Learning objectives
At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to:
- 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 in reference to the contents (2nd Dublin descriptor)
- Collecting and interpreting relevant data for a good autonomy of critical judgement (3rd Dublin descriptor)
- acquire the skills needed to communicate the project (4th Dublin descriptor)
- Develop the skills necessary to undertake further studies with a good degree of autonomy (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 and poetic) into Architecture. The Laboratory is the place where the student-teacher and student-student dialectic work on the synthesis of all the knowledge already acquired or being acquired.
The Laboratory module will deal in particular with the relationship between architecture - public space - city, where the settlement device experiments with 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 characterise it. The palimpsest-historical account of the city within which the project is inserted as a conscious variant in a critical relationship with the phenomenology of contemporary transformation.
The project site is assumed as an urban part complementary to other urban parts in the definition of a significant role and systemisation with the structure of the city and the territory. The scale of the intervention is compared with the conditions of the context and the theme addressed, its criteria of habitability, also in the relationship with the landscape and the dialectic between architecture and infrastructure.
Among the module's objectives there is the acquisition of the ability to elaborate manual work through the sketching technique and the critical captioning (note technique), photographic practice of reconnaissance, knowledge and ordering of cartographic and design representation materials, rudiments in the use of CAD, rudiments in the use of three-dimensional representation, use of books and sources in general; realisation of maquettes of spatial and plastic analysis, principles of construction technique.
Full programme
The teaching programme will be as follows
- Theoretical contributions in the classroom
- Lectures and conferences dedicated to case studies and projects
-Exercises dedicated to the theoretical principles of contemporary design
-workshops dedicated to the design exploration of an urban regeneration theme
The expected outcome is the elaboration of an architectural project on an urban scale with in-depth analysis on the scale of architectural detailing that leads the student to a coherent and balanced system of the concepts of type, theme, programme, building type, language and character.
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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 themes of architectural design will be privileged, also in order to bring out the students' pre-knowledge on the themes in question.
Assessment methods and criteria
The module 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. The final oral examination consists of an individual interview through which the knowledge and the ability to critically understand the built architecture (1st, 2nd Dublin descriptor) in relation to the project will be verified. The interview will also test communication and learning/reasoning skills, clarity of exposition and the use of discipline-specific terminology (4th, 5th Dublin descriptors). During the final examination, in the case of a group project/exercise, it is necessary for each member of the group to master the entire exercise in its entirety and to state which parts he/she has worked on personally.
Other information
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