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| ARCH3260-1 | Architectural studio IIA
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| Duration : | 10h Th, 35h Pr, 0,5d FW, 55h Proj. |
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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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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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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 a representative set of 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 "thinking model", 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 structure his/her 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 throughout the four years of the curriculum. The addressed themes integrate progressive levels of 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 art of building and with 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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| Architectural studios 1 - ARCH0066-2
Building construction techniques 1, elements - ARCH0003-7
Methodology of Architectural Projects 1 - ARCH0002-1 |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Class organized during the first quarter of the year.
Classes will be organized under the form of dynamic exchanged around students' projects. Proactive participation of students to studios is mandatory.
Theoretical seminars will be organized in regard of proposed projects.
Sites and buildings visits will be organized through the year (two to three visits a year). |
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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 » from Pierre VON MEISS: theoretical book presenting several essential architectural themes in a structured way.
- « The eyes of the skin. Architecture and the Senses » from Juhani PALLASMAA: questions the role senses play for architectural practice and education.
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Grading in this course will be based on work turned in during the quarter.
Any average grade under 10/20 opens access to the June session only if all projects have been completed and turned in. Students will be offered the opportunity to re-defend one project (chosen by the teacher), whose grade will replace the average grade. |
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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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