ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 4 (TAF C)

Frequency-only module

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI759

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 5 years in ARCHITECTURE

Disciplinary Sector:

Architectural and Urban Composition

Is part of:

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 4

Location:

PESCARA

Divisions:

Gruppo C - Professor: POTENZA Domenico Antonio
Gruppo B - Professor: POZZI Carlo
Gruppo A - Professor: PIGNATTI MORANO DI CUSTOZA Lorenzo

Credits:

Programme Year:

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

The course in Architectural Composition 4 is presented as the final design exercise before the final thesis work, for which it is essential, for enrolling in the course, to have passed all the Composition and Architectural Design exams of previous years, as preparatory to the complete training of the student.
Knowledge of historical disciplines (with particular reference to contemporary history), urban planning, technological and structural knowledge are considered fundamental prerequisites for enrollment in the course.

Objectives

The course in Architectural Composition 4 is aimed at experimenting with a project on an urban scale and aims at training objectives:
1. to introduce the development techniques of the complex architectural and urban project and the multi-scale procedures and for differentiated construction phases;
2. to experiment with the relationship between architectural artefacts and critical interpretation of the shape of urban territories;
identify the criteria for the choice of technical and construction alternatives.
3. Develop a complex transformation project by dealing with infrastructural, landscape and urban issues, in particular from the territorial to the architectural scale.

Contents

Urban regeneration - public space and city
Today the contemporary city is configured with a complex stratification of many parts, many of which are still waiting for a definitive solution and with strong connotations of transformations in progress. This transformation process is increasingly carried out in the absence of architectural and environmental quality and without an urban strategy capable of cohering the proliferation of transformative interventions.
The project is entrusted with the task of re-generating these portions of the city through transformation, replacement and reconfiguration mechanisms capable of interpreting a new role for the urban context of reference and for its pertinent territory. In these processes of modification great strength is the requalification of public space, capable of generating new dynamics of re-signification of the overall quality of living and of the city.
In these spaces the project explores new work opportunities on the existing, whether it is characterized by residential settlements or by services and equipment, through the identification of an ecological rationality and a sustainable coherence. The interested design devices must therefore integrate, within them, complexities of different nature: from the compositional to the more properly technical-constructive, as a concrete response to an architectural-functional program and its decisive explanation.

Extended Syllabus

Urban regeneration - public space and city
WORKSHOP

THE INTERPRETATION OF PLACES
Today the contemporary city is configured with a complex stratification of many parts, many of which are still waiting for a definitive solution and with strong connotations of transformations in progress. This transformation process is increasingly carried out in the absence of architectural and environmental quality and without an urban strategy capable of cohering the proliferation of transformative interventions.

THE PROJECT AND THE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE CONTEXT
The project is entrusted with the task of re-generating these portions of the city through transformation, replacement and reconfiguration mechanisms capable of interpreting a new role for the urban context of reference and for its pertinent territory. In these processes of modification great strength is the requalification of public space, capable of generating new dynamics of re-signification of the overall quality of living and of the city.

THE FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM AND THE ACTIONS IN PROGRESS
In these spaces the project explores new work opportunities on the existing, whether it is characterized by residential settlements or by services and equipment, through the identification of an ecological rationality and a sustainable coherence. The interested design devices must therefore integrate, within them, complexities of different nature: from the compositional to the more properly technical-constructive, as a concrete response to an architectural-functional program and its decisive explanation.

- ORGANIZATION OF WORKING GROUPS
Students will organize themselves into work groups of 2-3 units
The groups will be divided with respect to the different project areas

- PROCESSES REQUIRED FOR THE EXAM FINAL EXERCISE
To take the exam, each group must prepare the following documents:
n. 1 Tavola_formato cm (100 x 60)
n. 1 Model
n. 1 notebook

Recommended Bibliography

• Paolo Desideri (2001), "Ex City", Meltemi Editore, Rome, Italy.
• Domenico Potenza, Gianluigi Mondaini "ABDR architetti associati" - Edilstampa publisher, Rome 2014
• Gilles Clément (2005), "Quodlibet_Manifesti del Terzo paesaggio", edition Sujet / Objet, trad. Quodlibet, Macerata, Italy.
• Gabriele Basilico (edited by Andrea Lissoni) (2007) "Architectures, cities, visions", Bruno Mondadori, Milan, Italy.
• Francesco Careri (2006) "Walscapes. Walking as an aesthetic practice", Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Turin, Italy.
• Rem Koolhaas. "Junkspace" - curated by Gabriele Mastrigli, and Quodlibet, Macerata 2008
• Gasparrini, C., In the city, on the city, List Lab, Trento 2015
• Pepe Barbieri, Geo Città. How, today, a place and the place are lived at the same time
world ?, ListLab, Trento 2015

Further updates of the bibliography will be indicated during the lessons

Teaching Methods

The teaching activity of the course consists of:
- full immersion thematic workshop, conducted by external experts together with the tutors and the course owner (according to the schedule provided by the course).
- collective reviews with the tutors with the course teacher and with the teachers invited to the workshop.
- presentation of the project on the urban scale through the elaboration of designs and models.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Compulsory progressive checks are scheduled according to the deadlines set by the teaching activities. Students are required to deliver the required documents according to the dates foreseen. The compulsory progressive verifications are a guarantee to continue the activity within the seminars and for the acquisition of the attendance title which gives the right to take the exam within the time frame set by the course program.
All students who have regularly attended the workshop will be entitled to take the exam on the scheduled date.
The exam commission will be made up of all the lecturers of the course, teachers invited by the course owner, tutors and any external experts.

Contacts/More Information

The course is held within the reference semester, but carried out in a concentrated manner in just one week, through the design exercise entirely carried out in the classroom.
The course owner is available at the following logins:
domenico.potenza@unich.it
domenico.potenza@gmail.com
Students who request it will be received, recommended, prior
simple online request, a few days before the application.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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