03870 - Architecture and Architectural Composition 2 (B)

Learning outcomes

After completing this module, which aims to realize a project for a residential architecture, the student learns the typology that are suited to the topic and the ways in which it is defined in relation to the character of places.

Course contents

The course articulates through three phases of learning.

In the first phase the student will develop an investigation on the urban territory. He will catalog and analyze data and heterogeneous information. He will not only have to reassume, but also to recognize, to compare, to distinguish, to synthesize the picked information and to develop a reflection on the studied matters.

In the second phase the student will formulate an urban project. He will develop this project in the third phase, conclusive of the course, reaching the definition of the architectural object. In these phases, he will have to explain a solution founding it on precise ideas, both to the inside and to the outside of the discipline.

The contents of the course cross the principal matters related to the analysis and to the study of the city and the urban territory. The city will be the place of the experimentation in which the student will verify the hypotheses of project trying to establish coherent relationships between new buildings and (spatial, historical and cultural) context.

Theme of the course is the housing in the historical city. The program will be developed through a search that departs from the knowledge of urban morphological characters. By means of a reflection about history and evolution of the city, some processes of transformation will be individualized. The project proposes the urban retraining of the area through the definition of the relationships between the architectural elements and spaces.

Readings/Bibliography

Rafael Moneo, L’altra modernità. Considerazioni sul futuro dell’architettura, Christian Marinotti edizioni, Milano 2012

Francesco Venezia, Che cosa è l’architettura, Electa, Milano 2011

Peter Zumthor, Pensare architettura, Electa, Milano 2003

Francesco Gulinello (a cura di), Figure urbane. Progetti per l’ex caserma Sani a Bologna, Quodlibet, Macerata 2015

Teaching methods

The study of the area will involve a specific knowledge of the useful elements to define its problems, its opportunities and the possible relationships between project and context. Beginning from such investigation the student will define the themes to develop in the project. The project will constitute therefore an instrument to verify the hypotheses.

The search will be organized in study groups. The projects will be illustrated through the fittest means and techniques of representation. The model of architecture will be the preferred means, both for the phase of study and for the final examination.

Assessment methods

During the course the student will develop analysis and projects constantly discussing with the teacher. The seminars will allow the students a mutual comparison. The examination will verify the acquired knowledge in the project and the preparation on the matters treated from the course and from the coordinated teachings.

Teaching tools

The bibliographies distributed during the course will give the information for the development of the analysis and for the definition of the project. Thematic seminars will be organized.

Office hours

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