Objectives of general skills

• Instruct an architectural issue
• Study the different components of a theme to articulate its findings in a comprehensive summary
• Build an architectural culture based on theoretical and critical knowledge and personal reading
• Coordinate the various disciplines related to architecture and urban planning transversely
• Contextualise their approach to architecture
• Develop teamwork
• Plan and organise architecture projects adapted to a context
• Develop a spatial response
• Master the means of oral, written and graphic expression
• Design a project, taking into account the different scales of analysis
• Develop a creative approach from a set of constraints
• Develop a personal and creative project of architectural composition
• Implement an identified spatial response
• Integrate technical dimensions in the project
• Reconcile the creative and functional dimensions in the project
• Adapt their structural, technical and formal choices according to the principles and values of project.
• Interact with all actors
• Master the different means of expression available to the architect to communicate to informed publics, or not
• Develop a professional attitude
• Integrate and work in a team
• Integrate the different expectations of stakeholders related to architecture and urban planning
• Make choices
• Demonstrate reflexivity, openness and initiative
• Demonstrate ethical values

UE's Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, students will be able to :
Understand that the process of architectural composition is a global and complex approach in three dimensions of systematic type.
Create personal and creative projects which answer problems connected to "dense settlement" programmes.
Implement contextual solutions to problems posed.
Develop, on the basis of the project programmes, a reflection on the relevance of urban, suburban or rural models regarding density, size, prospects, socioeconomic components, management of the common, public and private spaces, accessibility to buildings for the mobility-impaired, the development of soft mobility, the economy of the resources and the ground, the durability, eco-construction, etc.
Master the relationship between public and private spaces and create conditions of sharing.
Produce architectural forms adequate to the programme context. Restore and apply previous experiences regarding architectural composition of housing (layout, sizing, orientation, sunshine, vertical circulations, etc.).
Master the conventions of architectural drawing and the means of representation and expression of graphic communication.
Develop an argument by using vocabulary and terms of architectural language.
Support their « bias » using analysed references.
Practice interpersonal communication adapted to every context.
Manage, or work in, a team.
Be a responsible and autonomous person.
Be ethical

UE Content

Investigate housing environments by questioning the management of vacant spaces, the landscape and, in a general way, city and country planning.

Analyse a specific context and produce a preliminary study which can lead to the formulation of a diagnosis.

Introduce the questioning of architectural attitudes through the stakes and the problems of city and country planning regarding sustainable development and concerning the current regulations in the Walloon Region.

Prior experience

A-CARC-002 ; Architecture and town planning composition II.

Term 1 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Presentation and works
• Oral examination

Term 2 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Presentation and works
• Oral Examination