5 1 : 1BACHELOR'S DEGREE PROGRAM

The aim of S05 "Architectural and Urban Design" is to provide fundamental urban design skills. This workshop has several aims:

- Understanding urban forms and the processes involved in making the city as a system of interaction between building, parcel structure, public space and geography, at different scales and in a situated territory / understanding these different scales and knowing how to represent them.

- Understand and represent the articulation of public and private space.

- Develop an urban and architectural project as a process for transforming the urban fabric, starting from what already exists.

- Learn to manipulate the interactions between buildings, parcels of land and public space /// understand the architectural building in relation to the urban structure, landscape and environment, rather than as an isolated object.



Both at the level of analysis and description of the city and at the level of the project, the work proceeds from a dual approach:

- A territorialized and contextualized approach that deals with the forms and hierarchies of the urban structure, their evolution and their articulation at different scales (territory, city and neighborhood).
- An approach to transforming the "ordinary" urban fabric, based on the manipulation of residential architectural types and their combinations with processes of plot recomposition and the relationship to public space.

This year's introductory urban project workshop will focus on the development of an architectural housing project, at a scale that enables us to address and understand:
- The main architectural types (collective, intermediate, townhouse...), and common dimensions (depth, height...)
- The principles of building layout in a given right-of-way: relationship to the city (address/town gate), relationship to dividing lines (party line, setback, etc.) and prospect lines between buildings, types and values of use of residential open spaces (courtyard, courtyard, garden, etc.),
- Distribution systems ("from the street to the front door of the dwelling", "from the most public to the most private"), common areas, etc.


The Introductory Workshop on Urban and Architectural Design will be closely linked to the lectures and the 'Atlas of Urban Forms' TD, with a 3-day trip to Nantes where several housing projects will be visited and analyzed, in a teaching program that closely interweaves analysis, manipulative exercises and project design, at a range of scales and modes of representation from territory to building (from 1/25000th to 1/100th).


PROJECT SITE

The site chosen for this year's project workshop is the commune of Maromme in the Vallée du Cailly.

This already highly urbanized area combines a number of advantages to meet the workshop's educational objectives:

- Proximity to the school facilitates sensitive observation and concrete knowledge of the commune's characteristics within its territory, and of its urban and architectural forms. A careful observation and representation of what's already there before any transformation project is expected.

- The area is already undergoing a dynamic process of change, with the potential to transform "the city within the city", contributing to the rational development of the Rouen urban metropolis and the improvement of its neighborhoods.

- A wide choice of right-of-ways and situations identified to develop urban and architectural project proposals
The analysis and project work will be multi-scalar, ranging from an understanding of the issues at stake on a metropolitan and Valley scale, to the transformation of one or more blocks and the definition of a site-specific architectural project.