Desígnios e Formas do Espaço Público na Cidade Contemporânea

Code:

50141C5

Acronym:

DFEPCC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Architecture

Instance: 2018/2019 - 1S

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	27	MIARQ	4	-	3	-	81
			5

Teaching language

Português, inglês, francês, Italiano

Objectives

The optional curricular unit "Design and Form of the Public Space in the Contemporary City" intends to approach the public space as a fundamental component in the different times of the city's history, taking into account its multiple dimensions and seeking to understand, interconnect the designs and the past and gifts from public space. It is intended to promote a broad reflection on the contemporary condition of the public space project, as well as the strategies and design tools that the architect has at his disposal to intervene and build the contemporary city.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is intended that the student recognize and be able to understand and characterize the contemporary urban condition in which the public space project operates. It is also intended that the student be able to understand, critically and supported in the historical knowledge of models and paradigms of intervention in the city, the themes and problems that are posed today to its materialization.

In addition, it is intended that the student be able to:

a) to understand and characterize the complexity and diversity of meanings that the notion of public space contains, as well as the main paradigm changes that implied changes in historical types and consequently in the city's own form;
b) characterize the different perspectives (concepts, authors, processes) that legitimize and organize from a theoretical point of view the different meanings and materializations of the contemporary public space, clearly distinguishing the role and the urbanistic vocation that historically the public space has assumed;
c) explore and select methods and tools for analysis and description appropriate to the study of public space;
d) to select, analyze and critically describe case studies, namely the strategies and project methodologies adopted, or regarding formal solutions, constructive, typological, and programmatic options.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1 . Public space: concepts, meanings

2. Urban public space (s): transformation and permanence (s) in the construction of the city
3.The public space in the context of the contemporary city: The loss of the center and the limits
4. "public space" in the contemporary city: different perspectives on its meaning, its role and its form
5. The design of public space in relation to the current urban condition: themes, problems and designs
6. The design of public space in urban sprawl
7.The project of the public space in the reconstruction of the city without plan
8. The public space project in the restructuring of the metropolitan city
9. The project of the public space in the construction of the place of exception
10. alternative / expanded manifestations of public space: the ephemeral, virtual, the collective and the non-place

Mandatory literature

BUSQUETS, Joan; CORREA, Filipe; Cities X Lines : A new lens for the urbanistic projec, Nicolodi, 2006
BORJA, Jordi; MUXI, Zaida; El espacio público: ciudad y cuidadania, Electa, 2003

Teaching methods and learning activities

It is intended that the teaching methods adopted be appropriate to the theoretical and practical nature of the curricular unit. Predominantly there will be sessions of exposition of the theoretic contents enunciated in the program, followed by debate centered on the matter exposed, or in articles previously made available by the teacher, or in reference works. Study visits will be carried out as a complement to the moments of exhibition and debate.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	5,00
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese
Estudo autónomo	20,00
Trabalho de investigação	15,00
Trabalho laboratorial	15,00
Total:	55,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance in at least 75% of the classes taught is a prerequisite for obtaining a course unit frequency.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final grade in the curricular unit is calculated by adding the partial scores obtained by applying the weighting factors to each of the evaluation components: attendance - 20%, written work 80%.