Class Architecture IV

It is intended to continue the critical reflection about the urban area under study in the 1st semester, debating its qualities, complexities and specific characteristics that enhance this particular territory.

In this sense, it is proposed that the Project carried out can serve as an experimental ¿field¿ of the particular themes that each student will develop in their dissertations, testing their ideas (even if embryonic), strengthening them.

Architecture IV will continue Architecture III to look at a project program proposed by the student. The scales and materializations and their implementation should show the full and mature mastery of different dimensions of architecture as an activity, which through the project. In this sense, students are faced with a re-interpretation of the work previously developed in order to, jointly with the faculty define a scale of approach in the project dimension. They will be able to develop the design dimension of their dissertations.

This curricular unit consists of lectures, practices and field trips, in a continuous assessment system. The theoretical classes are oriented towards the analysis and criticism of the contents to be developed. The practical classes are divided into individual follow-up classes and workshop-based classes, which fosters contact and discussion between the various individual proposals of the students and the teacher, defending teamwork as the core method of the discipline. Continuous assessment (AC) will be based on attendance (attendance at least 70% of classes), participation in class and the delivery of the practical work (s), with the following weights: Attendance and participation in class 15%; Mid-Term Exercises and Presentations (3 10% Presentations) 30% Portfolio10%; Final Presentation 4

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