Duration
20h Th, 20h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in urban planning and territorial development, professional focus in post-industrial and rurban territories | 3 crédits | |||
| Bachelor in architecture | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
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
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course equips students with graphic and descriptive tools to analyze and represent territories, including urban and non-built spaces. It aims to connect these analyses with architectural and urban planning projects through both practical and theoretical approaches.
Analysis Methods: Students will learn methodological tools for analyzing urban spaces, such as morphological, typological, visual, historical, socio-spatial, and systemic analysis.
Study of Urban Forms: Students will identify and analyze complex urban forms (site, neighborhood, buildingblock, plot, built and non-built spaces) while considering their interactions at different scales.
Formation and Transformation Processes: The course helps students understand the formation and evolution of urban and natural spaces.
Link to Architectural Design: Students will make connections between territorial analysis and the architectural design process.
Graphic Representation: Students will develop the ability to draw, interpret, and reconstruct territories based on detailed analyses.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Module 1: The Global Urban Pattern
- Analyze the city at a large scale, considering its natural components (hydrology, topography) and their interaction with human structures, such as infrastructure networks, plots, and built and non-built spaces.
- Analyze the formation and evolution of cities based on historical stratification and progressive urbanization.
- Analyze the city's Patterns through its networks, built and non-built forms, including architectural typologies, blocks, street networks, public spaces, and plots.
- Morphological Analysis: Study the physical form of the city's patterns and its evolution.
- Historical Analysis: Understand urban transformations and the role of historical legacies in shaping the city's current form.
- Direct field observation (in situ) and graphic representation of spaces, building blocks, and plots to account for social dynamics, uses, and perceptions of urban spaces.
- Visual reading and analysis of lived spaces, drawing inspiration from the works of Kevin Lynch ("The Image of the City") and Gordon Cullen ("Townscape").
- Complementary approaches: typo-morphological, typological, socio-spatial, and systemic analysis to decrypt interactions between various urban components.
- Presentation and study of successful and exemplary architectural or urban projects, showing how morphological, typological, historical, and socio-spatial analyses enrich and guide the architectural design process.
- Case studies at different scales: major urban projects, neighborhood redevelopments, and revitalization of plots or public spaces.
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.
At the end of the teaching unit, the student will be able to:
- Apply methods for analyzing urban space
- Understand the interactions between urban forms at different scales
- Illuminate the processes of urban formation and transformation
- Connect territorial analysis to architectural design
- Graphically represent the studied territories and draw, interpret, and reconstruct the analyzed territories in the form of plans, diagrams, and sketches
- Undertake exploratory, sensitive, and critical readings
- Study the various components of the theme and context (historical, landscape, built environment, cultural, social, economic, legal, technological, etc.)
- Integrate investigation results into a comprehensive synthesis, through the lens of spatial and projective resolution
- Appropriate verbal, written, and graphic languages as tools for design, structuring, verification, and challenging ideas
- Develop a reflective approach to their activities
- Master verbal, written, and graphic languages as tools for sharing ideas
- Produce reflective documents intended for the exchange of ideas
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Mastery of the content in these courses will be useful for a proper understanding of the concepts developed in the course:
Q1: ARCH1108-1 "Communication and Graphic Construction" - Basic Principles
Q2: ARCH1013-1 "Communication and Graphic Construction" - Advanced Principles
These two courses introduce the fundamentals of graphic communication, such as technical drawing, perspective, and the basics of spatial representation. These skills are crucial for enabling students to visualize and graphically represent both urban and non-built territories, which are addressed in the course on territorial analysis. Without a solid grasp of graphic basics, it would be difficult to interpret or create accurate representations of territorial analyses.
Q3: ARCH2218-1 "Communication and Graphic Construction" - Image and Digital Tools
This course focuses on digital tools for graphic representation, such as 3D modeling, digital rendering, and cartography. These skills are indispensable for territorial analysis, as students must work with digital tools to represent territories and synthesize complex information. The use of software such as MIRO or other collaborative design platforms requires proficiency in these digital tools.
Q1: ARCH1109-1 Module "Living"
This course explores the fundamental concepts related to habitation, including how humans occupy and interact with built and non-built spaces. It is essential for understanding the social uses and practices within a territory, as well as the human needs for space and housing. In territorial analysis, this understanding is crucial for assessing how spaces are perceived, experienced, and used, and for integrating these elements into architectural design processes.
