Syllabus academic year 2008/2009
(Created 2008-07-17.)
ARCHITECTURE IN AN URBAN CONTEXTAAKF01

Higher education credits: 9. Grading scale: UG. Level: G2 (First level). Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish. AAKF01 overlap following cours/es: AAK046. Alternative for: A3. Course coordinator: Associate Professor Bernt Nilsson, Bernt.Nilsson@arkitektur.lth.se, Inst för arkitektur och byggd miljö. The course might be cancelled if the numer of applicants is less than 10. Assessment: Active participation at all course sections such as lectures, seminars and reviews. Satisfactorily completed project and exhibition.

Aim
At a basic level get knowledge about relationships between different scale levels in architectural space.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

with guidance be able to design a building in an existing complex context with consideration of physical, social and spatial relationships.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

be able to evaluate consequences of different designs in the actual context.

Contents
The course opens with a “reading” of the project sites that we will work with. The reading entails the site being read and interpreted in intuitive sketches. The result of the reading will then be the basis for the coming design. Continuous critic is given at table in groups and to support the design process there are lectures, seminars and a study trip.

Literature
A lot of abstracts from books and reviews will be delivered before the seminars.