LABORATORIO DI PROGETTO 3 A - L

Learning Objectives

• PROJECT LABORATORY 3 A - L - ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN COMPOSITION

  The course makes play the students to design an experience that, even within the limits of teaching simulation, approaching a professional work, both from the concrete work feasibility point of view, and for adherence to the planning instruments forecasts vigor in the territory where the selected area falls. It is not excluded, on this point, a critical reflection, possibly dialectical, with contents in current plans, but always in terms of concreteness, in order to reduce the gap between university education and the world of work.
  
  The course focuses on the training of the Architect's Apprentice on topics that concern the architectural project in its specificity but also as a part of the urban project so that the student learns to recognize in a critical and complex way the city in its sense of urban landscape.

• PROGETTAZIONE URBANA

  The aim of this laboratory is to guide students to comprehend and practice urban design through an approach to city design for parts which is different from the architecture building or the rational comprehensive urban design.

  Students are given a method that, contrary to architecture, does not make use of units of concept, of time and place but stems from a collective action, is the outcome of encounters and clashes and spreads along the fourth dimension, the temporal one. This method relates to relations, not to objects.

  Basic knowledge is first imparted through frontal lessons on the theoretical foundations of the urban project with reference to international literature, then students are involved in elementary exercise to read and interpret parts of cities with different characteristics. Starting from the hypothesis illustrated above, in the second part of the course a project is elaborated and inserted within a strategy to define some scenarios, to face and solve the spatial problems emerged during the analysis phase.

  Strategy means the predisposition of some interrelated actions even pertaining to different levels of reflections; scenario means the formulation of hypothesis on the future transformations and their possible consequences; conceptualization means the effort of abstraction out of the “problem solving” logic to value the general implications of the issues faced; projectual action means the representation in an appropriate scale of interventions that modify the physical state of places.

Course Structure

• PROGETTAZIONE URBANA

  The course is organized in lessons ex cathedra, direct experiences, meetings, seminars, workshops and, possibly, study trips.

  A final workshop is organized.

Detailed Course Content

• PROJECT LABORATORY 3 A - L - ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN COMPOSITION

  The knowledge of the foundations of the discipline will be divided into two parallel paths: a theoretician and a practical one, who will use the analytical-critical study of contemporary examples.
  
  Theoretical thinking and the work of some contemporary "masters" will introduce the theme of architecture as an interpretative and reminiscent tool of space-environment; this will be the selected bibliography, taking into account the limited time available to students altogether. For this reason, some hours of the workshop will be devoted to reading and commenting on the texts in the classroom and the elaboration of any project exercises.
  
  The case studies identified will be the basis for comparing and verifying the acquired technical and cultural knowledge, as well as measuring with design themes with considerable internal complexity and a dense system of relations with the contexts of belonging to decipher and interpret.
  The main structure of the course will therefore be divided into frontal lessons, classroom exercises, seminars, moments of in-depth study and comparison, direct experimentation on the project area

• PROGETTAZIONE URBANA

  The course content is articulated in line with its objectives. In particular, in the first part of the course, frontal lessons are dedicated to the “discovery” of the urban phenomenon in its actuality and to the transmission of the tools of the urban analysis in already urbanized areas with different characteristics: historic fabrics, recent suburbs, urban sprawl. Then the focus is on the conceptual definition of Urban design making reference to the culture of the most important European countries and, in particular, to Italy and France.

  The dynamics of elaboration, production and governance of urban design are put in evidence through the study and analysis of some case studies. The design experience is developed on an area of adequate dimensions and position within a urban system of one or more Sicilian cities and leads to the elaboration of the urban design in the first phase and to the elaboration of the architectural design in within the schema of the urban design in the second phase.

