B020448 - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO V

Italian

Italian

Italian

Along with the crisis in urban and natural landscape and in the founding theories of the project too, it is essential to work on the renewal of our compositional tradition. Rootedness in places requires an approach that deals with the fabrics and spaces of cities and landscapes, with their systems of relationship, with the characters and features of urban and architectural composition.

"We really only know what we do": in the wake of Vichian thought, the course intends to organize a didactic experience whose focus is the practice of the project. In this logic also the aspects of theoretical-reflexive matrix will have to find in the development of the compositional proposal their field of elaboration, application, definitive revelation.

Moneo R., La solitudine degli edifici e altri scritti, Umberto Allemandi 1999
Rossi Prodi F., Carattere dell’architettura toscana, Officina 2003

Fabrizio Arrigoni, Fogli. Scritture per l’architettura, Didapress, Firenze 2018.
Fabrizio Arrigoni, Sinopie. Architectura ex atramentis, Die Neue Sachlichkeit, Colonia 2011.
Fabrizio Arrigoni, Arrigoni Architetti, 000_010 progetti, Blurb.com, San Francisco (Ca) 2010.

Giorgio Agamben, L’uomo senza contenuto, Quodlibet, Macerata 2013.
Walter Benjamin, Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit, 1936.
Jean Clear, Malaise dans les musées, Flammarion, Paris 2007.
Jean Clear, L’hiver de la culture, Flammarion, Paris 2011.
Jean-Luc Nancy, Les Muses, Éditions Galilée, Paris 1994-2001.

Handbook:
Ernst Neufert, Enciclopedia pratica per progettare e costruire, Hoepli, Milano 1999.
Andrea Deplazes, Costructing Architecture: Materials Processes Structures, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2008.

Website
http://www.gamc.it
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/c/collage
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artsets/6mga1g
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1343?locale=it

Teaching goals concern learning the main instruments and strategies for architectural design principles and methods. They will be tested in the design of an architectural organism in a delicate natural or urban site. The design will be developed with concern for main issues, such as interaction aspects, space, materials, light and expression of common values.

The goal of the workshop is to test the knowledge acquired by the students at the end of their training, verifying the ability to translate it into a complex design exercise in its conceptual and material frameworks.

The student must have passed the laboratorio di progettazione exams. He must have learnt the basic rules of architectural composition, have a good knowledge of urban and architectural typologies, good skills in hand drawing and computer drawing, good knowledge of computer programs and architectural history.

Those included in the course of studies.

Lessons will be held on theories and design analysis of a few design experiences. From the start students will have to work on the design of a school of music, in a difficult neighborhood, chosen among the few selected by the course. Attention will be given to design principles, theoretical thought, spatial choices, languages and the ways they are represented by drawings and models.

The laboratory activities will be modelled on the example of the design seminars or workshops; the time available will be entirely devoted to the work of the students at the site - research, drawing, maquette; a modality that is a cast of what happens every day in a workshop. The frontal lesson will be interpreted as a brief communication on singular and specific aspects related to the topics dealt students. The project will be prepared by working groups of three students.

The course includes three exercises to be held during the semester.
1 - Repertorio
Each work group must agree on the study of contemporary or twentieth-century architecture for exhibitions (museum, pavilion, etc.). The analysis will be presented according to the layout. The set of case studies will define a repertoire.
2 - 10 Slides
Each work group will present a projection (power-point/pdf) titled 10 Slides.
Slide 0: Header, names of the authors, motto of the project proposal.
Slides 1-5: spatial hermeneutical exercises - interpretation of place and type.
Slides 6-10: highlights of the current project (konzept).
The tools used will be photography, drawing, three-dimensional model, conceptual diagram, quotation (cinema, visual arts, literature, etc.).
3 - Magazzino
Magazino (Warehouse) is an acronym that encloses two operations. The first consists in the selection of iconographic materials taken from magazines, books, catalogues, printed books, collected in the architecture library in Via Micheli. The pictures will be recovered through black and white photocopies.
The second is their cut and editing in a collage (papier collé, montage, photomontage, mixed media). It is possible to insert texts (use of nets or printed matter) and graphic-pictorial integrations (ink, pencil, plaster, acrylic, watercolour). No digital processing and/or printing is allowed.
Title/topic: Art. References can be extracted from visual arts (painting, cinema, photography, video art, graphics) from plastic arts (landscaping, urban planning, architecture, sculpture, design) from writings (literature, philosophy, poetry).
Support: Schoellerhammer board 4G DICK 51x36 cm, thickness 1,5 mm. The exercise shall be carried out individually.

