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Higher Technical University College of Architecture
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Grao en Estudos de Arquitectura
 Subjects
  Architectural Design 2
   Contents
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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