Italian (but, upon request, the teacher can give talks in Spanish and English)
Course Content - Part A
The Laboratory of Architectural Design 2 will develop proposals for complex housing programs, consisting of residential combinable and modular units, able to grow over time, as well as of various types of collective spaces, capable of hosting a variety of activities related to training, interaction and social participation. A gender-sensitive methodology will be used throughout the course.
Course Content - Part B
The contemporary approach shows various ways of modifying urban space, which often produce introverted and self-referenced buildings. The design of a new building in a structured urban space requires the architects’ ability to inform the public space in a profound connection to the complex system of the contemporary city. With this approach students are asked to design a public space and a multi-functional building focused on housing facilities.
- De Certeau, Michel (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Hayden, Dolores (1979) «¿Cómo sería una ciudad no sexista? Especulaciones sobre vivienda, diseño urbano y empleo». Boletín CF+S 7. Octubre 1998. Recuperato al link: http://habitat.aq.upm.es/boletin/n7/adhay.html.
- Hayden, Dolores (2000) The grand domestic revolution: a history of feminist designs for American homes, neighborhoods, and cities. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
- Lefebvre, Henry (1974) The production of space. Oxford, OX, UK: Blackwell, 1991
- Muxí Martínez, Zaida (2009) Recomanacions per a un habitatge no jeràrquic ni androcèntric. Barcelona: Institut Catalaà de les Dones.
- Rendell, Jane (2006) Art and architecture: A place between. London: I. B. Tauris.
- Rendell, Jane (2009) «Introduction: ‘Gender and Space’». En Rendell, Jane, Barbara Penner, y Iain Borden (editado por): Gender space architecture: an interdisciplinary introduction. London: Routledge, pp. 101-111.
- MONU Magazine on Urbanism, núm. 24, Rotterdam: BOARD Publishers
- Torre, Susana (1981), «Space as Matrix», Heresies 11, vol. 3, núm. 3, pp. 51-52
other books/papers will be suggested during the course
Learning Objectives - Part A
The main training objective of the course is to make students reflect on contemporary collective housing strategies, in order to offer them an interesting interpretation its abstract formulas – which tried to frame humanity into diagrams and models (while basically making reference to a specific and well defined class and social structure, ie bourgeois) - is completely inadequate to meet the changing and multiple needs of our unstable lives. If on the on hand houses-homes-domesticity are increasingly becoming urban, on the other hand cities and urban environments are becoming homes and domestic spaces: the traditional spatial dichotomies (public / collective - private / individual) must necessarily give way to flexible and adaptable spaces, involving, at the same time, absence of hierarchy, possibility of simultaneous uses, activation of changing strategies.
Prerequisites - Part A
Students are required to have passed the exam of Laboratory of Architectural Design 1
Teaching Methods - Part A
Lectures, mid-term reviews, workshop activities in situ
Further information - Part A
The attendance in the course is mandatory, and most of the work will take place essentially in the classroom; for these reasons students are required to meet the deadlines of their works in progress. Even if several lectures will be carried out, the general spirit of the course is that of a collaborative workshop that requires the participatory efforts of both teacher and students.
Type of Assessment - Part A
In addition to the mid-term reviews of their works in progress, students are required to submit, for the final exam, at least 4 A1 boards and a scale model of the project (being, however, each student, free to integrate this material with other meaningful formats to help her/him to illustrate the project proposal).
Course program - Part A
The main training objective of the course is to make students reflect on contemporary collective housing strategies, in order to offer them an interesting interpretation its abstract formulas – which tried to frame humanity into diagrams and models (while basically making reference to a specific and well defined class and social structure, i.e. bourgeois) - is completely inadequate to meet the changing and multiple needs of our unstable lives. If on the on hand houses-homes-domesticity are increasingly becoming urban, on the other hand cities and urban environments are becoming homes and domestic spaces: the traditional spatial dichotomies (public / collective - private / individual) must necessarily give way to flexible and adaptable spaces, involving, at the same time, absence of hierarchy, possibility of simultaneous uses, activation of changing strategies.
The Laboratory of Architectural Design 2 will develop proposals for complex housing programs, consisting of residential combinable and modular units, able to grow over time, as well as of various types of collective spaces, capable of hosting a variety of activities related to training, interaction and social participation. A gender-sensitive methodology will be used throughout the course.
The attendance in the course is mandatory, and most of the work will take place essentially in the classroom; for these reasons students are required to meet the deadlines of their works in progress. Even if several lectures will be carried out, the general spirit of the course is that of a collaborative workshop that requires the participatory efforts of both teacher and students.
In addition to the mid-term reviews of their works in progress, students are required to submit, for the final exam, at least 4 A1 boards and a scale model of the project (being, however, each student, free to integrate this material with other meaningful formats to help her/him to illustrate the project proposal).