Description
Contribution of basic skills and knowledge for the construction of the city, the territory, according to laws, history, cultures, through the resolution of real projects proposed in collaboration with different administrative entities in matters of urban planning.
Type Subject
Tercer - Obligatoria
Semester
Annual
Course
4
Credits
12.00

Titular Professors

Previous Knowledge

It is recommended to have completed the subjects of projects and urban planning of 3rd course.

Objectives

Adequate knowledge of the history and the theories of architecture, as well as of the arts, technology and related human sciences;
Adequate knowledge of urban planning, planning and techniques applied in the planning process;
Ability to understand the relationships between people and buildings and between buildings and their surroundings, as well as the need to relate buildings and spaces located between them according to human needs and scale;

Contents

Contribution of basic skills and knowledge for the construction of the city, the territory, according to laws, history, cultures, through the resolution of real projects proposed in collaboration with different administrative entities in matters of urban planning.

Methodology

Theoretical classes and practical in the workshop with a progressive complexity as the studies progress.

Evaluation

Workshop’s final mark will mostly depend on the final delivery’s mark, along with other evaluation criteria.
Course’s final mark will be the result of the increase that the Urban Project’s Theory mark may produce to the workshop’s mark. As an orientation, and with the conditions expressed below, the evaluation will be distributed according to: 10% (Attendance) + 10% (Partial Exercises) + 70% (Final Delivery) + 10% (Theory)

Conditions:
- The Theoretical exam must be approved in order to pass the course.
- Only Theory’s ratings above 7 serve to raise the final mark for the course.
- Students who repeated the course won’t have their marks retained to the next course.
- The “80% minimum attendance” means that only three sessions can be missed without written justification.
- The No Presentation (NP) of any of the partial deliveries will be penalized.
- The No Presentation (NP) of the final delivery means that the workshop (and therefore the course) is classified as NP.
- A continuously No Presentation (NP) will imply that the student goes directly to the resit.
- The delivery of non-original drawings (copy between students) will be strongly penalized.
- This course is not compatible with Urbanism of Third and Fifth year, so that it is not possible to course any of them simultaneously.

Resit call:
- At this moment is when you can resit the theory exam.
- Students, approved in ordinary calls, must show their interest in upgrading their mark before June’s evaluation board.

The resit call is NOT an extension of the regular calendar.
- The student who has not approved the Workshop in ordinary call must present the documentation required for the final delivery (according to professor’s guidelines or the whole “Indicative list of themes to consider and drawings to perform”) duly completed, revised and updated, along with a copy of all partial deliveries and pre-deliveries plus the PowerPoint of the public presentation and the research work to be evaluated. A court will be formed between the teachers of the subject to evaluate the exposed work and the trajectory of the student throughout the course.

Evaluation Criteria

In accordance with Article 5 of Royal Decree 1125/2003, of September 5th, the results obtained by the student in each of the subjects of the Syllabus, will be graded according to the following numerical scale from 0 to 10 , with expression of a decimal, to which may be added the corresponding qualitative qualification:
0-4.9: Suspense (SS) | 5.0-6.9: Approved (AP) | 7.0-8.9: Notable (NT) | 9.0-10: Outstanding (SB)

Basic Bibliography

Bacon, Edmund N: Design of cities. Penguin Books. New York, 1976.
Castex/Depaule/Panerai: Formes urbaines: de l’îlot à la barre. Paris, 1977
Giedion, Sigfried: Espacio, Tiempo, Arquitectura. Barcelona, 1961
Kostof, Spiro: The city shaped. Urban patterns and meanings through history. Bulfinch Press. Boston, 1991.
Kostof, Spiro: The city assembled. The elements of urban form through history. Thames & Hudson, London, 1992.
Krier, Rob: El espacio urbano. Gustavo Gili. Barcelona, 1981.
Roca, E; Mòdol, D; Franco, M: El projecte de l’espai viari. ETSAB. Edicions UPC, Barcelona, 2004
Solà-Morales, Manuel: Las formas de crecimiento urbano. Ed.UPC, Barcelona, 1997
Solà-Morales, Manuel: De Cosas Urbanas. Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2008.
UR: El proyecto urbano. Números 5 y 6. Barcelona, 1985.

Additional Material

Throughout the course, the specific bibliography for each exercise will be provided.