Architectural design studio 4: further exploration

20 credits

240.0 h

Q1 and Q2

Teacher(s)

Boulaioun Abdelmajid coordinator; Schmitz David; Van de Kerchove Pascale; Vanden Eynde Jean-Louis;

Language

French

Main themes

An architectural project takes time. First, repetition is needed to move forward. Second, queries and suggestions can develop during the process. Third, the more demanding the situation, the more necessary it is for the architect to clear away pre-conceived ideas to challenge paradigms.
With these three conditions, the two Master's level Architectural Design teaching units share the common objective of deepening the knowledge acquired from the Bachelor's course.
Understanding the various issues in architecture involves the use of an interdisciplinary approach with a particular emphasis on team work with peers.
The issues raised in the workshop range from regions to ergonomics, with the aim of bringing them together in an architectural project.
Students will therefore develop programmes which deal with the diversity of inhabited spaces (from individual housing to all types of collective housing) within complex regions.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

At Master¿s level, the complexity of the project should enable students to display the maturity and balance of their approach to architecture, ranging from the needs of the region to ergonomics. In this way, students will reactivate and deepen the knowledge they acquired for the Bachelor¿s degree.

Broadly, by the end of this teaching unit, students will be able to develop and use in an architectural project the following skills from the learning outcomes reference network:

Design a project

Sensibly bring together and develop with a controlled logic, natural and artificial environments (landscape, urban, buildings) within a framework of basic parameters
Express and prioritise the aims of the projects so as to be able to make choices
Understand, test and bring together the organisation of the space through an architectural project
Analyse, consider and invent artistic practices through drawings and models
Adopt approaches which are methodical, creative, metaphorical, perceptive, collaborative etc.

Test an artistic approach

To reformulate, assimilate a question and explore various possible avenues to respond to it

Build knowledge of architecture

Be able to use given references which, by analogy, can lead to other interpretations of the context

Place the action

Experiment with the possibilities of transforming a context

Make use of other subjects

Seek out other approaches, exchanges of views and ways of enhancing thinking about architecture

Use the technical dimension

Be able to apply the various basic technical principles in producing a work of architecture
Acquire an instinctive understanding of structures to use in producing a creative and/or innovative work of architecture

Express an architectural procedure

Identify the founding elements of a hypothesis or a proposal to express and communicate them
Test and use relevant means of communication in relation to the intended audience and the target objectives

Adopt a professional attitude

Organise, plan, develop and bring together the different strands of individual or collective work

Make committed choices

Imagine ambitious proposals which could call into question the choices made by society

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Faculty or entity

LOCI

Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme

Sigle

Credits

Prerequisites

Aims

Master [120] in Architecture (Bruxelles)

ARCB2M