Urban Design - Revitalization of the city centre IS-FA-00046

The objective of the course is NOT the utmost completing student's education on urban design and planning, as international students may have various level of preparation and training in urban design, and their homeland countries may have different juridical systems related to urban planning concepts. This is the reason course is divided for the different levels.
The students who never had the experience with urban designing received more exercises (working alone), tasks to intervention (revitalization) of small public space in city centre (street, green space, small square), finally to revitalize larger public space next to Faculty of Architecture in Bialystok.
The students, who already have had the urban design courses, will have the task to design the quarter of Bialystok city centre. Analyse urban fabrics, find main problems, synthesise conclusions and present urban projects which response for observed problems. Project is made by international teams (2-3 person).

The skills and knowledge which student gain: the methodology of research related to the recognition, assessment, understanding and describing urban fabric, synthesise them and based on these aspects realize the project. The possibility of cooperation in international teams.

Requirements:
The course is dedicated for students of Architecture, Spatial Planning or Civil Enginnering, eventually Landescape Design. Required is basing technical knowledge and skills in designing in large scale (urban scale).