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| TSTG0571-1 | Placement
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| Lecturer : | Karl Simon, Jose Sterkendries |
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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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| By the end of the second term of the second year of the Masters, students should have completed a fifteen day work placement at an ARCHITECT'S OFFICE. This experience aims to make the link between the classes and reality of exercising the profession. Students should participate in the work of the office following the instructions given by the internship supervisor who must, in this regard, be registered with the ORDRE DES ARCHITECTS in Belgium.
The work placement should result in a REPORT to be submitted on the day of the test set out in the exam schedule; the document will be graded in the same way as other courses and is worth 2 ECTS.
It consists of:
- completing the classes through observations which illustrate what has been observed or discovering what has not yet been observed.
- taking account of the logical succession of stages in construction and the concept of the time required to accomplish these tasks
- asking questions likely to clarify, specify, and consolidate theoretic concepts: understanding working methods, implementation, how a site is organised, storage, the use of tools and machines, etc.
- experiencing and observing life in an architect's office
- taking account of the experience
In this context, students may address the following tasks:
Ø Meetings with clients, entrepreneurs, public authorities, partners, etc.
Ø Pre-project and project sketches, etc.
Ø Town planning applications
Ø Descriptive surveying
Ø Technical details
Ø On-site work
Ø ...
Students will most likely have to get involved in projects which are already underway and will be forbidden from copying, in any form, documents from the office without the permission of the internship supervisor. Students are obliged to behave unobtrusively and to respect the intellectual property of the office in which they are based.
Students may suggest other forms of work placement (landscape, research, abroad, etc.) on the condition of having the specific permission of the course leaders. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| By the end of the year, students should be able to demonstrate their ability to:
- integrate into an existing working team in a professional manner
- master the art of observation, analysis and summary of various subjects addressed during training
- appropriately read internal and/or external phenomena which affect the practical implementation of construction materials, in comparison with the theoretical concepts covered in class.
Particular merit will be awarded to reports which explore, through detailed sketches and explicit reasoning, valid mediation procedures which can correct, adapt or solve inadequate and/or imperfect technological situations. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| The course is accessible to all students who have passed the 4th year of the Masters programme. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Surgeries are organised throughout the first term to enable students to come and present their progress and ask any questions relevant to the next stage of their work. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Organised surgeries. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Information will be posted on webarchi - class: TSTG0571-WORK PLACEMENT. Students are required to enrol for this course and to regularly consult this information. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The content of the report should take into account in a relevant way all observations made on site; the report is a critical illustration of the student's participation in the tasks they have encountered. The report must be clear and well-structured. The style of the text must be adapted to the subject: it should be precise and thorough, and remain on the subject without being reduced to shorthand.
The report will be assessed on:
- its form: clarity, legibility, care, quality of formatting,
- its content: relevance and precision of comments, accuracy of observations, technical curiosity, strongly founded criticism, the logic of the conclusions, etc.
Through their reports, students should demonstrate that they have mastered the relationship between the different disciplinary fields in architecture. The conclusion should, in particular, cover the four fundamental skills involved at various stages in the project:
- receiving an architectural request
- interaction with a range of actors
- drafting a spatial response
- implementing this response.
Standard presentation guidelines set out in the information given to students must be scrupulously adhered to. |
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Work placement(s) :
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| The purpose of the course. |
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Organizational remarks :
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| Work should be completed on time, in order to be able to take advantage of free periods during the class to carry out the work placement. The insurance which covers the students does not permit them to conduct on-site work. It is down to each student to conduct research and undertake the necessary steps to establish a work placement which meets the objectives in question. |
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Contacts :
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| Karl SIMON - Karl.Simon@ulg.ac.be
José STERKENDRIES - Jose.Sterkendries@ulg.ac.be |
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