The Architecture Technology Design Studio is aimed to provide methodological and operational tools of architectural design, starting from the knowledge of the environmental and technological systems that compose the building structure.
The Studio includes three modules: the environmental system design, the technological system design, methods and tools for development, representation and communication of the project.
Course Content - Last names E-M
Design of the environmental system
Living and its needs
The analysis of the intervention context
The criteria for the organization and sizing of living spaces
Design of the technological system
Rules and criteria of the design of the structural system, closure, partitions and installations
Technological methods and tools for the development of the project
Organization and design of construction phases
E. Arbizzani, Tecnica e tecnologia dei sistemi edilizi, Maggioli, 2015.
P. Zumthor, Pensare architettura, Electa, 2004.
V. Puglisi e M. Cazzaniga, Costruire un edificio. Tecniche, sistemi e materiali costruttivi, Maggioli, 2019
G. Pulcini, Il progetto della casa unifamiliare, Carocci, 1998.
V. Olgyay, Progettare con il clima: un approccio bioclimatico al regionalismo architettonico, Muzzio, 2013.
E. Mazria, Sistemi solari passivi, Franco Muzzio, 1980.
A. Rogora, Progettazione bioclimatica per l’architettura mediterranea, Wolters Kluwer, 2012.
G. Nardi, Tecnologie dell'architettura, CLUP, Milano 2001.
E. Reid, Capire gli edifici, Zanichelli, Bologna 1990.
E. Allen, Come funzionano gli edifici, Dedalo 2017.
Case unifamiliari
V. McLoad, Edilizia residenziale contemporanea, UTET, 2010.
V. McLoad, Dettagli di architettura residenziale contemporanea, Logos, 2007.
C. Davies, Planimetrie, sezioni, prospetti: le più belle case del XX secolo, Logos, 2007.
Case a schiera
E. Cambi, B. Di Cristina, G. Steiner Balzanetti, Tipologie residenziali a schiera, BE-MA, 1980.
G. Pfeifer, P. Brauneck, Row houses: a housing typologies, Birkhäuser, 2008.
A. Wiegelmann, C. Shittich, Semi-detached and terraced house, Detail: Birkhäuser, 2006.
A. Franchini, P. Righetti, R. Dorigati, Tipologie residenziali contemporanee, manuale di realizzazioni europee degli ultimi 20 anni, BE-MA, 2000.
Case in calcestruzzo
Atlante del cemento, UTET.
Calcestruzzo, Collana Praxis, UTET 2008.
A. Faresin, Architettura in calcestruzzo: soluzioni innovative e sostenibilità, UTET scienze tecniche, 2012.
D. Meyhofer, Concrete creations : contemporary buildings and interiors, Braun, 2008.
W. Hall, L. Koren, Concrete, Phaidon Press, 2012.
Case in muratura
Atlante della muratura, UTET.
Laterizi di grande formato, Collana Praxis, UTET 2008.
Rivista Costruire in Laterizio.
Case in acciaio
Atlante dell’acciaio, UTET.
F. Burkhard ; S. Schulenburg, Metal architecture: design and construction, Birkhauser, 2003.
Rivista AAA (Acciaio Arte Architettura).
Case in legno
Atlante del legno, UTET.
R. Slavid, Materiali in architettura. Legno, Logos.
Legno, Collana Praxis, UTET 2008.
V. McLoad, Dettagli di architettura in legno, Logos, 2010.
C. Benedetti, Costruire in legno. Edifici a basso consumo energetico, BUPress, 2009.
Trasversali
Atlante dei tetti, UTET.
Atlante delle facciate, UTET.
Atlante delle case unifamiliari, UTET.
V. McLeod, Dettagli di architettura residenziale contemporanea, Logos 2007
C. Benedetti, Collana Master CasaClima, BUPress 2013. (in particolare i volumi “Appunti di cantiere” e “ Coperture a verde”).
R. Luckmann, Elementi a parti dell’edificio I, UTET
P. Beinhauer, Elementi a parti dell’edificio III, UTET
Rivista e monografie DETAIL.
Rivista Archetipo.
Rivista The Plan.
Rivista GA Houses.
Altri riferimenti specifici potranno essere segnalati durante il corso.
Information materials and bibliographies will be provided from time to time regarding the topics covered and the development needs of the work. The areas, sources, and materials will depend on the specific issue and can therefore be of various types (technical information, periodical architecture publications, and websites).
In any case, the following are essential sources of reading and consultation:
Blanc A.1995, Internal components, Mitchell’s building series, Longman, Londra
Campioli A., Lavagna M. 2013, Tecniche e Architettura, CittàStudi, Milano
Casciato M.,Panzini F., Polano S. (a cura di) 1980, Electa, Milano Olanda 1870-1940; Città, Casa, Architettura
Friedman Y.2017, Tetti, Quodlibet, Macerata
Gorman M.J. 2005, Buckminster Fuller; Architettura in movimento, Skira, Mi
Gurrieri F.(a cura di)1988, Pierluigi Spadolini. Umanesimo e Tecnologia, Electa, Milano
Koolhas R., Obrist H.U. (a cura di) 2011, Project Japan. Metabolism talks., Taschen, Colonia
Mazria E.1990, Sistemi Solari Passivi, Franco Muzzio editore, Padova
Munari B. 1981, Da cosa nasce cosa, Laterza, Bari.
Munari B. 1977, Fantasia, Laterza, Bari.Nardi G. 2008, Tecnologie nell’architettura, Maggioli, Milano
Natterer J., Herzog T., Volz M.1998, Atlante del Legno, UTET, Torino
Peters N. 2006, Jean Prouvè, Taschen, Colonia
Torricelli M.C., Del Nord R., Felli P.2000, Materiali e tecnologie dell’architettura, Laterza, Bari
Schittich C.(et al.) 1998, Atlante del Vetro, UTET, Torino
Schulitz H.C., Sobek W., Habermann K. J.,1999, Atlante dell’Acciaio, UTET, Torino
Zaffi L. 2008, Architettura in costruzione, SEF, Firenze
Zambelli E.,Vanoncini P.A., Imperadori M.1998, La Costruzione stratificata a secco : tecnologie edilizie innovative e metodi per la gestione del progetto, Maggioli, Rimini
• Manuali di tecnologia
– Edward Allen, Come funzionano gli edifici, Dedalo, Bari 2017.
– Eugenio Arbizzani, Tecnologia dei sistemi edilizi. Progetto e costruzione, Maggioli, Rimini 2011.
– Andrea Campioli e Monica Lavagna, Tecniche e architettura, CittàStudi, Milano 2013.
– Marco Casini, Tecnologia dell’architettura. Modelli funzionali. Elementi costruttivi, DEI Tipografia del Genio Civile, Roma 2017.
– Maria Chiara Torricelli, Romano Del Nord, Pallo Felli, Materiali e tecnologie dell’architettura, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2001.
• Sulla casa
– Adriano Cornoldi, L’architettura della casa, Officina Edizioni, Roma 2013
– Adriano Cornoldi, L’architettura dei luoghi domestici. Il progetto del comfort, Jaca Book, Milano 1994
– Iñaki Ábalos, Il buon abitare. Pensare le case della modernità, Mariotti Editore, Milano 2009
• Riviste sul dettaglio architettonico
– Arketipo
– The Plan
– Detail
Learning Objectives - Last names A-D
The course aims to train the incoming student in line with the professional figure that the Degree in Architecture Sciences want to outline, ie that possessing 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.
The course aims to contribute to the formation of a unified vision of architectural project highlighting how the technique "dimension" is an indispensable factor for the development of the work of architecture since its initial conception.
The course favors the meaning of the project as a confrontation of different skills and physical and temporal place of interdisciplinary synthesis, in which matter and form come together to complex cultural action that has as its end result the architecture. Through the experimental design the course aims to promote the acquisition of knowledge of the matter and the technique to transfer them in an form appropriate to the purpose. In this context, the course aims to educate the awareness of the "constraint" (environmental, technological, customer related) as a resource and opportunity for the project.
Learning Objectives - Last names E-M
The expectations of the Laboratory in terms of the training of student architects concern the following:
A-Capacity
_ability to critically operate the technical-design choices necessary for the realization of the work through understanding the environmental, functional, technological, and process aspects.
_ability to manage the complex system of instructions needed for the construction by adequately arranging the various drawings, particularly of a graphic type.
_ability to investigate executive issues down to the scale of detail.
B-Attitudes
_ability to prefigure models and structural solutions intuitively.
_ aptitude for integrated management of constraints and construction complexities
_ skill for formal and spatial experimentation
_ aptitude for setting up the project in a systemic way
C-Knowledge
_expansion of basic knowledge on materials and techniques necessary for the design of lightweight, stratified, and dry-assembled construction systems.
_understanding of the housing system's requirements, constraints, and technical and environmental needs and also in innovative models that integrate urban agriculture systems.
_knowledge of the essential rules of control and dimensional coordination of the project
_knowledge of the elementary conventions for the representation of executive drawings
Learning Objectives - Last names N-Z
The Architectural Technology Laboratory is aimed at providing the methodological and operational tools of architectural design, starting with knowledge of the environmental and technological systems that make up the building organism.
Prerequisites - Last names A-D
To take the exam students must have taken the exam in Materials and Constructive Elements.
Prerequisites - Last names E-M
Having taken the examination of Materials and Construction Elements
Prerequisites - Last names N-Z
Have passed all required propaedeuticities: "Materials and construction elements" (Materiali ed elementi costruttivi)
Teaching Methods - Last names A-D
Teaching is based on theoretical communications (short lessons) to support the design exercises. It is structured in such a way as to give students the methodological and operational tools to design an architectural organism in all its components, taking into account the formal and expressive results, organizational ways of building cycle, the mode of selection of appropriate technologies and products to available resources and intervention purposes in accordance with the user's needs and the principles of conservation, protection and enhancement of the environment.
The design studio provides the following learning activities:
Lectures, The lectures deal with the program topics. The theoretical knowledge imparted with the lessons are subject to immediate practical use and direct application in exercises that take place simultaneously.
Exercises. Individual exercises, to be performed in the classroom, serve to gain the knowledge and the tools to use in the phase of the final project design; They are performed during the course, in particular in the first phase. The exercises are mandatory and preparatory to the final project.
Development of a project. The project is about a "simple" building through the gradual deepening of the technical choices consistent with the functional and formal aspects of an architectural work. The project can be individual or in pairs and takes place mainly in the classroom. The project must be concluded by the end of the course, regardless of the session in which you will take the exam and is regularly revised by the teacher to control the progress of work and contribute to its development.
Visits the site and /or works of architecture and architectural exhibitions (Biennale of Venice, SAIE in Bologna, etc.) in order to understand the executive issues of the technical solutions of the architectural project.
Teaching Methods - Last names E-M
The Laboratory experience is a training moment characterized by a solid operational value in which a design exercise is a privileged tool for acquiring and verifying the method and contents. The laboratory days are the qualifying moment for comparison, research, and transfer of information.
The Laboratory will develop attitudes and skills regarding technological design through activities such as:
➢ LESSONS; on the main aspects of the Laboratory, on the design of the environmental and technological system, on the leading construction technologies and the process of realization of architectural works, on contemporary housing models, on plant and passive systems for the control of indoor well-being, on the techniques of representation of the construction project, on Building Integrated Agriculture.
➢ EX TEMPORE; as a moment to verify understanding of the problems and exercise for a quick and intuitive solution.
➢ PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS for developing the ability to observe spatial, material, technical, and construction aspects.
➢ SKETCHES and notes on aspects considered relevant for the project or the study of technical and detailed elements.
➢ TEXTS; small descriptive passages helpful in exercising the ability to tell and describe the contents and genesis of the project from the idea to the technical and construction part.
➢ EXPERIENCES direct visits and inspections to learn first-hand the environmental, material, and compositional aspects of architecture.
➢ PROJECTS, or graphic drawings drawn up according to the conventions and representation techniques of architecture and the executive project.
➢ COACHING AND REVIEW; Teacher discussions will guide the design experience and revisions during the Laboratory; they are always collective and on printed material.
Teaching Methods - Last names N-Z
- Tutorial
- Crits
- Frontal lectures
Further information - Last names A-D
Registration. Students who wish to attend the course are required to confirm their registration by filling out the form distributed by the teacher and by registering on the web page of this course on e-learning platform of the University (http://e-l.unifi.it).
Frequency. Students are required frequency to all the activities of the Studio. The frequency will be verified through the presence of signatures in a register. Students who have achieved a frequency rate of 75% and in good standing with the delivery of the project will be able to take the exam. The rate of 75% corresponds to a maximum of 16 hours of absences on the total hours of the Studio.
Office hours. The teacher Nicoletta Setola receives students by appointment to be arranged using the following address: nicoletta.setola@unifi.it.
NB. All information regarding the Studio are disclosed during the official times or through the platform E-Learning Course.
Further information - Last names E-M
Students who intend to attend the Laboratory must confirm their enrollment by registering on the course web page on the University's Moodle platform.
To attend the exam is necessary to participate in laboratory activities with a percentage of no less than 75% of the hours of the teaching calendar.
If a student cannot produce the book on time or does not achieve the required frequency, the laboratory course is considered not to have been carried out profitably, and a new frequency will be required.
Further information - Last names N-Z
The examination may be taken by those who:
- passed all the required propaedeuticities ("Materials and Construction Elements")
- complied with laboratory attendance (at least 80% of the scheduled hours)
- produced and delivered all the required materials and within the stipulated timeframe.
Type of Assessment - Last names A-D
Each student will arrive to the examination with an evaluation that takes into account the educational progress and achievements in the performance of activities of the Studio. The project is evaluated according to criteria of coherence and awareness in the use of technologies and materials for the architectural outcome; quality of the project on environmental and technological aspects; completeness and correctness of representation and information content of the project.
The exam consists of a discussion on the topics proposed in the program and the result of the project. The overall assessment is done by integrating the result of the oral examination with that of the practical exercises and project.
The documentation for the exam is made up of all the products developed by the student during the Studio for different exercises and for the project.
Type of Assessment - Last names E-M
The laboratory will take place as a workshop with deadlines within the calendar to verify and evaluate the work carried out and the result achieved.
The final presentation of the work must be made in the first session (on a date agreed with the students). The individual product will be evaluated by comparing it with the overall outcome of the course. In the training experience of the laboratory, the ability to balance times and results is considered fundamental.
Access to the exam requires participation in laboratory activities with a frequency of no less than 75% of the hours of the teaching calendar.
The final product will consist of a personal book divided into sections containing all the material produced during the laboratory (photos, notes, sketches, written texts, images, drawings, etc.) and the final exercise. Each part of the book contributes to the global evaluation.
The final exercise and the preliminary phases of the project will be in groups of a maximum of three students. The ex-tempore and the other parts of the book will be individual.
The in-depth scales will be those of the technological project, i.e., 1:50 and 1:20, with details at the scales of 1:10 and 1:5. Perspective sections will represent the relationship between technology and the quality of the interior space. The exact graphic modalities will be explained during the Workshop.
Type of Assessment - Last names N-Z
The mode of conducting the examination is typical for architectural competitions.
The A3 Book containing all the required drawings of the technological survey of the chosen single-family dwelling should be handed in printed and emailed to the lecturer on the day of the exam.
The committee evaluates the papers and assigns them a grade, which will be communicated to the students on the first afternoon in the classroom.
Course program - Last names A-D
ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY STUDIO
Prof.ssa Nicoletta Setola
a.a. 2023-2024
Course Program
Contents
The Architecture Technology Design Studio is aimed to provide methodological and operational tools of architectural design, starting from the knowledge of the environmental and technological systems that compose the building structure.
The Studio includes three modules: the environmental system design, the technological system design, methods and tools for development, representation and communication of the project.
Aims
The course aims to contribute to the formation of a unified vision of architectural project highlighting how the technique "dimension" is an indispensable factor for the development of the work of architecture since its initial conception.
The course favors the meaning of the project as a confrontation of different skills and physical and temporal place of interdisciplinary synthesis, in which matter and form come together to complex cultural action that has as its end result the architecture. Through the experimental design the course aims to promote the acquisition of knowledge of the matter and the technique to transfer them in an form appropriate to the purpose. In this context, the course aims to educate the awareness of the "constraint" (environmental, technological, customer related) as a resource and opportunity for the project.
Requirements
To take the exam students must have taken the exam in Materials and Constructive Elements.
Teaching Methods
Teaching is based on theoretical communications (short lessons) to support the design exercises. It is structured in such a way as to give students the methodological and operational tools to design an architectural organism in all its components, taking into account the formal and expressive results, organizational ways of building cycle, the mode of selection of appropriate technologies and products to available resources and intervention purposes in accordance with the user's needs and the principles of conservation, protection and enhancement of the environment.
The design studio provides the following learning activities:
Lectures, The lectures deal with the program topics. The theoretical knowledge imparted with the lessons are subject to immediate practical use and direct application in exercises that take place simultaneously.
Exercises. Individual exercises, to be performed in the classroom, serve to gain the knowledge and the tools to use in the phase of the final project design; They are performed during the course, in particular in the first phase. The exercises are mandatory and preparatory to the final project.
Development of a project. The project is about a "simple" building through the gradual deepening of the technical choices consistent with the functional and formal aspects of an architectural work. The project can be individual or in pairs and takes place mainly in the classroom. The project must be concluded by the end of the course, regardless of the session in which you will take the exam and is regularly revised by the teacher to control the progress of work and contribute to its development.
Visits the site and /or works of architecture and architectural exhibitions (Biennale of Venice, SAIE in Bologna, etc.) in order to understand the executive issues of the technical solutions of the architectural project.
Other information
Registration. Students who wish to attend the course are required to confirm their registration by filling out the form distributed by the teacher and by registering on the web page of this course on e-learning platform of the University (http://e-l.unifi.it).
Frequency. Students are required frequency to all the activities of the Studio. The frequency will be verified through the presence of signatures in a register. Students who have achieved a frequency rate of 75% and in good standing with the delivery of the project will be able to take the exam. The rate of 75% corresponds to a maximum of 16 hours of absences on the total hours of the Studio.
Office hours. The teacher Nicoletta Setola receives students by appointment to be arranged using the following address: nicoletta.setola@unifi.it.
NB. All information regarding the Studio are disclosed during the official times or through the platform E-Learning Course.
Examination method
Each student will arrive to the examnation with an evaluation that takes into account the educational progress and achievements in the performance of activities of the Studio. The project is evaluated according to criteria of coherence and awareness in the use of technologies and materials for the architectural outcome; quality of the project on environmental and technological aspects; completeness and correctness of representation and information content of the project.
The exam consists of a discussion on the topics proposed in the program and the result of the project. The overall assessment is done by integrating the result of the oral examination with that of the practical exercises and project.
The documentation for the exam is made up of all the products developed by the student during the Studio for different exercises and for the project.
Bibliografia
E. Arbizzani, Tecnica e tecnologia dei sistemi edilizi, Maggioli, 2015.
P. Zumthor, Pensare architettura, Electa, 2004.
V. Puglisi e M. Cazzaniga, Costruire un edificio. Tecniche, sistemi e materiali costruttivi, Maggioli, 2019
G. Pulcini, Il progetto della casa unifamiliare, Carocci, 1998.
V. Olgyay, Progettare con il clima: un approccio bioclimatico al regionalismo architettonico, Muzzio, 2013.
E. Mazria, Sistemi solari passivi, Franco Muzzio, 1980.
A. Rogora, Progettazione bioclimatica per l’architettura mediterranea, Wolters Kluwer, 2012.
G. Nardi, Tecnologie dell'architettura, CLUP, Milano 2001.
E. Reid, Capire gli edifici, Zanichelli, Bologna 1990.
E. Allen, Come funzionano gli edifici, Dedalo 2017.
Case unifamiliari
V. McLoad, Edilizia residenziale contemporanea, UTET, 2010.
V. McLoad, Dettagli di architettura residenziale contemporanea, Logos, 2007.
C. Davies, Planimetrie, sezioni, prospetti: le più belle case del XX secolo, Logos, 2007.
Case a schiera
E. Cambi, B. Di Cristina, G. Steiner Balzanetti, Tipologie residenziali a schiera, BE-MA, 1980.
G. Pfeifer, P. Brauneck, Row houses: a housing typologies, Birkhäuser, 2008.
A. Wiegelmann, C. Shittich, Semi-detached and terraced house, Detail: Birkhäuser, 2006.
A. Franchini, P. Righetti, R. Dorigati, Tipologie residenziali contemporanee, manuale di realizzazioni europee degli ultimi 20 anni, BE-MA, 2000.
Case in calcestruzzo
Atlante del cemento, UTET.
Calcestruzzo, Collana Praxis, UTET 2008.
A. Faresin, Architettura in calcestruzzo: soluzioni innovative e sostenibilità, UTET scienze tecniche, 2012.
D. Meyhofer, Concrete creations : contemporary buildings and interiors, Braun, 2008.
W. Hall, L. Koren, Concrete, Phaidon Press, 2012.
Case in muratura
Atlante della muratura, UTET.
Laterizi di grande formato, Collana Praxis, UTET 2008.
Rivista Costruire in Laterizio.
Case in acciaio
Atlante dell’acciaio, UTET.
F. Burkhard ; S. Schulenburg, Metal architecture: design and construction, Birkhauser, 2003.
Rivista AAA (Acciaio Arte Architettura).
Case in legno
Atlante del legno, UTET.
R. Slavid, Materiali in architettura. Legno, Logos.
Legno, Collana Praxis, UTET 2008.
V. McLoad, Dettagli di architettura in legno, Logos, 2010.
C. Benedetti, Costruire in legno. Edifici a basso consumo energetico, BUPress, 2009.
Trasversali
Atlante dei tetti, UTET.
Atlante delle facciate, UTET.
Atlante delle case unifamiliari, UTET.
V. McLeod, Dettagli di architettura residenziale contemporanea, Logos 2007
C. Benedetti, Collana Master CasaClima, BUPress 2013. (in particolare i volumi “Appunti di cantiere” e “ Coperture a verde”).
R. Luckmann, Elementi a parti dell’edificio I, UTET
P. Beinhauer, Elementi a parti dell’edificio III, UTET
Rivista e monografie DETAIL.
Rivista Archetipo.
Rivista The Plan.
Rivista GA Houses.
Altri riferimenti specifici potranno essere segnalati durante il corso.
Course program - Last names E-M
The Laboratory is aimed at the project of living according to principles of construction feasibility, sustainability and performance quality.
The Laboratory includes three teaching modules:
Design of the environmental system
- Living and its needs
- Analysis of the intervention context
- The criteria for the organization of living spaces (activities and functional layout) - Criteria for the constitution and sizing of spaces
Design of the technological system
- Rules and criteria of technological design logic of the structural system and the closure system (casing), partition system and plant system
- Levels of in-depth study of the project and examples of technical solutions
Methods and tools for the development of the project
- The representation and communication of the project: the language of the project, sign rules ( dimensioning, use of lines, cross-cutting, etc.), scales of representation and information
content
- CAD
- Organization and phases of design development: relationship between information content, interlocutors and design solutions.
Course program - Last names N-Z
TOPIC OF THE YEAR.
Technology survey of a single-family dwelling.
The choice of project should be agreed upon with the lecturer.
EXAM MATERIAL
UNI A3 book bound with metal spiral binding containing:
- diagrams of analysis of the chosen project
- comparison diagrams with similar projects
- framing plan, scale 1:1000
- floor plans, scale 1:100 with legends of intended uses
- sections and elevations, scale 1:100
- floor plans, scale 1:50
- longitudinal and transverse ground-roof sections, scale 1:50 with legends of functional layers
- details of the most significant nodes, scale 1:10/20
- plans of plumbing, thermal and electrical systems 1:100 scale
- perspective sections of the project
- other materials deemed useful by students (photos of study models, final model, sketches, concept, project references, etc.) deemed useful to explain the development of the project
Sustainable Development Goals 2030 - Last names A-D
This course contributes to the realisation of goals 3,11 and 13 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development Goals 2030 - Last names E-M
This teaching contributes to achieving objectives 3,11, and 12 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.