Textbook Information

• PROJECT LABORATORY 3 A - L - ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN COMPOSITION

  -Carlo Aymonino, Il significato delle città, Laterza, Bari 1975 (La formazione del concetto di tipologia edilizia)

  - G. Caniggia, G.L. Maffei, Composizione architettonica e tipologia edilizia, Marsilio, Venezia 1979

  - Diotallevi e Marescotti, Il problema sociale costruttivo ed economico dell’abitazione

  - A. Monestiroli, La metopa e il triglifo. Nove lezioni di architettura, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2002

  - L. Quaroni, Progettare un edificio. Otto lezioni di architettura, Edizioni Kappa, Roma 2001

  - Aldo Rossi, L'architettura della città, CittàStudi Edizioni, Torino 1995 (Capitolo 1: Questioni tipologiche)

• PROGETTAZIONE URBANA

  Bibliography:

   

  1. G. DEMATTEIS, C. LANZA, Le città del mondo. Una geografia urbana, UTET, Torino, 2011, cap. 2 pp. 35-56 e cap. 3 pp. 57-81, cap. 11, pp. 179 – 203 e cap. 13 pp. 217 - 225
  2. P. GABELLINI, Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci, Roma, 2001
  3. K. LYNCH, Progettare la città. Milano, Etaslibri, 1990
  4. P. INGALLINA P. (2001) Il progetto urbano, Franco Angeli, Milano, cap. 1, pp. 29 – 63
  5. D. MANGIN, Ph. PANERAI, Projet urbain, Editions Parenthèses, Marseille, 1999, cap. 4 pp. 83 – 100 e cap. 7 pp. 139 – 162.
  6. S. MUNARIN, V. MARTELLIANO (a cura di), Spazi, storie e soggetti del welfare. Sul ruolo delle politiche del welfare state nella costruzione della città, Gangemi Editore, Roma, 2012. pp. 9 - 24, 75 - 88, 131 - 142.
  7. F. C. NIGRELLI, Percorsi del Progetto urbano in Francia e in Italia 1960-1997, Officina Edizioni, Roma, 1999, cap. 4, pp. 212 -241, conclusioni pp. 271 - 281
  8. Ph. PANERAI, J. CASTEX, J. DEPAULE, Isolato urbano e città contemporanea, CittàStudi, Milano, 1981
  9. C. RATTI con M. CLAUDEL, La città di domani. Come le reti stanno cambiando il futuro urbano, Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino 2017, cap. 1 pp. 5 – 12, cap. 2 pp. 13 – 19, cap. 3 pp. 20 – 29, cap. 4 pp. 33 – 40, cap. 5 pp. 41 – 50, cap. 7 pp. 65 - 74
  10. M. RONCAYOLO, La città. Storia e problemi della dimensione urbana, Einaudi, Torino, 1988, cap. 1 pp. 11 – 24, cap. 2 pp. 25 – 39, cap. 4 pp. 55 - 66
  11. B. SECCHI, La città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri, Laterza Editore, Bari, 2013

   

  Further readings – a selected bibliography:

  1. AA.VV. Projets urbains en France, Le Moniteur, Paris, 2002
  2. P. COLAROSSI e A.P. LATINI, La progettazione urbana. Vol. 2, ilSole24ore, Milano, 2008, cap. 4 pp. 433 – 473, cap. 5 pp. 475 – 566
  3. P. COLAROSSI e A.P. LATINI, La progettazione urbana. Vol. 3, ilSole24ore, Milano, 2008, cap. 3 pp. 94 – 158
  4. Ch. DEVILLERS, “Il progetto urbano”, in in Rassegna di Architettura e urbanistica, “Progetto urbano in Francia”, n. 110/111, ed. Kappa, Roma 2003, pp. 43-54
  5. F. D’ORSO, Ecoquartiers, t. 2, ed Snal, Paris, 2014
  6. B. HUET, “Il progetto urbano e la storia” in Rassegna di Architettura e urbanistica, “Progetto urbano in Francia”, n. 110/111, ed. Kappa, Roma 2003, pp. 38-42
  7. P. LA GRECA, Interventi nella città consolidata: casi francesi e italiani a confronto. Documenti del DAU n. 14, Gangemi Editore, Roma, 1996