6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4018533FNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Enrollment Requirements
Enrolling in ‘Spatial Design’ means that you simultaneously follow 'Graphic Skills' and 'Methods and Techniques: Morpho-Typological Analysis' or have successfully passed ‘Graphic Skills' and 'Methods and Techniques: Morpho-Typological Analysis’.
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Department
Geography
Educational team
Thomas Moens
Michael Ryckewaert (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
50 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
80 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

In ‘spatial design’ students learn to develop a spatial vision for a particular site, and develop a more detailed spatial design for a particular area within the site. In the visioning phase of the exercise, students develop a program for built and unbuilt space, formulate ambitions for public space, open and green space, and mobility.

In the more detailed design, students are made familiar with the basic ingredients and components of the urban fabric in terms of dimensions of public space, built program and (residential) typologies. This is translated into a masterplan and a 3D representation (a digital and/or a physical model).

In developing the vision and the masterplan students acquire a basic understanding of the following dimensions of spatial design: sustainability, carrying capacity, flexibility, spatial quality, co-production and participation, temporality and phasing, scale, hierarchy and subsidiarity.

The assignments are carried out in a design studio setting with individual and group tutoring by course titular and assistants. Lectures and guest seminars address particular questions such as residential typologies, open space design, real estate dynamics and project development.

Important: 'Spatial Design' relies on the analyses carried out in the course 'Methoden en technieken: ruimtelijke en morfologische analyse' from the first semester. Both courses deal with the same neighborhood and site within one academic year. Therefor both courses must be taken in the same academic year.

Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Slides van lessen en lezingen
Practical course material (Required) : Kaarten, cartografisch materiaal, studies en rapporten
Additional info

None.

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes

Students can judge the qualities of various types of infrastructure in public space and their materiality

Students can judge the qualities of open spaces and the natural landscape, and acquire a basic knowledge of landscape design.

Students can judge the spatial qualities of various residential typologies and are able to organize them on a particular design site.

Students are able to organize an urban program on a particular site and understand the basic dimensions of various urban programs, of public and open space features.

Students can represent a spatial design graphically and in writing, using typical representations such as schemes, sections, roof plans, ground floor plans, 3D representations and explanatory and motivational texts

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • presentation and design report with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

None.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 1 (Bachelor via SCH of VRB) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 2 (Master indirect) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 3 (Bachelor of Master direct) (only offered in Dutch)