Demystifying Abstraction in the Context of Architectural Education

Demystifying Abstraction in the Context of Architectural Education: The New National Library for Sofia

Saev, Deyan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

van Dooren, Elise (mentor)
van der Meel, Hubert (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

2017-07-12

Abstraction plays a central role, as both a language and an essential tool for design. However, because it can be vague, confusing, and even paradoxical at times the process of abstraction is rarely explicitly investigated in architectural education. As a result, inexperienced architects often do not have a clear idea of what abstraction is, or how to best use it. The following research sets out to address this problem by proposing a simple, yet comprehensive teaching model that would aid beginner architecture students in their understanding and use of abstraction.The designed extension for the national library of Bulgaria is an example of the proposed teaching model and the described abstraction process applied and tested on an architectural project.

abstraction
library
sofia
education
heritage
extension

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Student theses

master thesis

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