ARCH1942-1

Duration

96h Pr

Number of credits

	Master in architecture (120 ECTS)	8 crédits

Lecturer

Coordinator

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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

Deep transformation of traditional industrial structures and search for new forms of economy, demographic growth and search for new ways of living together, overcoming stressful forced mobility and seeking real freedom of appropriation of the territory, detachment from alienation to productivism and search for new growth and life projects for people are examples of challenges that our territories and societies must meet. More fundamentally, it is about creating new relationships between people and their environment around new human and cultural values linked to innovative production methods.
The basic workshop and then the in-depth workshop focus on developing the architect's specific abilities (project design and composition of space) to be used in his traditional profession or into multidisciplinary teams in territorial development. The workshop is also a useful preparation for the additional master's degree in town and country planning.
The urban project design exercise serves as a guide and support for learning.
The confrontation with a concrete case and therefore with actual and current issues situated in a context of historical, environmental, economic, social and political complexity by nature provides the opportunity:

to engage in a critical reflection on the current thoughts and challenges of territorial development (urban and rural),
to link the theoretical and methodological bases of the territorial project to a situation on the ground,
to delve into the reality of the daily life of the inhabitants and to meet their expectations,
to argue positions to take on our tomorrow's living environments,to learn how to reveal and compose space at different territorial scales.

In the basic workshop, it is mainly a question of developing the first reflexes inherent to the specific reasoning mode for the development of the territorial project design from a localized place but with big strategic challenges. It is in fact to conceive until the detail of new pieces of neighborhood proposing different forms of habitat with a high quality of internal life and at the same time contributing to the reorganization, revaluation and balancing of the urban fabric in which it is integrate and of which it is an opportunity for change and transformation.
Group work and especially the continuous debate around the issues discussed in a participatory logic is the center of learning. To do this, external stakeholders are called to bring diverse perspectives as specialist, thinker, opponent or everyday actor.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The student will be able, faced with a territorial situation well identified and delimited to:

identify the different cartographic information sources, written and of field, extract the useful elements of them and reformulate them to be exploitable to understand the logics of spatial organization in their dynamics of evolution and reveal of them the characters,
observe different human behaviors, interact with inhabitants and local actors to target needs and demands; but especially to highlight expectations supporting a project of becoming;
represent, through different scales, the structuring systems highlighted and examine their interaction forms, then to document in a more refined way the three-dimensional forms produced using a holistic approach linking the social and morphological dimensions of space concrete and lived;
analyze references (project of developments or situations realized) to extract the founding principles and use them as a tool of questioning in the exercise of composition;
compose a fabric and innovative habitat modes balanced with the existing;
formulate and support a position based on choices of values and planning principles and represent them in the form of spatial scenarios designed at different territorial scales and also until the detail.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The course is part of the follow-up of the second bachelor's degree course in "Typo-morphology"; of third Bachelors in: "Urban Project Approach", "City and Landscape" and "Urban Sociology".

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Work in workshop, group work, moment of debates and collaborative work, conferences, intensive exercises in situ (outdoor workshop).

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

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.

Jury presentation, evaluation of active participation.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Marc Goossens : m.goossens@uliege.be
Sophie Dawance : sophie.dawance@uliege.be

Basic workshop : urban project