COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITETTONICA 2 (taf B)

Alphabetic division AF - GZ

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI753

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Divisions:

Gruppo D

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 5 years in ARCHITECTURE

Disciplinary Sector:

Architectural and Urban Composition

Is part of:

COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITETTONICA 2 (taf B)

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

POTENZA Domenico Antonio

Cycle:

Second semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

100

Individual study hours:

150

Prerequisites:

The course of Architectural Composition 2 is presented as an exercise
planning articulated and integrated in the study path of the second
year, so they are considered fundamental prerequisites for enrollment in the
the course of knowledge of the basic historical disciplines, of those technical and
of the science of representations.

Objectives

For the Architectural Composition 2 the objectives are:
1. to acquire the tools for the analysis of an urban context of medium complexity to identify the themes for the transformation and the conditions for the insertion of architectural artifacts.
2. to acquire the ability to give a coherent form to the architectural-functional program, in its technical and formal characteristics and in its relations with public spaces.

The course of Architectural Composition 2 is aimed at experimenting
the convergence of compositional and urban disciplines within one
simple design theme.
The articulation of the course program is aimed at
training, the study of the integrated Architectural Composition
application of construction techniques within an experience
articulated design.
The basic knowledge necessary for the course will be provided during the course
simultaneous and interdependent control of the different project aspects:
the technical-constructive one, the distributive-functional one and the one
compositional and formal.
At the end of the course the students must have acquired the preparation
of basic knowledge and control of shapes, materials
and technologies, indispensable for the understanding and governance of the
relationship between idea, project and realization of architecture.

Contents

REFERENCE THEM
More and more cities are the result of the complex stratification of parts
that overlap each other, an incessant adjustment of stories
and of events that modify, in real time, the space of the
our dwelling.
The contemporary project, therefore, in this continuous process of
transformations, he is forced to be an interpreter of the transformation of the
places, through a cognitive action of the existing and in the same
moment, proposing new events.
A sort of hermeneutical action that simultaneously investigates the
conditions and proposes their adaptation to the new programs.
As an example exercise of this process, the project hypothesis foresees the adaptation of an existing building with the insertion of a functional extension. A'
capable architectural surgery operation with the project scalpel
to intervene on the existing, to give new life to a "body" now
largely inadequate.

Extended Syllabus

CONTENT OF THEMES AND THE DESIGN EXERCISE

The second year Architectural Composition course is finalized
to the study and to the understanding of compositional techniques articulated for the
design of simple architectural bodies.

The course is divided into two phases. A first phase of context analysis
urban reference and a second phase of hypothesis processing
projects aimed at the regeneration of spaces and artifacts
existing with the possible realization of new elements capable of
to restore coherence to the context by virtue of the new programs of use.
The urban context and the architectural space of reference, both in the phase
reading, both in the interpretation phase and in that more properly
project repetition, it is decomposed into its components
essential. These components will be investigated as well as in their own
physical dimension and spatial organization, even in theirs
material, technical and constructive consistency, trying to highlight the
relationship, often very evident, between forms, materials and technologies.
The project, therefore, is configured as a sort of conclusive equilibrium
in which the measurement of the individual construction elements and are integrated
the dimension of the spaces that enclose, within a strategy
composition able to satisfy the reasons for the program
architectural-functional assigned.

Recommended Bibliography

• Ludovico Quaroni – “Progettare un edificio, otto lezioni di Architettura” – Mazotta, Milano 1977
• Kenneth Frampton - “Tettonica e Architettura” – Skira, Ginevra-Milano 1999
• Georges Perec – “Specie di spazi” - Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 1989
• Italo Calvino – “Lezioni Americane” – Garzanti, Milano 1988
• Gabriele Basilico (a cura di Andrea Lissoni) (2007) - “Architetture,città, visioni”, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, Italia.
• Richard Weston – “Materiali e forme in architettura” – ed. Logos, Modena 2003
• Rem Koolhaas (a cura di) – “fundamentals” – catalogo 14. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia 2014
• Cino Zucchi – “Innesti” – catalogo Padiglione Italia - 14. MostraInternazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia 2014
• Domenico Potenza, Filippo Angelucci – “ABDR: Technology and Beyond” – Franco Angeli, Milano 2012

Further updates of the bibliography will be indicated during the lessons

Teaching Methods

The teaching activity of the course consists of:
• ex cathedra lessons concerning the theme and its classification
theoretical relative to the architectural composition, held by the holder of the
course.
• planning in-depth studies related to the specific aspects of the topic,
presented by some invited guests to illustrate their work and the
own research.
• thematic workshops, related to the different phases of the activity
design, conducted by external experts together with the tutors and the owner
of the course (according to the timetable foreseen by the course).
The course will be divided into different seminars, the project exercises
will be followed by tutor together with the course holder according to the dates
provided for in the teaching activities program. The exercises will be
individuals and will constitute the specific teaching activity of each seminar. In
correspondence of the thematic workshops, exercises will be held
collective with the tutors with the teacher of the course and with the teachers invited to the
workshops.
Among the various activities of the course are also laboratories of
deepening held by the tutors and the owner of the course, on the
realization of plastic models; on the elaboration of three-dimensional models,
on the reading of design references, materials and techniques
constructive.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Mandatory progressive checks are scheduled according to the deadlines
programmed by the didactic activities (and in coincidence with the workshops
thematic). Students are required to deliver the required documents
according to the scheduled dates. The compulsory progressive checks
constitute a guarantee to continue the activity within the seminars and
for the acquisition of the attendance title that gives the right to support the
exam within the time frame of the program of the course.
The profit exam is intended as the last teaching delivery offered by Course to the student. The exams will be carried out as scheduled.
All students who have regularly attended the Laboratory
will be entitled to take the exam on the scheduled date.
The examination committee will be made up of all the teachers of the course, from
teachers invited by the course owner, tutors and eventual experts external.

Contacts/More Information

The course has a six-month duration. Lectures, exercises and reviews
will only be conducted according to the AA. 2018/2019.
Profit exams are set by the calendar, beyond which it will not be
no additional teaching activity. Attendance to activities
teaching is mandatory and constitutes a guarantee of admission to the
sustaining the profit examination within the year. The students are
admitted to take the exam in single form with the identification of
design strategies developed in groups.

The holder of the Architecture and Accessibility course can be found at the following
login:
domenico.potenza@unich.it
domenico.potenza@gmail.com
Students who request it will be received, advised, prior
simple request online, a few days before the request.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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