Teacher(s)
Language
French
Content
The urban composition workshop is a teaching unit which, through the urban planning project, engages students in the reading, understanding, application and criticism of urban planning tools. The project is the place for criticism, in that it enables students to manipulate, test and propose transformations of towns and spaces from an eco-territorial perspective. The project therefore involves the application of most of the urban planning tools of the Brussels Region and/or the Walloon Region. One of the objectives of the workshop is to question the relevance, appropriateness and interest of these tools, through a specific site and a specific question.
Students are asked to develop a response through a critical and creative project aimed at transforming the quality of a given area. Implementing urban strategies therefore requires a territorial vision that cuts across scales, from local to metropolitan.
Students are asked to develop a response through a critical and creative project aimed at transforming the quality of a given area. Implementing urban strategies therefore requires a territorial vision that cuts across scales, from local to metropolitan.
Teaching methods
The urban composition workshop is a design/project workshop. This means that, from the outset, the analysis and the project merge into a single descriptive operation which, although never-ending, builds hypotheses for investigation and avenues for design. The workshop will extend from the strategic to the operational levels of urban planning.
The workshop is a very loosely structured form of teaching, based on discussion, group work and drawing. Guidelines are given, but independent work, research, etc. are an integral part. Discussions can lead to moments of uncertainty and a non-linear process. Zooming in and out, working in series/variants, hypotheses and counter-hypotheses feed the students' work. Throughout the process, the questions raised in this workshop are approached on several scales.
The work is organised in groups and the entire study will be dealt with interactively and collaboratively, with each group informing the other of its work to stimulate exchange and converge on a common idea.
The workshop sessions involve the following activities: independent group work, feedback to the teaching team ("at the table" teaching), formal feedback to the whole workshop ("poster" or "power point").
The workshop is a very loosely structured form of teaching, based on discussion, group work and drawing. Guidelines are given, but independent work, research, etc. are an integral part. Discussions can lead to moments of uncertainty and a non-linear process. Zooming in and out, working in series/variants, hypotheses and counter-hypotheses feed the students' work. Throughout the process, the questions raised in this workshop are approached on several scales.
The work is organised in groups and the entire study will be dealt with interactively and collaboratively, with each group informing the other of its work to stimulate exchange and converge on a common idea.
The workshop sessions involve the following activities: independent group work, feedback to the teaching team ("at the table" teaching), formal feedback to the whole workshop ("poster" or "power point").
Evaluation methods
This activity is subject to continuous assessment. In accordance with article 78 of the General Regulations governing studies and examinations, the final assessment (jury) will be held only once. It will therefore not be possible to re-sit this activity at either the June or September sessions.
Only a significant absence with a medical certificate (of 2 weeks) can justify an assessment at the September session.
An absence justified by a medical certificate at a jury meeting will be assessed at the examination session of the term in which the activity was organized.
The work is divided into several phases, to be considered as successive stages that evolve and inform each other. Each phase concludes with a presentation of the deliverables requested, as well as a discussion/jury bringing together all the teams and their respective productions (maps, plans, models, prints and digital presentations). These intermediate stages are assessed on an ongoing basis.
The final assessment takes place at the end of this process, with each team presenting a reasoned summary of the previous phases. The result is a multi-scalar proposal that will be discussed with the teachers and a panel of experts.
Only a significant absence with a medical certificate (of 2 weeks) can justify an assessment at the September session.
An absence justified by a medical certificate at a jury meeting will be assessed at the examination session of the term in which the activity was organized.
The work is divided into several phases, to be considered as successive stages that evolve and inform each other. Each phase concludes with a presentation of the deliverables requested, as well as a discussion/jury bringing together all the teams and their respective productions (maps, plans, models, prints and digital presentations). These intermediate stages are assessed on an ongoing basis.
The final assessment takes place at the end of this process, with each team presenting a reasoned summary of the previous phases. The result is a multi-scalar proposal that will be discussed with the teachers and a panel of experts.
