Duration
100h Pr, 1d FW, 150h Proj.
Number of credits
Lecturer
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
This integrated architectural studio focuses on design at an urban level.
Students are asked to demonstrate their skills in mastering design through a mixed, urban-scale project involving housing, commercial units, offices or economical functions. A general design brief is provided, but should be reflected upon and adapted given the local constraints and the architectural/urban choices made during the study phase.
This studio will particularly grant more importance to the capacity to build coherent argumentation. This argumentation will be collectively and progressively built all along the quarter. Formal, social, economical and environmental aspects will be discussed at an urban scale.
Students will moreover be deliberately projected in a real-scale, simulated project management context and will be asked to adopt a human-centered design approach by meeting potential future users through construction of the design brief and analysis.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, the student will be able to integrate and develop an urban-scale program in a coherent and reflective way. To do so, the student will leverage both the local constraints and the end-users needs and expectations.
The student will be able to develop a critical and objective viewpoint on the urban context, its transformational modalities and its potentialities in terms of social, economical and environmental development. Resuming the design process, he/she will be able to build a coherent argumentation to justify the design choices. The discourse will more specifically trace back and make clear the fundamental choices made in terms of program and spatial organization.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The following courses will be (co)required in the studio:
- Architectural studios IIIA, IIIB & IV (ARCH3262-1; 3263-1 & 0115-1);
- Building Construction Techniques III & IV (ARCH0079-1 & ARCH2011-1)
- Urban morphology and environmental integration (ARCH2003-1);
- Urban governance (ARCH2018-1);
- Digital Collaborative Studio (ARCH0075-3);
- Engineering of urban moods (ARCH2019-1);
- User-centered approaches in architecture and engineering (ARCH3274-1).
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is organized during the second quarter of the year.
Classes are organized under the form of dynamic exchanges around students' projects. Proactive participation of students to the studio is mandatory.
Theoretical sessions will be organized in regard of proposed projects.
Site and building visits will be organized through the year (if sanitary situation allows it).
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Architectural studios are organized in priority on a face-to-face mode, when sanitary conditions allow it. Students will have to provide important side work besides the organized sessions in order to benefit optimally from the teaching structure.
The workshops are organized in the drawing room, Building B52 floor 0, Sart-Tilman Camp
All precautions related to barriers behaviors and safety distances will be taken. Students w asked to disinfect their work surfaces before and after use.
Course materials are provided via the eCampus platform. Students are asked to follow the announcements diligently and to use the collaboration tools made available to them within the framework of the platform.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- Microsoft Teams
Further information:
Reading lists suggested in previous architectural studios remain referential.
Students are moreover required to enrich themselves intellectually speaking through additional reading (essays, monographies, journal papers, ...) regarding architectural design and composition in the broad sense of the term, and more particularly in regard of the last 10 years of architectural production.
Given the yearly chosen themes and contexts, additional bibliography will be recommended. Those readings may be commented and discussed in class.
Regular and meticulous review of architectural journals is considered an important part of the learning process, as well as active and critical participation to visits, conferences and exhibitions related to architecture or design in general.
A list of relevant references/guidelines is provided on the Drive. the students are expected to analyse these references.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Further information:
Course evaluation will be done on a longitudinal basis, all along the quarter. The project final defense will be held in presence of a jury of experts. Students can access the final evaluation only if they actively took part to the lessons, all year long.
Any grade inferior to 10/20 will open access to a second session. The student will be offered the opportunity to re-work and defend again the same project.
Plagiarism, may it be observed during the studio or at the end of the project, will be penalized serverly.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Students who go on internship or study abroad during the studio sessions will be invited to do an individual job on the same basis, but different scale, as the one required from other students, OR will have to work on a site specific to their place of internship / study abroad (to be negotiated on a case-by-case basis with the supervisory team).
All the material needed for the studio is available on the eCampus platform.
Contacts
Contact:
Jacques Teller, Professor, jacques.teller@uliege.be
Joël Privot, assistant, j.privot@uliege.be
Benjamin Robinson, assistant, bro@artau.be
Please contact us by email of by Teams for any question regarding the course.