RMB 10.1 – Design Studio 2A: Reuse, Social and Urban design

Recommended Prerequisites

N/A

Teaching Methods

Design Studio with lectures, seminar, studio and desk crits. Starts with an intensive two-week workshop.
Theoretical lectures presenting themes and concepts that will be worked in the Design Studio.
Practical classes: development of each project.
Field trips to the site, as well as to any other location where the urban or programmatic situation promotes a better
understanding of the problems posed by the design studio.
The evaluation will be continuous, and has two moments of presentation, interim and final, with critical evaluation
and delivery of documentation.

Learning Outcomes

Learning of design methodologies to modernize existing public and private collective buildings.
Learning how to dialogue with the social actors of an existing public building to integrate it in the design process
Implementing participatory methods in the design process.
Analyze the discourses of the social actors in the design process.
Develop co-creation process with citizens
Learning design and planning strategies for the implementation of new uses and functions in existing building
stock.
Learning of design methodologies and strategies leading to sustainable architecture
Learning to integrate building’s performance with lessons took from post occupancy methods considering users'
environmental comfort
Learning to develop new solutions for energy and climate challenge practicing reflection-in-action (along the
workshop).
Acquiring group work capacity to develop concepts, strategies, and projects Present and discuss the results in the
plenum and with users.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Architecture and Urbanism of the welfare state (1945-2015)
Identify and characterize the relation between modern science and modern architecture, namely modern medicine,
modern pedagogies, and modern living
Case studies of contemporary transformation of modern public buildings – schools, hospitals, housing, courts, etc.
Workshops on participatory methods with invited scholars.
Workshops on “mapping controversies methodologies” with scholars from science studies.
Design with people, case studies on social housing, school architecture, and health architecture.
Program (activities and content per week):
Week 1-3, Design Workshop on Reuse, Groups of four students, length 3 weeks, face-to-face.
Week 4, Lecture 1: Introduction
General introduction to Reuse and Participation
Week 4-5, Seminar 1: Groups of four students, length 2 weeks, face-to-face
Rethink reuse strategy defined in the workshop
Week 6, Lecture 2: Design Methodologies and References
Week 6-7 Seminar 2: Individual work

Assessment Methods

Continuous Assessment
Continuous Assessment: 100.0%

Bibliography

Latour, B., Bruno Latour on Mapping Controversies. Retrived from https://web.archive.org/web/20150315062615
/http://www.mappingcontroversies.net
Lawson, B(1997) How Designers Think: the Design Process Demystified, Oxford: Architectural Press.
Ford, E. R.(1997) The Details of Modern Architecture, London: MIT Press
Melenhorst, M.; Moniz, G. C.; Providência, P. (2018), Teaching through Design, in: 2 nd Reuse of
Modernist Buildings Conference. Coimbra, Detmold: RMB Project, e|d|arq
Moniz, G. C.(2017), Dialogue with the community and photo elicitation for reuse of modern buildings design studios:
a pedagogical experience, in Michel Melenhorst, Uta Pottgiesser, Christine Naumann, Theresa Kellner (org.), RMB
Conference 2017. Detmold: Hochschule OWL(University of Applied Sciences), 79-89.
Melenhorst, M.; Bastos, F. Contributions of Academic Workshops to the Discussion on the Reuse of Modernist
Buildings, in:DOCOMOMO Congress, Lubliana, Procedings of DOCOMOMO Congress,Lubliana, 485-492