Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage

Teaching unit ARCH-P8123 - AIM2 - Master 1 & 2

Teachers: David Lo Buglio (coordinator), Denis Derycke, Michel Lefèvre

Invited lecturer: Myriem Saoud & Alexandre Van Dongen

The AIM "Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage" module is divided into two compulsory seminars:

-The History and Theory of Architectural Representation seminar aims to develop specific theoretical knowledge of the history and theory of the graphic representation of architecture.

-The seminar on digital acquisition and graphic representation of built heritage offers a theoretical and practical introduction to survey techniques.

The aim of this module is to approach architectural representation in a different way from its practical application, and to explore the rich historical literature on the subject and learn how to exploit its content. Secondly, by experimenting with different digitisation techniques and methods, the aim of the course is to give students the resources, both technical and epistemological, to carry out an in-depth analysis of a heritage object and its context (topographical, urbanistic and stylistic). Students must also compare the theoretical point of view they have developed in the (History and Theory of Architectural Representation Seminars) with their digitisation work, in order to produce sets of critical and original representations.

2023-2024 theme - The Saint Augustin church

This year's theme was the survey and study of a significant fragment of the Saint-Augustin church, a major art-deco building in the Brussels architectural landscape. The aim is to produce a work of architectural analysis, modelling and graphic production based on a fragment of the Church. Through the fragment, and its representation, the aim is to give an account of knowledge (implicit or explicit) about the object, and to explain its structural and spatial qualities. This implies a important analysis work in order to select the most intelligible part, but also the part that is the most relevant to express the whole of the concept.

Based on the survey, but also by exploring different graphic and projective approaches around a fragment (or part of the building), the ambition is to inform the architects' intentions, but also to base the analysis not exclusively on the drawings, but on the building itself, or on its digital representation.

Featured Projects

2013-2014

Hicham Benjelloun Touimi, Omar Essaadouni & Youssef Oueld El Hachemi

2023-2024

Victor Dameron & Nathanael de Radigues / Arthur Bihay & Alix Pairoux / Bintou Doumbouya & Jeremy Mukala / Arno Colet & Federico zhou / Alexis Gazel & Fiona Genatzy / Flavius Neaga