Duration
40h Th
Number of credits
| Master in architecture (120 ECTS) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Francois Laurent, N..., Sophie Trachte
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course «Science and Techniques 3, Performance approach in existing constructions» aims to consider the renovation of the existing built stock in a global approach combining comfort improvement and energy performance, limiting the environmental impact of this renovation and promoting the reuse and circularity of buildings materials and components.
The question asked is: How can we today renovate the existing built stock taking into account the following issues:
- The issue of Maintenance and Conservation;
- The issue of Comfort and energy performance improvement
- The issue of circularity and reuse: how to make the most of existing elements in situ, how to reintroduce reuse materials, how to envisage reversible solutions, how to avoid waste
- The Environmental issues: how to reduce the overall environmental impact
The courses are structured in 10 sessions of 4:00 am. The following sessions are organized as follows:
- 1 hour of theoretical contributions or manipulation of tools/software (in audience)
- 3 hours of practical exercise in the architecture project (workshop or studio)
- Introduction to renovation works: issues, regulations, multicriteria approach
- Introduction to circular design and building, introduction to reuse in architectural approach
- Statements, diagnosis, pathologies;
- Structure: old, new, demolition works
- Programmatic potential, spatial organization and comfort;
- Retrofitting and energy measures on the envelope and their environmental/circular assessment;
- Retrofitting and nergy measures on technical systems;
- The development of a roadmap for renovation, in stages.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of this teaching unit, students will be able to:
- Identify, analyze and understand the existing building and all of these material and technical components;
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of a building in terms of spatial organization and future adaptability, structure, comfort and energy performance;
- Propose pertinent renovation objectives;
- Formulate and prioritize retrofit and/or optimization measures on the envelope and on the technical systems and justify their interest;
- Develop a comprehensive (and phase by phase) renovation strategy combining envelope and systems measures and including constructive and technological choices;
- Assess the impact of a renovation strategy on the environment (environmental assessment via TOTEM) and on the circularity of materials.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The reflexive approach proposed is based on set of skills and knowledge acquired by students in the three main areas of construction/ structure/ comfort during the years of bachelor and master 1, and this, through the Building Technology (1 to 6) and Science and Technology (1 and 2) lectures.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The learning activities are organised around a continuous exercise of retrofit strategy design, based on a real case study. This design exercice is the main theme of the teaching unit and the basis for the evaluation.
These activities are complemented by three webinars on lunch time with speakers and experts from outside the Faculty. These webinars are optional but highly recommended!
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Recommended or required readings
Presentation slides are provided for each course on eCampus.
A bibliography adapted to the content provided is indicated during the session.
Technical documents and/or tools, such as Excel spreadsheets, to be used during certain sessions, are sent a week in advance and available online on eCampus.
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
The course is evaluated on the basis of a group work (3 or 4 students).
Throughout the course, several exercises will be asked of the student groups. These 4 exercises will be an integral part of the evaluation:
- Building Survey Summary and Diagnostic Exercise
- Structure Exercise
- Envelope Renovation Exercise (Environmental and Circular Selection and Assessment)
- Exercise on the systems (heating, ventilation, ...)
All 4 exercises must have been delivered on ecampus by the dates set by the teachers, in order to be able to present the final report in January
Groups that have not presented 3 of the 4 exercises at the end of December 2022 will not be able to access the second session
A single note is assigned to the entire group.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
In order to best organize your group functioning, you are advised to
- choose your teammates according to your respective architecture workshops: it will be more easy for three students with the same architecture workshop to find moments of exchange between the sessions
- participate and work actively in groups during the workshop sessions and ask all your questions to your teachers. In this way, there will remain only a work of synthesis and of putting to order to realize in autonomy
Contacts
Sophie Trachte - sophie.trachte@uliege.be
François Laurent - flaurent@uliege.be