LABORATORIO DI COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITETTONICA 2 M - Z

The course provides the student's preparation to the themes that deal with the architectural design as an essential component of urban regeneration "old towns" and the city.

It provides contemporary design in the consolidated city. The design simulation through interventions of small size and quantifiable, relevant daily living, work and mainly living.

A preliminary acquisition of elementary knowledge, experience and experiments matured in recent decades, will help to define a project conscious of the relationship between pre-existing and new, between the block and the neighborhood and the city; In which the new can become a measuring element of the context   have demonstrated knowledge and understanding that is founded upon and extends and/or enhances that typically associated with the first cycle, and that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in developing and/or applying ideas, often within a research context;

Frontal lectures and classroom exercises on specific themes of the architectural project

the course offers an analytical study of some projects and works of architecture.
It allows you to understand the complex design process through the analysis of some "principles of composition"; principles understood as processes to assimilate and not to repeat such acts, as established design practices.

The student is thus initiated the study of some emblematic buildings, mainly of relevance disciplinary buildings for their historical-architectural nature, morphological, environmental and compositional and technical.

To this end they are required design processing which involve the realization of three-dimensional models study, of cardboard or similar material, of appropriate dimensions and scales; models are simulation or the translation of spatial invention.

REFERENCE BOOKS

• Ludovico Quaroni, Progettare un edificio: otto lezioni di architettura, Mazzotta, Milano 1977;
• Francesco Cellini, Manualetto, Norme tecniche, costruttive e grafiche per lo svolgimento progettuale sul tema della casa unifamiliare, Città Studi Ed. Torino 2000;
• Umberto Cao, elementi della progettazione architettonica, Laterza, Bari 1995;
• Franco Purini, Comporre l’architettura, Laterza, Bari 2000;
• Kenneth Frampton, Tettonica e Architettura, Poetica nella forma architettonica nel XIX e XX secolo, SKIRA, Milano 1999;
• Piero Ostilio Rossi, la costruzione del progetto architettonico, Laterza, Bari 1996;
• Mario Botta, Abitare. Conversazioni e scritti di architettura, Christian Marinotti Edizioni 2017;
• Vincenzo Latina, Sulla roccia verso il cielo. Le tautologie imperfette. Bramea editore 2018;
• Christian Norberg – Schulz. Louis I. Kahn. Idea e immagine. Officina edizioni 1980;
• Adriano Cornoldi, L’architettura della casa, Officina edizioni 1991;
• Raymond Queneau, Gli Esercizi di stile, Einaudi 1983;

The teacher will also provide documentary material on some emblematic architecture projects and case studies. The assigned works can be readily consulted online.

Recommended Readings

• Paul Valéry, Eupalino o dell’architettura, traduzione di Raffaele Contu, ed. biblioteca dell’immagine Pordenone 1986;
• Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili, ed Einaudi, Torino;
• Francesco Venezia, La Torre d’Ombre, o l’architettura delle apparenze reali, Arsenale editrice, Venezia 1988;
• John Summerson, Il linguaggio classico dell’architettura, Einaudi, Torino;
• Carlo Petrini, Buono pulito e giusto. Principi di una nuova gastronomia. Gli Struzzi Einaudi 2005
• Giuliano Gesleri (a cura di) Le Corbusier, La casa degli uomini, Jaca Book, 1985
• Antonio Alfani, Manuela Canestrari e Alberto Samonà. La casa di Le Corbusier, La Maison des Hommes. La distanza di Le Corbusier, Officina Edizioni, 1987

The exam consists of the presentation, discussion, and review of the graphic designs produced during the exercises, as well as an interview on the topics of the lectures and the readings recommended during the module. Students must demonstrate that they have acquired the theoretical knowledge and project methodology necessary for their training. The lecture and exam schedule will be available on the SDS website.