Duration
100h Pr, 1d FW, 150h Proj.
Number of credits
| Master in architectural engineering (ir.) (120 ECTS) | 10 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This integrated architectural studio focuses on design at an urban level.
Students are asked to demonstrate their skills in mastering design through a mixed, urban-scale project involving housing, commercial units, offices or economical functions. A general design brief is provided, but should be reflected upon and adapted given the local constraints and the architectural/urban choices made during the study phase.
This studio will particularly grant more importance to the capacity to build coherent argumentation. This argumentation will be collectively and progressively built all along the quarter. Formal, social, economical and environmental aspects will be discussed at an urban scale.
Students will moreover be deliberately projected in a real-scale, simulated project management context and will be asked to adopt a human-centered design approach by meeting potential future users through construction of the design brief and analysis.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, the student will be able to integrate and develop an urban-scale program in a coherent and reflective way. To do so, the student will leverage both the local constraints and the end-users needs and expectations.
The student will be able to develop a critical and objective viewpoint on the urban context, its transformational modalities and its potentialities in terms of social, economical and environmental development. Resuming the design process, he/she will be able to build a coherent argumentation to justify the design choices. The discourse will more specifically trace back and make clear the fundamental choices made in terms of program and spatial organization.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The following courses will be (co)required in the studio:
- Architectural studios IIIA, IIIB & IV (ARCH3262-1; 3263-1 & 0115-1);
- Building Construction Techniques III & IV (ARCH0079-1 & ARCH2011-1)
- Urban morphology and environmental integration (ARCH2003-1);
- Urban governance (ARCH2018-1);
- Digital Collaborative Studio (ARCH0075-3);
- Engineering of urban moods (ARCH2019-1);
- User-centered approaches in architecture and engineering (ARCH3274-1).
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is organized during the second quarter of the year.
Classes are organized under the form of dynamic exchanges around students' projects. Proactive participation of students to the studio is mandatory.
Theoretical sessions will be organized in regard of proposed projects.
Site and building visits will be organized through the year.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
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.
Recommended or required readings
Reading lists suggested in previous architectural studios remain referential.
Students are moreover required to enrich themselves intellectually speaking through additional reading (essays, monographies, journal papers, ...) regarding architectural design and composition in the broad sense of the term, and more particularly in regard of the last 10 years of architectural production.
Given the yearly chosen themes and contexts, additional bibliography will be recommended. Those readings may be commented and discussed in class.
Regular and meticulous review of architectural journals is considered an important part of the learning process, as well as active and critical participation to visits, conferences and exhibitions related to architecture or design in general.
Assessment methods and criteria
Course evaluation will be done on a longitudinal basis, all along the quarter. The project final defense will be held in presence of a jury of experts.
Any grade inferior to 10/20 will open access to a second session. The student will be offered the opportunity to re-work and defend again the same project.
Plagiarism, may it be observed during the studio or at the end of the project, will be penalized serverly.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Students who go on internship or study abroad during the studio sessions will be invited to do an individual job on the same basis, but different scale, as the one required from other students.
All the material needed for the studio is available on the eCampus platform.
Contacts
Contact:
Jacques Teller, Professor, room 0/444, phone 04 366 94 99, Jacques.Teller@ulg.ac.be
Catherine Elsen, Associate Professor, catherine.elsen@ulg.ac.be
Available on appointments any Friday morning. Please contact us by email for any question regarding the course.