A learning experience in an architectural master's degree based on a project at the service of the community

Abstract

This learning experience was developed in a spring semester course during the 2020-21 academic year, within the framework of a postgraduate program in architecture. The concurrence of various opportunities facilitated the unleashing of a training process that simultaneously incorporated aspects of the AyS (learning and service), AV (virtual classroom), AC (collaborative learning) and PBL (project-based learning) methodologies. The case study was to redesign the hall of an academic institution of the university itself and the premise of the commission was to recreate an identity and exhibition space in the educational building itself. The experience did not arise, therefore, from a prior conscious reflective process, but rather from the result of a timely demand that allowed linking innovative didactic aspects that had already been partially experienced previously. This experience has been developed in an exceptional context caused by COVID19, but it has potentially scalable aspects to be repeated in other less unique circumstances.