Design Studio II C

Recommended Prerequisites

All units of the 1st Cycle Studies and Design Studio I, Urbanism, Urbanization, Urbanistics, Humanities.
Historical and theoretical knowledge of territorial planning and urbanism.
Skills in analysis, synthesis, organization and strategic planning.

Teaching Methods

Lectures: presentation and discussion of keu concepts ant theories relating the syllabus

Theoretical-practical classes: direct and continuous monitoring of the student in developing a practical exercise

Lectures by professors and professionals from urbanism, architecture, administrative law and economics

Study visits to the areas of intervention and exemplary places

Assessment: Continuous (group work and individual proposed urban design, including a report); attendance (min. 70%) and class participation; discussion sessions

Failure of one phase determines a final negative rating.

Learning Outcomes

The Design Studio II initiates the final phase of a path of design simulation that students develop during 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 IIC – Landscape and Territory -, students should develop:
- expertise and exercise, the use of the instruments and scales related with Landscape and Urban Design;
- knowledge on problematic related to sensitive environments and landscapes, crossing cutting edge rehearse with urbanization politics and common practices and its uses;
- knowledge about the problems arising from climate changes, adaptation a mitigation technics in architectural design;
- apply all this knowledge on a given intervention area, preselected by the teacher, in Portuguese territory or abroad.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Students are invited to develop, integrated in working groups, an overall strategy considering:

-the analysis of the geophysical support and historical development of the intervention area;

-the understanding of the role of all physical preexistences, either natural or built;

-architectural programs to analyze and develop, that must be researched and assessed;

-the framework of existing territorial and urban policies.

Secondly, students must develop, individually or in smaller groups, a focus on a particular site of the intervention area, deepening different scales of landscape design, urban and public space design, and architecture, with particular focus on the (re)design of sensitive areas and the natural condition of existing environments, together with architectural programs that might be relevant for its regeneration.

The semester final works will be openly debated, through exhibitions and seminars, with experts and citizens, or even through short workshop and think-tank events

Head Lecturer(s)

João Paulo Vergueiro Monteiro de Sá Cardielos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 10.0%
Other: 10.0%
Other: 10.0%
Research work: 10.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 10.0%
Project: 50.0%

Bibliography

AAVV. (1996), Presente y Futuros: arquitectura en las ciudades, XIX Congreso da UIA, Barcelona
ASCHER, F. (2004), Los Nuevos Principios del Urbanismo. Madrid: Alianza Ensayo
CORBOZ, A. (2001), Le Territoire comme palimpseste et autres essais, Besançon: Les Éditions de L’Imprimeur.
HALL, P. (2000), Cities in Civilisation, London: Weidenfeld.
KOSTOV, S. (1991-2), The City Shaped / The City Assembled. London: Thames & Hudson (2 vols.).
PORTAS, N., DOMINGUES, A. CABRAL, J. (2003), Políticas Urbanas. Tendências, Estratégias, Oportunidades, Lisboa:
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Portas, Nuno et al. (2011). Políticas Urbanas. Transformações, regulação e projectos. II. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste
Gulbenkian