Study programme 2021-2022Français
Architecture Project - Resilience V-II
Learning Activity
CodeLecturer(s)Associate Lecturer(s)Subsitute Lecturer(s) et other(s)Establishment
A-PRVT-835
  • BECUE Vincent
  • ANDRE Ghislain
  • SOBCZAK Fabrice
  • KOUTRA Sesil
  • UMONS
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HT(*) HTPE(*) HTPS(*) HR(*) HD(*) Term
FrançaisFrançais0156000Q2


Content of Learning Activity

Climate change and social inequalities are major global challenges that require a reactive approach; this context constitutes a powerful lever for innovative architectural composition. The studio takes a close look at the changes that our societies are currently undergoing and questions the capacity to adapt regardless of the type of risks, chronic stresses or crises of any kind that they suffer. The objective of the field is to make the concept of resilience operational in a context of awareness for a profound transformation.
The resilient approach is not a fashionable effect, it seems to us to be essential to anticipate and propose a vision of adaptation in the face of the many challenges of the 21st century, such as the progressive reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or the limitation of global warming to 2°C.

The lack of anticipation that we are experiencing and the lack of action on the part of the actors will lead to the need for integrating the concept of adaptation.

The adaptation capacities, first of all, allow a strong attachment to contextuality. A good project is first and foremost a good question and resilient devices question both physical and user situations (understand, decode and represent a situation).
The adaptive management then calls for the analysis of the many unknown factors to come and the ability to foresee risks, stresses, shocks and disruptive environmental and social events. This attitude makes it possible to be aware that each human activity has an impact on the territory, the environment and therefore on the living world. The projects are enriched by a reflection on the relationship between the city and nature, the environment and the life cycles.

Finally, these risks and constraints offer new opportunities, new resources, a field of possibilities for the design process that is no longer static with fixed solutions but evolving.

The students' proposals, as open as possible, are all responses to the challenges of the transition, and allow us to progress towards the resilient city.

Within the Resilience studio, the search for new ways of living is similar to a field of experimentation, a laboratory of architectural production for cities and territories; an urban design, where the architectural composition finds its place. The studio, as a laboratory, questions the relationship between individuals and functions in the territory and brings together the diversity of architectures proposed by the M1 and M2 students. All the ideas are linked and reinforced even if they turn out to be contradictory or conflicting.

Required Learning Resources/Tools

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Recommended Learning Resources/Tools

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Other Recommended Reading

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Mode of delivery

  • Face to face

Type of Teaching Activity/Activities

  • Ateliers et projets encadrés au sein de l'établissement

Evaluations

The assessment methods of the Learning Activity (AA) are specified in the course description of the corresponding Educational Component (UE)

(*) HT : Hours of theory - HTPE : Hours of in-class exercices - HTPS : hours of practical work - HD : HMiscellaneous time - HR : Hours of remedial classes. - Per. (Period), Y=Year, Q1=1st term et Q2=2nd term
Date de dernière mise à jour de la fiche ECTS par l'enseignant : 15/05/2021
Date de dernière génération automatique de la page : 06/05/2022
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