pro-to-tute Workshop
Collaborative Learning through Design Exploration
At pro-to-tute, our workshops are designed as collaborative spaces where students and professionals engage in hands-on learning, critical thinking, and creative exploration. We believe that learning happens most effectively when participants are actively involved in both teaching and making, fostering a two-way exchange of ideas and insights.
Our workshops emphasize documenting the design process through various media to enhance learning outcomes, including sketches, models, photography, and digital tools. By capturing creative progress at every stage, participants gain more profound reflections on their work while building a visual narrative that strengthens their understanding and skill development.
We focus on cultivating a supportive and dynamic environment where experimentation and collaboration drive personal growth, empowering participants to expand their design thinking and decision-making abilities.
Boot camp
The Boot Camp 2019 Documentary offers an insightful look into the immersive workshop experience provided by pro-to-tute. This video captures the collaborative learning environment where participants engage in hands-on design exploration, critical thinking, and creative expression. Through various media documentation, including sketches, models, and digital tools, the documentary showcases how the workshop fosters innovation and personal growth in architecture and design. Join us in this visual journey to witness the transformative impact of our workshops on aspiring designers.
WALL and STAIR Transformation
The wall assembly is the most important aspect of architectural tectonics because of its ability to make the building perform within its function. The wall can incorporate: windows, doors, weather barriers, load-bearing, and many more important architectural conditions. The stairs is the architectural feature that connects the building within a sectional condition. It’s the part of a building that embraces the dynamic flow of movement and allows infrastructural connections within the space. These two architectural elements (wall and stair) is the topic of investigation for the workshop. Each student will develop a simple wall assembly model and develop another model that incorporates the stair between the walls. The final design resolution will be an abstraction of these two elements hybridized to invent a new form of dynamic wall and stair.
Room in the city
Metamorphic embodies a transformative design process, fostering critical thinking, creative exploration, and personal expression in aspiring designers. This intensive pre-college workshop addresses challenges faced by students without prior experience, offering a head start for foundational design courses while promoting self-discovery and methodological growth. Through iterative design tasks, participants develop unique perspectives and engage in collaborative learning, building lasting professional networks. The 2019 Metamorphic Workshop, "Room in the City," challenged students to observe and reinterpret Shenzhen’s urban landscape through a small-scale architectural project. Hands-on design challenges and contextual analysis exposed participants to diverse architectural principles and strategies within an immersive format.
URBAN Transformation
Contemporary cities, driven by economic imperatives, have disrupted urban ecological balance, while outdated planning frameworks often neglect radical design responses to environmental shifts. This workshop challenges such norms by exploring how organic processes can integrate with existing urban contexts, promoting regenerative design strategies that engage both natural systems and built environments. Participants will investigate how architecture and urbanism can evolve from static models to dynamic, ecological practices. By redefining the relationship between cities and their ecosystems, the workshop highlights how urban design can influence microclimatic processes on a planetary scale. This shift from object-based urbanism to ecological design empowers designers to view cities as active agents of environmental transformation.