Part of the design and construction courses at the KOEN Institute is learning from reference projects. During these partial exercises, which usually last one week, students have to build models of architectural projects using plans and photographic material provided. In a second step, the finished models are then presented to the colleagues in the studios and discussed. The reference models not only broaden the students' architectural horizons, but also train and test their ability to read plans, scale and translate from a two-dimensional medium into a three-dimensional medium. The detailed study and analysis of the projects required to build models from them helps students to better understand architecture and space and also creates new references for their own design tasks.
Part of the design and construction courses at the KOEN Institute is learning from reference projects. During these partial exercises, which usually last one week, students have to build models of architectural projects using plans and photographic material provided. In a second step, the finished models are then presented to the colleagues in the studios and discussed. The reference models not only broaden the students' architectural horizons, but also train and test their ability to read plans, scale and translate from a two-dimensional medium into a three-dimensional medium. The detailed study and analysis of the projects required to build models from them helps students to better understand architecture and space and also creates new references for their own design tasks.