Duration
256h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in architecture (120 ECTS) | 20 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
The workshop joins a consortium composed of ENSA Clermont-Ferrand, ETS Arquitectura UDC A Coruna, OTH Regensburg, and NUACA Yerevan. It approaches the invested site from a macroscopic scale, that of the territory, to the "microscopic" scale of the architectural detail. The statements, prepared in turn by the partner institutions, systematically foresee a development of the site as well as the reconversion of an existing heritage building.
The site for the academic year 2021-22 is the Convent of the Mechitarist Fathers in Vienna, Austria.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Zooming in and out of architectural thinking, the workshop leads the student to develop a conscious, autonomous, human and technical approach from 1/1000 to 1/1 scale. Particular emphasis is placed on the material, an essential component of architecture, and even more so, for the type of sites addressed by the studio. Matter is culture, a tool for dialogue, a language: the workshop develops a concrete approach in which it is in the foreground. In this perspective, it also integrates technical expertise (engineers, technicians, craftsmen) which accompanies the entire design process and enables concrete details to be achieved.
The whole process is rooted in an understanding of the existing building and its heritage values.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Translating.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The project involves a week-long on-site workshop, during which students from the partner institutions develop precise and in-depth studies of the existing site at all scales. The approach is interdisciplinary, fed by the reflections of urban planners, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and sociologists, who lead the students to analyse and question the site studied from a variety of viewpoints. Attention is paid to the constructive choices of the existing site, to the origin of the materials and their use, as well as to the structure, which is the basis of the spatial arrangement that will accommodate the new function. It is essential that the intervention is designed in response to this identity, taking care to make constructive, technical and material choices of today, but in keeping with the existing typology and in awareness of its heritage and spatial values. The reuse of the existing building is the starting point for the architectural project.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face-to-face as far as sanitary conditions allow.
Recommended or required readings
Christoph Grafe & Tim Rienlets. Umbaukultur. The architecture of altering. Dortmund: Verlag Kettler, 2020.
Benjamin Mouton. Sens et renaissance du patrimoine architectural. Paris: Editions des Cendres, 2018.
Bie Plevoets & Koenraad Van Cleempoel. Adaptive reuse of the built heritage. Concepts and cases of an emerginig discipline. London and New-York: Routledge, 2019.
Francis Rambert, Marie Colombet & Christine Carboni (dir.). Un bâtiment, combien de vies? La transformation comme acte de création. Paris: CIté de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 2015.
Liliane Wong. Adaptive reuse. Extending the lives of buildings. Bâle: Birkhauser, 2017.
Assessment methods and criteria
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Other : Jury
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The on-site workshop takes place from 14 to 19 March 2022 (in Vienna).
An intermediate jury with all partners takes place on 5 June 2022 in Liège.
Contacts
m.frisenna@uliege.be
c.houbart@uliege.be
p.noe@uliege.be