Working in relationship with archeology, and in particular Villa Adriana, one of the most significant places of Italian heritage, should increase and strengthen in the architect student, that design sensitivity that is considered in part already acquired during his studies and training, as part of the contemporary project in a historicized environment.
Course Content - Part B
The "translation" of the compositional idea into an architectural project is the articulated didactic experience proposed in the Laboratory. The reception and identification of the potential and vocationality of a place to be transformed are the initial premises of this path, which starts , inevitably, from the recognizability of the intrinsic qualities in the existent, seen as promoter of a quality in the making, in which the traces of the past and the proposal of the new are contaminated.
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Learning Objectives - Part A
The Architecture Design Laboratory aims to train the incoming student in line with the professional figure that we want to outline within the degree course in Architectural Sciences, such as to have the conceptual and operational control of the methods and the basic tools needed to operate in the field of design, conducted at different scales, in the areas of architecture, construction and the territory.
Learning Objectives - Part B
The course aims to train the incoming student in line with the professional figure that you want to outline within the Degree in Architecture Sciences, ie that which possesses the conceptual and operational control of the methods and tools of base needed to operate in the field of design, conducted at different scales, in the areas of architecture, construction and territory.
At the end of the course the student must be able to: perform the project of a non-complex specialized architectural organism, developing it on the different scales of representation, checking the relationship between the forms, techniques, materials and functional program, at different scales, the space of relationship between buildings in relation to the context of belonging.
Prerequisites - Part A
having taken the design exams I and II.
Prerequisites - Part B
The disciplinary propensity must be aimed at the design of works of architecture authentically rooted in the places and in the time of belonging, as a high expression of our contemporaneity and its cultural translation, through the critical interpretation of the reference context, direct and indirect.
Teaching Methods - Part A
lectures,
exercises, laboratory, reviews
Teaching Methods - Part B
The teaching experience of the laboratory consists of theoretical communications and the elaboration-translation of individual projects, followed by weekly individual reviews. Some cadenced occasions, with exposure and collective discussion, will mark the verification of the maturation of the works, as a choral experience of exchange and exercise of communication and comparison of their project proposals.
Further information - Part A
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Further information - Part B
These intermediate deadlines are also mandatory for the evaluation of the personal didactic progress within the didactic planning, whereby the non-fulfillment will affect the possibility of regular attendance of the course and admission to the final exam.
Type of Assessment - Part A
Final examination with delivery of the graphic drawings and modellp
Type of Assessment - Part B
Development of planning intentions in the compositional process, concept, matrices and graphic ideograms. Final design drawings of architectural detail (plans, elevations, sections, with three-dimensional shading and representation of materials) in scale. Technological-structural solutions and choice of finishes; deepening of at least one original constructive detail, in scale.
Three-dimensional views, renderings, photo insertions, plastic.
Course program - Part A
The Architectural Design Laboratory aims to train the incoming student, according with the professional figure that we want to outline within the degree course in Architectural Sciences, that which possesses the conceptual and operational control of the methods and basic tools necessary to operate in the field of design, conducted at different scales, in the areas of architecture, construction and the territory.
Particular attention will be given to the theoretical knowledge of the compositional discipline, addressing general issues on the most varied fields of the architectural project but always declined to the relationship between contemporary dimension and historical pre-existence.
The archaeological site of Villa Adriana in Tivoli is therefore taken as a basis of relationship for the project to be addressed in the Laboratory, which will include the composition of a new archaeological museum to be integrated with the existing Antiquarium next to the Canopus.
The relationship with history, with the sacred dimension of the place, the characters and the identity of the context, together with the knowledge acquired and developed within the Laboratory on the contemporary dimension of the architectural project in a historicized environment, will constitute the levers from which to develop the project path that will bring the students architects to make a route of maximum sensitivity towards respect and dialogue with the many signs already present on the site. Archaeological signs given by the exceptional presence of ruins, but also landscape-environmental signs, with the consistency of which, the new intervention must primarily dialogue.
Entering the character of Villa Adriana, perceiving the spatial and compositional themes, getting to know the urban and architectural dynamics of the Roman space, allows students to be addressed to the recognition of a unique value, and to direct them towards an appropriate and conscious project of their own contemporaneity, respecting the many values that the place offers. This is the priority theme of the entire workshop.Laboratory development
The topographic arrangement of the Villa Adriana area, its size, its geometry, the known and the underlying compositional rules, together with the more detailed study of the Canopo area and the structures of the current Antiquarium, will constitute the points around which the project path will develop. A path that will prefigure a new museum structure capable of hosting the old and new collections of the artistic and archaeological material of the great archaeological site.
Thematic lessons on Villa Adriana, its history and its morphology, will alternate with contributions offered by guests who will enter on the subject from different poin of vew.
The analising area and the general theme of the relationship between contemporary project and archaeological ruin. Lessons will be held on the different specificities of the architecural composition, come from the Modern lesson of Italian museography , to the topographic approach as a possible design mode.
The working rule will include lectures, as well as exercises in the classroom and laboratory with conception, development and revision in the classroom of work.
Course program - Part B
The themes dealt with as a design exercise within the Laboratory concern the design of new newly designed motorway service areas, inspired by green mobility and extended eco-sustainability. The designs must seek environmental continuity within the themes proposed by the different local realities, through the manipulation of the elements that make up the discipline. The comparison with the design practice of the architectural construction will have to complete the course of compositional-design maturation of the three-year Degree Course.
More information on specific topics (service areas proposed in the municipalities of the Florence belt and along the A1 motorway) will be provided at the time of presentation / registration to the Laboratory.