Q2: ARCH1015-1 "Contextualization"
This course emphasizes the understanding of the socio-cultural, historical, and geographical context of architectural projects. It is indispensable for territorial analysis, as it allows students to situate a territory within its broader framework, taking into account historical, social, and political dynamics. This helps in understanding the transformations of urban spaces and the challenges and contradictions they present, such as tensions between modernity and tradition, or between development and preservation.
Q1-Q3: Architecture Project Workshops
Architecture project workshops are essential prerequisites as they:
- Provide practical application of theoretical and conceptual knowledge
- Develop skills in teamwork and project management
- Train students to work at different spatial scales
- Foster critical thinking and the ability to reflect on urban issues
- Expose students to real-world constraints and design challenges
- Prepare students to produce clear and synthetic graphic représentations
- These skills are indispensable for conducting effective and in-depth territorial analysis and representation.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is organized over 10 weeks (with 2 optional weeks for remediation).
The course workload consists of 40 hours of in-class time and 110 hours of independent work, structured as follows:
1. Theoretical Lectures: 20 hours
Comprising 5 theoretical lectures, each lasting 4 hours, providing the theoretical foundations necessary for the practical work in the studio.
- Module 1: Visual analysis and morphological analysis
- Module 2: Morphological analysis of the urban fabric, historical analysis, and temporality
- Module 3: Typo-morphological analysis of the urban fabric and blocks, urban forms (plotting, street networks)
- Module 4: Architectural typology, from conventional types to typical plans
- Module 5: Illustrated case studies; the medieval urban fabric, the block as a basis for urban development, modernist blocks, 19th-century fabric from closed blocks to open blocks, transformation of industrial patterns
2. Studio Practical Work: 20 hours
Consisting of 6 workshops based on the theoretical knowledge acquired during lectures. Each workshop is guided by specific assignments related to territorial analysis and the graphic representation of territory.
Students work in supervised groups, while being individually evaluated on the quality and precision of their graphic reproductions and territorial analyses.
The workshops include practical exercises based on real case studies, connected to territorial observations (either in situ or through maps, plans, and other graphic materials).
3. Individual Work: 110 hours
8 hours of individual work per week over 10 weeks are allocated for exercises and the preparation of territorial analyses.
30 hours are dedicated to the final assessment, which includes:
- A multiple-choice exam
- The writing and production of a portfolio/posters. This portfolio includes the synthesis of the 3 exercises completed during the workshops, featuring graphic representations (sketches, plans, diagrams), morphological analyses, and research on the studied territories.
- Lectures: Theoretical concepts are presented during the classes, followed by concrete examples to illustrate the various approaches to territorial analysis (morphological, typological, historical, etc.).
- Required Independent Readings: Autonomy is encouraged through the 110 hours of individual work, where students deepen their analyses and prepare for their final assessments.
- Workshops, Labs, Demonstrations: Workshops allow students to work on real cases or practical exercises, promoting interactive learning based on the application of theoretical concepts. Students are guided by instructors during the workshops and are encouraged to collaborate in groups while being individually assessed.
- Debates: Students participate in discussions and debates focused on the studied site, its morphological and typo-morphological characteristics. This facilitates the exchange of ideas regarding the analysis of urban forms, spatial dynamics, and interactions between built and non-built elements.
- Library or Internet Research: Use of academic resources to strengthen theoretical and practical knowledge, as well as mapping sources like Wallonmap and Geopuntvlaanderen.
- Gamification (optional): The use of playful tools such as simulation games (e.g., City Skylines) may be integrated into the exercises to better understand urban dynamics.
- Project-Based Learning / Learning-by-Making: This pedagogical approach combines theory, practice, and field exploration, allowing students to develop a comprehensive understanding of territorial dynamics.
- Cooperative Learning Groups: Students are guided by instructors during workshops while being encouraged to collaborate in groups to develop their teamwork skills, with individual assessments.
- Lectures and Interactive Teaching: During the 5 theoretical classes with mandatory attendance.
