Théorie et critique du projet BA4 (Taillieu)

A SPACE TO BE A PLACE TO STAY

Studio jo taillieu - LIF composes with the idea of the reference, your personal frame of reference but also its place within architectural practice. The studio teaches a methodology of composition and constructing architecture based from the small scale, the detail, towards the bigger scale, the whole. It allows to understand how a detail can give qualities to a space as much as a whole constructiv system for a whole building.

Observation, contemplation are key rather than analysing. Imagination rather than concept. These attitudes are part of the studio methodology. This studio believes strongly in the variety of media : from handmade drawing, crafted modeling to digital and analog drawings. Medium are not only a result but rather an ongoing method to think, compose and conceive your architectural intervention. Your hand is a tool, an instrument on the table to conceive your vision.

A studio where we take your pleasure for architecture seriously.

studio jo taillieu - LIF 2024-2025 studio : A SPACE TO BE A PLACE TO STAY

PROGRAM :

MOVEMENT I (One chapel, one student): A SPACE TO BE

+ Starting point

The starting point of the exercice is one sketche and one pavillon from an architect. Together it defines will serve as a reference point to conceive and construct "a space to be". You will construct your own chapel, your shelter, your pavillon whithout any specific location or context. It will be a "SPACE TO BE" built by composition of constructiv elements.

+ Characteristic

The first semester' exercice is about construction, structure, composition of elements and certainly about atmosphere. How details make spaces and how construction makes composition are central focus of our teaching. One chapel, one student.

+ Output

• Model of the chapel, 1/20
• Comprehensive drawing of the project' picture reference, A3, scale to fit
• Drawing of your own chapel / space to be, A3 vertical, scale to fit

MOVEMENT II (One place, two student, two houses): A PLACE TO STAY

+ Starting point

The chapel will lead to two houses; from the "space to be" you will come by pairs to make "a place to stay". From no context, you will discover the specific location of Villers-la-ville ruin Abbaye in Belgium where your two houses should inhabits and parasite the remains.

+ Characteristic

It is about living. About construction, structure, about making, about the community.
The question of dealing in an existing context will be tackle and how as an architect can we implement our intervention in it, here, two compact houses. Two houses which are family of each other sharing - or not - toughts about living. The goal will be to define a relationship between them and formulate it by the design choices. Analyzing the existing composition, typology, composition and position yourself in it. Two houses for two students in pairs.

+ Output

• Model of two houses, 1/50
• Comprehensive drawing of the two houses, A1, scale to fit
• Common site model, 1/200
• Two houses context model, 1/200

A sketchbook must be filled and completed as a daily, ongoing research. It will be your communication tool with us and your thinking tool for yourself. A way of thinking by drawing.