Trans-Form, building with the existing

The DE Trans-Form Building with the Existing concerns itself with the ordinary built heritage, residential or industrial, inscribed in urban problems specific to medium-sized towns, seaside and port towns, reconstructed towns, but also to rural areas.

The field of study proposes a pedagogy that is concerned with the modes of production of architecture, through the project as a form of work and a form of research. The project necessarily calls on related disciplines that allow the student to approach the design process within the framework of a forward-looking interdisciplinarity in order to develop complex, autonomous thinking.

The partnership with the ULH for the DRAQ double degree is part of this framework.

Objectives

To offer a teaching approach that addresses the ways in which architecture is produced, through the project as a form of work and research.

Tackle the design process as part of a forward-looking interdisciplinary approach to develop complex, independent thinking on the theme of rehabilitating and transforming urban and rural spaces and their built and unbuilt heritage.

3 themed project workshops

Semester 7: Initiation/development of systemic and holistic thinking through recognition of what already exists
In semester 8: Transformation and constructive thinking: the building
Semester 9: Transformation, from building to city

1 seminar

Existing buildings, an ecological resource

From S7 to S9, the Transform seminar uses its specific themes to introduce participants to architectural research in all its methodological diversity. The aim is to engage in a process of knowledge production that enables participants to apprehend the existing as a resource, and thus seize the injunctions of the socio-ecological transition as architectural opportunities. In particular, learning the tools and approaches of scientific research is designed to provide the foundations for building a critical posture in project situations.

2 factories

Analytical approaches to existing buildings

. Surveying techniques (measuring/drawing the Existing down to its details)

. Recognition of materials and construction techniques

. Recognition of the ways of living and collection of representations, daily practices and perceptions of the inhabitant/user on issues of comfort, atmosphere and heritage.