The facade is the face of a building, which shows the essence of the building’s being and, like the face, is the first immediate encounter with the building and read it’s character. Guest teacher and former employee architect Leonora Krag introduced the students at Architecture to studying and designing facades themselves.

With inspiration from initial drawing exercises, the students designed a facade proposal with a focus on relief effects, i.e. how elements on the facade at different depths create a play of shadows.

The facade was first to be manifested as a mask in white cardboard and paper, where emphasis was on window placement, cornice bands, reliefs etc.

The facade then had to be modulated to a volume. A context was also introduced here, i.e. the surroundings the building where to be part of. The context is here an imaginary urban context, it is not a concrete place, but a section of a city that could be Copenhagen but also could be other cities. On the model, there where several vacant building plots where the students’ house could move into. It was up to the students themselves to choose whether their building should take the form of e.g. a smaller town house, an entire housing block or a solitary tower.