2023
Space Organization
Name: Space Organization
Code: ARQ02507I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Architecture
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
An initiation to the essential principles of the organisation of space, nurturing the students' abilities to read and understand the form(s) that constitute the built environment and their meaning.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1. To learn the metaphors of seeing, to recognize the differences between look and seeing.
2. Recognize the shapes of the space organization.
3. Read the built space in the natural space, not built, and find out its own order.
4. Read the space to understand the ways to organize it.
5. Recognize spatial qualities in the urban and not urban environments; on one hand, knowing how to read and interpret one order in the unplanned space, on the other hand, recognize the ways and strategies to organize it.
6. Work on revealing places appealing to a strategy of dualism, where the opposites confront themselves, to develop ability to read the constants in the ephemeral, as well as, in the eternal, the fragility of the moment.
2. Recognize the shapes of the space organization.
3. Read the built space in the natural space, not built, and find out its own order.
4. Read the space to understand the ways to organize it.
5. Recognize spatial qualities in the urban and not urban environments; on one hand, knowing how to read and interpret one order in the unplanned space, on the other hand, recognize the ways and strategies to organize it.
6. Work on revealing places appealing to a strategy of dualism, where the opposites confront themselves, to develop ability to read the constants in the ephemeral, as well as, in the eternal, the fragility of the moment.
Contents
1. The universal elements and the local elements.
2. The timeless (the Távoras' constants) in contemporary space.
3. The classic and the present, that needs to be read and, eventually, decoded, interpreted.
4. The place and temporality of contemporary versus timeless space.
5. The pass and the passage (the door and the window) as fundamental and structuring elements of the space by its double physic and symbolic condition which compete in definition of environment notions - the visible and the sensitive.
6. Notion of environment, of psycho geography (from Debord) and psycho spatiality (from Bachelard's poetic definitions - the "inside" and the "outside").
The contents may divide themselves into the following themes:
1. The notions of place, from genius loci
2. Fundamental aspects, myth and nature of cities
3. Space and society / space and individuality
4. The consistence of architectonic space: its experience and perception, from time, senses, material and immaterial
2. The timeless (the Távoras' constants) in contemporary space.
3. The classic and the present, that needs to be read and, eventually, decoded, interpreted.
4. The place and temporality of contemporary versus timeless space.
5. The pass and the passage (the door and the window) as fundamental and structuring elements of the space by its double physic and symbolic condition which compete in definition of environment notions - the visible and the sensitive.
6. Notion of environment, of psycho geography (from Debord) and psycho spatiality (from Bachelard's poetic definitions - the "inside" and the "outside").
The contents may divide themselves into the following themes:
1. The notions of place, from genius loci
2. Fundamental aspects, myth and nature of cities
3. Space and society / space and individuality
4. The consistence of architectonic space: its experience and perception, from time, senses, material and immaterial
Teaching Methods
1. Conference classes
2. Reading and detailed study of fundamental texts
3. Viewing movies
4. Punctual research
5. Visits
To evaluation we consider critical positioning, in classes, reading, movies viewing. We consider, yet, specific production of specific research and visits' reports.
2. Reading and detailed study of fundamental texts
3. Viewing movies
4. Punctual research
5. Visits
To evaluation we consider critical positioning, in classes, reading, movies viewing. We consider, yet, specific production of specific research and visits' reports.
Assessment
The final grade for CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT will be determined through a Group Assignment (GA x 40%), an Individual Assignment (IA x 50%), and attendance and participation (P x 10%).
The GA can include a maximum of 3 students. The Assignments (GA/IA) will be evaluated based on the depth of research and the quality of written and oral presentation. The presentation will be given by all students together, and the evaluation will be collective. Completing all assignments is mandatory. Failure to complete one or more assignments or failure to achieve a minimum score of 8 will result in being transferred to the Final Evaluation.
The FINAL EVALUATION consists of an IA (40%) and a written exam (WE x 60%). The WE is the NORMAL EXAM and involves the written and illustrated theoretical development of the course content.
The EXTRA EXAM consists of an IA (20%) and a WE (80%).
Students must notify their intention to take the exam with 48h notice.
The GA can include a maximum of 3 students. The Assignments (GA/IA) will be evaluated based on the depth of research and the quality of written and oral presentation. The presentation will be given by all students together, and the evaluation will be collective. Completing all assignments is mandatory. Failure to complete one or more assignments or failure to achieve a minimum score of 8 will result in being transferred to the Final Evaluation.
The FINAL EVALUATION consists of an IA (40%) and a written exam (WE x 60%). The WE is the NORMAL EXAM and involves the written and illustrated theoretical development of the course content.
The EXTRA EXAM consists of an IA (20%) and a WE (80%).
Students must notify their intention to take the exam with 48h notice.
Teaching Staff
- Pedro Miguel Hernandez Salvador Guilherme [responsible]
