Théorie et critique du projet BA3 (Truwant et Rodet)

AR-201(an) / 10 crédits

Enseignant(s): Rodet Dries, Truwant Charlotte Cornélie

Langue: Français/Anglais

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Résumé

Le projet de transformation considère les sites existants comme des ressources pour réinventer nos manières d'habiter. À Renens, les étudiants exploreront la rénovation pour concevoir de nouvelles formes de vie, créant des typologies domestiques issues des structures et contextes existants.

Contenu

The project of transformation begins with the recognition that our existing buildings, landscapes, and infrastructures are valuable resources for reimagining how we live today. Instead of producing new, "finished" buildings, we will explore renovation and transformation as ways to respond to ecological urgency, cultural memory, and changing needs. This means working with what already exists, preserving, dismantling, reusing, or transforming, while carefully deciding the extent and necessity of each intervention. Adaptive reuse is not just technical but cultural: it negotiates between past and future, old and new, and creates unexpected relationships across scales, from a construction detail to the regional landscape. The goal is to imagine architecture as open, adaptable, and unfinished, able to evolve over time. Living spaces, too, are not fixed. Standard housing often reduces life to predictable patterns, but adaptive reuse opens the door to alternative forms of domesticity: a factory as a home, a courtyard as a kitchen, a rooftop as a garden. To live today may mean inhabiting porous, flexible spaces shaped by light, air, water, and time. Together, we will work on sites in Renens, close by to be able to often access, the site and developp a precise site analysis, We will be, developing projects that combine existing structures with lessons from architectural case studies. Through models, drawings, and experiments, students will create new typologies of living that balance inside and outside, the tectonic and the organic, and the real and the imagined.

Mots-clés

Living, Housing, Renovation, Transformation, Reuse, Model, Fragment, Preservation, Hybridity, Construction, Renens, Zürich, Milieu

 

Acquis de formation

  • Articuler un concept
  • Analyser une référence et un site
  • Créer un fragment et une maquette
  • Elaborer un discours cohérent

Méthode d'enseignement

From the model to the project, from the site to the transformation

In the first semester through case study analysis, model making, and site survey the students will combine their findings to articulate a proposal for living.

In the studio, we will analyse a selection of key projects for their potential to illustrate and spatially explore the question of the "living". Beyond the architectural object, we'll be looking to understand and analyse the context in which these projects developed. And what reciprocal influence they may have had on each other. Like a surrealist cadavre exquis, the students will assemble these different specimens to create new hybrid typologies.

 

In a second phase, these newly developed hybrids will encounter the existing buildings and landscapes of specific sites and programs in Renens. Here the salvaged fragments of the case studies will propose new ways of living in existing structures.

costs for the 1st semester: normal printing and model costs. Mock up in first semester can involve higher costs.

extra costs: trip to Zürich 2 to 3 days (+- 300-400CHf)

 

 

Travail attendu

  • Developping a proposal for living (individual)
  • analysing a case study and producing a model (individual + group work – 2 students)
  • site analysis, site survey, model (shared work - 2+2 students)
  • Project (individual + group work - 2 students)

Méthode d'évaluation

In the studio, we expect students to be curious, highly motivated, engaged in discussion, autonomous, creative and able to react to changing conditions.
It will be a continuous assessment through intermediate reviews and small pin-ups linked to a specific document. The final exam will count for no more than 50% of the final grade.

Ressources

Liens Moodle

Dans les plans d'études

  • Semestre: Automne
  • Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
  • Matière examinée: Théorie et critique du projet BA3, BA4 (Truwant et Rodet)
  • Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Projet: 4 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
  • Type: obligatoire

Semaine de référence

Lundi, 8h - 12h: Projet, labo, autre

Lundi, 14h - 16h: Projet, labo, autre

Lundi, 16h - 18h: Cours CE12

Mardi, 8h - 12h: Projet, labo, autre

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