- Autonomous Learning
- Reflection Journal
- Course notes and outlines available on eCampus and MyULiege
- Other digital resources used: Unicast, Miro, Q-GIS, AutoCAD
- Additional tools: Wooclap
Feedback will be provided during sessions by the supervising team
Student Obligations:
In the interest of learning, attendance at theoretical lectures and workshops is mandatory, and the minimum attendance duration is specified in the calendar available on Celcat.
A late arrival or unexcused absence from a workshop or submission will result in the non-acceptance of the work and a grade of "0."
In case of a justified inability for a student to attend a workshop on the scheduled day and time, the following protocol must be strictly followed:
1. Notify the course instructors (theoretical or workshop) via email before the date and time of the workshop at the following addresses:
- mmaes@uliege.be
- gmabille@uliege.be
- karel.wuytack@uliege.be
- cedric.wehrle@uliege.be
3. Have a third party submit the work (in its current state) on the scheduled day, at the scheduled time and location. Additionally, documents must be submitted digitally (including scans and/or photos) via the MIRO platform or eCampus.
4. The coordinator will deliberate on the acceptability of the documents and any other measures deemed necessary for their review.
5. If accepted, on the scheduled exam date, the work will be evaluated based on the submitted documents as they are.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
Supervision Mode:
Sessions will be supervised by one or more instructors and by student monitors.
Additional Explanations:
Support for students will be provided either by a group of instructors or by a single lead instructor, depending on the calendar periods.
Continuity between the contents of the different units will be managed by subject-specific lead instructors.
Certain activities, targeted exercise sessions, and support will be assisted by student monitors.
In each workshop, assessments and questions from each group will be discussed by designated representatives from each group.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
- MyULiège
- Microsoft Teams
Further information:
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
The Image of the City" par Kevin Lynch
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History" par Spiro Kostof
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
Architecture de la ville " par Aldo Rossi (pour des perspectives sur la ville en tant que palimpseste)
Le Territoire comme Palimpseste" par André corboz
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire )
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Further information:
Evaluations: Through 3 assessments
40% - The theoretical course is assessed via a multiple-choice exam (QCM) with negative marking within a set time limit.
10% - Continuous assessment of practical work outside of the exam period.
50% - Evaluation of practical work based on a final analysis sketchbook.
Two absences from workshops will prevent access to the QCM exam.
Two absences from theoretical courses will prevent access to workshops.
Evaluation 1: Exam QCM
Expectations:
- Mastery of the theoretical concepts covered in the course, particularly the analysis of spaces (global, local, specific), analysis methods (morphological, typological, historical, socio-spatial), and understanding of urban dynamics and territorial forms.
- Ability to answer multiple-choice questions accurately and quickly within the allocated time.
- Participation in workshops, a prerequisite for taking the exam.
- Accuracy of answers in the QCM, with negative points for incorrect answers.
- Ability to understand and apply theoretical concepts.
- The exam is 100% individual, closed-book.
Evaluation 2: Continuous assessment
Expectations:
- Regular participation in workshops and on MIRO, including group work.
- Active contribution to collective tasks.
- Quality of graphical representations (manual and digital), as well as oral and written presentations.
- Ability to make relevant connections between different scales (global, local, specific) in territorial analysis.
- Active and continuous participation in workshops and on MIRO.
- Quality of graphical, written, and oral contributions (relevance, clarity, creativity).
- Coherence and precision in territorial analyses at different scales.
- Ability to collaborate effectively within a group while making a significant individual contribution.
Evaluation 3: Final exam outside of the exam session (date set by the instructor)
Expectations:
- Completion of a comprehensive and detailed analysis sketchbook, including the three practical exercises carried out in the workshop. The sketchbook should include graphical representations (sketches, plans, diagrams) and descriptive analyses.
- Ability to graphically represent the studied territories through technical and conceptual drawings.
- In-depth analysis of the various studied spaces, focusing on morphological characteristics.
- Quality and accuracy of drawings (manual and digital) and territorial analyses.
- Regular contribution by the student in both team and individual work.
- Quality of graphical, written, and oral expressions, demonstrating mastery of tools and the ability to clearly explain analytical choices.
- Relevance of analyses and the ability to connect different scales (global, local, specific) in understanding the territory.
- Originality and creativity in graphical representations and depth of analyses, with clear and coherent organization of the analysis sketchbook.
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