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Teaching GuideTerm Higher Technical University College of Architecture |
| Grao en Estudos de Arquitectura |
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| Architectural Design 2 |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Architectural Design 2 | Code | 630G02006 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Second | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. UNDERSTANDING/KNOWING A PLACE. To understand the territory contextually as a complex medium of natural and anthropological realities. |
1.1. On site knowledge of the place assigned. -Place identity. 1.2. Spatial analysis from different perspectives: geographical, landscape, cultural and historical. -Sources and methods. 1.3. Personal synthesis of the place. |
| 2. PLACE GRASP. Relations between place and architecture. Natural environment: Natural field / Landscape unit. Natural field / Manmade environment of rural settlements. |
2.1. Pre-existing elements. 2.2. Scale as a resource. -Sense of scale in the natural field. 2.3. Community space and private space. Spatial categories. |
| 3. TO DESIGN A PLACE. The experience of inhabiting and living a space with a character half natural, half rural. |
3.1 Objectives. -Design of elements according to the natural-rural environment. -Determining factors in design: preexisting natural/artificial elements, landscape, place structure (topography, climate, scale, tectonic materiality, roads, etc.). 3.2 Architectural space, indoor and outdoor. -Grids, textures, limits, proportions, modulations, rhythms, forms, scales, haptic perceptions, natural light. 3.3. Commitments. -Space as social set. -Space as functional set. |
| 4. PROCESSES. Development of a set of tools for the implementation of the architectural design. |
4.1 Development of the architectural design through sketches, outlines, diagrams, plans, models. -Ideation through articulation. -Formalisation as a way of concretion. |
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