Théorie et critique du projet MA2 (fala)

AR-402(av) / 12 crédits

Enseignant(s): Afonso Ferreira Soares Ana Luisa, Belkhodja Ahmed Mahdi, Samovich Valeriia, Touças Magalhães Filipe André

Langue: Anglais

Withdrawal: It is not allowed to withdraw from this subject after the registration deadline.

Remark: Inscription faite par la section

Summary

Conception of collective housing within real-world constraints, through the problematized handling of a variety of modes of representation.

Content

good housing.

 

Topic, context, economies.
The aim of the semester is to propose alternatives forms of housing in conditions as close as possible to that of actual practice, and to make virtue out their concrete limitations. Low budgets and narrow-minded norms will become opportunities, all participating in shaping the possibility of something that could be called good housing.

 

Multiplicity, ambition.
The semester will sail against the idea that an academic exercise has to be reductive, and that the complexities of the whole cannot be grasped at once by a project. Through precise and multi-faceted projects, we will thus reduce to minimum the distances between what is good for each inhabitant, what is good for the neighbors, what is good for the urban setting, what is good according to the givens of a brief, what is good in terms of sustainability, in terms of affordability, in terms of beauty, in terms of construction, or in terms of the sensible distribution of spatial resources.

 

Housing as choreography. Housing as act.
No lens is ever neutral, passive, or objective. Starting from plans inevitably leads to a different project than doing it from collages or details. The way one furnishes or not a perspective is similarly charged with implications and meanings.
One of the objectives of the semester is to shape clear standpoints regarding this necessary state of failed objectivity. Throughout the development of the work, representation will problematized as a set of tools allowing to rethink the conditions of intelligibility of a given problem – here public housing. A wide array of modes of representation will be experimented with, selected, used and distorted, according to specific intents, ultimately shaping the projects themselves and their focus.

Keywords

housing, collective, domesticity, affordability, standards, norms, regulations, competition, publicity, privacy, public realm, representation, lenses, tools, drawing, photography, typology, form, architecture.

Learning Prerequisites

Required courses

None.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

  • Compose a critical architectural approach in response to a given program.
  • Elaborate an architectural project taking into account a plurality of challenges.
  • Use modes of representation in a critical and project-oriented manner.
  • Analyze precedents and integrating their teaching in an architectural project.
  • Formulate synthetic approaches to complex architectural problems.
  • Identify the specificities of a remote context and supporting a work in relation to them.

Transversal skills

  • Use a work methodology appropriate to the task.
  • Communicate effectively, being understood, including across different languages and cultures.
  • Demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking
  • Use both general and domain specific IT resources and tools

Teaching methods

In addition to regular studio-wide and desk discussions, a field trip in the area of Zurich, and a series of external interventions will provide complementary insights into the challenges at hand.

 

Costs incurred: The field trip is not mandatory to follow the studio, and will last 4 days. Field trip expenses are covered by each student joining the field trip.
Printouts and rudimentary, cost-effective models are a necessity for the work of the studio. As the projects themselves, they will be conceived in groups of two or three.

Expected student activities

In groups of two or three, the conception of a project for collective housing is the expected outcome of the semester.

Assessment methods

Evaluation is done in several moments throughout the semester, each with an increasing weight into the overall assessment, in order to best take into account the trajectory and progression.

Supervision

Office hours Yes
Assistants Yes
Forum No

Resources

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

No

Bibliography

A syllabus and reading materials will be handed out at the beginning of the semester.

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Dans les plans d'études

  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Théorie et critique du projet MA2 (fala)
  • Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Projet: 4 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: obligatoire
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Théorie et critique du projet MA2 (fala)
  • Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Projet: 4 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: obligatoire
  • Semestre: Printemps
  • Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Théorie et critique du projet MA2 (fala)
  • Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Projet: 4 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: optionnel

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