Class Research Methods in Architecture II

This Curricular Unit aims to address the themes and problems of scientific research within the scope of the specificity of the project in architecture and urbanism, as well as the analysis of architectural and urban space. The field of intervention lies in the knowledge of the methodological tools necessary for the understanding of a systematic investigation in the following topics: computational tools to support design and research, as well as syntactic analysis of architectural and urban space. Therefore, it seeks to have a complementary approach to the subjects introduced in the UC on Research Methods in Architecture I in domains that require learning about programs and computer systems compatible with a more specific knowledge of research methodologies

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design. Approach to computer systems to support the project. Parametric design. Digital fabrication. Introduction to the grammars of form. Demonstration of theoretical and practical applications. Shape grammar. Procedural programming and visual programming. Introduction to Programming with Grasshoppe with Inference in Archicad. The Social Logic of Space: introduction to syntactic analysis. Local and Global Syntactic Measures. Order and structure in architectural and urban space. Simulation Programs for gauging Syntactic Measures and their application in Case Studies. Buildings and their genotypes. Spatial Codes in the Teaching and Learning of Architecture. A Methodology to assess the adaptability of educational spaces. The spatial logic of settlements. The case of Chelas and Baixa Pombalina.                      

Also include innovative methodologies to support the teaching-learning process used

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