examine the potential change of an element/component in relation to humans, the environment and other elements in space. 

The students will once act as designers of a complex object that creates a change in space and once in the decomposition and analysis of the element as a catalyst for the design of a limited space.