Ac­cord­ing to Qua­tremère de Quincy, the term type does not aim for an im­i­ta­tion, but for an ‚idea, that must (...) serve as a rule...’ (Rossi, 1973, The Ar­chi­tec­ture of the city). Work­ing with types plays a cen­tral role within the de­sign process: ty­po­log­i­cal ex­am­i­na­tions ex­tend the de­sign reper­toire. By iden­ti­fy­ing ty­polo­gies, con­text-spe­cific par­tic­u­lar­i­ties be­come avail­able for fur­ther de­vel­op­ment.

The term ty­pol­ogy is well il­lus­trated using the photo spread of the Becher cou­ple. They cover a broad range of hous­ing es­tate and in­dus­trial build­ings. Only in com­par­i­son of the dif­fer­ent struc­tures sim­i­lar­i­ties and dif­fer­ences be­come vis­i­ble. In­ter­ac­tions be­tween the mode of rep­re­sen­ta­tion and type­cast can be iden­ti­fied in the process.

Within the re­quired elec­tive mod­ule, the re­la­tion be­tween ty­pol­ogy and rep­re­sen­ta­tion shall be elab­o­rated. Be­sides an analy­sis of dif­fer­ent ty­po­log­i­cal stud­ies from the fields of ar­chi­tec­ture and art, ap­pro­pri­ate modes of rep­re­sen­ta­tion of every day ty­polo­gies shall be de­vel­oped based on ma­te­r­ial on the trans­for­ma­tion of publics spaces.

To do so, dif­fer­ent ways of rep­re­sen­ta­tion will be checked for their suit­abil­ity and prac­ticed.

The range com­prises ana­log and dig­i­tal work tech­niques (pho­tog­ra­phy, 2D and 3D ap­pli­ca­tion, CAD and DTP).

• Dic­tio­n­aire his­torique de l’Ar­chi­tec­ture, 1832 (quoted from Rossi. 1973)