Architectural Design 5

Code:

500501

Acronym:

500501

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Architecture and Urbanism

Instance: 2017/2018 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Arquitectura (A)
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Degree in Architecture

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIARQ	100	MIARQ	5	-	21	-	567

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Continuing the program, contents and teaching methodology underlying the course developed by Professor Manuel Fernandes de Sá, the aim is to promote a pedagogical process that enables a deep reflection on the territory, the city, the object or the architectural ensemble and considers their interactions, in order to provide the future architect with the ability to intervene in a changing environment, full of differences and uncertainties.

The course Projecto 5 tries to “provide the conditions that allow the development of a thorough reflection on the issues of the city and the territory, discussing methods of approach and planning instruments; disclosing strategic thinking for intervention; proposing ways of managing the uncertainty that underlies the intervention in the city, introducing the issue of multidisciplinary approach and practising the design of the city and the control of urban scale” (Manuel Fernandes de Sá, 2003).

Learning outcomes and competences

The work should enable the student to discover his own research and communication process, learning how to disaggregate, in the urban environment, what is permanent and structural from what is transitory and circumstantial. It should also prepare the student for the construction of strategies and the definition of actions to transform the city and the territory, taking into account the present and the future needs of society and the consequences of those actions.

It seeks also to transmit and demonstrate that the urban knowledge is increasingly shared by diverse disciplinary backgrounds that complement each other, privileging, for this reason, the development of student cravings for teamwork.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The central theme that structures the course program is the Urban Project, understood as a space of articulation between the Plan and the Project (the structural projects), between the city and its forms of materialization through architecture.

The (urban) project is assumed, not only as a “desire poured into a drawing” (François Ascher, 2001), but as an expedient capable of responding to a purpose. This purpose becomes relevant according to the demands formulated at a given time, by the community and the agents of transformation of the territory, and meets diversified operating frameworks, factors of endogenous and exogenous origin and different times of decision and accomplishment. It is a form of intervention with different levels of flexibility, which uses the planning instruments best suited to a particular urban and social context (Development Plans and Detailed Plans, for example), aiming at the resolution of existing problems or at the implementation of strategies for city transformation.

Is is assigned, naturally, a special attention to the system of public spaces, which, by its scope, importance and longevity, it corresponds to a structure that determines the shape of the city, linking its sectors and stabilizing or conditioning its modes of transformation. In this perspective, it is considered that the urban project to be developed should be “developed as an implementation project for public space and as a set of procedural or formal rules for the urban elements that may be involved in the enterprise or whose transformation is induced by it "(Nuno Portas, 1998).

Within the work carried out will be enhanced the issues related to urban intervention in a city sector with appreciable size and complexity, taking into account the observed urban dynamics, the goals and motivations of the agents that transform the territory, the existing planning instruments, the structural systems serving the study area and its environment, the urban management and the design of public and private spaces.

 

Taking into account and seeking to respond to the assumptions stated above,  the exercise, embodying the central theme of the course, will focus on a specific area stimulating a debate that admits multiple future scenarios supported by factors of urban and territorial cohesion, wich should consider, essentially, the following questions:

- to re-evaluate the area in a systemic perspective that strengthens and qualifies the links between the city, border spaces and spaces determined strictly by functional reasons ensuring interrelationship and cohesion of its different urban resources;

- to rethink the existing spaces and create urban identities that enhance new functions and new uses and interaction dynamics in the perspective of the regeneration of the study area;

- to assess the physical support and equate the value and the performance of complementary spaces with vegetation cover within the desired environmental regeneration;

- to consider the building heritage, the imagetic value and visual domain of specific infrastructures in the construction of a specific territorial identity that, resulting in an essentially self-referential process, can determine the general guidelines for the intervention;

- to set relevant standards of public space design.

Mandatory literature

Ascher François; Novos principios do urbanismo seguido de novos compromissos urbanos. ISBN: 978-972-24-1670-2
Borja Jordi; El espacio publico. ISBN: 84-8156-343-9
Font Antonio 050; Planeamiento urbanístico. ISBN: 84-7794-935-2
Koolhaas Rem; Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large. ISBN: 3-82228-7743-3
Kostof Spiro; The city shaped. ISBN: 0-500-34118-4
Kostof Spiro; The city assembled. ISBN: 0-500-34124-9
Lynch Kevin; Good city form
Lynch Kevin; A imagem da cidade. ISBN: 972-44-0379-3
Mangin David; La ville franchisée. ISBN: 2-903539-75-8
Norberg-Schulz Christian; Genius Loci
Panerai Philippe 070; Elements d.analyse urbaine
Panerai Philippe; Analyse Urbaine. ISBN: 2-86364-603-6
Portas Nuno; Políticas urbanas. ISBN: 972-31-1061-X
Portas Nuno; Políticas urbanas II. ISBN: 978-972-31-1382-2
Solà-Morales i Rubió Manuel de; Les formes de creixment urbá. ISBN: 84-7653-349-7
Solà-Morales Manuel de 340; De cosas urbanas. ISBN: 978-84-252-2260-3
Venturi Robert; Complejidad y contradicción en la arquitectura. ISBN: 84-252-1602-8

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course articulates practice, in which the elaboration of the project plays a key role in the development of the programmatic contents, with theory, in which sessions of informative or critical nature are intended for the explanation of issues that enable the progress of the practical work or for the reflection and comparative criticism of the proposals.

The classes will be divided into groups consisting of 3-5 elements that form the basic unit of discussion and of the programming of the proposals.

 

The implementation of the different moments of project design, individually or in groups, will take place according to the following phasing:

- Phase 1 (until the end of October). Teamwork – Collection and systematization of critical information for the prospective characterization of the study area and for the definition of the preliminary intervention strategy;

- Phase 2 (until Christmas). Teamwork – Review of the previous phase, identifying the Program and the intervention units that will enable the development of the preliminary urban study;

- Phase 3 (until March). Individual work – Design of a sector; Teamwork – Evaluation and coordination of the individual works according to the Preliminary Study produced by the group;

- Phase 4 (until May). Individual work – Improvement of the sector design ensuring its constructive systematization. Teamwork – Integration of different sector proposals and confirmation of group intervention strategy.

 

Each phase of the work will be specified by a worksheet with the description of its aims and contents.

The moments of critical reflection or evaluation and of state of progress that take place at the end of each phase, or whenever considered appropriate due to the development of the exercises, may involve simultaneously all students or merely the students in each class.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	100,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Evaluations will take place at the end of each phase and will focus on the performance revealed by the student on its individual and group work.

The final classification will result of the weighting of the various evaluations and of the progress that the student found on its pedagogical path, patent on the final delivery of the work.

It will be considered the following general factors for weighting: participation and attendance, knowledge of the issues and problems under study and willingness to characterize them; research capacity, quantity and quality of the work developed.

Special emphasis will be also given to the contribution of each student in the work undertaken by the group.

Calculation formula of final grade

It is understood as a minimum condition of evaluation of the student attendance above 75% of the total number of classes taught.

The evaluation is distributed without final exam and the final grade will reflect on the classifications of the five phases in which the exercise develops, weighted by the final formulation of the work delivered at the 4th and final stage.