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.

• Urban Design

  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.

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

• Urban Design

  The course content depends on the aims to be achieved. Teacher-led discussion in the first part of the course will focus on the conceptual definition of Urban Project, according to european culture, notably Italy and France. We will then study and analyze a few examples of elaboration’s dynamics, production and managing of the Urban Project. The project’s experience will take place in an area of adequate dimension in the urban system of Syracuse and leads first to the elaboration of the layout drawing illustrating the urban project. The layout drawing might be utilized in the course of composition for the elaboration of architectural project.

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)

• Urban Design

  1- Fausto Carmelo NIgrelli, Percorsi del progetto urbano in Francia e in Italia, Officina, Roma, 1999

  2- Paolo Colarossi e Antonio P. Latini (a cura di), La progettazione urbana, il sole24ore, Milano, 2008

  3- Francesco Indovina, Anna fregolent, Michelangelo savino (a cura di), L' esplosione della città, Comnpositore editori, Bologna, 2005

  4- Maurizio Carta, Reimagining Urbanism: Vision, Paradigms, Challenges and Actions for Better Future, Paperback, 2015