Duration
256h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in architecture, professional focus in architecture and urban planning | 20 crédits |
Lecturer
Maxime Coq, 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 "Rereadings" studio is working on the intervention on existing buildings and their adaptive reuse.
It is part of the IACOBUS consortium comprising ENSA Clermont-Ferrand, ETS Arquitectura UDC A Coruna, OTH Regensburg, NUACA Yerevan and the ULiège Faculty of Architecture.
This consortium involves participation in a common workshop and an international jury abroad.
The site for the 2024-2025 academic year is in Liège. It is the Don Bosco complex, a group of educational buildings located in the heart of the Laveu district and built in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Rereadings workshop is studying the adaptive reuse of the site into a youth-oriented urban Third-Place (housing, accommodation, catering, associative activities, training workshops, businesses, repair café, multi-purpose hall, green space).
The site is approached from the macroscopic scale of the territory to that of the "microscopic" architectural detail. The brief calls for the redevelopment of the site, as well as the adaptive reuse of existing heritage buildings, involving an extension.?
The workshop encourages students to develop a transcalar, reasoned, human and technical approach, from 1/1000 to 1/1 scale. Particular emphasis is placed on materials, an essential component of architecture that plays a cultural role, and serves as a tool for dialogue and language. Particular attention is paid to construction choices, the origin of materials, their use and structure.
It is essential that the intervention is conceived in response to the existing typology and in awareness of its heritage and spatial values. The reuse of the existing building is the starting point for the architectural project.
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Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Students will be able to:
- document (investigate a question) on the various themes related to the site and the program.
- design (elaborate) a high-quality architectural and urban response.
- implement and propose a concrete, technical and realistic development in line with current environmental and climatic concerns.
- represent (interact); develop and represent the project using conventional drawings, diagrams and model(s), at scales of 1/500-1/100-1/50-1/20-1/1 (details with construction value).
-Communicate and make the project and its intentions comprehensible, graphically, in writing and verbally.
This entire approach is rooted in an understanding of the existing building and its heritage values.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
-Atelier Q2, theme 3 "reconversion" (ARCH0575)
-Workshop Q1 (ARCH0569) et Q3 (ARCH0580), theme 3
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Methodology:
Course topics are covered in the form of workshops and presentations to the whole class. They are supported by presentations (slideshows, videos, websites), written documents and discussions, available on eCampus. Before each workshop, students read the corresponding documents and presentations posted on eCampus.
Juries and round tables are held regularly throughout the term to provide feedback on the progress of projects.
The first weeks of Q4 are devoted to the study of existing buildings and their context (architectural, archaeological, landscape and iconographic analysis).
After a workshop, which this year will take place at the ULiège Faculty, students work in pairs or threes to produce a preliminary project.
From the pre-design "avant-projet" stage and onward, a specific area previously established in pairs or trios is developed individually by each student, with the aim of working on a targeted scale of detail for the final jury.? ?
Learning activities :
In addition to substantive exercises, students take part in site visits, field trips and presentations. Depending on opportunities, they also take part in specific activities such as setting up exhibitions, publishing work or taking part in workshops.
Students can also take part in project exhibition, presentation and communication activities, writing and publication exercises, and contact with local players and the general public, all of which will prepare them for professional life in its cultural and societal dimensions.
The studio also invites technical and interdisciplinary experts (sociologists, historians, urban planners, archaeologists, engineers, technicians, craftsmen,...) to feed the design process.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
Additional explanations:
All activities will take place face-to-face unless specific otherwise.
Workshops are organised over full days according to a schedule that will be communicated and posted on eCampus in due course.?
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Sophie De Caigny, Hülya Ertas & Bie Plevoets (eds), As Found. Experiments in Preservation, VAI, 2023
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.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Out-of-session test(s)
Further information:
Assignment - report
Continuous assessment
Assessments are formative and summative and consist of an end-of-term assessment and interim assessments.
Other: Jury
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
ARCHITECTURAL QUESTION
- Ability to undertake exploratory, sensitive and critical reading in order to understand the context and the building in question.
- Ability to construct a reasoned discourse that draws on different scales of reflection and includes environmental, landscape, cultural and socio-political values.
- Ability to formulate hypotheses for intervention.
