Reconstructing
Pupils take a close look at all of the château’s facades, then use the information they have gathered to help them build a wooden model of the monument.Level: Ages 8 to 18
Complementary workshop: Surveys & Plans.
Price: €110
Objectives:
Learning to look at an edifice as a whole and so come to understand the coherence of an architectural design, from individual details to overall vision. Placing one’s physical self in the spatial context, and so come to grasp notions of volume and 3-dimensional geometry.
Programme:
Sequence 1 :
Pupils observe and describe the monument while on a walk around its outside that takes in each of its facades. By means of a question-and-answer game, the workshop leader familiarises them with ornamental vocabulary and has them put a name to the edifice’s various components. They attempt to translate these latter into geometrical terms, in order to reach an overall 3-dimensional understanding of its architecture.
Sequence 2 (teamwork):
Back indoors, pupils get down to building a wooden model of the château made up of a range of different shapes (parallelepipeds, cubes, cylinders, cones, pyramids, etc.), basing themselves on their memory of data acquired during the fieldwork sequence (with a sprinkling of common sense to help them on their way…).
