95841 - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN III

Learning outcomes

Once completed the course, the student owns an adequate knowledge of the principles and methods of architectural and urban design and he/she is able to develop projects at different scales, particularly with reference to the implementation of articulated redevelopment programs within the built fabric.

Course contents

The ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN III module aims to provide the appropriate theoretical and methodological tools to be able to deal with topological architecture projects, that means reaching an effective synergy between morphology and typology, or between urban context and architectural project.

The design approach of the course is part of the multidisciplinary program shared by the Integrated Laboratory concerning the theme "Impronta verde per Bologna", trying to formulate a multiscale approach to the need to reconfigure new open spaces within the city.

Starting from a theoretical study that has its roots in the tradition of the urban design of the School of Venice, the course will provide a series of examples of the territorial project, inviting us to ask ourselves how it is possible to rewrite entire sections of the city, as islands of an archipelago invested with a renewed polycentricity, through specific architectural interventions, petits objets trouvés. The design exercise will therefore become the pretext for reconstructing fragments of cities, or thematic "clods" (Salvatore Bisogni), which attribute formal accuracy to urban voids, defining their morphological and thematic character, becoming the principles of a strategic design that attributes to the facts urban a space of relevance and feeling of belonging.

Experiments in this sense converge in research for places of staying, of crossing or of contemplating.

Students will be given the necessary tools and adequate theoretical references to face the case study and to focus on its themes.

Readings/Bibliography

AUGÉ Marc, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity, Verso Books, 2009

BAKER Lisa, Temporary architecture, Braun Publishing AG, Berlin, 2014

CRISP Barbara, Human spaces: life-Enhancing designs for healing, working, and living,

Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1998.

D’OLIVO Marcello, MAINARDIS DE CAMPO Piero, Ecotown, ecoway: utopia ragionata, Rusconi, Milano, 1986.

GEHL Jan, New City Life, Kobenhavn: Arkitektens Forlag, 2006.

GEHL Jan, Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space, Island Press, 2011.

SEWING Werner, Architecture: sculpture, Prestel, Munich, 2004.

VITALE Daniele, Salvatore Bisogni: architetture immaginate, TECA 11, Clean, Napoli,

2019

Further references will be provided during the course.

 

Teaching methods

The laboratory includes a series of lectures, design exercises and seminars.

The detailed program, deadlines, and methods of presentation of the exercises will be communicated at the opening of the laboratory. The lectures will be accompanied by periodic reviews of the work of students and some collective seminars on the progress of the work.

The laboratory will develop by drawing content from disciplines relating to the areas of urban planning, construction science and architectural and urban composition.

Assessment methods

STRUCTURING THE CITY BY DESIGN LAB I.C. consists of a module of SUSTAINABLE FEATURES OF THE URBAN SYSTEMS (4 + 2 CFU, 60 hours), a module of STRUCTURAL CONCEPT DESIGN (4 + 2 CFU, 60 hours), and a module of ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN III (3 CFU, 30 hours).

The final exam includes the assessment of the contents of all the modules that compose the Integrated Laboratory and takes place in a single exam.

The assessment of the laboratory themes will concern the evaluation of the project, the exercises carried out during the semester and the theoretical themes approached during the lessons.

Teaching tools

Lectures in the classroom with multimedia presentations are available in IOL.

Group work supported by maps and site visits.

Department library as useful support for bibliographic research, specific documentation and investigation.

Office hours

See the website of Anna Fabris