2024

Advanced Project IV

Name: Advanced Project IV
Code: ARQ02555I
12 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/312 hours
Scientific Area: Architecture

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

This curricular unit develops and deepens the subject of the Architect as a team coordinator of different knowledge. The Project must synthesize different knowledge areas involved in the architectural profession, complementing and concluding the subjects and objectives developed in Advanced Project III curricular unit. This subject is composed as a possibility of critical reflection. Advanced Project III consolidates of strategies that may reflect the intended approach to reality, through the simulation of the profession within all its contingencies.

Contents

Subject: Synthesis: complexity and critical reflection
1. Project tools: hand drawing, cad drawing, model making
2. Research methods applied to Architectural Design and critical reflection
3. Complex programs as integrated and structured elements of the project
4. Analysis of case-studies which complexity reflects a priori articulation of different knowledge in its conception
5. Materials and its application and adequacy
6. Infrastructure systems and specialties coordination
7. Representation of Architecture: hand design, drawing by computer, photomontage, model making, theoretical issues, oral presentation and final work presentations.

Teaching Methods

Lessons will be taught in practical and laboratorial system, with a total of 12 hours weekly contact, more 6 tutorial attendance hours. The programmatic contents will be introduced by the teacher through classes with audiovisual support, lectures, study visits and individual attendance, or in groups, of the students' work. The exercises will be developed in class, under the teacher's guidance.
Evaluation is ruled only by continuous evaluation system, resulting on attendance of the students' work along the semester, and will be achieved based on demonstration of learning the contents. The students must assist, mandatorily, to 60% of the classes, to be able to get a positive mark.