Class Architecture Project IV

The approach in this curricular unit (CU) is oriented towards a first contact with the architectural project in its various components. It is intended to develop a set of exercises, of reduced complexity at the programmatic and territorial level, but already oriented towards the realization of a complete architectural project. From a look at the constructed reality, to the elaboration of a concept, to the critical development of solutions, and ending in the communication and final representation of the project.

A componente teórica da disciplina incide no estudo das tipologias habitacionais como suporte de uma memória cultural em contributo para a morfologia da cidade e das periferias, focalizando-se na relação intrínseca entre rua e habitat , como processo integrado de desenho arquitectónico e urbano.

Introdução a tipos elementares de habitação em contexto urbano: a casa horizontal; a casa-pátio; a casa cúbica; a casa vertical; o edifício em banda; o edifício em galeria, etc.

A componente prática fundamenta-se através do desenho e da maqueta, na análise dos elementos e dos sistemas compositivos e construtivos como determinantes da formação e da caracterização do espaço habitacional. Serão realizados dois exercícios segundo temas pré-estabelecidos.

The teaching methodology of PA II seeks to awaken in the student research methodologies for the elaboration of the Project Licensing, structured around three fundamental elements: the Program, the Site and the Materials. The study of these elements is done through three basic supports of representation: the set Bizarre / Geometry / Hand Drawing; the model of study; the Technical Drawing.

Questioning through these supports allows the student, individually accompanied by the teacher, to grade their objectives for the Previous Study, the Project Licencing according to the criteria of age analysis (paths study; tracing; scale, light, materials, constructive system, etc.) The course of Project II introduces in practice some general questions Theory of Space and Urban Design in a progressive way, theoretical classes, and oral. presentations. Continuous assessment is combined with phasing and final presentations to calculate the final grade.

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Uma Nova Agenda para a Arquitectura ? Antologia teórica 1965-1995 , São Paulo: ed. Cosac Naify.

Moneo, Rafael (2004) Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies In the work of eight contemporary Architects. MIT press.