Building in the Built Environment 2: Working on Existing Buildings

larct2162  2025-2026  Tournai

Building in the Built Environment 2: Working on Existing Buildings
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5.00 credits
40.0 h + 15.0 h
Q2
Language
French
Main themes
The course aims to equip students with the skills required to approach projects within existing structures from a material design perspective. Intervention in existing buildings is addressed in all its complexity, synthesizing cultural, material, and constructive considerations, including the architect’s environmental responsibility. The course explores a range of intervention strategies—such as conservation, renovation, transformation, extension, reallocation, rehabilitation, deconstruction, and reinforcement—while remaining closely tied to the built object. Students will integrate concepts of environmental impact and circularity into their approaches.
Learning outcomes

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

Specific Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
  • Identify, propose, and justify intervention strategies based on the physical and spatial characteristics of the building, its state of conservation, and the objectives of the project (e.g. issues, constraints, regulatory framework),
  • Compare and evaluate the impact of proposed measures using a multi-criteria approach, including the sustainability of the solutions,
  • Outline and synthesize the correlation between proposed measures, presenting them clearly and intelligibly,
  • Design an architectural detail specific to an existing building,
  • Articulate views effectively, using discipline-specific terminology appropriately.

General Learning Outcomes

In line with the program’s learning outcomes (LOs), this course contributes to the development and acquisition of the following LOs:
  • LO1.1 Prioritize the parameters and issues of a given situation.
  • LO1.2 Justify the intentions and choices of an architectural project at different intervention scales.
  • LO1.4 Compose the material elements of a construction or development with artistry.
  • LO1.6 Integrate Sustainable Development requirements into the design process, at multiple scales.
  • LO3.3 Understand and integrate scientific and technical knowledge to realize an architectural project.
  • LO3.4 Understand and assess the environmental, social, and economic consequences of construction and technical choices.
  • LO4.4 Understand and assess the environmental, social, and economic consequences of architectural choices.
 
Faculty or entity
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Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

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