The skills and learning outcomes of the subject Architectural Design VI: The Residential Sphere III tend to resemble professional practice in terms of the process of carrying out an architectural design. This can be broken down, schematically, into 4 phases:

1. Understanding the place

- To broaden knowledge of the History of Art and Architecture, Construction Techniques, and Implementation Strategies in the Natural Environment.

- Catalogue the built and urban heritage and plan for its protection.

- To have a global perception of the factors influencing a project.

2. Proposing a programme and a strategy

- To enable the student to develop strategies for designing.

- Develop your own personal way to project.

- Basic ability to: Draw up functional programmes for buildings and urban spaces; Work on and intervene in and conserve, restore and rehabilitate built heritage.

- Develop the ability to work in a team. Learning to delegate and take responsibility in the working team.

3. Designing

- Basic capacity for the conception, practice, and development of: Sketches, preliminary designs, and basic designs; Urban projects and projects in the natural environment.

- To understand the implications of the interaction between function, form, and construction in spatial definition.

- Acquiring a critical sense of appreciation of the work done.

4. Communicating

- Development of critical capacity and synthesis. Help and critical exchange between peers.

- Ability to express an idea architecturally, graphically, and orally.

- Public presentation of the work.

On housing and land occupation:

- Discovering the potentialities and needs of a place.

- Develop a programme according to the potentialities of the site.

- Generate strategies for a project.

- Control of the different scales of work.

- Collective housing typologies.

- The relationship between shape and construction.

- The value of emptiness in urban development.

In the subject of Architectural Design VI: Residential Area III, the teaching is structured on the basis of different exercises:

Exercises will be carried out on collective housing or residential buildings, taking into account their immediate surroundings and considering the contribution of materiality in the definition of form. Individual work will predominate in these exercises.

It is also worth mentioning that the digital fabrication laboratory is used in the development of the exercises.

SISTEMA DE EVALUACIÓN CONTINUA

In order to pass by means of continuous assessment, the student must present all the exercises or phases of work on their due date. In the case of not fulfilling all the deliveries in its content and stipulated dates, the student will take a specific final test to complete the continuous assessment.

CONTROL DE ASISTENCIA

In order to have a continuous assessment, 85% of the classes must be attended. Students who do not meet this condition will take a specific final test to complete the continuous assessment.

Non-attendance in class must be justified and the excuse that it coincides with another subject will not be valid. In this case, the lecturer will assess what complementary homework the student will have to do.

Students are also reminded that class attendance will be considered as attendance when the student remains in class for the entire timetable assigned to the subject and is carrying out class work.

It is essential to understand and accept that architectural design subjects require an attitude on the part of the student that guarantees regular follow-up and therefore their presence in the workshop and in the classroom. At the beginning of the course, students make a commitment to themselves, but also to their colleagues in the working team of which they form part and to the subject group in general. Any personal issue that may compromise the regular monitoring of the course must be brought to the attention of the group of lecturers of the subject at the beginning of the first four-month period and until the end of September at the latest.

The exercises and assignments will be handed in according to the requested formats (digital and/or paper) on time and on date.

The final Mark results from the consideration of the partial marks of the different exercises according to the following percentages.

Continuous assessment considers attendance (85%), follow-up, participation, and initiative.

SISTEMA DE EVALUACIÓN FINAL/RENUNCIA A EVALUACIÓN CONTINUA

The student may opt for a final assessment to replace continuous assessment, for which the following requirements must be met:

1. Communicate in writing their resignation to the continuous assessment before the 9th week inclusive, counting from the beginning of the term according to the academic calendar of the centre. This waiver must be submitted in writing to the lecturer responsible for the subject.

2. Deliver the exercises proposed during the course before the exam test, which will be accompanied by an oral explanation by the student in front of the assigned lecturer(s).

3. Take an examination test in the classroom assigned by the centre. This test is classroom-based, so the student must take it at the centre.

