2024

Architecture Design Studio V

Name: Architecture Design Studio V
Code: ARQ02526I
12 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/312 hours
Scientific Area: Architecture

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

This curricular unit approaches more specifically interaction between architectonic Project and territory, reflecting subjects developed in curricular units Geography and Territory and Landscape studies. Will be analysed remarkable architectonic projects, for example, accordingly, mostly, to its integration in landscape and the relations that are established with territory. Following that analysis will be accomplished one exercise, in which will be explored comprehension of territory characterizing elements and landscape integration of the architectonic project, searching for establishment of project strategies coherent and articulated with the place.
Objectives:
1. Dominate the use of project's tools
2. Dominate ability to critical observation and architectonic analysis
3. Develop project's communication strategies
4. Consolidate methodological basis of spatial composition
5. Develop the ability to interpret a place and a program
6. Introduce the issue of landscape integration

Contents

Subject: Context: the landscape and its interaction with the architectonic set
1. Project tools: sketch, technical drawing, computer drawing, model
2. Analysis of study cases accordingly to its interaction with landscape
3. Landscape integration
4. Representation of Architecture: sketch, technical drawing by computer, photomontage, model, text and oral presentation

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 dominion of taught contents. The students must assist, mandatorily, to 60% of the classes, to be able to get approval in the curricular unit.