master of science in architecture

Master of Science in Architecture

Study at La Salle and obtain the master's degree to become a great architect with all the responsibilities

Final thesis

Description
1. Descriptive data of the subject: 1.1. Code: MHA 01. 1.2. Type of subject: Mandatory 1.3. Impartation: Annual 1.4. ECTS credits: 30 1.5. Responsible professor: Robert Terradas Professors: Pedro García and David Soldevila 1.6. Language: Spanish - Catalan
Type Subject
Primer - Obligatoria
Semester
Annual
Course
1
Credits
30.00

Titular Professors

Previous Knowledge

Degree in Architecture Studies or Fundamentals of Architecture

Objectives

Create architectural projects that satisfy the aesthetic and technical demands, and the requirements of the building users, respecting the limits imposed by budgetary factors and construction regulations.

Development:

Train global architects: competent professionals for the development, control and management of the architectural project in all its disciplines; attending to the sensibility for the integration in the place, incorporating the sustainability in all its environmental parameters and the rigor by the strategies and technical solutions.

Contents

Development of a project with a theme that affects the transformation and construction of man's habitat: The territory, the city, the building; attending to the physical, historical, cultural, and legal conditions, through the resolution of conceptual, formal and tectonic proposals.

Index of contents:

- Construction documents
- The project and the architectural disciplines
- Communication of the project

Development:

The Final Thesis covers from urban planning and the adaptation of the program in the place, the conception of the architectural project with the compositional, functional and technological strategies up to the detail of the structure, the facilities, the climate conditioning and the construction.
Control of sustainability criteria. The project is evaluated through the study of the Environmental and Economic Life Cycle.
Control of graphic composition and oral expression.

Methodology

The presential classes are developed in the form of a workshop, the students work in an active classroom where the teacher corrects, individually or in group, the progress of the project. Classes are held in relation to the architectural conception attending to the program, place, formal relationship and technical disciplines.
Organization of master classes sessions, visits to museums, architectural works, visits to professional studies always with a critical accent, debate classes and round tables.
Oral presentations are made in front of the group of teachers of the Master in which the communication of the project and the transversality of all the disciplines is valued.
The academic faculty consists of professors and active professionals.

Evaluation

20 % Assistance and participation in class
20 % Oral and graphic presentation
60 % Final Project

Evaluation Criteria

The evaluation of the master contemplates the continuous evaluation of the work and the participation in class, the evolution of the projects, the graphic and oral communication of these and the final result of the own project.

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