Learning objectives
At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to:
- analyze and understand the relationship between Architecture and City
in particular in the experience of the Italian and European city (1st Dublin
descriptor);
- apply the skills acquired in the context of the architecture and city
project with reference to the contents (2nd Dublin descriptor).
- Collecting and interpreting data relevant to good critical judgement (3rd
Dublin Descriptor)
- the acquisition of skills necessary for the communication of the project
(4th Dublin Descriptor)
- develop the necessary skills to undertake subsequent studies with a
good degree of autonomy (5th Dublin Descriptor).
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The course will focus in particular on the relationship between
architecture, pubblic space and the city, where the settlement device
experiments the interscalar concatenation of the architectural project in
the definition of role, form and figure of the urban part and the
volumetric and spatial components that characterize it. The city's
historical palimpsest and narrative within which the project is inserted as
a conscious variant in a critical relationship with the phenomenology of
contemporary transformation. Geometries and physiology of the city of
architecture. Narrative sequence and mechanisms of formal and functional articulation of the urban project. Urban identity.
The project site is assumed as a complementary urban part to other
urban parts in the definition of a significant and systemic role with the
structure of the city and the territory. The scale of the intervention is
confronted with the conditions of the context and the theme addressed,
its criteria of habitability, also in the relationship with the village and the
dialectic between architecture and infrastructure.
Among the objectives of the course there are the acquisition of the ability
to elaborate manual work through the sketch technique and critical
didacticisation (notes technique), photographic practice of
reconnaissance, knowledge and ordering of cartographic materials and
design representation, rudiments of use of CAD, rudiments of use of
three-dimensional representation, use of books and sources in general;
realization of maquettes of spatial and plastic analysis, principles of
construction technique.
Full programme
The teaching will have the following program:
- Theoretical contributions in the classroom
- Lectures and conferences dedicated to case studies and projects
-Exercises dedicated to the theoretical principles of the contemporary
project
-workshops dedicated to the design exploration of a theme of urban
regeneration
Bibliography
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Teaching methods
The didactic activities will be carried out by privileging active learning
methods alternating with lectures, case studies and in-depth seminars.
During the case studies (in general authors and/or contemporary
architecture projects) the confrontation with the student on architectural
design issues will be privileged, also in order to bring out the students'
preconceptions on the topics in question.
The lessons will be organized in presence.
Assessment methods and criteria
The Laboratory, provides for the verification of learning through the
evaluation of the project intended as synthesis of the student's
knowledge and ability to apply it. The final oral test consists of an
individual interview through which the knowledge and critical
understanding of the built architecture (1st, 2nd Dublin descriptor) in
relation to the project will be verified. The interview will also test the
student's communicative and learning/reasoning skills, clarity of
exposure and the use of discipline specific terminology (4th, 5th Dublin
descriptor). The ability to apply the knowledge will be verified through
the project papers. During the final test, in the case of group
design/exercise, it is necessary that each member of the group masters
the whole exercise in its entirety as well as the parts he or she has
personally supervised.
Other information
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