Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
Dipartimento di Architettura
Laurea Magistrale Quinquennale a ciclo unico in Architettura
Corso di Materiali e Progettazione di Elementi Costruttivi
A.A. 2018/19
MICHELE DI SIVO
OBJECTIVES
The course focuses on the aspects of the design process through which the conception, control and verification of the transformative actions are made, in a congruent way with the natural and anthropic factors of the context.
The proposed path provides the knowledge regarding the theoretical and operational principles necessary to control the technical and construction aspects of the building system in order to develop in students the ability to respond coherently to the needs of the building through the control of the relationship between form, executive techniques and appropriate use of materials to achieve the performance required of the architectural artefact.
The aim of the course, therefore, is to develop in the student the ability to perform an analytical reading of the living space, developing a sensitivity to address the implications of a technical-constructive nature that are at the center of the design choices.
In particular, the student must demonstrate:
- Knowing how to read the morphological-functional characters of a constructive element, through the interpretation of its geometries, materials, executive techniques, relations with the demands of environmental / technological factors and technological and environmental performances and connections with the construction process;
- Know how to distinguish the processes that will characterize the life cycle of the constructive element;
- Knowing how to read and frame technological and environmental phenomena at the spatial and temporal scale;
- Knowing how to interpret the reasons and the problems of the definition of the constructive element in relation to the specificities of the habitat;
- Being able to foresee the methods of transformation of the resources, the requirements of the constructive elements and the performance of the technical choices in view of their planning resolution.
CONTENTS
As part of the didactic activities planned for the attainment of the Degree in Architecture, the course of Materials and Design of Construction Elements (8 CFU ICAR / 12) constitutes the first teaching belonging to the disciplinary sector of Architectural Technology.
Through the study of materials and their properties, the principles of construction, the systemic conception of architecture, the course is designed to stimulate the student's interest in a design prefiguration consistent with:
- meeting the needs system,
- the comparison with the technical and procedural constraints typical of the building process,
- identification of the quality requirements of the living space
- definition of the technological and environmental performance of the construction elements.
Main topics of the lessons
• Introduction to the building process
• Construction principles
• Construction elements (wood, stone, brick, concrete, steel, innovative and dry stratified)
• Ground connection (foundations, floor slab and protection system)
• Opaque and transparent vertical closures (ventilated façade and curtain walls)
• External doors and windows (walls, windows and related correlations and solar protection systems)
• Intermediate and superior horizontal locks (floors, flat and inclined roofs and correlations with vertical structures)
• Crowning of the building
• Vertical connection systems
• Typological and distribution elements of buildings
• Design criteria for building maintainability
• Design criteria for functional and technological flexibility
CYCLE OF LESSONS
The topics covered during the lessons and exercises will be:
- the fundamentals of the technological and environmental culture of the project and the idea of the project as a process of constructing the relationships that architecture interweaves with the material and immaterial resources of the context;
- the study and understanding of the construction principles, the transformation processes of raw materials, building materials and their properties;
- the role of the rules and methodological aspects that influence the design process, the analysis and organization of the demand systems, the conception, the control and the verification of the constructive elements and the relative performances.
Given the applicative nature of the course, attendance at lectures and exercise activities is mandatory.
TEACHING METHODS
The activities of the course will be carried out through:
- ex cathedra lessons;
- individual practical activities of a theoretical / practical nature, carried out and coordinated in the classroom;
- collegiate reviews and days of verification of individual exercises.
ASSESSMENT METHODS
The examination will focus on the discussion of the project and the topics covered in the course.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Petrignani A., Tecnologia dell’architettura, Gorlich editore, 1992
Dassori E., Morbiducci R., Costruire l’architettura, Tecniche nuove, Milano 2010
Gordon J., Strutture - ovvero perchè le cose stanno in piedi, Ed. scientifiche e tecniche Mondadori, Milano, 1979
