29627 - Distributive Features of Buildings II (A)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student owns the advanced knowledge of the association of the building’s elementary units, through the analysis of the units themselves and their use in the architectural composition, facing the “characters” not only from the distributive point of view, but also from the typological, constructive and stylistic point of view. He also knows the correct cataloguing of the different types that have gone through the history of construction in Europe.

Course contents

The course – integrated to the Laboratorio di Progettazione Architettonica II – is aimed at highlighting, through the notion of type, the existing dialectic relationship between theory and architectural practice.

This aim leads the student to assume the type as an objective basis of the discipline and at the same time as an essential project tool, or as what makes architecture a substantially unitary fact, according to which it is possible to embrace the works as a whole, having a synchronic understanding of them.

The student is also called to decode the typological principles of architecture in relation both to the urban morphology and to the constructive principle that governs the single work, as well as to the language deriving from it.

 

Readings/Bibliography

• Martí Arís C., Le variazioni dell’identità. Il tipo in architettura, Clup, Milano 1990.
• Other texts whose bibliographic references will be provided during the course.

Teaching methods

The course prefers a monographic cut. It is structured around Carlos Martí Arí’s theoretical reflection, and mainly around the contents of his book Le variazioni dell’identità. Il tipo in architettura, a sort of treaty or typological manual, considered among the most authoritative references on the subject. The lesson enunciated here avoids a static idea of type in favor of a dynamic idea, which evolves by variations through what the author defines as the engine of an unlimited formal construction: the “concept of transformation”.

Assessment methods

The Laboratory of Architectural Design II (C.I. 12 CFU) is composed, in addition to the characterizing teaching of Architecture and Architectural Design II (8 UFC), of a module of Distributive Features of Buildings II (2 CFU) and a course of Interior Design (2 CFU).

The examination of the Architectural Design Laboratory II includes the verification of the learning of the contents of all the teachings that make up the Workshop and takes place in a single exam.

The topics covered in class, the contents of the texts indicated in the bibliography and the design reflections elaborated within the Workshop will be verified through:

- Collective discussions in the classroom;

- Intermediate verification seminars;

- Extemporary tests in the laboratory;

- Discussion during the exam.

The final grade will be determined by the sum of the evaluations relating to the following criteria:

1 - Consistency of the project path (project and dossier I);

2 - Deepening of the project research (project and dossier II);

3 - Compliance of the project proposal with the requests (project);

4 - Ability to illustrate the project proposal: quality of the works and language properties (project and exam discussion);

5 - Knowledge of the disciplinary aspects addressed by the course of Distributive Features of Buildings II (written test and discussion during the examination);

6 - Knowledge of the disciplinary aspects addressed by the course of Interior Design (project and discussion during the examination).

Each criterion will be awarded 0 to 5 points. The elements considered for grading the score of each criterion are indicated in parenthesis.

Teaching tools

Lectures include the projection of images. Digital or paper material may, if necessary, be provided to support the exam.

Office hours

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