Space writing 2

Workshop 1

Space writing workshop, 2.1, "Space and shapes"
The "Space writing 2.1" workshop, entitled "Space and shapes", focuses on using research tools related to setting up architectural components.
Through a thematic assignment, students use models and drawings to explore the topic of creating shapes in relation to a possible intervention context and a simplified programme.
By continuously analysing the operations involved in shaping space in context, students reach a formal three-dimensional and graphical summary of the composition.
Operating process:

• Acknowledgement of a study and intervention context
• Analyses and multiplication of formulations, inducing variety in the study and transcription processes
• Identification of the spatiality that is created by the components, their relation to the context and their meaning in relation to the function
• Consecutive transition from 2D to 3D, with a retroactive effect

Workshop 2

Workshop 2 'PLASTIC RESEARCH'
Closely linked to questions on the understanding of space, the workshop entitled 'Space writing 2.2' aims to develop students' creativity and the taste for formal research through exercises experimenting with formal vocabulary, forms and their interactions to help architecture students develop an individual plastic language by looking at fields other than architecture.
The workshops essentially provide a diverse range of drawing exercises but also explore other plastic arts such as sculpture and painting. The themes have been chosen with a view to addressing, in a creative and stimulating way, drawing from 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, following the vision of contemporary art: a tool for achieving a more intimate understanding of objects and the world of the senses.
The exercises suggested will develop the sense of observation, proportion and precision, using visual acuity. The course is not only focussed on acquiring dexterity, but also on appropriating drawing in an inventive manner, with a view to enabling the acquisition of a personal graphic language inspired by poetry: a means for future architects to exercise their creativity.
The main themes addressed throughout the three years of the Bachelor course are as follows:
- kinesthetics - a directory of form and force - colour and metaphor
The B2 programme, based on these three themes, will focus more specifically on moving from the random to the constructed, plastic process from drawing to the finished work.

Workshop 1

1st part: Relation to the skill reference chart All content taught as a part of the DER 3 enable the student to develop skills featured in the faculty's skill reference chart, by providing tools aimed at developing the "study", "develop" and "interact" skills. The workshops provide an initiation to the subject, which the student should then develop though their own practice, including with their architectural project. STUDY an architectural question - study the various components of the subject and the context: graphical and plastic approach - identify the spatiality that is created by the components, their relation to the context and their meaning in relation to the function DEVELOP a spatial response - appropriate the graphical languages as tools for designing, structuring, checking and provoking thought - introduce an experimentation approach - translate into spatial concepts - retranscribe and find, using sketches and models, an initial proposal than will eventually evolve 2nd part: Learning outcomes of the teaching unit, described from an operational perspective 2D and 3D representations are, from the very start, essential languages that students in architecture should learn; three fundamental and complementary objectives that will be pursued until B3 will be observing, researching/sketching/designing, and communicating/formalising/transmitting. At the end of the programme, students will therefore be able to: - tackle a given subject, clearly identifying the specificities and potential of a specific field of investigation - make decisions motivated by composition - appropriately use the vocabulary that is specific to exchanges, demonstrating their ability to express the essential aspects of their approach and explicitly formulate its principles - understand the relationships between space, shape, value, and matter, in order to consistently carry out research whose fundamentals are mastered - identify and understand, through the manipulation and the articulation of various components, the interactions between spatiality, context, scale and function - summarise an approach, and provide structure, order and communication  INTERACT with all players involved - master the graphical and plastic languages as tools to share ideas - through experimentation, carry out the mature development of a project, express its essential features and explicitly formulate an approach.

Workshop 2

Drawing is obviously seen as a language which is an indispensable part of the training of an architect, observing, researching-sketching-designing, and communicating being the three themes for training, three fundamentally complementary objectives continued through to B2.
By the end of the course, students will therefore be able, as at the end of the first year of:
- address a subject by clearly identifying a precise field for investigation
- construct a correct and methodological sketch in perspective, respect the rules and elements of observation
- draw with flexibility, confidence and precision
- take reasoned decisions in terms of composition
- correctly use specific vocabulary during discussions
and, in addition
- understand relationships between space, value, and material and use them in a creative way in their compositions
- address different scales of work and adapting research methods
- use different tools appropriately to meet objectives

Workshop 1

In order to enrol into this course, you must have acquired the following credits:
Bloc 1:
ARCH0133-1: Graphical construction of space 1
ARCH3265: Space writing 1A
ARCH3266: space writing 1B
In addition, you must follow the following courses at the same time as this one:
Bloc 2:
Workshops 2.1 and 2.2 are inseparable, and rely on each other's parallel teachings.
Students should also draw any relevant relationships with courses on aesthetics, architectural theory, city and landscape history, etc., that is, with any subject aiming to develop an understanding of shapes in open spaces as well as in everyday living environments.
The course is organised as exploratory workshops.

