The course aims to provide the basic elements of design applied to the urban scale, developing the understanding of devices useful for its practice. Through the analysis of exemplary projects, the course offers an understanding of general settlement and compositional principles, the relationship with the urban and natural context and the relationship between architecture and open space. The choice of examples is meant transversally with respect to the history of the western city, distilling the principles of organization of the urban space regardless of the period in which it was proposed.
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These processes, if understood and accompanied by institutions and by clear planning, could constitute a resource for places that need a development and transformation horizon.
The direct experience of architecture plays a decisive role in the laboratory, in order to privilege
the physical and immanent dimension with respect to the theoretical one.
Therefore, a series of educational visits to urban environments are proposed, during which the characteristics of the spaces and their relationships with the context are surveyed with the drawing.
The first exercise foresees a work of analysis and reconstruction, to be carried out in groups, of illustrious urban projects. To acquire knowledge and composition tools of urban space and its formal structures through the study of past design experiences.
The course proposes group work on an urban project as its main activity, in the ways to be defined based on the number of students enrolled.
F. CELLINI, Architettura e città, Palermo 1991 (dispensa)
C. SITTE, L'arte di costruire la città, Roma 1969
A. e P. SMITHSON, The Space Between, Colonia 2016
Programma
The proposal to operate in a small town, not far from Rome, concerns the possibility of dealing with an immanent and exemplary theme with respect to the Italian urban reality, the renewal and development of smaller towns, affected in recent decades by the absence of planning and from abandonment. These places are affected by profound social transformations, some foreign communities in recent decades have been repopulating the belt of small towns around Rome given the availability of housing and a lower cost of living than the capital, where they go to work.These processes, if understood and accompanied by institutions and by clear planning, could constitute a resource for places that need a development and transformation horizon.
The direct experience of architecture plays a decisive role in the laboratory, in order to privilege
the physical and immanent dimension with respect to the theoretical one.
Therefore, a series of educational visits to urban environments are proposed, during which the characteristics of the spaces and their relationships with the context are surveyed with the drawing.
The first exercise foresees a work of analysis and reconstruction, to be carried out in groups, of illustrious urban projects. To acquire knowledge and composition tools of urban space and its formal structures through the study of past design experiences.
The course proposes group work on an urban project as its main activity, in the ways to be defined based on the number of students enrolled.
Testi Adottati
L. BENEVOLO, La cattura dell'infinito, Roma 1991F. CELLINI, Architettura e città, Palermo 1991 (dispensa)
C. SITTE, L'arte di costruire la città, Roma 1969
A. e P. SMITHSON, The Space Between, Colonia 2016
Bibliografia Di Riferimento
L. BENEVOLO, La cattura dell'infinito, Roma 1991 F. CELLINI, Architettura e città, Palermo 1991 (dispensa) C. SITTE, L'arte di costruire la città, Roma 1969 A. e P. SMITHSON, The Space Between, Colonia 2016Modalità Erogazione
The course takes place through: - frontal lessons - exercises - educational visits - general interviews between students and teachers - group reviews Attendance at the course is compulsory. The final evaluation will take into account the final project and the work done throughout the semester. The teaching staff reserves the right not to make comments and revisions to the student's work if the presentation is not taken care of or if the work is carried out without respecting the rules of the course. The documents for the reviews must be presented on paper or in the form of physical models.Modalità Frequenza
Attendance is mandatory for 75% of the courseModalità Valutazione
The evaluation takes into account various elements: - attendance and participation in the course - evaluation of the first exercise - evaluation of the group elaboration on the theme of the year