Duration
256h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in architecture (120 ECTS) | 20 crédits |
Lecturer
Marina Frisenna, François Gena, Claudine Houbart, Pascal Noe
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 is part of a consortium composed of ENSA Clermont-Ferrand, ETS Arquitectura UDC A Coruna, OTH Regensburg, and NUACA Yerevan. It approaches the site from a macroscopic scale, that of the territory, to the "microscopic" scale of architectural detail. The brief, prepared in turn by the partner institutions, systematically foresees a development of the site as well as the adapitive reuse of an existing heritage building, involving an extension.
The site for the academic year 2022-2023 is the former Hospital of Thiers, France, dating mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Zooming in and out of architectural design, the workshop leads the student to develop a conscious, autonomous, argued, 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 workshop. 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 student will be able to:
- research (investigate a question
- design (elaborate)
- implement
- represent (interact); develop and represent the project by conventional drawings, diagrams and model(s), at scales 1/500-1/100-1/50-1/20-1/1 (details with construction value).
This entire approach is rooted in an understanding of the existing building and its heritage values.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Studio Q2, theme 2 "reconversion" (ARCH0575)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The approach is interdisciplinary, fed by the reflections of urban planners, historians, archaeologists and sociologists, who lead the students to analyse and question the site studied from a variety of points of view. Attention is paid to the constructive choices of the existing building, 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 is the starting point for the writing of the architectural project.
The course topics are addressed in the form of workshops and presentations to the whole class. They are supported by presentations (slide shows, videos, websites), written documents and discussions, available on eCampus. Before each workshop, the student reads the various documents and presentations available on eCampus.
In addition to the substantive exercises, students participate in site visits, study tours and presentations. He or she also participates in specific activities related to opportunities such as exhibition mounting, publication of a work, participation in workshops.
Juries and round tables are held regularly during the term to provide feedback on the progress of projects.
The first weeks of Q4 are devoted to the study of the existing building on the basis of a dossier provided by the organising institution (architectural, archaeological and iconographic analysis).
After an intensive one-week workshop on site (13 to 17 March 2023, in Thiers and Clermont-Ferrand, France), where the students of the partner institutions elaborate precise and in-depth studies of the existing building at all scales, as well as intervention scenarios, the students work in pairs or threes until the preliminary project.
This preliminary project is presented at a new inter-institutional meeting (in A Coruña, Spain, on 1 June 2023), which acts as a pre-jury.
From the preliminary project, a pointing area of the binomial or trinomial project is developed individually by each student and aims to work on a targeted scale of detail for the final jury.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
The activities are held face-to-face unless otherwise requested by COVID.
Studios are organised over full days according to a schedule that will be communicated and posted on eCampus in due course.
The documents presented and used during the courses will be progressively made available on eCampus.
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.
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Other : Jury
Additional information:
Single session course.
The work is assessed in stages, according to the learning outcomes and expectations listed in the planning, and specified specifically for each exercise.
The student presents his/her work graphically, in writing, orally and in the form of a model during :
* Intermediate stages, formative assessments of the work;
* juries with or without external guests.
In order to record all the developments in their learning, the student will keep a weekly work folder containing the progress of the project in progress.
Instructions are issued setting out the expectations for each stage.
The evaluations are done in letters (European system) and according to the general rules of the ULiège examinations. They give an assessment by criteria. These are announced in the brief for each exercise.
PONDERATION
The weighting between the different stages of the same project varies according to the importance of the exercises and can be adapted according to their evolution. It is progressive with the stages (see details in due course on the schedule communicated via eCampus).
THE ATTENDANCE OF THE STUDIO IS COMPULSORY
The presentation of the progress of the work at the planned stages is compulsory. Any absence must be justified, but does not entitle the student to be excused from the work. The student who, for justified reasons, is unable to attend the presentation of the work, must send it to the teachers, in the state it is in, on the date and in the premises provided (digital copy on eCampus). If not, the mark assigned to the work concerned will be zero.
Access to the final assessment of the term is conditional on a total attendance at the workshops organised:
- at least 70% as a general rule
- of at least 50%, in the case of absences justified by a medical certificate or other admissible evidence.
ABSENCE FROM A STUDIO
Any absence must be justified. In such cases, the student must
- inform the class teacher by e-mail, with a copy to the course coordinators;
- submit a justification for the day of absence, as soon as possible, to the secretariat (copy to the teachers);
- Update himself for the next workshop and consult the weekly information provided by the teachers via the official course channels (e-mail, e-campus).
ABSENCE FROM AN INTERMEDIATE OR FINAL EXAMINATION (JURY)
The student who, for justified reasons, cannot attend the delivery of the work, must send it to the teachers, in the state it is, on the scheduled date and at the scheduled location (digital copy via the official channels of the course, e-mail, e-campus).
If you are unable to be present on the day of a handover, the protocol to follow is as follows:
- Notify the teacher by email before the date and time of the handover;
- hand in the work (in the state it is in) by a third party, on the day and at the scheduled time, in the studio, at the secretariat located on the same site or send scanned and/or photographed documents via the official channels of the course (e-mail, e-campus);
- submit justification of the day of absence to the secretariat as soon as possible (copy to the teachers).
In such cases, the jury will deliberate on the admissibility or not of the documents, as well as on any provisions it deems necessary for their examination. In the event of admissibility and on the date scheduled for the examination, the work will be assessed on the basis of the documents as they stand.
MODE OF CONSTITUTION OF JURIES :
Among the different types of members of a jury we distinguish :
- members of the course teaching team ;
- internal members (teachers at the Faculty);
- external members (teachers from other faculties, architects, resource persons, etc.)
Depending on the type of jury (pre-jury, end-of-year jury, etc.), the jury is always composed of at least one member of the teaching team.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The courses and studios take place on the PITTEURS site.
An on-site workshop takes place from 13 to 17 March 2023 in Clermont-Ferrand and Thiers.
A presentation with all the partners takes place on 1 June 2023 in La Coruña (Spain).
Each student participating in the studio will take part in one of these two trips.
Contacts
m.frisenna@uliege.be
c.houbart@uliege.be
p.noe@uliege.be
francois.gena@uliege.be
Philippe.Sosnowska@uliege.be