Project BSc2-II: Housing - Atelier Juaçaba

Following the first semesters focus on diverse private climatic seasonal domestic design, the second semester offers the chance to expand this lens through the fluid medium of water. Working on industrial water landscapes: channels, riverbanks and forgotten networks, means engaging with a system that connects all those climates. Water carries the memory of each place it passes through: from the melting snow in the Alps to the canals of Mulhouse, and down to the Rhône and the Mediterranean Sea. In that way, water acts as a moving archive of climate, linking the punctual (a project) with the continental (a hydrological system). 

There is a juxtaposition: the first semester reads France through its climatic layers, while the second semester follows water as a migratory thread, weaving these layers into one living system.
 

Develop collective housing proposals with inclusive shared spaces that promote empathy and agency.
Perform restorative actions in industrial water landscapes wherein projects comprehend both macro territorial and micro punctual scales, developing overall landscape strategies and building proposals.
Understand the relationship of place, climate and material with construction principles and building techniques.
Experience, survey and research exemplary landscapes, gardens and buildings.
Perform extensive scientific and anthropological contextual site research.
Self-develop the project thesis.
 

In presence

Weekly reviews with professor and assistants.
Focus on reciprocal design discussion and iterative project development.
Specific assignments supporting project work.  
Group and individual design project work.
Collective atelier project research and communication tasks. 
First person experience of landscapes, gardens and buildings.
Lectures and guest critics from a range of invited specialists both from within the architectural profession and external / complimentary to the design task.
Self-organisation, communication and agency are seen as important skills, as are autonomy and responsibility in the coordination of individual and collective participation in the atelier. 

Comprehension of design task and broader spectrum of atelier research.
Working processes and project development.
Writing, speaking, sketching, hand and computer drawing, physical models and image making.
Constant presence and evolution of project discussion through the semester. 
Final presentations and reviews.

• Yes - Both multi-day (x1) and single-day trips are envisaged. To be confirmed at Atelier Presentation in September., 15.06.26 - 15.06.26 (Compulsory)