Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
| Master in architecture (120 ECTS) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
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
Healing environment. Or the environment that heals ...
The creation of a "Healing environment" involves understanding the relationships between all the users who frequent a place and shaping the space which promotes both objective and subjective well-being of users.
From different "personas", students will be asked to make concrete proposals as to the evolution of an existing living environment that allowed one (s) to consider aging at home.
Before the workshop week, students will be asked to question their personas
Within the limits of this exercise, the structural context of the building is fixed by its very existence. Plans and sections are made available and certain technical constraints integrated.
External speakers and / or professionals in the field will be invited to interact with the students who are considering the project
Depending on the projects developed, the student will have the opportunity to approach, in a reflective and personal mode, the transversal axes of the master program: sustainability (impact of human living on his (mid) place of daily life, place of nature...); art (poetic and sensitive dimension of the occupation of space, public, collective and private, creativity of inhabitants, spatial interventions in space, etc.); digital (spatial and social impacts of the diffusion of digital technology in everyday life, use of digital technology to observe and plan projects, etc.); society (occupation, privatization, segregation, appropriation ... of public, collective and private spaces). At the end of the workshop, projects and exchanges with students will eventually be linked to research themes.
At the end of the workshop, projects and exchanges with students will eventually be linked in some research .
The evaluation is carried out by a jury (at the end of the workshop) made up of teachers and guests who participated in the exercise.
The presence of students at the workshop is required throughout the duration of the workshop.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
°To give the students:
- The tools to observe the constructed world
- The projection tools in a constantly changing environment
- The tools to take into account the constructed reality and complexity
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
All the notions addressed in the theory workshops and classes in the first 3 years, work experience in the field and in offices.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- Visits to similar infrastructures
- Information and exchange with External speakers and / or professionals
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
. visits and information sessions during which exchange and communication between students and with external speakers and / or professionals are encouraged.
The pedagogy tends to develop the initiative, the critical mind, the rigour and the efficiency of the students ("interpersonal skills"), to guide them consistently in realistic projects both at the level of urban and architectural options and at the level of the programme, structure, norms and environment ("know-how"). The complexity of the exercise of the profession and the architectural trades are tackled during specific information sessions ("self-fulfilment").
The teaching method is structuralist, focusing on a whole, where students simultaneously learn about the individual parts of the whole and about the whole itself.
The project takes the form of a one-week workshop for which the student should be available every day.
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
This academic year 20-21, the Healing Environment workshop was replaced by participation in the ICA "View on..." competition open to students.
The papers were sent to the ICA in November 2020.
Recommended or required readings
More generally, the students are encouraged to carry out their own research and to give free reign to their curiosity (library, trips, etc.) so as to form critical judgement. From time to time, analyses of the architectures chosen are organised, individually or in group, which highlight a particular concern.
Assessment methods and criteria
Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.
Knowledge gained in the course is applied directly and evaluated through the implementation of the practice workshop.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Students are expected to attend the entire week of the workshop.
Instructors will encourage student understanding and involvement, they stimulate transfer of information, reflections on each personal project.
Contacts
Fabienne COURTEJOIE fcourtejoie@ulg.ac.be
Olivier HENZ ohenz@ulg.ac.be
Gwendoline Schaff g.schaff@uliege.be