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| ARCH0131-2 | Means of graphic expression
- Workshop 1
- Workshop 2
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| Duration : | Workshop 1 : 4h Th, 20h Pr
Workshop 2 : 24h Pr
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| Lecturer : | Workshop 1 : Patrick Bribosia, Mariette Dorthu, Gérald Dupagne, Pierre Leblanc
Workshop 2 : Sarah Behets, Carine Driesmans, Aniceto Exposito-Lopez, Benedicte Henry
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| Coordinator : | Carine Driesmans |
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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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| INTRODUCTION
In close relationship with architecture, the Workshop 1 on means of expression develops tools in four essential areas:
- OBSERVING: learning how to see architecture
- REPRESENTING: understanding how to represent and communicate it
- DECOMPOSITION: learning how to analyse it by breaking it down into themes
- COMPOSITION: by analysing tools, learn how to compose
These workshops extend across the three Bacs, with a specific focus each year.
In the first Masters, it is possible to conduct more in-depth work on optional courses.
CONTENT
Sketching sessions encourage students to feel at ease with freehand pencil drawing, while introducing different ways of representation: two-dimensional views (plans, cross-sections, elevations) and three-dimensions (axonometrics, perspectives, vanishing points).
Always freehand, sketches are a way of personally exploring both the tools of representation, as well as space. First of all relatively randomly, then increasingly controlled through practise and observation, students discover and understand the formal and spatial components of a piece of architecture.
Thus, sketches are alternated with small volumetric exercises which enable students to gradually establish their own approach, by putting into practice a few concepts of introductory composition, always on a simple basis, based on plans and moving towards 3D spatiality. |
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| Closely connected with questions about the understanding of space, Workshop 2 'PLASTIC RESEARCH' aims to develop creativity and the taste for formal research through experimental exercises around formal vocabulary, shapes and their interactions, in such a way as to help architecture students develop their own plastic language in fields other than architecture.
The workshop basically suggests various drawing exercises but also explores other plastic arts such as sculpture and painting. The themes are chosen with a view to addressing, in a creative and stimulating way, drawings incorporating observation, composition, colour and volume.
Drawing is not simply seen as a means of transposing reality, but rather as a tool for reflection, research and expression depending on the view of contemporary art which is adopted: a tool to achieve deeper understanding of objects and the world.
The exercises which are proposed develop the sense of observation, proportions and precision, using visual acuity. The course is not, however, only focused upon the acquisition of dexterity, but also on appropriation of drawing in an inventive way with a view to enabling the acquisition of one's own personal graphic and poetic language: a means for future architects to exercise creativity.
The main themes covered through the first year of the Bachelors are as follows:
- Kinesthesia
- Awareness of shapes and forces
- Colour and metaphor
The B1 programme, which focuses on the general and essential key theme of "the study of proportions", aims to explore an A to Z of shapes and lines and plastic rhythms. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The B1 workshops should trigger curiosity and provide the initial foundations (observation - representation - deconstruction - composition)
It is indispensable to practice outside class to create and strengthen awareness: developing observation, curiosity, acquiring an "attitude". |
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| Drawing is obviously seen as a language which is an indispensable part of the training of an architect, observing, researching-sketching-designing, and communicating-formalising-transmitting, being the three themes for training, three fundamentally complementary objectives continued through to B3.
By the end of the course, students will be able to :
- address a subject by clearly identifying a precise field for investigation
- construct a correct and methodological sketch in perspective, respecting the rules and elements of observation
- drawing with flexibility, confidence and precision - taking reasoned decisions in terms of composition
- using specific vocabulary in a way which is appropriate to a discussion
- make proper use of the vocabulary specific to exchanges |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Workshop 2 'Plastic research' is based on the skills acquired during Workshop 1 of the Means of Expression course. Students are also required to make connections with the course on aesthetics, theory of architecture, history of architecture, urban and rural history, ... in short, all subjects which aim to develop understanding of shape both in terms of open spaces and in terms of daily living. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| A short introductory presentation will introduce the themes which will be covered later in practical workshops (observational sketches, research models) |
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| This course is organised in workshops. Our workshops are planned as 'laboratories' where students can 'make mistakes successfully'. We are more interested in awareness than the 'right' answer to a requirement, whatever that may be. We focus on the means rather than the result. We encourage creative and accepted individual initiative. In short, we aim to develop 'plastic intelligence' through the three following angles: observation (knowledge, control), research (exploration, formalisation), communication (establishment, argumentation, clarity). |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Attendance at the workshops is indispensable as they provide the necessary introduction. |
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| Regular attendance is indispensable. This is where the permanent dialogue is established, which is essential for progression. Although some work can occasionally be completed at home, the bulk of the research takes place within the workshop. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| A syllabus which is available on eCampus covers the various modes and conventions of drawing and representation.
Visits to exhibitions and reading books on the various themes is strongly encouraged. |
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| Recommended reading will be communicated at the start of the year depending on the themes to be addressed. Some reference works or themes will be provided to students during the workshop, sample documentation will be made available. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| - based on their workshop productions, students should retain at least one piece of work (a sketch or research model) per session.
- Work will be submitted to be assessed at the end of the term: 12 sketches at least per term (six completed in the workshop, six flexible) + research models. |
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| Assessment is continuous. Attitude in the workshop and general approach will be taken into account as well as the results achieved. Each thematic exercise will be assessed; this is weighted depending on how important the piece of work is. |
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Organizational remarks :
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| | Workshop 1 |
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| - Six 2-hour sessions per term (i.e. 12 sessions per year). |
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| Location: at the Botanic site, known as the 'underground' (garden level).
Students must arrive on time. Because of the disruption caused, late arrivals are not permitted.
Students are asked to respect the time relating to the group to which they belong. It is forbidden to change groups upon your own initiative.
Mobile phones must be switched off during the workshop and earphones are forbidden.
Students are requested to respect the material and space which is available; they should use the recycling bins and ensure that they leave everything in order.
Absences which are unaccounted for will give rise to a zero grade.
Absent students must ensure they can catch up on all information provided relating to the following workshop. |
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Contacts :
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| | Workshop 1 |
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| Patrick Bribosia, Mariette Dorthu, Gérald Dupagne, Pierre Leblanc |
| | Workshop 2 |
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| Sarah BEHETS
Carine DRIESMANS
Aniceto EXPOSITO LOPEZ
Bénédicte HENRY
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