2019-2020 / ARCH1622-1

Workshop B : Habitat and environmental footprint (Niveau 1)

Duration

96h Pr

Number of credits

 Master in architecture (120 ECTS)8 crédits 

Lecturer

Fabienne Courtejoie, Olivier Henz

Coordinator

Fabienne Courtejoie

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The project will include an "collective" function where the site and the programme will involve a great specificity and a uniqueness of the response as well as adapted technical research.
The project study should be addressed in its entirety (content and container, form and substance) with attention to "detail" from the start through to the final finishing elements.
Information will be gathered through research using equivalent examples, use of technical documentation, the involvement of internal or external resource people, and assistance from teaching staff.
Each project will have a general theme, that of ecological construction, not by using the clichés which these words can engender, but rather by reflecting on that which could signify responsible behaviour as regards the environment in the broadest sense of the term (energy costs of producing construction materials used, energy performance, pre-cycling, recycling, minimal use of drinking water, etc.).
Exercises in composition, the organisation and adjustment of both interior and exterior spaces, and an individual project.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

To provide students with:

  • The tools to observe the constructed world
  • The projection tools in a constantly changing environment
  • Graphic, verbal and written communication tools
  • The self-assessment tools of the environmental footprint of the choices made

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

. All the notions learnt in the theoretical workshops and classes in the first three years are reviewed and extended through new projects. . arch1626 Design of high-energy performance buildings

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The scale of the project undertaken should allow students to review all the basic principles learnt during the bachelor's degree. The workshop aims to provide students with the opportunity to: - manage the constraints and translate them into intelligent and inventive architectural responses from concept to detail; - increase awareness of all the stages involved in the success of a global and concise project, - make objective conceptual and technical choices according to the ecological assessment

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

" Things aren't difficult to do, what's difficult is preparing ourselves to do them" Brancusi The work takes the form of a "workshop", during which exchange and communication between students, and between the students and teachers are encouraged:

  • teamwork amongst teachers;
  • students are considered colleagues, builders of their own life as an ARCHITECT.
The teaching method tends to develop the students' initiative, critical mind, rigour and efficiency ("interpersonal skills"), allowing them to conduct realistic projects coherently, both in terms of the urbanistic and architectural options and on a scheduling, structural, normative and budgetary level ("know-how"). Students learn about the complexity of the profession and the professions associated with architecture during specific information sessions ("self-fulfilment"). The teaching method used is structuralist, focusing on a whole, where students simultaneously learn about individual parts of a whole and the whole itself.

Recommended or required readings

The workshop bibliography changes from year to year. It is linked to both the problems of the themes dealt with and the students' need for additional "baggage". More generally, students are encouraged to engage in their own research and to give free reign to their curiosity (library, trips, etc.), so as to form critical judgement. Selected architectural analyses are organised from time to time, individually or in groups, that highlight a particular concern (the role of structure, etc.), that will be developed by the student in a future project.

Assessment methods and criteria

Every project is the subject of stages whose objectives and means are defined, and on which cumulative assessments and self-assessments are based. As far as possible, "project resource" people as well as architects external to the school participate in the development of the project and its assessment.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Students present their work every week to show their progress. Everyone is involved in its correction; this encourages the students' understanding and involvement, stimulates the transfer of information, and reflection on every personal project. Students must respect the intermediary stages aimed at marking out their progress.

Contacts

Fabienne COURTEJOIE fcourtejoie@ulg.ac.be Xavier FOLVILLE X.Folville@ulg.ac.be Olivier HENZ ohenz@ulg.ac.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

The terms and conditions are unchanged

Assessment subjects

The terms and conditions are unchanged

Assessment methods

The assessment took place prior to containment.

Contacts

fcourtejoie@ulg.ac.be
ohenz@ulg.ac.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

The terms and conditions are unchanged

Assessment methods

The terms and conditions are unchanged

Contacts

fcourtejoie@ulg.ac.be
ohenz@ulg.ac.be