The Seminar MONSTERPIECES is a playful architectural speculation about the re-use potential of large under-used buildings, intending to increase its impact on the immediate surroundings without significant transformations. 

As a pedagogical and design methodology, the students retraced how the building design was conceived through the production of 3d models that focus on the inherent spatial challenges and opportunities of each “Monster.”
These detailed geometrical models were then used first as a virtual tool in a broader discussion on re-use and later as the base for the representation of its speculated future.

Purposefully optimistic and densely detailed illustrations wish to capture more than an act of simple re-programming. We emphasize the interventions on the representation of possible new ways of inhabiting a given built structure.
How does the new program impact the base morphology of the building, and how does it re-shape its interaction with the city?