Enhanced pedagogical methodologies for facilitating the progression of the Master’s final exam between the professor and the student, focusing on the project titled: Vita Nova - The rehabilitation of nature, architecture, and the spirit

CIAUD, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Sá Nogueira, Polo Universitário do Alto da Ajuda, 1349-063 Lisboa, Portugal

^* Corresponding author: mafalda.lopesmaia@gmail.com

Abstract

An article that unites theory and practice, architecture as a union between a final-year architecture student and a professor or advisor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, throughout the course and throughout the monitoring of the final master's project. This accompaniment began in the first semester of the fourth year, and since then it has been a construction between teacher and student where a series of pedagogical intentions have been explored, from the deep reading and correlation between architecture and nature through the graphic process recorded daily to the most appropriate rehabilitation methodologies in the explored architecture. This whole system was divided into several phases, all of them divided by the themes and chapters addressed in the project. This work culminated in a deeper understanding of the methods of organization and design of a different work. The uninterrupted monitoring by the teacher towards the student resulted in numerous debates and different conceptions, so that the work in question had the best possible result. This procedure resulted in a continuous search for a clearer understanding through pedagogical incitement, guiding the work so that it took the most appropriate course for the student's project. Nature and rehabilitation were the central themes of all the work, where the aim was to establish qualities that cut across the two areas of knowledge. The main objective has always been the research for architecture and rehabilitation and the deep relationship between the built architecture, the one that is intended to be built, and the surrounding nature, through the study for the best possible conclusion of the Master's Final Proof.