Project II: Atelier Nunes-Gomes

This studio focuses on context-driven design methodology. Design, understood as a crucial tool for architectural research within the landscape, is developed to a preliminary stage while always verifying its practical feasibility.
The atelier explores the general aspects of landscape construction, alongside the core concepts of transformation and superposition. 
Time is presented as a central element in both the design process and the broader processes that shape landscapes. Special attention will be given to project representation, actively exploring both the static and dynamic dimensions of the landscape.

To achieve the necessary basis for understanding and reading the landscape as a collective construction to which we add our contribution; to know the foundational elements of the landscape (geology, topography, climate, hydrology, and ecology), which build its natural tectonics, and to have a perception of its systemic functioning and its temporal and spatial dynamics; to acquire a design method that works continuously at different scales (from the territorial scale to the detailed scale and vice-versa), continually measuring the spatial and systemic consequences of each design decision at all scales of the project; to experiment with forms of representation that support and nurture design research; and to use these tools for the construction of landscape architecture.

In presence

Thematic Lectures
Technical lectures on using 3D modeling software and QGIS
Research, surveying, and cartographic analysis
Drawing and modeling (both virtual and three-dimensional)

Group presentation of individual projects. Projects are in groups of two or three students