LABORATORIO DI PROGETTO 3 M - Z

Detailed Course Content

• Architecture and Urban Design

  The programme focuses on the core Architectural Design experience at various scales, both in theory and in practice with particular attention not only to the project results, but also to the process of developing of the project itself.

  Main methodological points are:
  - analysis of the physical features of the site and its surroundings;
  - concept design;
  - implementation of the theme through the compositional process.

  To take the exam it is necessary to have attended at least 70% of the workshop hours and the completion of the three project phases. The final exam will consist of an interview on the topics of the course and a discussion on the analysis and project elaborations.

  The educational path of the workshop meets adequately the increasing need to face the complexity of the project through four time steps and multiple levels of study:

  1 st Step, identification of the project areas, analytical reading of the sites and preparation of the functional program;
  2 ° Step, development and presentation of the design concept, definition of maximum project with volumetric insertion of new structures in the wider context; drawings and/or maquette, scale study models on an adequate scale;
  3 ° Step, architectural development of the project with explanatory tables - prospect plants and section on an 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 will have to be designed and verified with scale study models (plans, elevations and sections) and noteworthy details on an suitable scale (individual work).

• PROGETTAZIONE URBANA

  The laboratory content is the design of a defunct or underused area, aimed at regenerating it. The content of lectures is oriented at understanding the mutual relationships inside the area focusing on public realm and its interface with private properties. The laboratory aim is to increase the awareness of students about the nature of urban design that pertains relationships, not objects.

Textbook Information

• Architecture and Urban Design

  Aldo Rossi, L'architettura della città, available in different editions.
  Other references will be suggested during the course.

• PROGETTAZIONE URBANA

  1- Bernardo Secchi, Prima lezione di urbanistica, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2000

  2- Bernardo Secchi, La città del XX secolo, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005

  3- Bernardo Secchi, La città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2013