Duration
144h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in landscape architect, professional focus | 12 crédits |
Lecturer
Marc Dufrêne, Julie Martineau, Quentin Nicolaï
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
Project practice in landscape architecture at territorial and metropolitan scale, looking at society dynamics.
Based on actual site, the reflections relate to meaningful topical subjects at short and long term view, to which the students in landscape architecture provide with appropriate answers, integrating agricultural issues and ecosystemic services as fields of thoughts, also climate change, water crisis, energy policies, transports issues etc; in a sustainable way.
The topic is about the interface - with variable thickness boundaries more or less movable -between territories, where and how they're brought face to face, with landscape as a common good and landscape project as a mediator.
Q8 2024-2025 : Coal minin post industrial landscape in Northern France
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Being able to undertake an analysis and interpret the results;
Being able to make its own statement and autonomous critical reflection on a complex situation;
Being able to develop a consistent argument;
Being able to consider working in a cross-disciplinary approach;
Being able to integrate theoretical knowledge into the project of landscape architecture (especially hydrology and ecosystemic services);
Being able to develop a collective work methodology and individual one.
This course aims to help students in building their own consistent reflection, from a "targeted" analysis (cf. Bernard Lassus, Analyse inventive, in Mouvance, volume 1) to a spatialised answer of the project, more focused on the time-space process of its production - including territorial, political, social, historic characteristics - than the esthetical form of it.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Good knowledge of landscape architecture tools (mapping, plan, section, transect, model, block diagram, axonometry, etc);
Skills in measuring, in surveying, in multi scaling;
Practice of collective and individual work;
Being able to estimate the right balance between substance and form of the project.
Being able to mobilise skills for the benefit of a statement.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
That course is based on a continuous process, organised in several parts:
A- 2 weeks collective work:
Consists in collecting data at territorial scale, which boundaries are defined by the nature of the analysis itself.
That part includes a collective work methodology that is identified and explained in a collective written report.
B- 3 weeks duo work:
Analytic maps about territorial issues.
C- 9 weeks individual/duo work:
articulated in 4 specific parts:
1- DETERMINED/INVENTIVE ANALYSIS (cf Bernard Lassus) observation and qualification of studied landscape, in relation with issues raised in the duo analysis.
2- The student makes his STATEMENT on the results of the analysis, developing an autonomous critical reflection, in order to define the landscape concepts that will guide him towards the project.
3- The student defines a consistent EVOLVING SCENARIO.
4- The LANDSCAPE PROJECT DESIGN itself, as a response to the issues identified before in continuity of the 3 previous operations.
Students make daily A5 drawings relating to the topic.
Students individually read, summarise, position themselves and communicate about a written document which they present.
A written statement describing the issues, objectives and reflexive process is required one week before the final jury.
On the studio side is planned a 3-day trip.
A short exercise (2 to 3 days) is to consider (TBC)
To encourage cross-disciplinarity, students in Landscape Architecture will time to time meet with students in Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture of the ULB and share about their respective project issues.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
This course is given in studio.
Compulsory attendance, one day and half per week, face to face with at least 1 teacher.
To encourage the students to make their own statements, this course provide them with several teachers with diverse skills (landscape architecture, ecology, hydrology)
Course materials and recommended or required readings
To be precised during the course
Continuous assessment
Other : Jury
Further information:
Appraisal based on:
- consistency of reflective process 20%;
- student's statement consistency and substantial proposal 20%;
- balance between content and form 20% ;
- knowledge of landscape architect's tools and reflex 20%;
- quality of oral exam 20%
Weighting:
Final jury: 45%s
Other jurys : 15%
Work in progress: 40%
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The course is taking place in Lombard street ULB building on:
Thursdays: 2pm to 5pm
Fridays: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Contacts
Julie Martineau
Faculté d'Architecture de l'ULB
Place Flagey, 19
1050 - Bruxelles
tel: +32 474 69 65 20
julie.martineau@ulb.be