70110 - Interior Design II

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, aimed at specific competence in the typical topics of interior architecture and design at the detailed scale, the student knows and is able to approach architectural design from the perspective of the interior space.

Course contents

Living is the field of investigation and argumentation of the course. Specifically, the civil dwelling, especially through the renovation and reconversion of the existing building stock, represents a field of application of the professional activity that is expected to be one of the most widespread topics of opportunity for new graduates in architecture.
The fourth year is a year of advanced maturation in the awareness of the different forms of knowledge that converge in the discipline of the project. The course, through the interaction of the disciplines of architectural composition and technology, aims to stimulate a synthesis of this knowledge by applying it to the small scale of the dwelling and reversing the point of observation of the architectural form, in order to focus on space as a hollow form.
Through an examination of traditional living forms and those developed during the 20th century, the idea of appropriateness and comfort of space and the different degrees of mediation between private interior space and public exterior space will be condensed.
The close collaboration with the Environmental Quality of Interiors module will result in a unity of objectives, while highlighting the specificities of the two contributions. To this end, it will be illustrated how the technological innovations and constructive experiments that have intervened in the transformations of ways of thinking about domestic space during the 20th century and today, have conditioned the forms of living through revolutions and rethinking.

Readings/Bibliography

F.Távora, Dell’organizzazione dello spazio, Nottetempo, Milano 2021 (a cura di C.Torricelli)

A.Loos, Parole nel vuoto, Adelphi, Milano 1992

P.Scheerbart, Architettura di vetro, Adelphi, Milano 1982

J.Tanizaki, Libro d’ombra, Bompiani, Firenze 2000

Teaching methods

The course will proceed mainly by means of lectures that will be interspersed with short exercises in which students will work in groups and seminar sessions in which students will individually address some of the topics covered in the lectures.
The lectures are organised in such a way as to highlight the specificities of the configuration of living space throughout recent history and according to the cultural and environmental peculiarities in which the project matures. Exposure is aimed at equipping students with the critical capacity to acquire cases and models and to compare the knowledge gained with the themes and specificities of the contemporary scene.
It is requested that each student has a notebook to accompany the learning process through the written annotation of the fundamental concepts and graphics of the case studies illustrated during the lectures.
The lectures will be delivered in direct relation with the students, aiming to develop collective discussion as a method of consolidating the reasons behind the projects illustrated as case studies. In some cases, the lectures will be accompanied by discussion seminars on the proposed bibliographical materials.

Assessment methods

The examination will be held in the form of an individual project ex-tempore on the basis of a case study in which each student will be able, on the basis of the compositional and technological knowledge acquired during the course, to prove the degree of maturity in the ability to shape a living space. The test will take place with the explanatory support of freehand drawing accompanied by written notes and will be aimed at verifying the knowledge acquired on the topics covered in the lectures held within the two teaching modules, as well as the personal ability to critically elaborate them within a personal idea of formally and functionally organised space.
Detailed specifications regarding the methods and contents will be provided during the course.

Teaching tools

Teaching will be delivered almost essentially on the basis of the illustration of projects considered exemplary case studies, using the projection of graphic and photographic images. The sequences of the images will be made available to the students in pdf format via the platform Virtuale.

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