Architecture in question : architecture and technologies (part A)

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information below is subject to change, in particular that concerning the teaching mode (presential, distance or in a comodal or hybrid format).

8 credits

90.0 h

This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2020-2021

Teacher(s)

Blazquez Boya Antonio; Faux Pascaline; Gallez Olivier; Wittevrongel Bernard;

Language

French

Main themes

Process of structure design: methods and tools
Exploration of the creative and innovative dimensions of structures
Integration of data on structure, construction and facilities in an architectural project

Aims

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

Specific learning outcomes:
Students will explore and test out the principles which link architecture to its formal, material and temporal dimension.
Students will be able to

approach certain specific methods of design.
manipulate certain tools of structural design.
develop a critical approach to available tools with a view to integrating them in architectural design.
integrate methods and tools linked to structure in the process of project design.
actively promote creativity in construction for the benefit of the project.

Contribution to the learning outcomes reference network:
Build knowledge of architecture

Be familiar with and analyse the discipline's basic references
Develop knowledge and become an active participant in the learning process

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

Adopt a professional attitude

Listen to and identify the different needs and points of view of the different stakeholders to be able to bring these together in respect of the desired objectives

Make committed choices

Activate and develop an ethical sense through approaches to architecture

Content

It is about design experimentation combined to a research of coherence between technique (structure and construction) and architecture resting on a construction material.
Key-words: architecture, material, (concept of) structure, (detail of) construction, synergy.
The aim is:

to elaborate and concretise an architectural idea and to bring an architectural idea to a constructible state in order to define the architectural project.
to study the material in all of its dimensions and its link to its physical, economical and technical environment
to take conscience of the structural choices and the establishment of the construction modes in ordre to improve the creative development of the architectural design.

Teaching methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

Lectures
Architecture workshop
Personal research

Evaluation methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

Architectural design : jury at the end of the 10 weeks (group work)
Individual notebook to be done in january

Online resources

slideshows and documentations are downloadable on moodle

Bibliography

Andrea Deplazes, Construire l'architecture, Birkhauser, Kenneth Frampton: Studies in Tectonic Culture, MIT Press, Cambridge, London, 1996
Mohsen Mostafavi, Structure as Space, AA editions, 2006, London
Luisa Collina : Process and pattern in architecture and design, Silvana, 2016, Milano

Faculty or entity

LOCI

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

Title of the programme

Sigle

Credits

Prerequisites

Aims

Master [120] in Architecture (Tournai)

ARCT2M

Master [120] in Architecture (Bruxelles)

ARCB2M