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Viganò, P. 2010. Les territoires de l'urbanisme. Le projet comme producteur de connaissance, Geneva, MetisPresses
Viganò, P., Secchi, B., Fabian, L. 2016. Water and asphalt, The Project of Isotropy, Zurich, Park books
Waldheim, C. (ed) 2005. The Landscape Urbanism Reader, Princeton Architectural Press
Alexander, C., Ishikawa, S. & Silverstein, M. 1977) A Pattern Language, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Aureli, P. V. 2010. Rome the centre(s)elswhere, Skira
Banham, R. 1971. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, New York, Harper&Row Publishers
Barcelloni Corte, M., & Viganò (Eds.). 2022). The Horizontal Metropolis. The Anthology. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
Cavalieri, C., Viganò, P. (eds) 2019. The Horizontal Metropolis, a radical project, Zurich, Park Books
Corboz, A. 1993. Atlas du territoire genevois permanences et modifications cadastrales aux XIXe et XXe siècles., Chêne-Bourg, Genève, Georg
Corboz, A. 2001, parution originale 1983. Le Territoire comme palimpseste et autres essais, Besançon, Les Éditions de l'Imprimeur
Corner, J. 1999. "The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention", in: Cosgrove D. (ed) Mappings, London, Reaktion Books, p.213
Desvigne, M. 2009. Natures Intermédiaires, Bâle, Birkhauser
Grosjean, B. 2010. Urbanisation sans urbanisme : une histoire de la ville diffuse, Wavre, Mardaga
Haraway, D. J. 2020. Vivre avec le trouble, Vaulx-en-Velin, Les Éditions des Mondes à faire
Koolhaas, R., Mau, B. 1995. S,M,L,XL, Rotterdam, Nai010 publishers
Lynch, K. 1960. The image of the city, Cambridge Massachusetts, The MIT Press
McHargh, I. 1969. Design with Nature, New York, Wiley and Sons
Muratori, S., (ed.) 1963. Studi per una operante storia urbana di Roma, Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche
Rossi, A. 1978. L'architettura della città, Milano, Il saggiatore [editioin française : 2006. L'architecture de la ville, Gollion, édition InFolio]
Secchi, B. 2000. Prima lezione di urbanistica, Laterza, Roma Bari [edition française: 2006. Première leçon d'urbanisme, Marseille, Éditions Parenthèses]
Secchi, B. 2009. La ville du vingtième siècle, Paris, Editions Recherche
Secchi, B., Viganò, P. 2011. La ville poreuse: un projet pour le Grand Paris et la métropole de l'après-Kyoto, Genève, Metis Presses
Sendra, P., Sennet, R. 2020. Designing Disorder. Experiments and Disruptions in the City. Verso Books.
Sijmons, D. 2014. Landscape and Energy, Designing Transition, Rotterdam, Nai010
Smets, M. 1977b. L'avènement de la cité-jardin en Belgique, histoire de l'habitat social en Belgique 1830-1930. Bruxelles-Liège : Mardaga.
Smets, M. (ed.) 1985. Resurgam. La reconstruction en Belgique après 1914. Bruxelles: Crédit Communal de Belgique.
Smets, M. 1986. La Belgique ou la banlieue radieuse. In: Fondation pour l'architecture (ed.) Paysages d'architectures (catalogue d'exposition). Bruxelles.
Smets, M. 2002. Raster, Hülse, Lichtung und Montage / Grid, casco, clearing and montage. Texte zur Landschaft / About Landscape. Munich/Basel: Edition Topos, Callwey/ Birkhauser.
Smets, M. 2016. De Stad Ontwerpen. Een leven tussen theorie en praktijk van stedenbouw (Designing the City. A life between theory and practice of urbanism) Dutch original. Leuven : Lipsius Publisher.
Ungers, O. M. 1977. Berlin: a green archipelago, 1977, in Marot, S., Hertweck, F. (eds) 2011. The city in the city. Berlin: a Green Archipelago, Lars Muller Publisher
Uyttenhove, P. 2011. Stadland België, hoofdstukken uit de geschiedenis van de stedenbouw in België.Gent : A&S Books.
Van Acker, M. 2014. From Flux to Frame. Designing Infrastructure and Shaping Urbanization in Belgium. Leuven : Leuven University Press
Van Hecke, E. 2009. Noyaux d'habitat et régions urbaines dans une Belgique
urbanisée. Enquête socio-économique 2001. Monographies 9.
Bruxelles : SPF Economie, PME, Classes moyennes et Energie.
Vanneste, G. 2022. Urbanisation et parcellaire. Formation et transformations de la ville-territoire autour des grandes propriétés du Brabant wallon au 19e et au 20e siècle, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain
Vanuxem, S. 2018. La propriété de la Terre, Marseille, wildproject.
Venturi, R., Scott Brown, D., Izenour, S. 1972. Learning from Las Vegas: the forgotten symbolism of architectural form, Cambridge, Mass, 17th print. ed. The MIT Press.
Viganò, P. 1999. La città elementare, Torino, Einaudi
Viganò, P. 2010. Les territoires de l'urbanisme. Le projet comme producteur de connaissance, Geneva, MetisPresses
Viganò, P., Secchi, B., Fabian, L. 2016. Water and asphalt, The Project of Isotropy, Zurich, Park books
Waldheim, C. (ed) 2005. The Landscape Urbanism Reader, Princeton Architectural Press
Faculty or entity
Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Master [120] en urbanisme et développement territorial