Knowledge will be tested during the course with the development of the student’s work and the final architectural design proposal.

The experiences carried out in the laboratory will all be subject to specific judgment and will contribute to the final evaluation.
List of materials required to pass the test:
three-dimensional model of the project proposal scale 1:200 (size and morphology of the model according to lay-out) - cardboard-wood construction material in suitable thicknesses.
drafting of the boards according to lay-out.
exercises: the original products of Magazzino e Repertorio.
portfolio containing the results of the different exercises (photos/drawings of: Repertorio, 10 slides, Magazzino), the project report, plans, sections, profiles, renderings; it is possible to insert graphic works not present on the boards for a better understanding of the project proposal (format and layout according to layout).
dvd with all the files produced during the workshop (first name, surname, e.mail address and mobile phone of each member of the group).
The oral test will consist in the discussion of the project outcomes: synthesis skills, argumentative rationality, competence in the use of a specialized vocabulary are the main indexes in the verification of learning.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO V
PROF. ARCH. FABRIZIO ROSSI PRODI

The design activity concerns a medium size music school, including individual study/lesson spaces (for both individuals and small groups), an auditorium with 100-150 seats for general practice, some classrooms for theoretical communication, a library, reception spaces, secretariat, relationship and meeting. The student will be free to modify the program by adapting it to specific purposes that he/she can propose.
The student will have to reflect on the themes of landscape and urban landscape, settlement principles, artistic and musical practice, places of cultural production, acoustics.

The music school will be built in an area chosen by the student among three alternatives: 1) Annigoni: located between Viale Giovine Italia, Via dell' Agnolo and Via Paolieri; 2)Michelangelo: located between Viale Michelangelo, Piazzale Michelangelo and the Iris garden; 3)San Domenico: locatged in the Fiesole Music School (replacing an existing pavilion).

The activity will be carried out individually or in pairs at most. The project must be design according to scale 1:100 in at least 6 70x70 cm (or similar) sheets with one or two monochromatic drawings per sheet, including planimetry (1:200/1:500), plans, at least one perspective section, two elevations and one view, as well as a 1:100 scale model, and an A4 document (even several sheets) showing conceptual schemes illustrating the founding criteria of the project.
During the examination the student must also present a cahier with the drawings developed during the theoretical lessons and the projects taken as reference.
To be eligible for initial revisions (until 6 November) the student must submit in paper format a planimetric/planivolumetric plan, conceptual schemes, first hypotheses of plan aggregation in scale 1:200, section and a 3D model (in digital format); to be eligible for subsequent revisions the student must produce at least plants 1:100,1 section, 1 elevations, (all in paper format) in addition to the study model.

Design topic of the workshop is the construction of a building to house the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAMC) in Viareggio, province of Lucca. The museum will be built as a replacement for the fruit and vegetable market now in a state of disuse. The area under study is in the district of the dock, in front of the old railway station (called Viareggio scalo); the re-design of the large void circumscribed by Nicola Pisano street, Stazione Vecchia street and the Burlamacca canal must be an integral part of the design proposal.
Main functional destinations to be allocated:
entrance hall, bookstore, reading room, cafeteria, conference room (100 seats), toilet.
Exhibition:
gallery of temporary exhibitions, gallery of the permanent collection, Viani's rooms, room for video projections, storage.
Administration:
foyer, secretarial office, management office, meeting room, staff offices, toilets.
The rooms will enjoy gardens, greenhouses, patios and open spaces of relevance.