Disciplinary definition:
A scientifically based awareness of an increasing loss of quality
of the global environment, natural and artificial, has determined, starting
since the seventies of the last century, a decisive turning point in the culture of
build of our time.
The project, understood as an act through which man intervenes on
own living space to adapt it to your needs, takes
awareness of the effects that, at all intervention scales, it produces on a
physical-environmental context that is not only its direct surroundings but
the ecosystem of which it is part. It acquires a new dimension, never before
first, which shifts the objective from immediate benefit to an idea of
long-term well-being.
It is therefore the project's task to prefigure the desired event but also
the scenario of what follows from it, so that it does not cause damage
unwanted for the entire time of its duration as well as at the end of the
its life cycle. The design capability becomes the control capability in
terms of feasibility of a multi-variable process, ranging from phase
conceived to that of total disposal, with the objective of
pursuit of a quality of living that is placed in a relationship of
maximum congruence with the phenomenology of the global environment in his
continuous becoming. By feasibility, not just the technical one
but also that which verifies the ability to relate with the reasons for
nature in its biotic and abiotic components.
From this perspective, Environmental Design is the discipline that explores
possibilities and modalities of interaction of the multiplicity of factors
natural and artificial, material and intangible, of the built environment
according to compatibility and sustainability criteria, for the purposes of the habitability of the
space of use.
To this end, the course aims to:
- stimulate the acquisition of a systemic approach methodology to
design that sees the project action as a modification of
relationship systems;
- place the “understanding” of the framework at the basis of the project choices
problematic as an act of thought through which to identify "where"
and "how" to be able to act to make the "possible" modification;
- promote a notion of "habitability" as a condition of well-being,
to be pursued in a global sense, resulting from the "quality" of the interactions
that arise between the multiple environmental components of the context;
- inform the search for possible solutions to "compatibility" criteria
with the existing environmental structure and the "sustainability" of the effects that
they will harden over time.
educational modules
Md1 The environment as an integrated system of relationships
- Definition of terms: ecosystem, environment, built environment
- Material culture and landscape
- Ecological system and economic system
- Technology and environment
- The project as a control of complex processes
Md2 The habitability of the built environment
- Definition of the concept of habitability
- The conditions of habitability: the general requirements
- The compatibility and sustainability requirements
- The relationship between needs, resources and performance
Md3 Environmental quality control
- Environmental factors: soil, water, air, light, sound
- The environmental impact: tools and methods of assessment. The indicators of
sustainability
- The environmental assessment of the life cycle of buildings
- The energy question: the bioclimatic approach
- The regulatory framework
Md4 The environmental quality project
- The object-space-time relationship
- Perception, representation, understanding and interpretation of
relational system
- The definition of the problematic picture
- Environmental awareness in system design
technological
- The prefiguration of the effects of the project actions
- The simulation of the environmental performance of the space of use
- Environmental and functional reintegration of degraded environments.
The content of the didactic modules finds application in the course
methodology that students enrolled in the course are encouraged to carry out
through the practice of the project in a laboratory
experimental. The experimentation is aimed at developing the ability to
reading and understanding of the interactions between artifice and nature in a
"sensitive" environmental context. Particular attention will be given to
formulation of the problematic framework against which the
search for appropriate solutions.
More specific indications on the project theme and contents
some tables will be provided during the course of the workshop.