SPATIAL RESPONSE
- Ability to give spatial expression to the hypotheses put forward by relating the different scales of consideration
- Quality of the urban planning and landscaping approach, reflected in the action strategies, the siting choices, the planned dimensions, the traffic patterns and the landscaping of the surroundings.
- The quality of the architectural approach, reflected in the position taken in relation to the existing building and in the relevance of the proposed interventions and extensions.
- Quality and functionality of built and unbuilt spaces.
- Mastery of structural and constructive composition and materiality.
METHODOLOGY
- Ability to adopt an iterative process of experimentation, adjusting spatial resolutions through exploratory questioning (back and forth, question-answer-spatial validation and new cycle of questioning).
- Ability to adopt a reflective approach, to document and feed the process with relevant external resources.
- Ability to work effectively within collaborative and cooperative practices, respecting each other.
COMMUNICATION
- Quality of verbal, written and graphic expression as tools for conceiving, structuring, verifying and communicating thought.
Single-session course.
The work is assessed in stages, according to the learning outcomes and expectations set out in the timetable and specified specifically for each exercise.
Students present their work graphically, in writing, orally and in the form of models during :
* intermediate stages, formative assessments of the work ;
* juries with or without external guests.
In order to keep a record of all the developments in their learning, students will keep a weekly work folder showing the progress of the project in progress.
Instructions are published setting out the expectations for each stage.
Assessments are made in letters (European system) and in accordance with the ULiège general examination regulations. They give an assessment by criteria. These are announced in the wording of each exercise.
WEIGHTING
The weighting between the different stages of the same project varies according to the importance of the exercises and can be adapted as they evolve. It is progressive with the stages (see details in due course on the schedule communicated via eCampus).
5% will be dedicated to a "publishable synthesis" of the developed project (Yearbook, etc.).
WORKSHOPS MUST BE FOLLOWED UP
It is compulsory to present the progress of the work at the planned stages. Any absence must be justified, but does not entitle the student to be excused from the said work. Students who, for justified reasons, are unable to attend the presentation of their work must send it to the teachers in the same condition as it is, on the date and at the location specified (digital copy on eCampus). Failure to do so will invalidate the mark awarded for the assignment concerned.
Access to the final assessment of the term is conditional on a total attendance at the workshops organised:
- of at least 70% as a general rule,
- at least 50%, in the case of absences justified by a medical certificate or other acceptable proof.
ABSENCE FROM A WORKSHOP
All absences must be justified. In such cases, the student must :
- notify the class teacher by e-mail, with a copy to the course coordinators;
- provide proof of the day of absence as soon as possible ( to the teachers);
- update yourself 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)
Students who, for justified reasons, are unable to attend an assignment handover must send their work to the teachers in the same condition as it is, on the due date and at the designated location (digital copy via the official course channels, e-mail, e-campus).
If you are unable to be present on the day of a handover, the following protocol must be followed:
- Notify the teacher by e-mail before the date and time of the hand-in;
- hand in the work (in the state it is in) by a third party, on the day and at the scheduled time, in the workshop, and send scanned and/or photographed documents via the official course channels (e-mail, e-campus);
- submit proof of the day of absence as soon as possible to the teachers.
In such cases, the jury will decide whether or not the documents are admissible, and will make any arrangements it deems necessary for their examination. If the documents are admissible, the work will be assessed on the basis of the documents as they stand on the date scheduled for the examination.
HOW JURIES ARE CONSTITUTED :
The different types of jury member include :
- members of the course management team ;
- internal members (faculty members) ;
- 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 always includes at least one member of the management team.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The documents presented and used during the courses will gradually be made available on eCampus.
The documents presented and used during the courses will gradually be made available on eCampus.
An on-site workshop lasting 1 week will take place in March 2025 (dates to be specified).
An "International Jury" presentation of the projects, with all partners, will take place in June 2025 (place and date to be specified).
Each student taking part in the workshop will take part in these two activities, including travel abroad for the International Jury (+/- 3 to 4 days). A financial contribution must be made by the student, the amount of which depends on the country hosting the international jury (budget of +/-300-500 euros = travel-accommodation-visits).
ULiège has a number of financial aid services available for this type of request.
Contacts
m.frisenna@uliege.be
c.houbart@uliege.be
p.noe@uliege.be
francois.gena@uliege.be
maxime.coq@uliege.be