Learning objectives
At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to:
- know the contextual design process with particular reference to the relationship Architecture-City (see field Contents);
- analyse and understand the relationship between Architecture and the City in particular in the experience of the Italian and European city (1st Dublin descriptor);
- apply the acquired competences in the field of architecture and city project with reference to the Contents (2nd Dublin descriptor);
- acquire a necessary and essential autonomy of critical (or self-critical) judgement on the architectural project declined in relation to the specific themes described in the Contents (3rd Dublin descriptor);
- strengthen communication skills in the field of architectural and urban design in particular with regard to the indications described in the Contents (4th, 5th Dublin descriptor).
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The architectural project is the synthesis of the different applied knowledge and acts through the translation of needs (functional, social, historical, but also structural, linguistic, poetic, etc.) into Architecture. The Laboratory is the place where the student-teacher and student-student operate in a dialectic way to combine all the knowledge already acquired or in progress of acquisition.
The Final Synthesis Laboratory Architectural design for sustainable urban regeneration + workshop is structured as follows
- Design 3 - Architecture and the city (6 CFU)
- Projects for the sustainable city (3 CFU) Icar/21
- Environmental design (2 CFU) Icar/12
- Energetic for architecture and the sustainable city (2 CFU) Ing-ind /10
The above-mentioned courses merge their teachings into the final project.
The Final Synthesis Laboratory in Architectural Composition represents the third phase of the formative design experience and will focus in particular on the relationship between architecture-city, where the settlement device experiments the inter-scalar concatenation of the architectural project in the definition of the role, form and figure of the urban part and the volumetric and spatial components that characterize it. The palimpsest, the historical story of the city in which the project is included 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 considered as an urban part complementary to other urban parts in the definition of a significant role and systemic connection with the structure of the city and the territory. The scale of the intervention is relative to the conditions of the context and the theme addressed. Settlement type-morphology and habitability criteria. Architecture and infrastructure.
In addition to the compositional-design application, a contribution will be dedicated to the historical cases of urban transformation through the architectural project. The theoretical concept of urban part. Analysis of the structure and urban physiology of the context within which the urban part defined through the project is included.
Full programme
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Bibliography
These are reference texts:
G. Canella, Un ruolo per l'architettura e altri scritti del Gruppo Architettura in AA.VV. Per un'idea di città, Venice 1984
Issues of the class A open access scientific journal ""FAMagazine. Ricerche e progetti sull'architettura e la città" (www.famagazine.it)
Further bibliographical indications will be provided in the individual modules.
Teaching methods
The teaching activities will be carried out by favouring active learning modalities alternating with lectures, case studies and in-depth seminars. During the case studies (in general authors and/or projects of contemporary architecture), the comparison with the students on the basic themes of architectural design will be privileged, also in order to bring out any preconceptions on the themes in question on the part of the students.
During the course, experiential learning cycles will be activated in which students will be required to apply their knowledge through the rewriting of an architectural project.
Assessment methods and criteria
The course provides for the verification of learning through the evaluation of the project as a synthesis of knowledge and the student's ability to apply it. Any other exercises and/or in-depth studies (Ex-Tempore/research/case studies) will be assessed during the year.
The final oral examination consists of an individual interview through which the knowledge and ability to critically understand the built architecture (1st Dublin descriptor) in relation to the project will be tested. The interview will also test communication and learning/reasoning skills, clarity of exposition and the use of discipline-specific terminology (4th, 5th Dublin descriptors). The ability to apply the knowledge will be tested through the project documents.
During the final examination, in the case of a group project/exercise, each member of the group must master the entire exercise in its entirety and make explicit which parts he/she has personally supervised.
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