The Urban Design Course (10 cfu) consists of two modules: a theoretical
teaching module and a module of design exercises.
The bibliography of the course is composed of extracts from books and
magazines that the teacher selects during the semester, providing it
simultaneously with the student.
The course uses a dedicated online platform: https:
//sites.google.com/site/urbanistica2c/ which contains an articulated set of
online services such as the bulletin board (where all communications with
students take place); the program and the schedule of activities; etc.
From the site it is also possible, through a Link with a Dropbox folder, to
download the teaching material of all the ex cathedra lessons and the
design exercises. The course also uses a facebook group used for
communications between the teacher, tutors and students.
Furthermore the following text is suggested:
Angrilli, M., Piano Progetto Paesaggio. Urbanistica e recupero del bene
comune, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2018.
The course intends to offer the conceptual and methodological tools
necessary to address the themes of the urban project in different
contexts of application of the urban plan.
Its assumptions refer to a conception of the project intended as a
strategy of transformation of the existing that assumes as determinant
values:
- the critical interpretation of the sense of place, against the current
propensity to emphasize eradication and de-contextualization;
- the sustainability of the foreseen transformations, from an
environmental point of view but also of the technical, administrative,
economic and social feasibility of the interventions, with the aim of
ensuring an effective integration between intentions, actions and
outcomes;
- the recognition of an idea of a city taken as a reference to the project.
The only requirement of propaedeuticity required is to pass the Urban
Planning exam 2. There are no other prerequisites in terms of specific
knowledge and skills for a profitable learning of teaching.
From a methodological point of view the course is structured in two
modules:
A) Theoretical teaching module: it is structured in four didactic cycles, in
which they are treated respectively:
1. geographical and landscape analysis of urban and metropolitan
contexts;
2. the themes of the relationship between project and context, developed
with reference to the operations of extraction of the sense of place, and
of evaluation of urban and environmental transformability;
3. the relationship between project and structure, with reference to the
operations of interpretation of the existing, of anticipation of possible
futures, of configuration of the settlement structures and of the
infrastructural networks;
4. the relationship between design and conformation, relative to the use
of the different modes of physical and functional organization of the
settlement forms.
B) Design exercise module: it is intended for the elaboration of a proposal
in which the individual interpretative and conformation operations of the
physical spaces reproduce the main stages of the design process.
In particular, the exercises deal with the following topics, which
correspond to specific thematic maps:
1. Interpretation of the context: the sense of places; conditions of
transformability; ongoing or planned projects; prospective scenarios
2. Structure of the existing: settlement system, infrastructural system,
environmental system
3. Plan structure: settlement system, infrastructural system,
environmental system
4. Proposed configuration: the framework of coherence of the
transformation projects
The course lasts for one semester. The lessons, exercises and reviews will
take place exclusively in the first semester of the A.A. 2020/2021.
Attendance at the didactic activities of the course is a guarantee of
admission to the exam within the semester.
Students are allowed to take the exam individually or in groups of up to 3
people.
The exam consists of a discussion concerning the material produced by
the student during the semester and a discussion concerning the topics
covered in the lessons and in the bibliography of the course.