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OBJECTIVES
To observe what is around a public garden.To design an architecture that fits the garden.
SKILLS
To observe and analyse an environment
To master technical data
To appeal to imagination
To present one’s production.
MATERIALS :
A notebook
Sheets of drawing paper
Watercolour
Crayons
PROCEDURES
Outdoor observation. Indoor plastic realisation.
Ask each student
to stand outside a public garden
to walk around its area and note both elements of its fence and its urban architectural environment
They select a space outside the garden as well as the type of architecture they would like to set up there.
They make up a project, starting out from the idea that the architecture must point to the garden.
FOLLOW-ON ACTIVITIES
A study, throughout the history of arts, of the devices used to integrate an architecture in a natural environment
A more thorough study of mimetic architectures
An inventory of the elements of private garden fences
TRANSPOSITION
Depending on their age groups, the students will make more intricate the type of architecture to set up near the garden : a water tower, a single-family house… or they will simply integrate one element of urban furniture close to the garden : a city map, a fire hydrant…,
ASSESSMENT
It will measure the student’s awareness that the dialogue between urban architecture and parks or gardens is vital for good town planning
Claire-Hélène Blanquet Lycée Martin V École d’Application U.C.L Option Art Louvain-la-Neuve Belgique