Duration
144h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in landscape architect (120 ECTS) | 12 crédits |
Lecturer
Marc Dufrêne, Haissam Jijakli, Julie Martineau, Christoph Gotthard Menzel, Anne-Marie Sauvat
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
Project practice in landscape architecture at territorial and metropolitan scale, looking at society dynamics.
Based on actual site, the reflections relate to meaningful topical subjects at short and long term view, to which the students in landscape architecture provide with appropriate answers, integrating agricultural issues and ecosystemic services as fields of thoughts, also climate change, water crisis, energy policies, transports issues etc; in a sustainable way.
The topic is about the interface - with variable thickness boundaries more or less movable -between territories, where and how they're brought face to face, with landscape as a common good and landscape project as a mediator.
Q8 2019_2020: Belgian coast
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Being able to undertake an analysis and interpret the results;
Being able to make its own statement and autonomous critical reflection on a complex situation;
Being able to developp a consistent argument;
Being able to consider working in a cross-disciplinary approach;
Being able to integrate theoretical knowledge into the project of landscape architecture (especially urban agriculture and ecosystemic services);
Being able to developp a collective work methodology and individual one.
This course aims to help students in building their own consistent reflection, from a "targetted" analysis (cf Bernard Lassus, Analyse inventive, in Mouvance, volume 1) to a spatialised answer of the project, more focused on the time-space process of its production - including territorial, political, social, historic characteristics - than the esthaetic form of it.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Skills in landscape architecture language (mapping, plan, section, transect, model, block diagram, axonometry, etc);
Skills in measuring, in surveying, in multi scaling;
Practice of collective and individual work;
Being able to estimate the right balance between substance and form of the project.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
That course is based on a continuous process, organised in several parts:
A- 4 weeks collective work:
Consists in collecting data and in making a diagnosis at territorial scale, which boundaries are defined by the nature of the analysis itself.
That part includes a collective work methodology that is identified and explained in a collective written report.
B- 7 weeks individual work, articulated in 4 specific parts:
1- DETERMINED/INVENTIVE ANALYSIS (cf Bernard Lassus) qualifies and interogates the elements of studied landscape, in relation with issues raised in the collective analysis.
2- The student makes his STATEMENT on the results of the analysis, developping an autonomous critical reflection, in order to define the landscape concepts that will guide him towards the project.
3- The student defines a consistant EVOLVING SCENARIO.
4- The LANDSCAPE PROJECT DESIGN itself, as a response to the 3 previous operations.
A written statement describing the issues, objectives and reflexive process is required one week before the final jury.
On the studio side, a 4 days trip is planned to Medmerry (to be confirmed).
A short exercise (1day) is to consider (TBC)
In order to encourage cross-disciplinarity, students in Landscape Architecture will time to time meet with students in Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture of the ULB, studying the same territorial topic.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
This course is given in a studio.
Face to face one day and half per week with at least 1 teacher.
In order to encourage the students to make their own statements, this course provide them with several teachers with diverse skills (landscape architecture, ecology, bio-engineering)
Also distance-teaching the other days, also possible interaction with other teachers.
Recommended or required readings
To be precised during the course
Assessment methods and criteria
One jury for collective work + written report;
One intermediate jury for individual work;
One final jury (composed of internal and external members);
One mark for the report;
Appraisal based on:
- consistency of reflective process;
- student's statement consistency and substancial proposal;
- balance between substance/content and form;
- knowledge of landscape architect's tools and reflex;
- quality of oral exam
Weighting:
Final jury: 60%
Intermediate Jury: 20%
Behaviour, diligence, involvement, commitment into the project + collective work + written documents : 20%
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The course is taking place in Flagey ULB building, on:
Thursdays: 2pm to 6pm
Fridays: 9am to 6pm
Contacts
Julie Martineau
Faculté d'Architecture de l'ULB
Place Flagey, 19
1050 - Bruxelles
tel: +32 474 69 65 20
julie.martineau@ulb.ac.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
see the French version
Assessment subjects
see the French version
Assessment methods
see the French version
Contacts
Julie Martineau: coordinatrice
julie.martineau@ulb.ac.be
tel: 0474 69 65 20