Identifying Data 2015/16
Subject (*) Architectural Projects 2 Code 630G01006
Study programme
Grao en Arquitectura
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Graduate 2nd four-month period
First Obligatoria 6
Language
Spanish
Galician
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Proxectos Arquitectónicos e Urbanismo
Coordinador
Carreiro Otero, Maria Concepción
E-mail
maria.carreiro@udc.es
Lecturers
Carreiro Otero, Maria Concepción
Casabella López, Juan José
Di Felice Vázquez, Mario Francisco
Martínez González, Carlos
Mesejo Conde, Mónica
Muñoz Fontenla, Luis W
Piñera Manso, Guadalupe
Rodriguez-losada Allende, Jacobo
Vazquez Diaz, Sonia
E-mail
maria.carreiro@udc.es
juan.casabella.lopez@udc.es
m.difelice@udc.es
c.martinez.gonzalez@udc.es
monica.mesejo@udc.es
l.w.munoz.fontenla@udc.es
g.pinera.manso@udc.es
jacobo.allende@udc.es
sonia.vazquez.diaz@udc.es
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General description O proxecto como resposta a un problema espacial e funcional
O problema proxectual exponse a partir do programa, incídese con maior profundidade na mensura precisa dos espazos e os elementos arquitectónicos. Abórdase a relación entre obxecto e lugar (topografía, orientación, vistas); esbózase a contorna como presenza ineludible. Abórdase o trazado e a disposición da escaleira, jerarquización funcional dos espazos; a función utilitaria e a simbólica.
Ao finaliza o curso o alumno ha de ser capaz de:
- xerar un espazo arquitectónico estruturado a partir das circulacións verticais: a escaleira, elemento que ha de ser correctamente grafiado en planta e sección.
- sistematizar a organización dun espazo arquitectónico simple e dispolo nun lugar determinado e en relación con outros elementos análogos.

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A1 PROXECTO BÁSICO ARQUITECTÓNICO E URBANO: aptitude ou capacidade para aplicar os principios básicos formais, funcionais e técnicos á concepción e deseño de edificios e de conxuntos urbanos, definindo as súas características xerais e as prestacións que se acadan.
A4 PROGRAMACIÓN FUNCIONAL: aptitude ou capacidade para elaborar programas de edificios, considerando os requisitos de clientes e usuarios, analizando os precedentes e as condicións de localización aplicando estándares e establecendo dimensións e relacións de espazos e equipos.
A9 CRÍTICA ARQUITECTÓNICA: aptitude ou capacidade para analizar morfolóxica e tipoloxicamente a arquitectura e a cidade e para explicar os precedentes formais e programáticos das solucións proxectuais.
A10 REPRESENTACIÓN ESPACIAL: aptitude ou capacidade para aplicar, tanto manual como informaticamente, os sistemas de representación gráfica, dominando os procedementos de proxección e corte, os aspectos cuantitativos e selectivos da escala e a relación entre o plano e a profundidade.
A13 IDEACIÓN GRÁFICA: aptitude ou capacidade para concibir e representar graficamente a figura, a cor, a textura e a luminosidade dos obxectos e dominar a proporción e as técnicas de debuxo, incluídas as informáticas.
B3 Aplicar un pensamento crítico, lóxico e creativo.
B4 Traballar de forma autónoma con iniciativa.
B5 Traballar de forma colaborativa.
B7 Comunicarse de maneira efectiva nun entorno de traballo.
B8 Visión espacial.
B9 Creatividade.
B10 Sensibilidade estética.
B11 Capacidade de análise e síntese.
B12 Toma de decisións.
B13 Imaxinación.
B14 Habilidade gráfica xeral.
B15 Capacidade de organización e planificación.
B17 Cultura histórica.
B18 Razoamento crítico.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
Aptitud para representar correctamente los elementos de la arquitectura y desarrollar un relato coherente de un ejercicio proyectual, así como capacidad de representar objetos y elementos abstractos en sus distintas situaciones en una relación espacio-temporal. A10
B3
B5
B8
Capacidad de exponer oralmente y de argumentar los planteamientos encaminados a desenvolver las propuestas elaboradas. A9
A10
B18
Competencia para realizar composiciones con los sólidos platónicos y las figuras planas elementales en las que se comprendan, asimilen y desarrollen relaciones de carácter sensible desenvueltas a partir de los principios de composición aplicados a lo largo del tiempo, y en especial por las vanguardias artísticas y en relación con los movimientos filosóficos, científicos y artísticos contemporáneos. A13
B8
B9
B10
B11
B12
B13
B14
Capacidad para comprender, asimilar y desarrollar relaciones de carácter sensible que se desenvuelven a partir de los principios de composición desarrollados a lo largo del tiempo, y en especial a las vanguardias artísticas y en relación con los movimientos filosóficos, científicos y artísticos contemporáneos. A10
A13
B3
B8
B9
B10
B11
B14
B15
Capacidad de resolver problemas proyectuales compositivos atendiendo a factores diversos, con respuestas múltiples, que se han de concretar en una única propuesta final, que ha de ser determinada entre un conjunto. A1
A4
A13
B4
B5
B7
B8
B17
B18

