33155 - Sustainable Design

Learning outcomes

The aim of this module is to develop the students' awareness of all possible design strategies based on the complexity of the environmental variables. Students will be guided in a design process where attention to context and the integration of passive design solutions are a priority. Both individual and team work is used to develop independent judgment, improving the communication skills, necessary for the illustration of the design solutions.

Course contents

The Sustainable Architecture Design Studio [16 CFU – 192 hours] embeds the following teaching modules:

- Sustainable Design Technologies I [2+2 CFU – 24+24 hours]

- Sustainable Design Technologies II [4 CFU – 48 hours]

- Energy performance evaluation [4 CFU – 48 hours]

- Sustainable Design [2 CFU – 24 hours]

- Energy Savings Design [2 CFU – 24 hours]

The core contents of the studio are addressed to energy efficient and sustainable architecture, aiming to control the process as whole in relation with boundary conditions and complex contexts.

The Sustainable Design module aims, through frontal communication and project reviews, to make the student reflect on the formal implications that building and urban regeneration involves. These implications obligate the project to support the utilitarian logic of the activities of increasing the efficiency of the built building heritage and of mitigating its relations with the context, with the formal logic of the relationship between the architectural parts of the building and the buildings with the urban context, considering also the latter as a collective product whose overall form can and must be subjected to the control of the project.

Readings/Bibliography

• Salvatore Settis, Paesaggio Costituzione Cemento, Einaudi 2010
• Aldo Rossi, Considerazioni sulla morfologia urbana e la tipologia edilizia, in A.Rossi, Scritti scelti, CLUP 1975
• José Ignacio Linazasoro; La memoria dell'ordine:paradossi dell'architettura moderna, LetteraVentidue 2015
• José Ortega y Gasset, Il mito dell’uomo oltre la tecnica, in J.Ortega y Gasset, Meditazione sulla tecnica e altri saggi su scienza e filosofia, Mimesis edizioni 2011
• José Ortega y Gasset, Sullo stile in architettura, in J.Ortega y Gasset, Meditazione sulla tecnica e altri saggi su scienza e filosofia, Mimesis edizioni 2011
• Antonio Esposito, Per una riforma dei paesaggi urbani in Italia, in F.Moschini (a cura di), Gallipoli, laboratorio di progettazione, Gangemi 2016

Teaching methods

The activity will develop according to a schedule organized by progress reports (SAL). Each SAL will be mainly dedicated to the resolution of a specific design aspect.

The SAL consists in the writing of a sinthesis document to be delivered at set dates and then told to the other students and lecturers of the Laboratory, to submit it to a critical review (design review).

Assessment methods

For this type of teaching (Degree Laboratory), the Didactic Regulations provide for a verification of the students' suitability to start the preparation of their degree thesis. The progress of learning is monitored during the course of the course, through periodic reviews. Verification of suitability is carried out in a single test, common to all the modules of the Laboratory, placed at the end of the Laboratory itself. The verification aims to ascertain the individual level of learning achieved, in relation to the contents of all the modules / courses that make up the Laboratory (C.I.). The verification consists in the illustration by the student and in the discussion with the Commission of the project documents produced and also includes the verification of the theoretical and instrumental knowledge relating to the topics covered in the laboratory. The assessment of suitability is based on the weighted application of the following three criteria: knowledge of theoretical content and bibliography and acquisition of instrumental skills (30%), level of depth of the design hypothesis (30%), clarity and effectiveness in the presentation (40%).

Teaching tools

The regular presence of the students at the Laboratory is required, to allow an efficient management of the work progression in each phase of the building design . The Department library is a useful support for specific documentation and for in-depth studies . Department of Architecture and School of Engineering and Architecture equipments will be used (overhead projectors, videoprojectors, electronic media, data carriers ).

Office hours

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