ONCE AGAIN WE ARE BACK TO WORK IN THE CITY - The Architectural Composition Course 1 (C) has as protagonist a fragment of the built city (or rather, the pieces of the urban mosaic are five: Civico 10-18 Viale Gabriele d'Annunzio / San Cetteo, Civic 24-25 Viale Gabriele d'Annunzio / Piazza Garibaldi, Civic 67 Via dei Bastioni / Covered Market, Civico 25 Via Ennio Flaiano / Old Town, Civico 60 Via dei Bastioni / Palazzo Monti).
The architectural question is measured between the existing and the proposed project, through the definition of a determined use program (home: volume within which most of man's activities take place: the domestic space, the working environment , the courtyard, the portion of the street in front of your home - characteristics: articulated space, organized in subspaces with specific qualities: open, closed, internal, external There is a mediated relationship between human body and space, determined by a series of daily gestures how to get in, out, go up, down, the movement is necessary, basically straight and continuous: I move from A to B without interruptions The visual perception is partial: there is the need to use other senses (hearing, touch ...) The use of memory is partial, as we tend to perform an uninterrupted sequence of actions and movements that are repeated chronically (crossing a corridor, going from a room to other etc ..) - request: housing for 3-5 people, inventing the client) for the exploration of possible spatial models (through plastics / maquettes, urban sections, analysis of parts and components, quantitative / qualitative schemes,.) to investigate, narrate and represent new ways of living.
A HOUSE BETWEEN HOUSES - The project recalls one of the themes that has characterized the history of Italian architecture - building on the built, with the built, - between the built; students will be asked to reflect on the issues of the relationship between a consolidated, present and physically looming urban context and a new object: a house forced to "look" at the sky, to "measure" its external score (façade) with the next fronts , to "unravel" its functional program on different levels (or floors), to be "introspective" but at the same time part of a much broader collective context: the redefinition of an ordinary urban front (skilful relationship between interior / exterior).
The project of a "grafting" (a building that inserts an existing fabric) is the synthesis of a double critical-design position, more and more current (also in light of the theme chosen for the Italian Pavilion - by Cino Zucchi: "grafts / grafting "- currently on display at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition" the Venice Biennale "- curator Rem Koolhaas); if on the one hand the choice of setting limits / conditions of disadvantage leads to reflect on the possible solutions of fundamental themes of architecture (such as the theme of light, the relationship between the serving and served spaces, the distribution system, the parts / environments / spaces of a house, of the need to build a continuity / discontinuity of the fronts' score, of a renewed sense of domesticity, of the relationship with the sidewalk, with the street, with the square, of the need to design / imagine the space "In section" ...), on the other hand would have the facilitation (still to be verified) of having to think of an object strongly contextualized and related to its surroundings - "order of method" understood as "antithesis towards a freedom and a creativity based exclusively on subjective feelings ". These are elementary considerations that do not allow for theoretical-philosophical reasoning, but which direct this research towards the identification of the traditional archetypes of the house, that is towards those factors of construction that do not change with time and that can not be affected. from changes in taste.
The applicative theme is measured with a "small single-family house" of singular character (specificity and vocation chosen by the student, so as to influence the archetype or possible configuration, for example: home-studio, home-laboratory, home-garden, home-home, home for a mad writer, home for the seamstress of "the Devil wears Prada", home for a painter without canvas, home for a self-taught carpenter, home for the Karamazov Brothers,.). The adjective "small" is used here to better identify the applicative subject, ie the house, whose domestic dimension, for the very small one, is linked to a few needs that widen the primary needs of man, of the instinctive type and physiological (to protect oneself, to protect oneself, to warm oneself, to scrutinize the outside, to conserve, to sleep, to preserve, to care for the offspring, etc.).