Early students of Architecture can benefit from the active learning of the Architectural
Program in its first year of college, through a teaching proposal based on a project demand,
that allows the approach of the architectural program through the contact with a real client,
with mediation of professor. The main objective of this research was the development and
application of a teaching proposal, which combines the use of a project demand to engage
students in architectural programming, principles of Constructive Alignment to plan teaching,
learning and evaluation activities, and the organization and administration of classroom
activities with adoption of blended learning. In order to evaluate the teaching proposal, we
carried out a case study with 36 beginning students from Nilton Lins University, where we
applied the proposal within the discipline of Architecture Project I. Early students performed
activities to capture the needs of the client and convert them into what we identified as
student´s products. They were a demand register (with the data of the project demand), a list
of requirements (compilation of the demands in a list, relating to each area to be designed),
and the Architectural Program (reference to the project) at last. Based on the evaluation of
these products and other evidences collected during the case study, we found that the teaching
proposal had a positive impact on the students' performance, given that under an evaluation
using specific assessments and considering their criteria, we ended up with more than 80% of
the students delivering architectural programs reaching the concepts "good" and "excellent".
Innovative aspects of this work are the teaching and adaptation of the content for beginner
students from the needs of a real client, given that the Architectural Program, when
approached, has its construction phase suppressed or when considered, it adopts construction
models that are distant from the dialogue with the client. In addition, this work provides the
implementation of blended learning in Architecture, following an emerging trend in Education.
This work has as a product a digital guide with the guidelines for application of the teaching
proposal by other teachers.
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