Duration
96h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in architecture (120 ECTS) | 8 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Deep transformation of traditional industrial structures and search for new forms of economy, demographic growth and search for new ways of living and living together, overcoming stressful forced mobility and seeking real freedom of appropriation of the territory, detachment from alienation to productivism and search for new growth and life projects for people are examples of challenges that our territories and societies must meet.
More fundamentally, it is about creating new relationships between people and their environment around new human and cultural values linked to innovative production methods.
The basic workshop and then the in-depth workshop focus on developing the architect's specific abilities (project design and composition of space) to be used in his traditional profession or into multidisciplinary teams in territorial development. The workshop is also a useful preparation for the additional master's degree in town and country planning.
The urban project design exercise serves as a guide and support for learning.
The confrontation with a concrete case and therefore with actual and current issues situated in a context of historical, environmental, economic, social and political complexity by nature provides the opportunity: to engage in a critical reflection on the current thoughts and challenges of territorial development (urban and rural), to link the theoretical and methodological bases of the territorial project to a situation on the ground, to delve into the reality of the daily life of the inhabitants and to meet their expectations, to argue positions to take on our tomorrow's living environments, to learn how to reveal and compose space at different territorial scales.
In the basic workshop, it is mainly a question of developing the first reflexes inherent to the specific reasoning mode for the development of the territorial project design from a localized place but with big strategic challenges. It is in fact to conceive until the detail of new pieces of neighborhood proposing different forms of habitat with a high quality of internal life and at the same time contributing to the reorganization, revaluation and balancing of the urban fabric in which it is integrate and of which it is an opportunity for change and transformation.
Group work and especially the continuous debate around the issues discussed in a participatory logic is the center of learning. To do this, external stakeholders are called to bring diverse perspectives as specialist, thinker, opponent or everyday actor.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The student will be able, faced with a territorial situation quite well identified and delimited (in basic workshop):
- To identify the different cartographic information sources, written and of field, to extract the useful elements of them and to reformulate them to be exploitable to understand the logics of spatial organization in their dynamics of evolution and to reveal of them the characters,
- To observe different human behaviors, interact with inhabitants and local actors to target needs and demands; but especially to highlight expectations supporting a project of becoming;
- To represent, through different scales, the different structuring systems highlighted and to examine their interaction forms, then to document in a more refined way the three-dimensional forms produced using a holistic approach linking the social and morphological dimensions of space concrete and lived;
- To analyze references (project of developments or situations realized) to extract the founding principles and to use them as a tool of questioning in the exercise of composition;
- To compose a fabric and innovative habitat modes balanced with the existing;
- To formulate and support a position based on choices of values and planning principles and represent them in the form of spatial scenarios designed at different territorial scales and also until the detail.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The course is part of the follow-up of the second bachelor's degree course in "Typo-morphology"; of third Bachelors in: "Urban Project Approach", "City and Landscape" and "Urban Sociology".
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Work in workshop, group work, moment of debates and collaborative work, conferences, intensive exercises in situ (outdoor workshop).
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face
Recommended or required readings
Assessment methods and criteria
Jury presentation, evaluation of active participation.