18547 - Architecture and Architectural Composition 3

Learning outcomes

The course aims to develop a reflection on theories, methods and tools of the urban project and this provides knowledge of the main contemporary theoretical research and project experiments devoted to the themes and places of urban regeneration and regeneration.

Course contents

The field of experimentation of this workshop experience is defined around the issues related to the project of the processing areas to urban and regional scale; starting with an analysis of the different settlement systems of the city and its kind-morphological structures will attempt to discuss and define the principles and the ways of the construction / reconstruction of the possible forms of the contemporary city.
In a moment of crisis in which urban design often solved as a summation of individual architectures apart from their urban context, with no ambition to give definitive answers, we will try to focus on ways and means that have a large degree of generality in theory, corresponding to different positions of contemporary architectural culture.
The themes of the architectural composition inherent in the subject of teaching module will therefore be tailored to the urban project: the first will concern the type-morphological relationship between architectural and building type space; We will therefore identified some exemplary cases in which the composition of the public space and collective develops consistently with the definition of the architectural volume. At the same time some typological grammars will be analyzed related to the specialist residence (student home, for seniors, group, etc ...), useful for vocabulary building necessary to the theme of the laboratory project.

Readings/Bibliography

A. Rossi, Scritti scelti, Clup, Milano 1975.

A. Rossi, L'architettura della città, Clup, Milano 1978.

O.M. Ungers, La città dialettica, Skira, Milano 1997.

Colin Rowe e Fred Koetter, Collage city, Il Saggiatore, Milano 1981.

LA RICOSTRUZIONE DELLA CITTA', Berlino-IBA 1987, XVII Triennale di Milano. A cura di M. De Michelis. P. Nicolin, W. Oechskin, F. Wernwr, Electa, Milano 1985.

La Casa. Forme e luoghi dell’abitare urbano. A cura di Gino Malacarne, SKIRA, Milano 2013.

Specific Bibliographies will be provided during the workshop.

Teaching methods

The workshop will consist of a series of lectures and seminars on theoretical content and objectives of the workshop. In the lessons we will try to investigate, through the example of works and projects of architecture, the logical principles of architectural composition; other lessons instead will be devoted to readings of "architectural texts" - projects and achievements - significant, which will be investigated links between design practice and theory, and with particular attention at the thinking of some of the masters of modern architecture. In addition to lessons, there are design exercises that will take place during class. Deadlines and procedures for lodging the exercises will be announced at the opening of the workshop. The lessons will be joined by the periodic reviews of the work of individual students and some group seminars on the state of the work. The lab will develop drawing on content from the disciplines related to urban planning and landscape architecture.

Assessment methods

Examination and assessment of the workshop will cover the evaluation of project works, exercises carried out during the year and the examination of knowledge of theoretical issues discussed in the lectures.

For the eligibility will be presented: the historical, cartographic and appropriate environmental context of intervention documentation, the documentation on planning instruments related to the city and the context of intervention, the models and plans of the state of fact and project eligibility.

To illustrate the design intentions, the project will be developed with:

- Texts and drawings at different scales collected in a book;

- Drawings A1/A0;

Basic Materials Required:

- Historical analysis table (historical, topographical and figurative references of the area, relationship between the project area and the urban context, city architecture, character and development, evolution of urban development).

- Planimetric insertion on the urban scale (1:2000 or 1:5000)

- Planivolummetric insertion with actual state and project (scale 1:1000)

- Ground floor and / or plan layout (scale 1:500)

- Main prospects (scale 1:500)

- Views, perspectives, assonometries

- Architectural detail of at least one building (for only students) and at least two buildings (for groups composed of 2 students) through plants, prospects, sections in scale 1:200

- Model scale 1:500

Teaching tools

Laboratory for class exercises, models laboratory, PC, digital video projector, printers and plotter.

Office hours

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