“El Proyecto Experiencial”: Non-conventional projects for architecture students in the final studio

Abstract

The communication presents a singular format of final studio work that has been carried out for some years. Along with make known a way of doing, its main objective is to establish lines of relationship between an academic practice that is certainly uncommon and somewhat diffuse, and the areas of performance where graduates later start in the profession. "El Proyecto Experiencial" consists of approaching an architectural problem from a theoretical-experiencial point of view, formulating an argument that includes a process of materialization which transcends into an architectural experience. At the same time, it is inquired how the “Proyecto Experiencial” (project based on an experience of an experiment) can be a reference in the professional evolution of the architects graduated in this modality, and which abilities are provided by the realization of this process in the fiction and autonomy that the academic context allows. A process contrary of the simulation of a reality later be lived in the profession.