The materials to be used are largely determined by the characteristics of the intervention site and consist of plans of different scales and contents (land registry, topographic, etc.), urban planning sheets, photographs, surveys.
Some of them are provided at the beginning of the course, or they constitute the initial work and are elaborated by the students during the field practice or in the classroom. References are also provided according to the subject matter.

Basic bibliography

Ábalos, Iñaki. LA BUENA VIDA. VISITA GUIADA A LAS CASAS DE LA MODERNIDAD. Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona 2011

Banham, Reyner. TEORÍA Y DISEÑO ARQUITECTÓNICO EN LA ERA DE LA MÁQUINA. Ediciones Nueva Visión. Buenos Aires 1971.

Giedion, Sigfried. ESPACIO, TIEMPO Y ARQUITECTURA. Editorial Dossat. Madrid 1982

Rowe, Colin. Koetter, Fred. CIUDAD COLLAGE. Editorial Gustavo Gili. Barcelona 1981

Quaroni, Ludovico.PROYECTAR UN EDIFICIO. OCHO LECCIONES DE ARQUITECTURA. Xarait Ediciones SA, Madrid, 1980

Rasmussen, Steen Eiler. EXPERIENCIA DE LA ARQUITECTURA. Editorial Labor. Barcelona 1974

TANIZAKI JUNICHIRO - El elogio de la sombra. Ediciones Siruela S.A. 1994

Taut, Bruno. LA CASA Y LA VIDA JAPONESAS. Edita Fundación Caja de Arquitectos. Barcelona 2007



Profundización

La Vivienda Racional. Ponencias de los congresos CIAM 1929-1930. Carlo Aymonino. Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona 1973.

A. A. V. V. ALDAY IÑAKI LLINÀS JOSÉ MARTINEZ LAPEÑA JOSÉ ANTONIO MONEO RAFAEL - Aprendiendo de todas sus casas. Ediciones UPC. 1996

STEEGMANN ENRIQUE - Las medidas de la vivienda. Publicaciones del Colegio Arquitectos Cataluña.1986

MOORE CHARLES - ALLEN GERALD - LYNDON DONLYN - La casa. Forma y Diseño. Gustavo Gili S.A. Barcelona 1976

LLEO BLANCA - Sueño de habitar. Fundación Caja de Arquitectos.1998

MONTEYS XAVIER. FUERTES PERE - Casa Collage. Un ensayo sobre la arquitectura de la casa. Editorial Gustavo Gili. Barcelona 2001

RYBCZYNSKI WITOLD - La Casa: Historia de una idea. Editorial Nerea. Madrid 1988

PARICIO IGNACIO –SUST XAVIER - La vivienda contemporánea. Programa y tecnología. ITEC. Barcelona 1998

In-depth bibliography

Profundización
La Vivienda Racional. Ponencias de los congresos CIAM 1929-1930. Carlo Aymonino. Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona 1973.
A. A. V. V. ALDAY IÑAKI LLINÀS JOSÉ MARTINEZ LAPEÑA JOSÉ ANTONIO MONEO RAFAEL - Aprendiendo de todas sus casas. Ediciones UPC. 1996
STEEGMANN ENRIQUE - Las medidas de la vivienda. Publicaciones del Colegio Arquitectos Cataluña.1986
MOORE CHARLES - ALLEN GERALD - LYNDON DONLYN - La casa. Forma y Diseño. Gustavo Gili S.A. Barcelona 1976
LLEO BLANCA - Sueño de habitar. Fundación Caja de Arquitectos.1998
MONTEYS XAVIER. FUERTES PERE - Casa Collage. Un ensayo sobre la arquitectura de la casa. Editorial Gustavo Gili. Barcelona 2001
RYBCZYNSKI WITOLD - La Casa: Historia de una idea. Editorial Nerea. Madrid 1988
PARICIO IGNACIO –SUST XAVIER - La vivienda contemporánea. Programa y tecnología. ITEC. Barcelona 1998

Journals

Revistas
Density I, II, III, IV. Revista a+t. Vitoria 2002.