Iacobus+2019/ Workshop Colegiata Sta. María la Real do Sar

March 11, 2019: finally, the workshop for our Iacobus+2019 project «Colegiata Sta. María la Real do Sar» has started. More than 50 students from four academic institutions (OTH, UDC, ENSACF & NUACA) will work together in international groups during one week at the UDC in order to plunge into the topic of this year’s master project in architecture. They will be coached by six professors from all four institutions. The project topic is the transformation of the existing Colegiata Sta. María la Real do Sar, an ancient monastery and important historic monument at the edge of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

The IACOBUS + 2019 Workshop of this first day was quite intense:

After a Welcome with introduction into the general topic of this year’s topic, Prof. Dr. Jesús Conde held an interesting lecture with the title «Urbanization project for the Colegiata del Sar environment», focussing not only about his proper urban project, but also informing the students first hand about the circumstances and the historic development of the site and the monastery.

After a break, students from France and Spain presented their analytical work about the site. See a very short summary of the workshop here:

Summary Workshop Iacobus+2019

Colegiata Sta. Maria la Real do Sar Iacobus+2019 UDC A Coruna Workshop

Iacobus+2019/ Workshop: Analysis

March 11th, 2019: finally, the workshop for our Iacobus+2019 project «Colegiata Sta. María la Real do Sar» has started. More than 50 students from four academic institutions (OTH, UDC, ENSACF & NUACA) will work together in international groups during one week at the UDC in order to plunge into the topic of this year’s master project in architecture. They will be coached by six professors from all four institutions. The project topic is the transformation of the existing Colegiata Sta. María la Real do Sar, an ancient monastery and important historic monument at the edge of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

The day started with a Welcome with an introduction into the general topic of this year presented by Cristóbal Crespo (coordinator of Iacobus+ project), Fernando Agrasar (dean of the ETSAC), Pilar García de la Torre (vice-rectorate for internationalization and cooperation of Universidade da Coruña) and Felipe Peña (founder of Iacobus project). Later, Prof. Dr. Jesús Conde held an interesting lecture with the title «Urbanization project for the Colegiata del Sar environment», focussing not only about his proper urban project, but also informing the students first-hand about the circumstances and the historic development of the site and the monastery.

After lunch the workshop started with a presentation of the analysis work by students from the ENSA Clermont-Ferrand and from the Universidad da Coruña. French and Spanish students supplied all workshop-group with their knowledge, enabling all students to start directly with their design work, teachers wandering around to visit the groups.

See a very short summary of the workshop here:

And here are examples of the analysis work:

01-ordres-religieux Descarga

03-Evolution-urbaine-1 Descarga

ENSA Clermont-Ferrand Iacobus+2020 San Lazzaro degli Armeni Workshop

Iacobus+2020 / Workshop: Analysis.

The work in this first day of the workshop started with a presentation of the analysis work by students from the ENSA Clermont-Ferrand and from the Universidad da Coruña. Them both were impressive and it was a very interesting session session focused on the history of the island, the history of Venice, the Mekhitarists, the refugee situation, typological analysis and contemporary architectural references.

Here is an example of the analysis work:

Refugees Descarga

Iacobus+2018 OTH Regensburg Stadtlagerhaus Regensburg Workshop

Iacobus+2018/Workshop: Teacher’s farewell

Finally, a farewell by (nearly) all teachers of the 2018-workshop:

180309 teachers group — from left to right: Juan Prieto (UDC), Lois de Dinechin (ENSACF), Eric Frisch (OTH), Yvon Cottier (ENSACF), Emma Harutyunan (NUACA), Felipe Peña (UDC), Bernhard Lutter (das Stadtwerk Regensburg), Andreas Emminger (OTH); not in this picture: Cristóbal Crespo, coordinator of the Erasmus+programm (UDC)

Iacobus+2018 OTH Regensburg Stadtlagerhaus Regensburg Workshop

Iacobus+2018/Workshop: Final exhibition!

This was the final day of the Workshop Iacobus+2018 at the OTH Regensburg. All groups had to present their final project sketches from 2 p.m. on at the Halle A, the polyvalent space of the Faculty of Architecture at the OTH Regensburg. One could feel a certain relief, all groups having been able to close their work before the deadline.

The results are incredibly various in their approach and will be a very good base for the individual work at each academic institution. We will meet again June 1, 2018 at the UDC in A Coruña for the grand jury of the Rafael Baltar Prize!

See the results of the workshop:

Iacobus+2018 OTH Regensburg Stadtlagerhaus Regensburg Workshop

Iacobus+2018/ Workshop: Day 4

As ususal, the forth day of the workshop is a day full of labor: the corridor crits have opened the eyes of everybody to many possibilities. As the groups often focus on their own work, they do not have time nor mind to notice what’s happening elsewhere. The exhibition accompanied by comments of all professors introduced everybody to a very large variety of typological solutions and led some groups to reflect on varieties of their own approach. Day five will bring the final evaluation of the workshop results, so this very intermediary day four is used to advance the project.

Iacobus+2018 OTH Regensburg Stadtlagerhaus Regensburg Workshop

Iacobus+2018/ Workshop: corridor crits

At the OTH Regensburg, architecture students are used to be confronted with different types of design project presentations, one of them being the corridor crits. This is mainly possible because of the layout of our faculty spaces within our protected-patrimony-building at the Pruefeninger Strasse, the old site of the OTH: we have wonderful naturally illuminated corridors adjunct to our student’s workspaces!

So at day three of the workshop, we surprised the groups not by visiting them, but by inviting them to present the actual state of their reflections on the walls of our corridors.

Most important with the corridor crits is the peer-to-peer-effect as students exchange their views in form of an improvised exhibition with very short explanations of their work.

Iacobus+2018 OTH Regensburg Stadtlagerhaus Regensburg Workshop

Iacobus+2018/ Workshop: «Carteles»

While the students were working, the teachers printed, judged and exhibited a series of posters prepared by some of the students:

Iacobus+2018 OTH Regensburg Stadtlagerhaus Regensburg Workshop

Iacobus+2018/ Workshop: Analysis

The second day of the workshop started with a presentation of the analysis work by students from the ENSA Clermont-Ferrand and from the Universidad da Coruña. They work on this topic in the context of their master thesis, therefore they start earlier than the other institutions and arrive already well prepared. The presentation was impressive, the analysis very profound, so French and Spanish students supplied all workshop-group with their knowledge, enabling all students to start directly with their design work, teachers wandering around to visit the groups. The studios at the OTH were prepared with every necessary tool for sketching, building models, printing etc., we have also opened our vast workshops for our international guests.

Here’s to you, some impressions: