Architecture in question : architecture and technologies (part A)

ltarc2065  2024-2025  Tournai

Architecture in question : architecture and technologies (part A)
8.00 credits
90.0 h
Q1
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This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2024-2025
Teacher(s)
De Groote Geert; Faux Pascaline; Gallez Olivier;
Language
French
> English-friendly
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
Learning outcomes

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

1 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
This is an experiment in the coherence of technique (structure and construction) and architecture based on a building material.
Objectives :
  • analyze an architectural reference in all its dimensions: architectural, constructive, structural, technical
  • study the material in all its dimensions and its relationship to its physical, economic and technical environment
  • Transpose an architectural idea to another material, another application, another context
  • become aware that structural choices and the implementation of construction methods enable the creative development of the architectural project.
The course is divided into 2 parts : analysis of a reference (1) and transposition of the reference (2), punctuated by theoretical presentations (references (methodologies by example), stability versus materials: dimensioning stages, induction into structural software, sustainability criteria in structural design, etc.) and visits to construction companies. ) and visits to companies that (pre-)manufacture construction materials. Some visits will be compulsory, others free, depending on the group....)
Teaching methods
  • Theoretical presentations + discussions
  • Group work in workshops for exercises 
  • Personal and group research
Evaluation methods
The entire research process constitutes the evaluation.
This process will be punctuated by 3 handovers at key moments:
  • presentation of phase 1 (reference analysis) (group work) - week 8
  • presentation of phase 2 (transposition of reference) (group work) - January session
  • Group notebook due in January - January session
Where applicable, students who have taken part in all 3 sessions but have not validated the AQ credits at the end of the first session may be admitted to a second session. Individual work will then be required in the form of a notebook to be submitted in the September session.
Online resources
slideshows and documentations are downloadable on moodle
Bibliography
• Construire en bois
T. Herzog, J. Nattere, R. Schweitzer, M. Volz, W. Winter,
Birkhaüser, Birkhaüser, PPUR, 2012
• Construire l’architecture
Andrea Deplazes, Birkhauser,
• Faire Tenir : Structure et Architecture
Marc Leyral, 2021
• Form and Forces: Designing Efficient, Expressive Structures
Edward Allen & Waclaw Zalewsk, 2009
• Franchir le vide. A pied et à vélo
Ney & Partners. Archibooks
• Informal
Cecil Balmond, Prestel, 2002
• Mémoire d’un ingénieur
Peter Rice, Le Moniteur, Paris, 1998.
• Metamorphism, Material change in architecture
Akos Moravansky, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2018
• Process and pattern in architecture and design
Luisa Collina, Silvana, 2016, Milano
• Question d’architecture Structure
Bernard Wittevrongel (dir), Projets 2016-2018, UCL LOCI 2019.
• Seven bridges by Jürg Conzett
Jürg Conzett, Zürich: Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2013.
• Structure as Space
Mohsen Mostafavi, AA editions, 2006, London.
• Studies in Tectonic Culture
Kenneth Frampton, MIT Press, Cambridge, London, 1996.
• Wood and Wood Joints
Klaus Zwerger, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2000.
Teaching materials
  • L'ensemble des slideshows et tous les documents sont en ligne sur moodle.
Faculty or entity
> LOCI


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

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Master [120] in Architecture (Tournai)
ARCT2M
8
Master [120] in Architecture (Bruxelles)
ARCB2M
8