LABORATORIO DI PROGETTAZIONE ARCHITETTONICA E URBANA M - Z

The main educational objectives of the course are: 

(a) to deepen, through architectural practice, the relationship between architectural design and urban space; 

(b) to develop new design in the relationship between human and natural pre-existence, understood as a prerequisite in the process of redefining the contemporary city. 

The theme of the project also implies an interdisciplinary involvement in which the concepts of memory, matter, time and place are intertwined, fueling a dialogue aimed at the regeneration of the urban existing through an open and flexible strategy.

Teaching will take place both through lectures, which will focus on the relationship between architectural design and urban space, and through the development by students of one or more design exercises that develop the course theme in a complex context.

The development of the Lab exercises usually require four time steps and multiple levels of depth:

Step 1, identification of the project areas, analytical reading of the locations and preparation of the functional program;

2nd Step, development and presentation of the design concept, outline definition of the project with volumetric insertion of the new structures in the context; drawings and/or models in appropriate scale;

3rd Step, architectural development of the project with explanatory drawings-plan elevations and section in appropriate scale and related study models (individual work);

4th Step, development of the urban and compositional aspects of the project. The constituent elements of the project should be drawn and verified with scaled study plastics (plans, elevations and sections) and significant details at appropriate scale (individual work).

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Skills acquired during design workshops attended in previous curricular years are sufficient. In particular, basic knowledge of architectural and urban design methodologies. Basic knowledge of technical drawing methodologies. Manual skills of constructing scale models. Theoretical and historical knowledge of contemporary architecture.

Pursuant to Art. 24 of the University Teaching Regulations and Section 3.1 of the Teaching Regulations of the Course of Study, attendance is compulsory for courses called "Laboratory." Students may request total or partial dispensation from compulsory attendance for serious and/or justified reasons. The dispensation is approved by the Council of the Course of Study and must at the same time provide for the possibility of attending the appeals of the relevant examinations.

In order to be admitted to take the exam, it is necessary to have attended 70% of the course lectures.

The main theme of the workshop is the relationship between design and urban space with special attention to the relationship with pre-existence.

The workshop will be introduced by a series of communications framing the theme of the workshop, with a focus on significant national and European experiences.

The proposed exercises will be aimed at acquiring a critical capacity of the design of the new in relation to the pre-existence in complex urban contexts, with a conceptual approach that is always based on the "sense of continuity."

Targeted exercises will be carried out that concern the design within the urban context also in relation to the anthropic and natural pre-existence understood as design elements carrying propositional values.

Complex areas of intervention will be chosen, where such values are often seen as obstacles to contemporary urban development, in order to experiment with a new purposeful design approach with respect to this cultural assumption.

Within the Lab, the students' activity will have the character of exercise which will entail special attention not only to the design outcomes of their work, but also to the critical process and formation of the project itself.

- Aldo Rossi, L'architettura della città, disponibile in diverse edizioni.

- Kenneth Frampton, Tettonica e Architettura, Poetica nella forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo, SKIRA, Milano 1999.

- Peter Zumthor, Pensare Architettura, Mondadori Electa, Milano 2003.

The exam consists of a presentation by the student, of the design exercises developed during the lab, particularly highlighting the process and the conceptual and relationship system. In addition to the presentation of the design exercises, knowledge of the texts and projects analyzed and/or presented during the course is required.

Pursuant to Art. 24 of the University Teaching Regulations and Section 3.1 of the Didactic Regulations of the Course of Study, attendance is compulsory for the courses called "Laboratory." Students may request total or partial dispensation from compulsory attendance for serious and/or justified reasons. The dispensation is approved by the Council of the Course of Study and must at the same time provide for the possibility of attending the appeals of the relevant examinations.

In order to be admitted to take the exam, it is necessary to have attended 70% of the course lectures.