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Grao en Arquitectura
 Subjects
  Proxectos 3
   Contents
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1. UNDERSTANDING/KNOWING A PLACE IN GALICIA.
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 COMPREHENSION.
Relations between place and architecture.
Natural environment: Natural field/Landscape unit.
Natural field/ Artificial medium of rural settlement
2.1. Pre-exinting 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 of a natural-rural character.
3.1 Objectives.
-Development of elements typical of the natural-rural environment.
-.Determining factors of relation: preexisting natural/artificial elements, landscape, place structure (topography, climate, scale, tectonic materiality, roads, etc.)

3.2 Architectonic space exterior-interior.
-Grids, textures, limits, proportions, modulations, rhythms, forms, scales, haptic perceptions, natural light.

3.3. Tasks.
-Space as social medium.
-Space as functional medium.
4. PROCESSES.
Development of a set of tools for the implementation of the architectural project.
4.1 Development of the architectural project thru sketches, outlines, diagrams, plans, models.
-Ideation as articulation.
-Formalization as concretion.



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