Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Instruct a question on architecture and urban planning
• Identify and articulate the various components constituting an architectural, urban or territorial context
• Coordinate the various disciplines related to regional planning across the board
• Master the contemporary societal challenges of spatial planning
• Develop an identified spatial response
• Develop an architectural or urbanistic approach
• Demonstrate innovation and creativity in constantly evolving situations
• Adopt an applied scientific approach
• Develop a project methodology integrating the various constraints of regional planning
• Interact with all actors
• Adopt a professional attitude
• Integrate actors' different expectations related to architecture, urban planning and spatial planning
• Develop management and governance skills specific to architectural and urban processes
• Make choices
• Demonstrate reflexivity, openness and initiative
• Demonstrate ethical values
• Demonstrate independence of thought and action.

Learning Outcomes of UE

Understand the concepts covered by the term environment;
Integrate the expertises implied in environmental issues;
Build up a glossary according to the expertises covered;
Approch and tools for understanding and reading environmental charactristics of a site;
Understand the environmental qualities of an architectural project from the concept of heat islands;
Use assesment and decision support tools;
Implementation with a case study.
 

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Historical evolution of concepts in environmental issues (non exhaustive approach);
Specificity of environmental issues related to buildings, urban context and city;
From the territory to the building: recommendations, typologies and materialities of a project with a high environmental value perspective;
Approach on argumentation, prioritization and evaluation of the environmental system of the project;
Case study based on a real project site.
 

Prior Experience

Mastery of the architectural project and the open space;
Basic concept on the typology of landscapes in Europe;
Ability to restore a reading of the context of an architectural project and its integration into its urban or rural territory;
Mastery of representation and architectural composition tools;
Mastery of approach and project scales;
Good understanding of societal issues.