Workshop 2

This workshop is only open to students using anticipated credits on the strict condition that they have completed the corresponding workshop in B1.
Bloc 1: -ARCH03267: Construction graphique de l'espace -ARCH3265: Ecritures de l'espace 1A
-ARCH3266 : Ecritures de l'espace 1B
Bloc 2: Les ateliers 2.1 et  2.2 are inseparably.
Students are requested to make connections with subjects relating to the history of architecture, theory of architecture, history of art, urban and landscape history, philosophy, semantics and, more generally, any parallel approaches which aim to develop their understanding of forms of space, open spaces such as day to day living areas, spaces which convey meaning, such as imaginary spaces or that of memory, etc.

Workshop 1

This course is organised as laboratory workshops, where emphasis is placed on processes, studied through four aspects: observation (knowledge, acquaintance), understanding, research (exploration, formalisation), and communication (organisation, argumentation, clarity).

Workshop 2

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 through dialogue. In short, we aim to develop 'plastic intelligence' through the three following angles: observation (knowledge, control), research (exploration, formalisation), and communication (establishment, argumentation, clarity).

Workshop 1

Attendance to the workshops is essential, as they are a place for dialogue, a vital step in teaching. While some assignments can be finished at home, and some preliminary research can be carried out outside the classroom, the bulk of the work - in terms of production, exchange, exploration and validation - is done during the workshops.

Workshop 2

Regular presence at the workshops is absolutely indispensable, as learning is based on discussions with teaching staff as well as on the workshop dynamic where students' work can be informed by that of their peers. Please note that the test in the second set of exams is based on what has been learnt throughout the year: students are expected to improve and deepen a piece of research largely begun during the year. It is there important to attend these workshops on a regular basis.

Workshop 1

A list of suggested reading material is provided at the beginning of the year, and depends on the topics studied. Certain books or reference resources are also provided to students during the workshops. Students are strongly encouraged to visit exhibitions.

Workshop 2

Recommended reading will be communicated at the start of the year depending on the themes to be addressed. Documentation and reference works will be made available during the workshop.

Workshop 1

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. Attendance to the workshop is compulsory and part of the evaluation of the student.
This continuous assessment is not combined with a summary test.
The assessment in the second session will improve upon the work during the year; it is thus strongly based upon the learning outcomes of the workshop and cannot therefore be replaced by anything else.
Students taking the course as a residual credit and who can't attend it regularly due to scheduling constraints regarding other courses must always report it to the responsible teachers so that they can possibly establish appropriate monitoring.

Workshop 2

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. Attendance to the workshop is compulsory and part of the evaluation of the student.
This continuous assessment is not combined with a summary test.
The assessment in the second session will improve upon the work during the year; it is thus strongly based upon the learning outcomes of the workshop and cannot therefore be replaced by anything else.
Students taking the course as a residual credit and who can't attend it regularly due to scheduling constraints regarding other courses must always report it to the responsible teachers so that they can possibly establish appropriate monitoring.

Workshop 1

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Workshop 1

Location: Botanical institute, "sous-sol" workshop (garden level) or "espace-galerie" workshop (basement). Students must be punctual. In order not to disrupt the workshops, tardiness will not be tolerated. Students must follow the schedule of the group they are assigned to, and cannot change groups without prior approval. Cell phones must remain off during the workshops, and headphones cannot be used. Students are expected to respect the equipment and the premises they use; they should use the recycling refuse containers and leave the workshop in a neat condition. Unjustified absences will result in a zero mark. Absent students are assumed to have caught up on any relevant information for the following workshop.

Workshop 2

Students must arrive on time. Because of the disruption caused, late arrivals are not permitted.
Students must respect the schedule and composition of the groups: they are forbidden from changing groups upon their own initiative.
Mobile phones must be switched off during the workshop and earphones are forbidden. Students' attitude towards work must allow their fellow students to concentrate on their work.
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.
This workshop is only open to students using anticipated credits on the strict condition that they have completed the corresponding workshop in B1.
The courses are taught in french.

Workshop 1

Teachers in charge and student contact teachers:
2.1 workshops Claude-Lucie Hick, claude.hick@ulg.ac.be
Coaching teachers: 
2.1 workshops
Michèle Hougardy, michele.hougardy@ulg.ac.be
Sarah Behets, sbehets@ulg.ac.be
Claude-Lucie Hick, claude.hick@ulg.ac.be
David Crambert,

Workshop 2

Teaching staff and student relays:
Workshop 2: Sarah Behets, sbehets@ulg.ac.be
  Senior teaching staff:
Workshop 2 Sarah Behets, sbehets@ulg.ac.be Aniceto Exposito-Lopez, aniceto.exposito-lopez@ulg.ac.be Carine Driesmans, carine.driesmans@ulg.ac.be Bénédicte Henry, b.henry@ulg.ac.be