Learning objectives
Control of a complex project and its thematic implications, of a morphological and figurative not to mention functional and constructive type, at the various scales of the anthropic space, from the single inhabited environment to the urban site, constitutes the main training objective of the course. This is not only about identifying and interpreting the causal factors that contribute to the definition of the project but also the relationships within the set of factors to be addressed towards a synthesis of a clear systematic structure on both the formal and functional planes.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The contents of the course are centred on the relationship between the urban and territorial complexity of a context, in particular that of the medium-sized European cities, when what is stressed is the necessity for a sophisticated, highly functional architectural structure with an important urban role, mainly designed for activities of public service, to which must correspond not only an adequate typological-distributive complexity, but also an appropriate urban site and identity and representative denotation further involving aspects of a figurative semantic aspect. The complexity of the theme thus turns out to be the very content of the course. The architectural typological component is assumed on the plane of elaboration of a genuine “device”, while the urban one is measured through the morphological transformation of the place, as a formally completed urban part, where the functional and physiological instances of city life are acknowledged.
Full programme
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Bibliography
C. Aymonino, Lo Studio dei Fenomeni Urbani, Rome 1977.
C. Rowe, Collage City, Cambridge Massachusetts 1992.
R. Venturi, Imparando da Las Vegas, Venice 1985.
Various authors Compact City Architecture, Parma 2012.
Teaching methods
The teaching methods make use of a dialectic procedure with deductive and inductive contributions. Starting from the theoretical contributions of architectural design, then through concrete historical/analogical case histories applied to the various contexts with particular reference to that of Europe, to the analysis of the study case and the advancement, through successive approximations, of the construction of the project.
Assessment methods and criteria
The quality of the headway in the projects carried out by the students indicates the extent of learning from the didactic contents adopted through theoretical and case history contributions brought to the students’ attention.
Other information
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