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
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.
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.
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.
An upgrade is organized for students who have not followed the basic workshop.
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, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Recommended or required readings
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.
Presentation before an exam board Criteria: see learning outcomes
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Marc GOOSSENS
m.goossens@uliege.be