ARCHITECTURE IN 1:1 SCALE : educational approaches to trans-disciplinarity of architectural design

Abstract

This paper presents an authentic approach in architectural education that connects architecture, interior architecture, furniture design, industrial and graphic design. The research is based on the multi-year educational process on the two courses: In 1:1 Architecture of utility object and Design through detail, on the Master's academic studies at the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture. This paper aims to present the creative potentials of the architectural design process which, within the framework of education, tends to overcome the negative aspects of the contemporary local context, which commercialize designed object into a marketing product of sale and trade, devoid of aesthetic and ethical values, identity and individuality, for whom profitability is the only necessary quality. The paper refers to an internal faculty joke: "There is danger that it will be built!" through the courses results in which students actually fully realised their projects in a 1:1 scale, as a ready-to-use artefacts of a trans-disciplinary nature.