81914 - Adaptive Technologies and Strategies for Resilience

Learning outcomes

The course proposes to furnish the student with the ability of understanding the complexities which have influenced urban development.

It also aims at offering the tools to develop new strategic methods for the recovery of urban/ community space by using design techniques.

The guidelines, which are a fundamental basis for urban planning, consist of:

• Understanding sustainable thinking and urban sustainability.
• Research of compatible materials so as to identify the most appropriate technologies for the best use of these materials.

• Awareness that materials to be used will determine energy consumption and CO2 emission which will have a negative impact on the environment.

Course contents

Considering the urban environment the course addresses the issue of product/service systems starting from an urban sustainability basis while taking both the environmental and social aspects into consideration.

The ex-cathedra message will focus on the role of the designer in designing sustainable urban scenarios.

Planning of urban landscapes on urban scale, product/services, method of support and perception so as to trigger off social innovation and the reutilization of urban spaces and horizontal architecture.

The course is divided in four phases:

1. Understanding of the sustainability concept phase
2. Objective planning phase
3. Development phase
4. Concept phase

In the first phase the frontal lectures and exercises will elaborate the understanding of the philosophic sustainability concept.

During the objective planning phase (ii), by collecting information and documentation and using various fact-finding methods, students arranged in teams, will run a research on an assigned topic.

Materials – architecture – place. Understanding the existing attitude , the environment or kinship.

Reading the environment and understanding material its value, grain, colour, lightness, mass and energy are instruments for human design as the archetypes and consolidation for the development of landscape.

The study of matter and its energy combined with tradition and/or spatial values.

Following the objective planning phase, the development phase (iii), requires that the students prefigure innovative product/service scenarios starting from the brief of the project.

The concept phase converts the scenario into a detailed project in a story-board , diagram , flow-chart, pertaining to the product/service developed.

Readings/Bibliography

Andrea Poggio, 2013. Città sostenibili .Edizioni B. Mondadori

Lucien Kroll, 1999. Tutto è paesaggio, Universale architettura , testo e immagine.

a cura di M. Corrado ,2009. Sostenibile ma bello , progetti di Iosa Ghini Associati Edizioni Compositori, Bologna.

A.Grassi ,2010. Orto fabbrica, 1°contest di creatività sostenibile , Romagna creative district, ed. Guaraldi Rimini

B .Gandino, D. Manuetti, 1993. La città possibile, RED edizioni

- E. Antonini, A.Boeri, D.Longo (2013). Edilizia sociale ad alta densità. Strumenti di analisi e strategie di rigenerazione: il quartiere Pilastro a Bologna.

V.Gianfrate, D. Longo, Urban micro-design. Tecnologie integrate, adattabilità e qualità degli spazi pubblici, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2017 - ISBN:978-88-917-4294-0

A. Boeri, D. Longo, V. Gianfrate, V. Lorenzo, Resilient communities. Social infrastructures for sustainable growth of urban areas. A case study. DOI:10.2495/SDP-V12-N2-227-237. pp.227-237. In INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING - ISSN:1743-7601 vol. 12, 2017.

A. Boeri, J. Gaspari, V. Gianfrate, D. Longo, C. Pussetti, The adaptive reuse of historic city centres. Bologna and Lisbon: solutions for urban regeneration. DOI:10.13128/Techne-19357. pp.230-237. In TECHNE - ISSN:2239-0243 vol. 12, 2016.

SAGGI DI ARCHITETTURA, p. 1-209, MILANO:Bruno Mondadori Editore, ISBN: 9788861598546

Roberto DI GIULIO, Andrea BOERI, Maria Cristina FORLANI, Alessandro GAIANI, Vittorio MANFRON, Roberto PAGANI (2013).

Paesaggi Periferici. Strategie di rigenerazione urbana.. p. 1-359, Macerata: Quodlibet Studio, ISBN: 9788874625529

Teaching methods

The course is structured with frontal lectures and group laboratories aimed at enhancing both the expertise obtained as well as talent of the students.

To follow each development stage of the project and to share the results obtained all the groups will be assessed regularly by the lecturers and by collegial audits.

Attendance is compulsory and a registered must be signed and will be at hand.

Students who have attended less than 70% of the course will not be admitted to the final examination.

Assessment methods

• Ex-cathedra lessons
• Group revision
• Project collegial audits
• Inspections at the site of the project
• Meeting with professionals

• Tests on graphic rendering tools

Teaching tools

Each group will present the work accomplished.

During the course various group tests and collegial audits will take place to see how the project is progressing .

Each student will be evaluated by his/her results obtained during each stage, quality of the project, preparation, lesson attendance, punctuality, precision.

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Rava

See the website of Andrea Boeri