Class Architecture Project VIII

The curricular unit of Architecture Project VIII consolidates the concepts introduced in Project VII and establishes the learning of: Basic concepts of architecture: function, model, materiality, context; Means and methods of analysis, reading and representation of architectural spaces; Theoretical and practical concepts on the various phases and moments of architectural composition. Introduction to the architectural lexicon terms, images and signs. Type and typology concepts. Concept of model and its handling. Light and the Distributive System as orderers of the structure of space. The plasticity of space. Introduction in the project the notions of: the site, the program, the user, the model and the materiality.

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It develops during 15 weeks-9 hours per week - which acquire, over time, the theoretical, theoretical-practical and practical character. Theoretical classes consist in times of presentation of formative and informative themes, based on rhetoric and critical production of images; the theoretical-practical, in study visits, seminars, critical discussion of theoretical classes and in the discussion of works produced; practices, in the tutorial follow-up of the work done. Each week there is a theory class, a practical class and an exclusively practical class. The pace may change as the calendar needs change over the semester. The class schedule presupposes the case-by-case approach of conjunctural issues relevant to the didactics of the subject, raised by the students and the teacher. The strutural works to be done will be: 1. The knowledge-omposition, scale, dimension, space, articulation; 2. Shelter-construction, deconstruction, balance, staging.  

The work to be developed during the semester will be supported, at least, in two individual practical exercises. The assessment is continuous, assuming active participation in classes, which will work in a studio. It is a minimum condition for the student to have a positive evaluation that has performed satisfactorily and assiduously the exercises.  

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