Teaching GuideTerm
Higher Technical University College of Architecture
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Grao en Estudos de Arquitectura
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  Architectural Design 1
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Methodologies Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech Oral presentation complemented by the use of audiovisual media. The theoretical content delivered will help students to deal with the proposed works and to understand the learning aims. Workshop practices are introduced as well.
During the lectures, the contents of each work will be further explained, along with group assessments.
Attendance acreditation: notes and sketches taken on your portfolio.
Student portfolio Each student will complete a personal notebook, portfolio or logbook throughout the course. It should be white paper and bound. It should reflect the whole learning process linked to the subject, although it does not have to be exclusive to it, and should include:
_Annotations from the expository sessions and compulsory readings.
Sketches and data from works of architecture that have aroused the student's interest and/or are used as a reference in the workshop exercises.
Traces of the creative process of all workshop exercises: reflections, notes, data, sketches, analyses, diagrams, ideograms, formal arguments, reference works, plan and section diagrams, etc.
Workshop The project workshop is a basic training modality of the subject Projects 1. It is made up of face-to-face and non-face work that the students have to carry out personally.
Each didactic unit contains practical exercises that will be developed in the face-to-face hours of interactive teaching and in the hours of non-face-to-face dedication by each of the students.

The project work (individual and/or group practices) is completed with discussion sessions and collective comments. In the critical sessions, students will explain their proposals to the class as a whole.

Accreditation of workshop attendance: Personal corrections and reviews with the workshop teachers.
Events academic / information Activities carried out by students that involve attendance and/or participation in scientific and/or informative events (congresses, conferences, symposiums, courses, seminars, conferences, exhibitions, etc.) with the aim of deepening their knowledge of study topics related to the subject. These activities provide students with current knowledge and experiences that incorporate the latest developments in a given field of study.

Preparation of synthesis material of the work carried out in the subject for publication or public exhibition.
Objective test Measuring instrument articulated to assess the skills and competences acquired by the student in relation to the subject.
It will consist of a graphic workshop exercise to be carried out in person within a time frame of four hours, at the end of which it will be handed in. Students are allowed to use their own notes and exercises. Students will have to demonstrate the skills and competences acquired in relation to the awareness of the form of space and its order, sense of proportion and measurement, composition mechanisms, manipulation of contour lines, layout of stairs and handling of graphic resources.
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