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have to evaluate and take a position about the intervention in the industrial piece
that will guide the project:
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What is industrial heritage, and how we can extract opportunities from its understanding?
How can architectural heritage play a role in the proposal of new architectural identities for our
time?
When past, present and future coexist in one object, how do they influence and empower each
other?
Which are the timeless architectural values of a space? How they can be transported from one
time and one function, to others?
What is the potential of Architectural time-hybrids for a design in a world pressured by cities,
exponential growth, spatial material scarcity and energy excess?
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Strategic thinking: to respond to context and to industrial heritage.
Students will learn how to work in pre-existing built environments. By
acknowledging some of the conditions and challenging others, they will establish
an intervention strategy. This will help them to take decisions based on a final
desired outcome and a theoretical approach, rather than only by design
sensibility.
2. Conceptual and spatial thinking: the program of the building is a
design tool.
Students will learn to analyze the program, define the needs and constraints
that are external to architecture and translate them into spatial solutions. The
coexistence of two complementary yet different and independent programs will
accentuate the awareness of the particularities of each of them.
3. On Typology: the double reality of architecture, exemplary
architectural and specifically contextual.
Polemical concept statements will be articulate throughout the semester. The
process of translation and transformation from the original typology to the
final building will consist in the exploration of possible aggregative strategies
and in the visualization of how these consolidate, alter or transform the previous
type.
4. Energy and Form: emerging design techniques, the integration of
architecture, landscape and the environment.
Students will aim to develop new strategies in relation to form. How is
architectural form re-codified by the new energetic agenda? How this situation
reflects on a reinterpretation of the traditional idea of type? Reflection on
materialization and construction techniques.