Learning objectives
At the end of the learning experience every student should have acquired the tools and the basic knowledge of urban morphology, sustainable urban design and public space configuration. He/She will have to be able to critically connect these skills with each other in order to control the design experience in a comprehensive and conscious way.
Prerequisites
NO
Course unit content
The project of the compact, smart and sustainable city, in which all scales of contemporary living are enclosed, is the theme of the Studio. The urban morphology, as operative tool able to "read" the environment and "translate" it into a conscious design synthesis, is the main theme of the learning experience. Added to this are skills in the field of environmental sustainability and automatic design through the most recent Modeling and Environmental software.
Full programme
The compositional contribution of the laboratory is concentrated on various levels. Those at the scale of the building, with all the functional and dimensional implications of the case, but also those of the urban morphology from which factors conditioning the development of the project itself derive. Within a procedural development of the project of an inter-scalar nature, the compositional datum is measured above all in the relationship between urban parts and architectural parts as components that play the game of an interpreted proxemics, pre-ordered and in many respects managed by the project also in its more indirect aspects and projected into the temporal dimension of transformation of a place. Obviously, in this complex relational system, the understanding of the architectural and urban context in which we operate is fundamental, starting from the historical data, even more so in the condition of a consistent palimpsest as in the Italian and European tradition, where the project methodology is in fact intrinsic to that of a historical knowledge of urban becoming understood as a perceivable and usable whole in the contemporary condition. In this sense, the value of the recovery, of the project and of the transformation of the urban fabric and of all the components that characterize it, goes beyond a methodological limitation of specialized intervention in favor of an interpretation that always and in any case refers to the tools of architectural design and urban in general. Particular value in this training action within the laboratory is the analysis of the typology-morphology relationship as an interpretative category capable of measuring, in the invariance of the characters, the identity conditions and the built structure of the place. The context of the built city is the one within which the project operates in coherence with the strategies of containment of soil consumption, recovery and regeneration of the existing heritage which are recognized as having great potential for transformation in a quantitative sense but even more so qualitative. In the integrated logic of the laboratory, therefore, those disciplinary sectors such as Environmental Sustainability, Technology, Structures and Urban Sociology also contribute to the definition of the project, whose contributions will be fundamental in defining the chosen architectural and urban project.
Bibliography
M.Maretto, Il Progetto Urbano Sostenibile, 2020; WAM 2015. Barcelona, Sant Adrià de Besos Waterfront Regeneration Project; M.Maretto, Teaching Urban Morphology in a Sustainable Perspective, 2018; M.Maretto, Saverio Muratori. A Legacy in Urban design, 2015; M.Maretto, London Squares. A Study in Landscape, 2018; M.Maretto, From urban nodalities to urban fringe belts. The case-study of Krakow, 2018.
ADDITIONAL LEARNING MATERIAL:
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Teaching methods
In class monitoring of the design activity carried out by the students along with a series of theorical lectures constitute the basic tools of the learning experience. Added to this is an "In-the-field" intensive workshop, lasting a week, carried out on the project area and a series of exercises necessary to monitor the work of the students for the entire duration of the course.
It will be possible to follow, if necessary, the lessons also remotely in synchronous mode (via Teams).
Assessment methods and criteria
Exposure of the project carried out during the academic year. The evaluation of the student is made considering both the final result of the design experience and his application in the different phases of the project. The evaluation is sufficient if the student demonstrates an acquired ability to face and solve the design theme in all its aspects, also in terms of oral presentation.
Other information
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