Duration
64h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in architecture, professional focus in architecture and urban planning | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
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 universalization of architecture tends to make all specificities, know-how, cultural and architectural identities disappear.
The material plays a predominant role in the realization of a situated architecture.
The use of materials contributes to the accuracy of a work: ancestral know-how, current circular economy, identity of the place, ecology.
Our teaching experience and our practice of the profession show us the difficulties that students have in approaching the material at the level of its physical and intellectual apprehension and in transforming it into operative technical details.
The Raw Material Laboratory studies a material and its implementation in a specific architecture. This year, terracotta, in the form of bricks, is explored. The research is developed in partnership with Blaf architecten. The architectural production of the office, linked to the rural, semi-rural or peri-urban territory, illustrates a committed approach and carries the learning outcomes of the course: building with awareness, ethics, inventiveness and sustainability.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The Laboratory raises awareness of current and future issues. The architectural community is involved in the future of our societies.
Building with awareness and ethics, sustainably.
Building with inventiveness and respect for know-how.
Combine knowledge through research of information (technical data sheets, books, resource persons, etc.) with a hands-on approach to the subject.
To make the students aware of the link between the theoretical technical solution and the implementation on site.
To discover the importance of matter in architecture. Beyond a resolved spatiality, the design architect is there to reflect on the materialization of space.
Technical resolution is a component of quality architecture.
By materiality and technical resolution we mean: the correctness of the choices made and the quality of the technical details.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
See instructions for all workshops
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Review of the workshop booklet.
Presentations and use of resource persons.
Partnership with Blaf architecten.
Visits and study of exemplary projects of the referent office.
Visit to a factory.
Handling of materials.
Setting up research as part of the workshop exercise.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
Interaction with the current architectural community, the construction community, the educational community.
Attendance at visits, lectures and classes is imperative
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam AND oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
Workshop and fieldwork, interaction, individual and table discussions.
Individual and team project, selected.
Ability to produce a reflection
Develop thinking through research from which a working method and an architectural project focused on the material emerge
Quality of response to expectations
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Attendance at visits, lectures and courses is imperative
Contacts
sdurnez@uliege.be
adengis@uliege.be