Duration
144h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in landscape architect (120 ECTS) | 12 crédits |
Lecturer
Marc Dufrêne, Haissam Jijakli, Julie Martineau, Anne-Marie Sauvat, Bertrand Terlinden
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Project practice in landscape architecture at territorial and metropolitan scale, looking at society dynamics.
Based on actual site, the reflections relate to meaningful topical subjects at short and long term view, to which the students in landscape architecture provide with appropriate answers, integrating (sub)urban agriculture and ecosystemic services fields of thoughts, also climate change, water crisis, energy policies, transports issues etc; in a sustainable way.
The topic is about the interface between cityscape and rural area, with variable thickness boundaries more or less movable, where territorial issues meet or even fight, with landscape as a common good and project of landscape as a mediator.
Q8 2016_2017: case study: Brussels
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Being able to undertake an analysis and interpret the results;
Being able to make its own statement and autonomous critical reflection on a complex situation;
Being able to developp a consistent argument;
Being able to consider working in a cross-disciplinary approach;
Being able to integrate theoretical knowledge into the project of landscape architecture (especially urban agriculture and ecosystemic services);
Being able to developp a collective work methodology;
This course aims to help students in building their own consistent reflection, from a "targetted" analysis (cf Bernard Lassus, Analyse inventive, in Mouvance, volume 1) to a spatialised answer of the project, more focused on the time-space process of its production - including territorial, political, social, historic characteristics - than the esthaetic form of it.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Skills in landscape architecture language (mapping, plan, section, transect, model, block diagram, axonometry, etc);
Skills in measuring, in surveying, in multi scaling;
Practice of collective and individual work;
Being able to estimate the right balance between substance and form of the project.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
That course is organised in two main parts:
A- 6 weeks collective work consisting in making a specific analysis at territorial scale, which boundaries are defined by the nature of the analysis itself.
That part includes an analytic methodology that is identified, explained and applied.
B- 7 weeks individual work, articulated in 4 specific parts:
1- Inventive analysis (cf Bernard Lassus), identifies the qualities of the landscape studied, in relation with issues raised in the collective analysis.
2- The student makes his statement on the results of the analysis, developping an autonomous critical reflection, in order to define the landscape concept that will guide him to the project.
3- The student makes a consistant programming.
4- The landscape project itself, inventive and active, as a response to the 3 previous operations.
On the studio side, a 4 days trip is planned to Hamburg.
A written report consisting in a critic analysis of a visited implemented scheme, is required.
A short exercise (1day) is to consider (TBC)
In order to encourage cross-disciplinarity, students have opportunity to work in common with students in architecture from Faculty of Architecture of the ULB.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
This course is given in a studio.
Face to face one day and half per week with at least 1 teacher.
In order to encourage the students to make their own statements, this course provide them with several teachers with diverse skills.
Also distance-teaching the other days, also with other teachers.
Recommended or required readings
To be precised during the course
Assessment methods and criteria
one jury for collective work;
one pre-jury for individual work;
one final jury (composed of internal and external members);
one mark for the report;
one mark for the short excercise.
appraisal based on:
- consistency of reflective process;
- student's statement and substancial proposal;
- matching substance and form;
- knowledge of landscape architect's tools and reflex;
- quality of oral exam
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Julie Martineau
Faculté d'Architecture de l'ULB
Place Flagey, 19
1050 - Bruxelles
tel: +32 474 69 65 20
julie.martineau@ulb.ac.be