75457 - Design Projects M

Learning outcomes

Course contents

1. Objectives of the Course

The course has the expressed aim to introduce students to the design of an existing buiding, and to let students aware of the characteristics and problems that the intervention on existing buildings represents. Recovery and rehabilitation of historic buildings is a market segment in steady expansion. As a matter of fact an ancient buiding is both a historical significance - and both a resource for its contemporary utilization. The course offers students an experience of regeneration-and reutilization of a historic building, in which the different components of architecture design converge as a synthesis of composition and technology in architecture. The students will allow to develop an "environmentally conscious project " following different phases: analysis of the site, the draft of the final project, the composition of the building and its envelope, construction details, in order to meet the specific needs, the “genius loci” of the area, and technological and environmental climate conditions.2.Course Contents

A building of the past is a complex document, and thanks to its construction elements, and through the experience of visitors, reminds to life and to the way it was conceived by people who built and modified it in the past. . It often is a resource, a collection of rare, lasting materials, and a long-term , refined investment, unknown to contemporary world.

There are several examples of conversion of historic buildings to current uses, thus the first part of the course will be dedicated to ex-catedra lessons and discussions of case studies, and of the year theme projects, and site visits. A second part will be devoted to the operative work of students, reviews and cheks of students works.

Lessons will be carried out with the aid of computers and a videoprojector.

Readings/Bibliography

5 Bibliography

• ” Ecological Urban architecture”, Curatorship Gabriele Tagliaventi, Luigi Mollo,Alinea, Firenze 2005;

• Constructing Architecture - Materilas Processes Structures, a handbook” Desplazes A., Birkhauser – Publisher for Architecture, Basel 2005;
• Bulletti Paolo “Le parole del Progetto” 3500 termini usati in architettura- Edizioni Il sole 24 ore;

Further bibliography and didactic materials will be supplied by the teacher during the course.

Teaching methods

3 Teaching Methods

The course aims at training the students in applying to a case- study the knowledge acquired in previous courses.

The structural component and the technology will have an important role at this stage in order to practice a sustainable architecture.

Through a practical design project students are asked to "understand and organize" the relationship between materials, techniques, construction elements and environmental, functional needs following the steps:

1) Typological, morphological and structural analysis and of the existing building;

2) Analysis of the construction elements and structural aspects in the building;

3) Analysis of the environmental context, which aims to sensitize students to the approach of bioclimatic design and to the exploration of the role that energy and materials have in shaping architecture;

4) Identification of the suitability of inclusion of new functions in the existing building, in open spaces and any new adduction;

5) Recovery and rehabilitation design of an historic building (scale 1/100);

6) Selection of technologies with attention to energy conservation and integration of technologies from renewable sources;

7) Structural and technological details (scale 1/20, 1/10);

8) Landscape design with the use of vegetation as a bioclimatic element .

The project will be developped in groups of 3-4 students each.

Assessment methods

4 Assessment Methods

The exam is based on the assessment and discussion (printed and/or digital) of the planning work produced by students during the course.

For the exam:

n. 4 Tables A1 containing Analysis and Design project:

ANALYSIS

Floor plan of the status quo, scale 1: 500;

Plans, sections, and elevations of the status quo, scale 1: 200 ;

At least a significant section, scale 1:20 of the facades with description and performance requirements of materials, of building finish, of construction techniques and structural aspects ;

PROJECT

Site plan with landscape architecture and identification of the plant growing season; scale of 1: 500

Floor plans of all significant levels of the project, scale 1: 200

Significant sections and elevations of the project, scale 1: 200

At least a significant section 1:20 of the facades with description and performance requirements of materials, of building finish and of construction technologies and systems provided;

Details of indoor and outdoor floor scale 1:20

An exterior view of the building showing its relationship with the context and the relationship between built space and open space;

A view of the interior space;

Teaching tools

Video projector, PC, overhead projector, laboratories etc.

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