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 workshop initiates a possible complete course in the "Landscape and Architecture as a continuum" sector declined in different course formats, with the aim for the student to acquire skills useful for working in multidisciplinary teams, within the framework of projects concerning public spaces, urban design, urban and landscape scenography, the study of urban and landscaped fabrics and networks, technical consultancy, compositions combining natural and artificial materials, observation of territorial and climatic changes as factors of transformation of the project.
The workshop alternates and articulates periods of recognition and research in situ - in rural, urban, peri-urban landscapes - and others of debates and sketches of interpretations and hypotheses, as means to enhance, reveal and make appreciate by diverse audiences hybrid places, composed of artefacts and naturalities to reconsider.
The artistic approach is generously called upon here: discipline of the body and space, architecture summons all the means of expression useful to the vision of the architect, in the specificities of his practice which, made of the cohabitation of complementary disciplines, is declined as an art whose object is the quality of the space lived in time.
It will be a question of grasping the characters of the places by walking, observing, listening, the tactile perception of materials, drawing, surveying / field investigation. The workshop is transformed into a laboratory for discovering environments, for artistic experimentation (photo, video, system and material model, etc.).
Each field of study is a field of investigation bearing clues. Observation and perception become instruments of understanding that reveal urban and landscape characters and qualities.
The project themes position the student in a real situation, in contact with institutions and communities, allowing him to experiment with different professional postures and local relations through integrated architectural design.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The workshop aims to refine the way we look at the cities, landscapes and the diverse and hybrid environments that we inhabit. Attention is focused more specifically on those who are part of everyday life. The course offers to rediscover, with a new perspective, what is very close to us, especially by rediscovering the ability to feel in a more tactile way the influence of existing materials and elements. The student will be able to deepen the questions of scale and proportion, ergonomics, the relationship of the body to objects and space, spatial perception through movement. The sensitive approach will be more present, more refined, by apprehending "the trampled, touched space" and the movements of everyday life as so many opportunities to question the "choreographic potential" of architectural space. The student will also be confronted with specialists from different disciplines, in order to open up his cultural repository and learn to provide answers preserving the conditions of balance between human action and natural states. The study subjects offer the opportunity to: learn more about common places; forge contacts with local organizations and actors to be associated with the project; cross sectoral knowledge (seminars and conferences) for the construction of a site-specific approach for the project
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The workshop is built on these three principles: roaming, drawing, writing possibilities.
Learning in the form of a "guided rediscovery" (T. Ingold), is based on walking to explore, the foot to touch, the body to perceive space and learning various means of reading, questioning and interpretation (in addition to walking in itself and immersion: graphic, textual, diagrams, models, films, installations, performances, etc.) calling on the specific skills of the architect.
The drawing understood in the broad sense as an architectural and artistic graphic expression will be declined under its various crossed facets (observation drawing, survey/roaming, sensitive drawing, cartographic drawing, sequential drawing, photographic boards, scenography, choreography, notation of temporalities and displacement ...) focusing, in a sensitive approach, on the basic materials of the landscape: air, water, soil, rock, plant cover, atmosphere... as on anthropogenic elements.
Writing, going from the trace on the ground to what touches the mind and nourishes the memory, is presented as a knowledge to be re-examined in order to move from the step which measures the world to the line which prefigures the possible transformations / reconfigurations of reality.
Experimenting with textual and other writings will make it possible to move from "taking knowledge of the existing" to explaining "spatial hypotheses" to underline or reconstruct contexts. Writing, becoming a project, will be made explicit in several ways: through the built-object and / or the book-object.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
The course, alternating phases of field survey and study in the workshop, will be carried out in person.
Times of debate will be organized in small discussion groups.
A blog will serve as a platform for the continuous exchange of texts and teaching materials, as well as drawings and graphic research carried out by the students.
Recommended or required readings
A collection of texts and project references and input methods will be given at each stage of course development. A blog will bring together the references and materials provided over time.
Continuous evaluation of the project process, taking the form of a book illustrating both the concepts/intentions and the object (built and/or printed-engraved)
Criteria:
- Active participation in each stage of learning;
- Evolution of knowledge during the course;
- Clarity and depth of reflection;
- Ability to relate the elements given throughout the course;
- Quality of the object / deliverable.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Rita Occhiuto, Sarah Behets, Aniceto Exposito Lopez
Association of one or more MOOCs
Items online
Landscape architecture: a global dimension across spatial disciplines
Introduction to the notion of open space or void, often used to designate the project object in landscape architecture. Approach to the large scale as a set of material spaces, characterised by the variable interrelations between natural and human actions (European Landscape Convention - ELC). Extract from Rita Occhiuto's doctoral research on the project as a tool for architectural and landscape action. Text published in 2005 in Cahiers Thématiques N°6 de l'ENSAP Lille, Ed.Jean Michel Place
OUT of FIELD: Interview with Corajoud
Text introducing the reading of landscapes and the differences in interpretation of the ways in which architects and landscape architects relate to the soil/to the earth. Text published in the review FACES N°55 - 2004
Introduction_PAYS-ART: 260923
Introduction and background to the course, designed as a space for grasping, understanding, identifying and testing the possibilities of intervening in and modifying the materials of the landscape: WATER, SOIL, VEGETATION, AIR.
The hybridisation of artistic, architectural, landscape, anthropological and poetic practices forms the basis for the learning and experimentation needed to open up new ways of looking at, interpreting and intervening in projects to transform inhabited spaces.
The Atmosphere_T.Ingold
The different ways of interpreting the term Atmosphere: in its relationship to meteorology, ethetics, smooth and embedded space. An essay by the anthopologist Tim Ingold, published in "Les Carnets du PAYSAGE", N°41 2022, on the theme of AIR.
The Landscape Project: Letter to students_ Michel Corajoud
Introduction to Landscape. Text summarising in 9 points the practice on field and the way to approach and understand complex and changing contexts, such as landscape environments in which designers, landscape architects and others, are called to "act and intervene". Text published in 2000 in "Le jardinier, l'artiste et l'ingénieur" Ed. de L'Imprimeur
Third Landscape Manifesto_G.Clément
Interpretation of landscapes as territories in constant mutation and struggle. This is a short essay by Gilles Clément, a French landscape architect who, in the 1990s, introduced the notion of the "moving garden" to France: a concept of space that is intrinsic to the practices of landscape architects, but which is still little recognised and integrated into regional projects led by town planners and architects.