De TU Delft a UPV
estudio de casos sobre hábitat colectivo como método de investigación
Carla Sentieri Omarrementeria (Universitat Politécnica de Valencia)
D. van den Heuvel (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
E. Mann (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
Research and teaching residencies are key instruments for methodological exchange and educational innovation in architecture. This article analyzes the course “Housing Studies: An Open Intersectional Archive,” developed at TU Delft during the 2024–2025 academic year, as the basis for introducing a new teaching approach in the Master’s Degree in Habitat Innovation at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). Through a critical review of its objectives, methods, implementation, and outcomes, the article examines the potential of case analysis within the framework of Research by Design. The course proposes an intersectional approach to the study of collective housing, integrating archival work, analytical drawing, interviews, and the production of exhibition material, including augmented reality technologies. Its adaptation to the master’s program involves the creation of a “case laboratory,” understood as a cross-disciplinary research space in which different fields of knowledge converge. The article concludes that case analysis, when combined with the production of new design material, constitutes a valid tool for generating architectural knowledge and can contribute to both theory and disciplinary practice.