Architectural Design I

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The course Project I is a material objectification of the profession the students aspire as their future. Its meaning is intrinsically connected to the finding of individual motivations, which go from the architectonic culture to the artistic culture in a broader sense, from the interest for the manual experience to the sympathy for technological systematization, from the generic potentiation of visual sensibility to the deepening of a specific cultural or scientific preference.

Learning Outcomes

Understand space phenomena throughout its organization, its composition methods and its meanings. Instrumental acquirements in order to achieve a progressive autonomy in the practice of architecture. Students must develop a work methodology of their own.

1. Development of skills on space representation.

2. Setting up direct relations between identified spaces and its representation.

3. Elementary contact with scale problems and its association with the use of space.

4. Development and progressive formatting of each one’s own methodologies on architectural practices.

5. Setting up relations between space organization and its experiential dynamics.

6. Deeper approach to scale problems related to the use of space.

7. Ability  to understand the relationship between men and built spaces, on one side, and between bult space and environment, by the other side; as well as the need to relate built objects, depending on the needs and human scale.    

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Throughout the school year, five practical exercises will be developed. One of which will unfold into another, more ephemeral. Its sequence will always be linked with the theoretical and practical lessons.

The objectives will be subjected to ongoing assessment throughout the academic year and, depending on the results, exercises may be removed or new ones inserted.

— 1st practical exercise – designed survey of a space related to the student’s daily life.

— 2nd practical exercise – internal organization, following a given program, of a limited space.

— 3rd practical exercise – organization of a tridimensional set in a scale resembling urban scale. Detailing, in a closer scale, of a particular situation of the previous exercise.

— 4th practical exercise – project for a small equipment with a very uncompromised surrounding area.

— 5th practical exercise – project for one or two dwellings in a simple urban allotment, geometrically and typologically stable.  

Head Lecturer(s)

Luís Miguel Maldonado de Vasconcelos Correia

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Under the provisions of the Preamble of Normas Gerais de Avaliação de Conhecimentos da FCTUC, as well as in nº3 Section I Chapter IV of Regulamento do Departamento de Arquitetura da FCTUC, the evaluation of knowledge in Project I is a full time system.: 100.0%

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SOLÀ-MORALES, Ignasi, Diferencias. Topografia de la arquitectura contemporánea, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1995.

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TÁVORA, Fernando, Da organização do espaço, Porto, FAUP Publicacões, 1996.

VENTURI, Robert, Complejidad y contradicción en la arquitectura, Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1974.