Type:Module/Course/Examination
Language:English
ECTS-Credits:12.0
Scheduled in semester:3
Semester Hours per Week / Contact Hours:24.0 L / 18.0 h
Self-directed study time:342.0 h
Module coordination/Lecturers
- Prof. Dr. Daniel Stockhammer
(Modulleitung)
Curricula
Master's degree programme in Architecture (01.09.2024)Description
This optional module, allows for various kinds of research studies in collaboration with planned or ongoing re-search projects. It is closely linked to the five units of the School of Architecture and is undertaken individually or in small teams of students. Supervision consists of guiding students towards clear results in a particular area of research. The research project is reviewed before a panel of experts from the supervising research unit.
Built Heritage & Upcycling Unit:
Whenever there was a shortage of building materials in history, creativity was called for and a circular approach was often the answer. In the 16th century, the Frenchman Philibert de l'Orme invented a new construction method, known as "à petit bois", in which large roof surfaces were built from small pieces of wood. Instead of comprehensive designs, his architectural work was characterized by adapting, integrating and building on. We examine de l'Orme's circular approaches using the example of the roof truss of the Caserne Rochambeau in Mont-Dauphin (F). Could this method be one of the earliest concepts for planned circular building solutions?
Qualifications
- understand the broad issues of sustainability in a defined research and design area.
- follow a given research topic and develop it coherently into a research proposal.
- manage their own learning within a research project.
- identify a research topic and develop it coherently into a clear proposal.
- analyse data and situations under guidance, using a range of techniques and methods appropriate to the subject.
- critically evaluate evidence to support research topics, reviewing its reliability, validity and significance.
- explain competently, discuss and critique own work through oral presentation, writing or visual communi-cation.
- understand how to work with confidence in the complex organisational and community settings within which the applied methods and design processes are typically deployed.
- demonstrate the ability to work with other students for assignments, exercises, experiments, presenta-tions etc.
- gain confidence in their own role in collaborating with a research project.
Lectures Method
Research or design studies defined by research units and under the guidance of mentors, usually closely related to current research projects, developed individually or in groups. The offers of the research semester vary each semester depending on the units and are coordinated with the academic director of the Master's degree programme.
Admission Requirements
None. Recommended for the third semester of the Master´s degree programme.
Literature
Relevant reading will be made available at the beginning of the course. A list of recommended literature will be announced in the course and updated on an ongoing basis.
Exam Modalities
Minimum 75% compulsory attendance, continuous assessment and regular meetings with instructors.
The final grade is calculated according to the weighting of the following com-ponents: final submission (80%) and oral presentation (20%).
Comments
Individual appointments will be set with the tutor; group projects are also possible, as well as group work with individual submissions;
Start, final submission and presentation can be individually
defined with the respective tutors.
Registration via the intranet of the University of Liechtenstein is not binding and is only valid in combination with the written consent of the respective unit. This applies to all Individual Electives in the Master's degree programme in Architecture.
Exams
- Research Semester: Search for Circularity (BH&U) (WS 24/25, bestätigt)