Duration
128h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in architecture (120 ECTS) | 10 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The universalisation of architecture tends to make all specificities, know-how, cultural and architectural identities disappear. The collective culture of a group is characterised by the transmission of cultural elements. The laboratory hypothesises that the enlightened respect of local cultures is the basis for quality development. The collective culture enables the socialisation of the members of this group. By interacting with the environment, each person will integrate the cultural models that surround him or her. This sharing of culture leads to cohesion.
The cultural identity, built and unbuilt, of a region comes from the coherence with the specificities of the contexts.
The landscape is a portion of territory perceived by the population, whose character results from human actions and natural evolution. The laboratory investigates these architectural issues related to the cultural identity of a place.
Composition, architectural writing, material and constructive dimension, and the sense of detail play a predominant role in the realisation of a situated architecture.
The laboratory raises the following question: does federating mean referring to a common vocabulary? If so, when it comes to architecture, where does this vocabulary come from and how can it be developed? If not, what is the common trait or the original/original element that references, that inscribes the architecture in a place.
For this theme, the context of study is a specific and culturally remote setting. It is a question of discovering and confronting another speculative field. In the end, this change of scenery allows us to better understand our own territory. The laboratory develops a question in a new rural territory through the study of quality architectural production, formulating new, respectful and committed responses. Through the work of the partner office for the year, the issues of the region emerge. This year, URA architects from Brussels is giving access to its work in West Flanders. The buildings studied are located in the municipalities of Westrozebeke and Woumen. The laboratory makes a central issue of the particular context of rural or semi-rural regions or small towns. Many of the students come from these contexts and will be working in them.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The Laboratory aims to understand a place and the anchored architecture that develops there. It raises awareness of current and future issues: ancestral know-how, the suitability of materials and construction methods, the circular economy, ecology. Le Laboratoire is involved in the future of our societies: building with awareness and ethics, sustainably and building with inventiveness and respect for know-how. The scales approached will be those of the landscape to the detail.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Successful completion of the Architecture Project 1, 2 and 3 courses of the Bachelor cycle
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Reading of the workshop booklet.
The Laboratory tends to understand the quality of the heritage, the coherence of new writings which are inherent to the preservation and transmission of this identity.
Partnership with URA architects, which gives access to its design universe, offices and reference projects.
The fact of situating the exercise in a group of quality buildings of an emerging and recognized office has for stakes to widen the architectural culture.
Visits and study of exemplary projects of the reference office.
Setting up a research in the framework of the Laboratory exercise.
The exercise aims at understanding and appropriating the architect's tools. Learn how to intervene in an assignment of the type of the exercise. It gives the necessary time to address in depth aspects preparing for professional practice. On the basis of the elements that make up the exercise, a working method must be put in place. This method must allow the development of a proposal with pragmatism and poetry, the precision of which increases with the development and the validity of which becomes obvious whatever the starting point. It is therefore a world of work where notions of freedom and maturity come into play.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
The teaching method is exclusively face-to-face.
The exercise developed in the laboratory is based on visits to buildings, the study of documents specific to architecture and landscape and interactions with local people, the architectural office and within the studio. The partnership with an architectural firm known in the architectural community for its exemplary approach. Attendance at visits, lectures and classes is imperative.
Recommended or required readings
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
Workshop and fieldwork, interaction, individual and table discussions.
Individual and team project, selected.
Ability to produce a reflection.
Develop reflection through research from which a working method and an architectural project appropriate to the expectations of the workshop emerge.
Quality of response to the expectations.
Respect for the deadlines set out in the schedule.
All the work is monitored and commented on weekly. The progress of the personal and/or collective work is subject to cumulative evaluation by the workshop team, at predefined stages and according to established criteria.
The assessment stages are specified in the timetable. The distribution of points between the stages of the projects is established by the teachers in proportion to the duration and importance of the phases. The final project is assessed by an extended jury made up of the teaching team, other teachers and external experts.
The evaluation modalities and criteria common to the Q1 workshops are the following:
Attendance and collegial participation in the workshop is mandatory. Personal and/or group work is monitored and commented on weekly. The progress of personal and/or collective work is subject to cumulative evaluation by the workshop team, at pre-defined stages and according to established criteria: preparatory analyses, thematic approaches, sketch, preliminary project, developed project. The evaluation stages are specified at the start of each project.
The distribution of points between the stages of the projects is established by the teachers in proportion to the duration and importance of the phases.
The final project is assessed by an extended jury made up of the teaching team, other teachers and external experts from the professional world, the administration and architectural education, this jury having an impact on 90% of the total points for this term.
Separate assessments may be made, depending on the specificity of the projects, on particular aspects such as expression, construction, graphic communication, the synopsis accompanying the project. These possible additional assessments will be announced to the students in good time so that they can prepare for them.
Jury at the end of the term
Submission of documents at the end of the exercise
In the event of late arrival or justified absence, the procedure to follow is as follows
1* inform the teachers as soon as possible by e-mail (before the submission)
2* hand in the work or have it handed in on the day and at the time agreed with the teacher, in the workshop at the place designated for the jury.
3* Submit a receipt to the secretariat (Hélène Lecomte, Helene.Lecomte@uliege.be), with a scanned copy sent by email to the teacher.
4* The jury will assess the documents as they stand, judge whether the documents are admissible for evaluation, request additional information or declare the documents insufficient and inadmissible.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Attendance at visits, lectures and courses is imperative
Contacts
Sibrine Durnez, sdurnez@uliege.be
Patrick David, patrick.david@uliege.be
Marijke Maes, mmaes@ulg.ac.be