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| ARCH0070-1 | Architectural studio 2
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| Duration : | 90h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Catherine Elsen |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| All year long |
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Course contents :
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| Architectural studio does not offer an approach of architecture based on rules, norms or composition doctrine, but rather on representative concepts enabling to master and structure the complexity of the reality. The concept is both an analysis tool and an operative agent for the composition.
Architectural studios must, in a first stage, help the students develop a "way to think", an "initiation to observe", as defined by B. Donnadieu and D. Spinetta. As these authors explain, it means "... showing, through multiple examples, multiple scales and multiple functions, that objects, furniture, spaces and architectural volumes can be analyzed and decomposed in articulated sub-systems..." (freely translated).
The student consequently learns how to build a hierarchy of thoughts and, on this basis, how to simplify his/her action in order to answer a specific brief in a judicious way. He/she this way develops the necessary "know-how" to support the act of composition.
Architectural studios are organized through the four years of study. The addressed themes progressively integrate the spatial scale, constraints and complexity. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The architectural approach developed in this studio mainly focuses on the single-family home, or similar programs with similar spatial scale.
At the end of the class, the student will be able to critically analyze a program and to equip his/her work through the research of balance and the development of a personal approach in harmony with the building art and rationality.
The student will be able to offer a coherent solution, integrating the whole set of constraints and architectural parameters: program constraints, ergonomics and end-users' needs, building constraints, architectural atmospheres and spatial qualities, plastic qualities, integration to a context and to the external environment.
He/she will moreover progressively master graphic expression and verbal presentation of his/her production. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Cours d'Ateliers d'architecture I - ARCH0066-01
Cours de Techniques de construction de bâtiments 1 ARCH0003-04
Cours de Méthodologie du projet architectural ARCH0002-01 |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Class organized all year long.
Classes will be organized under the form of dynamic exchanged around students' projects. Proactive participation of students to studios is mandatory.
Theoretical introductions will be offered in regard of proposed projects.
Sites and buildings visits will be organized through the year (at least twice a year).
An architectural study travel (a few days, open to the students from each year of the study program) is organized around Spring break. This travel constitutes a preferred moment to observe, live and feel architecture, and to discuss discoveries with other students or teaching staff. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Architectural studios are organized exclusively on a face-to-face mode. Students will have to provide important side work besides the organized sessions in order to benefit optimally from the teaching structure. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Reference books
- « De la forme au lieu » de Pierre VON MEISS - theoretical book presenting several essential architectural themes in a structured way
- « Apprendre à voir l'architecture » de Bruno ZEVI - theoretical analysis of how to interpret and understand architecture
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Class evaluation will be made on each project turned-in during the year (complete exercises and thematic reflexions). Projects are defended in front of a jury.
A grade inferior to 12/20 will open access to a second session. The student will be offered the opportunity to re-defend the final project, and the grade obtained will then replace all grades obtained before. |
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Catherine Elsen - Associate Professor catherine.elsen@ulg.ac.be |
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