Atelier Design II A

Recommended Prerequisites

All units of the 1st Cycle Studies and Design Studio I, Urbanism, Urbanization, Urbanística, Humanities

Historical and theoretical knowledge of territorial planning and urbanism

Skills in analysis, synthesis, organization and strategic planning.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes with detailed exposition, using audiovisual means, of the concepts, principles and fundamental theories that support the themes proposed by the laboratory or project studio. Theoretical-practical classes, with teaching support to the work in the stretcher, in which the students are expected to develop a Project: in a group, in a first phase of strategic debate; individually, in a second phase, deepening the theoretical concepts given and the methodologies discussed collectively. Travel and study visits are planned for the intervention areas and other pardigmatic places.

Learning Outcomes

Design Studio II A does have as main purpose to explore the relationships of Architectural Design Project with Memory, understood as Heritage or memory of places.

The Design Studio II A initiates the final phase of a path of design simulation that students develop over the Master in Architecture. In this sense, and having regard to its insertion at the end of the 2nd cycle of studies, it provides themes and programs resulting from this learning, to be chosen by the student in order to supplement or enhance his previous path, developed inside or outside DARQ/FCTUC.

In Design Studio II A - Architecture and Memory, students should develop skills about the architectural profession and its role in society, mainly through the realization of design projects that take into account the social factors, on the knowledge of research methods and buildings charge notebooks, on the development of technical skills that will allow the architectural conception in accordance with user demands.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The Design Studio contents area:

- the support of a given geographical area of intervention;

- the historical development of this area;

- the understanding of the role of the architectural preexistences;

- the framework of existing heritage policies;

- the architectural programs to be detailed;

In this Design Studio, students deepen a Project, at different scales of detail, based on the interpretation of the architectural and cultural heritage, public spaces and community facilities, considered relevant for the urban restructuring and regeneration of a given urban area.

Head Lecturer(s)

João de Lima Mendes Ribeiro

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 40.0%
Project: 60.0%

Bibliography

CORBOZ, André, Le territoire comme palimpseste et autres essays, Les Éditions de l’Imprimeur, Collection Tranches de Villes, Besançon, 2001.

CORNER, James, “The Agency of Mapping”, in Mappings, ed. By Denis Cosgrove, London, Reaktion Books, 1999.

ROSSI, Aldo, La Arquitectura de la Ciudad (1966), Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 1982.

SOLÁ-MORALES, Manuel de, Progettare Città, Quaderni d’Architettura Lotus, Electa, Milão, 2000.

XAVIER, Sandra e PROVIDENCIA, Paulo, Leprosaria Nacional, Porto, Dafne Editora, 2014.

Providencia, Paulo (ed.) Conimbriga - interpretação do sítio arqueológico pelo projeto de arquitetura. Coimbra: EDARQ, 2014.