ARCH3330-1

Duration

108h Pr

Number of credits

	Bachelor in architecture	10 crédits

Lecturer

Martina Barcelloni Corte, Anne Dengis, François Gena, Sebastien Ochej, Virginie Pigeon

Coordinator

Virginie Pigeon

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The workshop will focus on the reading (description) and on the development of a territory project for the "Liège Europe" Metropolis (the 21-22 academic year will focus on the Liège-Maastricht axis) from its non-areas. built.
The "Liège Europe" cross-border metropolis is currently experiencing significant demographic growth, exerting increasing pressure on the soils and waters that constitute it, and on the ecosystems that nourish it. The open space project is an opportunity to rethink the relationship between artificial and natural rationalities, in order to imagine strategies for regeneration and adaptation to climate change.
Open space will be at the heart of this workshop. Open spaces have drawn territorial structures, sometimes weak or discreet, which must now be re-imagined to respond to the challenges posed by the ecological, social and economic transition underway.
These structures will be approached from the notions of continuities and fragmentations: by focusing on the open spaces of the "Liège Europe" metropolis, the workshop wishes to deal with the question of the continuity of space (artificial and natural) in the project. of the city and the territory, its requalification and densification.
The main themes covered by the course will concern the blossoming of natural ecosystems, the restructuring of cultural / natural landscapes, the adaptation of artificial / natural infrastructures, the densification / regeneration of the city to face the challenges of the transition.
A detailed knowledge of the territory will be developed during the semester. The open space project on a territorial and urban scale will be developed to propose and offer concrete configurations to the changes underway, questioning the conceptual and operational tools necessary to imagine and design them. An interdisciplinary approach will address new design-based ideas about the future of ecosystems in relation to the transformation and modification of spatial environments.
The territory project developed in Q5 provides a basis for deploying the questions of the architecture workshop in Q6, which will work on the same sites with good knowledge of the issues.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Competency 1: Investigate an architectural question
The point here is to develop a detailed reading of the territory and to develop a critical posture in the face of the findings. From there will appear territorial issues leading to a series of hypotheses or questions.

Competency 2: Develop a spatial response
This involves proposing strategies for spatial transformation based on observations, issues, hypotheses and questions formulated from the detailed description of the territory studied.

Competency 3: Implement a situated spatial response
Through the project, the spatial dimension of these strategies is imagined and implemented.

Competency 4: Interact with all stakeholders
The readings and presentations accompanying each workshop session provide an understanding of the issues related to the territory studied from the point of view of multidisciplinary expertise as well as from the point of view of the inhabitants. These different points of view will form the basis of the project proposal, which must be based on a systemic approach.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Courses: Architecture workshops Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4.
Theoretical courses: Territory 1, Territory 2, and Territory 3.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The workshop is structured like a research team. The work is organized through a series of operations:
- field work - immersion,
- description by drawing, cartography, transect, ...
- taking a position by the diagram and the synthesis in "territorial figures"
- spatial project of territory at different scales. Model, plans, sections, axonometries
Students will become familiar with GIS, fieldwork and critical readings of projects.
From a collective work of fine, original and committed description, the students will propose, to deepen their reflection, the choice of a site revealing the challenges of the territory. This will be planned with the objective of recreating continuities through the constitution of a program for open space and research of composition.
Readings will be organized with students, local experts and researchers.

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

Face-to-face course

Additional information:

In the interest of learning, attendance at workshops is mandatory.
No absence entitles the holder to a waiver with regard to expected attendees. The presentation of the progress of the complete work at the planned stages is mandatory. In case of absence, the student is required to:

Notify the teacher by email with a copy to the course coordinator;
Update for the next workshop and consult the weekly information provided by the teachers via the official course channels (mail, e-campus);

Student support will be provided either by a group of teachers or by a single teacher depending on the periods of the calendar.

Assessment methods and criteria

Continuous assessment

Other : juries with documents to be produced - see details below

Additional information:

The materials produced by the student (in groups and in pairs) will be the basis of presentations which will be evaluated taking into account:
- the student's regular contribution to team and individual work;
- the quality of the project: the relevance of the choices and the composition, the consistency between the descriptive and critical reading of the context and the revelation of its qualities made by the project, the complex approach to the notion of continuity.
- the quality of manual and digital graphic expressions, written and oral;
- the ability to make connections between scales;

The evaluation takes the form of intermediate juries and a final jury, as well as an individual participation mark (presence, commitment, proactivity) over the duration of the workshop.
The weighting is as follows:

Continuous individual involvement 10%
Jury I End of October 30%
Pre-jury II at the beginning of December 20%
Jury II end of December 40%

Procedures in the event of absence or delay during an intermediate or final presentation (jury). An unjustified delay or absence of filing is penalized by the inadmissibility of the work and the score of "0". In the event of a justified impossibility for the student to be present on the day and at the time of a handover, the protocol to be followed is as follows:

Notify the titular teacher of his group as well as the course coordinator by email before the date and time of the handover;
Submission of the work (as it is) by a third party, on the day, at the time and in the place, scheduled. In addition, the documents must be transmitted in digital version (including scan and / or photos) via the MIRO platform;
Delivery of proof for the day of absence, instead, to the secretariat and a copy to the teachers and the coordinator;
The jury will deliberate on the admissibility or otherwise of the documents, as well as any arrangements it deems necessary for their examination;
If admissible and at the scheduled date of the examination, the work will be assessed on the basis of the documents as they stand.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

For the term, the student must produce at least: - Systematic filing of weekly work on the Miro board indicates - For the final jury:
Printed plates - number and dimensions to be specified; 1 to 2 models at different scales; 1 printed booklet and 1 digital version. - Complements to the expected work will be specified during the workshop.

Contacts

vpigeon@uliege.be

Regional project - the open space