Duration
20h Th, 20h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in urban planning and territorial development (120 ECTS) | 3 crédits | |||
| Bachelor in architecture | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Michele Hougardy, Marijke Maes, Cédric Wehrle, Karel Wuytack
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
ANALYZE UNDERSTAND AND REPRESENT THE TERRITORY
The course focuses on the analysis and description of the landscape, the city, and the territory through three spatial approaches:
- Global space
- Local space
- The specific space
The global space approach is based on the observation of open spaces, the site, the landscape, and their natural and ecological dynamics.
This approach allows us to understand what is essential and present in a place before and after human intervention (water systems, topography, nature of soils, etc.).
With the shape of the natural territory, the development and evolution of the cities are explained (notice the evolution of mobility infrastructures,..). To intervene, it is necessary to study this urban development and evolution, resulting from a very long and very slow stratification.
"André Corboz" The territory as a palimpsest "
The local space approach focuses on the city and the urban frameworks, the built and non-built space, the network of public spaces, the road network, the division of plots, constructions ... superimposed or overlapping.
Theoretical approaches illustrate different types of analyzes (morphological, typological, historical, socio-spatial, and systemic ...).
History makes it possible to understand the dynamics and transformations of the urban fabric, to understand the current urban form in what it expresses of its historical heritage. Morphological analysis studies the city in its development from the elements composing it.
"She studies the physical form of urban space, its evolution in relation to social, economic and demographic changes, the actors and processes at work in this evolution." Bernard Gauthiez
The analytical method consists in breaking down the studied object into different elementary components, in identifying and studying their relationships within the whole.
The specific space approach is based on a direct reading of non-built space in situ by observing landscapes, spaces, people, and practices.
The analysis of perceived and lived space emphasizes the perception of urban space by restoring a socio-spatial dimension of the place.
Theoretical approaches illustrate this type of visual analysis (Kevin Lynch The Image of the City - Gordon Cullen The Concise Townscape.)
These 3 complementary approaches provide the student with the tools to represent (built and non-built) territories.
But the territorial analysis and description cannot be a goal in itself, the course aiming to forge links with architectural project workshops, study trips, or even projects already realized.
The course synthesis demonstrates modes of spatial interventions in the city.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The course aims to provide the students with the necessary tools to analyze mainly graphically and descriptively the landscape, the non-built space, the city and the territory.
Goals:
Provide elements of method of analysis of urban space preliminary to any architectural project. (Morphological, typological, visual, historical, socio-spatial, and systemic analysis ...)
- Identify and study the urban forms in their complexities (the site, the city, a district, islet, a plot, the built environment, the non-built space,) understand their interactions crossing the different scales.
- Enlighten the process of formation and transformation of urban space.
- Understand the contradictions and challenges of urban space
Exploring the sustainable issues of the city
With the tools in his possession, the student will be able to draw, interpret and reconstruct the territory studied.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
- Q1 : module « Communication et construction graphique » - basic principles
- Q1 : module « Habiter »
- Q2 : module « Territoire 1 »
- Q2 : module « Communication et construction graphique » advanced principles
- Q2 : module « Culture Architecturale 1 »
- Q3 : module «« Communication et construction graphique » - Image et numérique »
- Q3 : module « philosophie et esthétique de l'architecture »
- Q1-Q3 : architectural projects studio
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The attendance in the 40h course is organized for 4h durent 10 weeks and offers in total:
16 hours of theory lesson:
- There are 5 theory courses of 4hours, explaining the excercises for the studios
24 hours of practical work in the studios:
- The assignments of the exercises in the studios are submitted via the theory courses
- Students - alone and in groups of max 9 students - are guided in the studios or in situ as part of the work of territorial analysis and its graphic reproductions.
- Flipped classroom learning: Students are introduced to a theme of sustainability using home reading to undertake an inquiry with an external professional interlocutor.
- Gamification: through the "city skylines" game, learn how to design a city in all its complexity
- 1 day (8h) free for independant work for 10 weeks
- 30h for evalutions (the written exam and the final evaluation of the logbook)
Document expected at the end of the course:
- Realization by student (or by group) of a graphic or digital logbook (MIRO) testifying to research, analyzes, digital exchanges with professional actors, interview of local actors in situ, work around the theme and studies of concrete territories.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Additional information:
The course is presented in French. Attendance at practical studios is mandatory.
Feedback will be given during the session by the supervisory team.
The theoretical and practical course materials (syllabus, video capsules, statements of exercises to be carried out, etc.) are published on MIRO, ecampus and blackboard.
Recommended or required readings
The Morphology of Urban Landscapes: History, Analysis, Design - by Andre Bideau (Author), Catherine Blain (Author), Marlene Ghorayeb (Author), Susanne Komossa (Author), & 13 more - sept 24, 2021
Apprendre à voir la ville - Bruno Zevi - 2011
Analyse urbaine - Ph Panerai, J. CH. Depaule, M. Demorgon Marseille, Editions Paranthèses, 1999
Formes urbaines - de lîlot à la barre - Ph Panerai, J.Casex, J. CH. Depaule, Marseille, Editions Paranthèses, 1997
Première leçon d'urbanimse (Francais) Broché - Bernardo Secchi, 2006
Histoire des villes- Etude carthographique de l'urbanisme de la Renaissance à la moitié du XXe siècle, 2019 - Kevin J.Brown, Spencer D.Hunt
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire )
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Out-of-session test(s)
Additional information:
Evaluation:
20% - The theoretical course is evaluated after a few sessions (via the platform evalens - QCM) within a period of time
80% - Practical work:
- Ex1: Analysis of the city at 3 scales (global, local, specific)
- Ex2: In situ sketches on the 3 scales (global, local, specific)
- Ex3: Explore the issues of the city from surveys and critical reading of a bibliography of your choice (optional: Reinvent the city in the game city skylines (serious gaming))
Continuous evaluation of practical work, on MIRO taking in account:
- the student's regular contribution to team and individual work
- the quality of the exercise: consistency between the descriptive and critical reading of the context
- the quality of manual and digital graphic expressions, written and oral
- the ability to make the link between scales
Procedures in the event of absence or delay during an intermediate or final presentation (the book).
The presence in class is mandatory
- 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 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 or ecampus;
* Delivery of proof for the day of absence, instead, to the secretariat and a copy to the coordinator;
* The coordinator 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)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Ir. MAES Marijke (coordinator)
mmaes@uliege.be
HOUGARDY Michèle
mhougardy@uliege.be