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
Providing an extension of the basic workshop, the advanced workshop consolidates the concepts, reasoning processes and practices acquired in the first year on the one hand, and develops the tools and know-how necessary to design a regional planning project on a larger scale, integrating more complex realities and issues, on the other hand. Emphasis is first placed on the architect's specific role in pluridisciplinary teams designing an urban project or any project that contributes to changing our living environments. Building on cultural and qualitative approaches (leading to choices on social values and to qualifying what makes a fulfilling environment) rather than quantitative and objective ones (even though the latter do deliver helpful prior indicators), the approach followed in the workshop relies on: - understanding the morphological structure of spatial organisation through its constituent logical and reasoning processes and its transformation dynamics (distinguising the short term from the long term), in order to reveal their general and specific characteristics, to highlight their various levels of consistency and balance, and to gain insight into their elements and supports of continuity, but also to identify consolidated situations that are the long-term result of situations produced by conjunctural pressures with a short-term influence; - the practice of spatial composition, where students can formulate project hypotheses and confront the urban landscape to future-oriented scenarios leading to a (re)questioning that gradually contributes to supporting and developing an argued discourse on the future by iteratively integrating the multiple and complex dimensions and constraints of our living environments; - outlining as a mode of representation and reasoning that is necessary for the holistic (not analytical) understanding of multi-faceted realities and for the communication of fundamental principles and values defining long-term guidelines in evolving contexts; - identifying and defining projects designed in detail, on one hand as tools to evaluate the feasibility of the principles promoted and to communicate the spirit of their actual implementation, and on the other hand as an action to implement a project in the short run. The questions that emerge and the situations that arise during the project's initial phase create opportunities to bring information and to launch debates on current events and contemporary though on cities of the future; they also create opportunities to meet with the people involved on the ground and exchange with them. A number of other topics are also briefly covered, including decision-making, governance and individual attitudes, adaptability management, strategies of action, systems creation and appropriate intervention processes. Alongside the lecture classes in the urban and landscape project orientation, the advanced workshop on urban projects prepares students who wish to continue their studies with an advanced master or to do research (PhD or other) in fields related to regional planning.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Students will learn the reasoning processes and conscious practices necessary to carry out a composition of a cityscape at different spatial and temporal scales. They will be able to defend, based on an oral presentation with specially created explanatory panels (outline and actual implementation), an argument that relies on both an understanding and an in-depth analysis of a living environment (socio-morphological dimension), a position on the future, and a proposal for concrete changes to the physical space by demonstrating the added value in terms of quality of life and development perspectives.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The course builds on the learning outcomes of the previous courses, which are prerequisites for this course: the second-year bachelor course on typomorphology, the third-year bachelor courses on urban project approaches, public space projects, city and landscape, and urban sociology, and the first-year master basic workshop course on urban projects.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face
Recommended or required readings
Assessment methods and criteria
Presentation before an exam board Criteria: see learning outcomes
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
A specific exercise is organised during the last two intensive weeks of the course which correspond to the period of confinement.
The student learns to observe the surrounding living environment and to structure a personal prospective point of view and then translate it into a dynamic communication tool (video editing).
Assessment subjects
The evaluation material corresponding to the last two intensive weeks of the course focuses on the observation of the territory that can be made in a period of confinement, when living conditions are modified and constrained, and the critical reflection that can be engaged on new ways of living and designing the city.
Assessment methods
The evaluation is carried out on the one hand, on the basis of the continuous work of the student provided throughout the two weeks in periodic communication by video conference with the holders and on the other hand, on the basis of three short films submitted as the construction of the reflection progresses.
Contacts
Sophie Dawance : sophie.dawance@uliege.be