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Scale: from chair to planet

Date

Hours

Saturdays

Place

11 sessions

90 min

 

The course covers basic architectural terms and introduces kids to the works of famous architects. Participants will learn to understand architecture through scale and proportion. 

In 10 classes, children will discuss concepts like scale, space, volume and proportion and learn to design big and small objects. In the final class each student will present a final project—a model of an entire city.

A course in architecture for children aged 5 to 7.

Class size: 14

Price per Segment: 12 000 RUB

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

 
Daria Turanskaya

Daria Turanskaya is an architect and teacher. She graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute (where she specialized in residential and public architecture) in 2005. From 2001, she worked as an architect at Mosproject 4’s project workshop and later moved to Mosproject 2. She has also been a leading architect at the architectural workshop UB DESIGN for over seven years.

 
Marina Weisman

Marina Weisman is an architect and teacher. She graduated from the Moscow State Academy Art Lyceum in 1998, and the Moscow Architectural Institute (where she specialized in residential and public architecture) in 2005. She has been working as an architect at Mosproject 4’s project workshop and at the architectural workshop UB DESIGN since 2003.

Schedule

Introduction. Scale

We look at Leonardo Da Vinci’s golden section; we measure ourselves and make ourselves ten times smaller and create a character to work with throughout the course.

Date
Saturday, February 17
Time
11:15–12:45
Place

Object of furniture (drawing and modeling)

Drawing inspiration from designer pieces, we will create chairs for our characters.

Date
Saturday, February 24 
Time
11:15–12:45
Place

House (drawing)

Discussing the house as a residential unit, we learn about “floor plans” and “façades” and create a layout for a house

Date
Saturday, March 3 
Time
11:15–12:45
Place

House (modeling)

We adjust the standard templates to our layouts and insert our previously made chair and character into the house—do they match in scale and proportion?

Date
Saturday, March 10 
Time
11:15–12:45
Place

Street (drawing)

We learn about rhythm, contrast, focus and proportions by looking at the streets of the world’s cultural capitals; we design our own street.

Date
Saturday, March 17 
Time
11:15–12:45
Place

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