Duration
108h Pr
Number of credits
| Bachelor in architecture | 10 crédits |
Lecturer
Elisa Baldin, Martina Barcelloni Corte, Michaël Bianchi, Daniel Delgoffe, Anne Dengis, Sebastien Ochej, Virginie Pigeon, Nicolas Willemet, Karel Wuytack
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 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 constitute 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. It is a question of observing, describing and rethinking space by reversing our habits and by paying attention to the negative of our built volumes: starting from the non-built, to be interested in what structures, constitutes and could reinvent space - it is, in particular, the built and the infrastructures, but also the ecological meshes, the expression of the ground, the topography, the flows, the habitus of the living, human and non-human.
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 infrastructures and the different modes of exploitation of the resources have progressively produced, since the advent of the industrial area, a strongly fragmented and damaged landscape. The reading of the existing open space allows to bring out the potential continuities within this heritage, the systems and the common denominators of the studied territory, to consider their reinforcement, their regeneration or their transformation from project hypotheses.
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. Educational trips are an integral part of the courses. 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, based on the same problems, with good knowledge of the issues. A transversal theme allows to reinforce the community of concerns of the two workshops Q5 and Q6: Beyond understanding the physical, infrastructural and ecological structures of the studied territory, it will be a question of evaluating the opportunities that they offer in the idea of reinforcing the inter-university link between Liege and Maastricht, and reciprocally, to envisage in what this presence of two university poles can nourish the territory which connects them.
In Liege as in Maastricht, the universities and academies represent a significant number of buildings related to higher education, research centers, laboratories, housing, restaurants, sports complexes ... They are thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of students from the region but also from around the world (the University of Maastricht is considered the most international of the Netherlands), a community making city in the city. The workshops Bac 3 Q5 and Q6 will try to grasp the potential that the inter-university situation potentially offers to the regeneration of this territory and vice versa, in terms of housing, leisure, food, mobility, research....
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 that the project strategy will attempt to address.
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, educational trips
- 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.
Educational trips are an integral part of the courses.
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.
Recommended or required readings
Information and other content will be accessible on eCampus
Required content: the study and use of certain content is mandatory. These will be specified when they are made available.
For information, the following books and articles constitute a theoretical basis in connection with the workshop.
- Marot S. The landscape alternative. The visitor 1/54. France: 1995.
- Corboz A. The territory as a palimpsest. Printer's Editions. France: 2001.
- Bonnet F., Bonzani S. and Younès C., Ville-nature et architectures des milieus. In "Notebooks of architectural and urban research" n ° 26-27. France: 2012.
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 a final jury, as well as an individual grade for participation and production (presence, commitment, proactivity) over the course of the workshop.The weighting is as follows:
- Continuous individual involvement 10%
- Jury I End of October: informative evaluation
- Jury II of December:
Group part 40% (long and express version of presentation, supports and booklet)
Pair part 40% (long and short version of presentation, supports and booklet)
- Individual synthesis work:10% (Evaluation methods and criteria specified during the year)
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 weekly research and drawing work on paper
- For the final jury:
Printed plates and digital file- number and dimensions to be specified;
Booklet - 1 printed version and 1 digital version;
Individual work.
- Complements to the expected work will be specified during the workshop.
Contacts
vpigeon@uliege.be