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Knowledge and Depiction of Architectural Elements 2 - Conventions of graphic language and how to use them to depict our own designs.
- Drawing as a thinking and a depticting tool.
- Design depiction through geometry. Scale models.
Architectural Design and Our Living Space - Architectural space: use, function, depiction, symbolism.
- Architectural elements and inhabiting spaces.
- Architectural space and human scale.

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Objective test A1 A4 A9 A10 A13 B5 B4 B3 B7 B8 B9 B10 B11 B12 B13 B14 B15 B17 B18 4 145 149
 
Personalized attention 1 0 1
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Objective test At the end of the academic period, students must take a practical test in order to evaluate skills achieved. Capacitiy and aptitudes in relation to the basics of architectural design are measured using this objective test.
A minimum mark of 5 out of 10 in this test is requested to pass the subject.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Objective test
Description
Personalised attention is an inherent charactersitic of this subject. All the students will have every piece of work commented on, and assessed by the teacher, from the first sketches to the final results. They will present their designs orally and individually, and have them analysed by the teacher.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Objective test A1 A4 A9 A10 A13 B5 B4 B3 B7 B8 B9 B10 B11 B12 B13 B14 B15 B17 B18 A test will be held on site, within a timeframe. Students are asked to show their abilities and competences acquired, including spatial awareness, architectural conception capacities and graphic skills.
Pass conditions are:
- A minimun grade of 5 out of 10 is required in this test for an overall pass.
100
 
Assessment comments
PASS CONDITIONS ARE:


A. The January Assessment Opportunity
- Objective Test;MINIMUM GRADE: 5 out of 10
PASS MARK: 5 out of 10

B. The July Assessment Opportunity.
- Objective Test;MINIMUM GRADE: 5 out of 10
PASS MARK: 5 out of 10

Sources of information
Basic Carreiro Otero, María (coord) (2006). Catálogo de puestos de feria : proyectos 1 : curso 2005-2006 (grupo María Carreiro) . Inédito
Carreiro Otero, María (2007). El pliegue complejo. La escalera. Oleiros (A Coruña): Netbiblo
Carreiro Otero, María (2010). Siete escaleras. Siete casas. Oleiros (A Coruña): Netbiblo

The references given in Architectural Projects 1 syllabus must be taken into account. Students must have a look at the work of the following architects: * Louis Kahn * Alvar Aalto * Le Corbusier * Arne Jacobsen (Taschen, Gustavo Gili)

Complementary

Please consult the complementary references suggested in Architectural Projects 1 syllabus.


Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before
Architectural Projects 1/630G01001
Architectural Drawing/630G01002
Descriptive Geometry/630G01003
Introduction to Architecture/630G01005

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously
Analysis on Architectural Form/630G01007
Construction 1/630G01010

Subjects that continue the syllabus
Proxectos 3/630G01011
Proxectos 4/630G01016
Proxectos 5/630G01021
Proxectos 6/630G01026
Proxectos 7/630G01031
Proxectos 8/630G01036
Proxectos 9/630G01041
Proxectos 10/630G01044

Other comments

- Drawing skills are a fundamental tool for this subject, so it requires special attention in order to acquire the appropriate level. This is the reason why we strongly recommend taking both Architectural Drawing and Descriptive Geometry simultaneously. 

- Knowledge of modern theories about the Arts, Philosophy, and Science are considered to be highly useful, as they were essential for the avant-garde architecture from the twentieth-century. Interest in the Arts, including cinema and music, will be helpful as well. 

- Required aptitudes are intellectual curiosity, talent for observation, abstract spatial awareness and sensitivity.

- Manual dexterity to build scale models is needed, being able to work with common materials to express different architectural intentions (heaviness/lightness, transparency/opacity, mass/emptyness, contrast…) is also fundamental.




(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.