Duration
144h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in landscape architect (120 ECTS) | 12 crédits |
Lecturer
Marc Dufrêne, Julie Martineau, Christoph Gotthard Menzel, Pierre Raulier, 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 2020-2021: belgian suburban forest archipelago
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 agronomy 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
Good knowledge of landscape architecture tools (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.
Being able to mobilise skills for the benefit of a statement.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
That course is based on a continuous process, organised in several parts:
A- 2 weeks collective work:
Consists in collecting data 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- 4 weeks duo work:
Comparative analysis on two distinctive sites included in the collected data base described above.
C- 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 duo 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 cancelled for safety reasons
A short exercise (2 to 3 days) 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 and share about their respective project issues.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid 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.
In Covid contexte: hybrid course, given both in real and to be followed online.
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
In Covid contexte: hybrid course, given both in real and to be followed online.
If on site visit, respect of health rules, mask mandatory, distance of 2m, groups of 2 people max.
Recommended or required readings
To be precised during the course
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.
One jury for duo work;
One final individual jury (composed of internal and external members);
Studio evaluation, looking at motivation, commitment, initiatives, mutualisation, concistency etc.
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: 15%
Work in progress: 25%
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The course is taking place in Flagey ULB building, on:
Thursdays: 2pm to 5.30pm
Fridays: 9am to 5.30pm
Contacts
Julie Martineau
Faculté d'Architecture de l'ULB
Place Flagey, 19
1050 - Bruxelles
tel: +32 474 69 65 20
julie.martineau@ulb.be