The course aims to provide the skills for:
* know the technical characteristics of building materials,construction elements and systems and their evolution, (the reasons for how it is done);
* know the rules of art and the rules for a correct practice of building,
* recognize the relationships of consistency and clarity between use of materials and their building process, between the design of the individual pieces and their performance, between the designed spaces and the expectating functions.
* checking the role played by materials, elements and construction processes in the design, construction, maintenance and management of a building.
The student, through the design experimentation, will be led to acquire the ability to govern the system of relationships between materials, construction processes and functional, figurative and environmental aspects, activating:
* the critical tools suitable for setting up and running a design program in terms of feasibility,
* the methodological tools for a correct construction of the sequence of requirements that specify the program itself in the presence of certain constraints,
* the operational tools for the definition of design solutions congruent to the program and aimed at enhancing the solicitations coming from the technology.
At the end of the course the student must be able to:
* read, break down and classify a building system, according to the UNI legislation;
* to distinguish the principles and the rules that relate the constructive elements to the building system, with reference to their performances;
* to distinguish the characteristics of the building materials, with reference to the processing and transformation processes in construction elements;
* identify the typological and morphological connotations of the construction elements according to the specific characteristics of the materials that can be used and the relative manufactoring processes;
* know the cultural motivations and application areas of the discipline;
* know the methodological tools to respond appropriately to the needs of building through the management of physical, functional and figurative aspects and of the relationships between materials, executive techniques and manufacturing processes;
* know the operational practices that define the "rule of art".