Duration
96h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in architecture (120 ECTS) | 8 crédits |
Lecturer
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
As in level 1 of workshop C, the theme of level 2, IN DETAIL - ATTITUDE CREATES THE FORM, deals with the problem of intervention in existing buildings, by looking more closely at the study of variants in detail within the theme of "small" in architecture.
It is necessary to have assimilated the particularities of existing buildings and their environment to identify what generated their form.
Limited to small interventions, the study allows students to complete a precise creation process, from the general down to the details, with the structural and constructive development of the different scales dealt with.
The study of fragments of the project allows students to deal with the issue of writing about architecture.
The study of variants generated by various hierarchies of criteria allows students to assess what presides over the design of the form.
The study of the details is finalised by the creation of large-scale prototype models.
The various disciplines that finalise an architectural project are integrated in order to confront students with a highly rigorous practice.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The aim of the "extended" workshop C is to allow students to:
-Test various "attitudes" to transform, expand and/or reduce what already exists in tune with a context and a use.
-To assess a "self-produced and consciously identified" experiment concerning the issue of the impact of the attitude on the technical and sensitive analysis of the form for the purpose of a particular use.
-To observe the particularities of its own vocabulary and what generates it by testing it against other variants generated by other priorities.
-To transform the whole by acting on a part of it.
There may therefore be several, targeted architectural answers to the fragments of small architectural pieces to allow an in-depth and comparative approach.
The real pretext for the search for definitions of attitudes that generate methods of intervention through transformation will be a very small unit containing a complementary basic programme dependent on an existing programme.
The exercise will favour technical analyses as the design and investigation tool.
The project will be elaborated up to the execution file stage except for the specifications. The study will include close-ups on certain fragments that could serve as a manifest for the specification of a written architectural code.
This study will lead to the implementation of prototype models.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Prerequisites:
Level 1 of workshops A, B, C or D studio 1.1. is required.
Co-requisite:
Compulsory associated courses
Jean Marie Bleus: ARCH 1656-1 STRUCTURE - ANALYSIS AND PROJECT PLANNING
Recommended courses:
Serge Paeme: ARCH 1003 TOPOMETRIC USE OF PERSPECTIVES
Marina Frisenna: ARCH 1657 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Visits and conferences:
Common to both levels.
To be defined according to the programme's theme for the year, allowing the analysis to be developed through case studies.
Organisation:
In the workshops, the programmes are explained, analysed and an individual follow-up of the projects is organised on the basis of discussions, and developments of the themes dealt with both on a technical and a design level.
Visits are organised in order to confront students with the difficulty of implementation and the professional reality of their future profession, whether it involves visits to building sites or architectural creations in the presence of their designer explaining his/her reasoning and the technical procedure leading to his/her creation.
The workshop deals with one project over the year and the study of various solutions to a fragment of this project.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Recommended or required readings
There is no specific syllabus or bibliography.
Students should seek information in the following domains:
Journals and documentation concerning the specific field dealt with in the projects in question (themed journals).
Technical handbooks and documentation.
Visits to workshops and works.
Analytical studies on the use and meaning of space and forms.
Reading texts on the practice of creation.
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.
It is compulsory to attend the workshop so that the students' work can be continuously monitored.
The assessment criteria are:
-How much students put into their work, supported by all the documents produced throughout the project:
preliminary analyses, technical support files, documentation, research models, keeping a notebook with details of the project, execution plans and the description of the materials used.
-Ability to manage and organise work and to take proposals forward
-Final quality of the synthesis between the idea, the formal composition, the technical development and communication.
The assessment phases and their weighting are defined in particular according to the specificities of the project - in general:
preparatory analytical work / outline / pre-project / project.
The assessment is done by the teachers, possibly with the assistance of specific resource people or the addressees of the project / students give an oral presentation of their work based on the graphic material and models or files they have produced.